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The battle is the lord's

4/21/2015

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I am all shook up today over this word.  I had to pause and cry out to the Lord after I read this today.  Please read the story of David and Goliath again in I Samuel 17.  Before David went up against Goliath, he acknowledged that the Lord didn't need a sword or spear, but the battle is His and He would deliver Goliath into his hands (v.47).  I began to think and cry and pray.  I thought (in the natural) that I have no right to ask God to bail me out of things that I have gotten myself into...but then (in the Spirit) I acknowledged, "YES I DO."  Not because I am special or anything to do with me, but because we are in relationship.  I am in relationship with the Lord, and even though I/we do stupid things that get us in trouble, because of this relationship, I/we can ask Him to bail us out.  Didn't the Israelites do that throughout their history?  They turned against God, but He was pleased that He had made His people (I Samuel 12.22).  He is faithful even when we are not.  The battle is His.  Even if we caused the problem, He still fights for us!  If we can get that in our hearts and spirits, then we will understand that He commands us to live right, love, and pray.  He never told us to fight!  


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