You'll
really never know the strength and reality of your faith until you’ve experience
battles in life. Sometimes we can be blinded to the truth when we are in the trenches.
Allow God
to enable your eyes to see His army of faithfulness around you instead of only seeing the army of doubt and unbelief that surrounds you!
Sometimes the battles in our lives give our faith opportunity to be proven. Boy oh boy do I understand that statement; standing on the front line feeling like a target when the arrows come flying, I begin to feel the dent’s in my armor as I’m being hit…. However….. I know that I know that I know... when I go to Him first He will hear my battle cry and yes there have been many times that I praised Him while in my battle ....He will step in and bring victory!!
It is only when we
are tested in battle that we become skilled warriors.
Know His strength is made
perfect in our weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9
Yes...God
allows battles to develop around our lives to give our faith opportunity
to be proven. Hook up your shield of faith with someone whose faith HAS been proven when you're in need of reinforcements and encouragement, they'll understand and help you march through it!!!
I love
the word in 2 Chronicles 20: 15-23 I’m taking just a snippet, however please
read in full for yourself.
Great
danger and distress was just about to emerge upon the kingdom of which Jehoshaphat reigned and Jehoshaphat
received the Word of God:
Thus says the Lord to you: ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s. You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you, O (slip in your name right here) Judah and Jerusalem!’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you.”
Just
think… it’s a “win~win” situation! Oh to
know that you never go in it alone...never...ever!!!!!
Jehoshaphat stood and said to his people, “Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.” And then he appointed (dispatched not soldiers but singers) those who should sing to the Lord, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying:
“Praise the Lord, For His mercy endures forever.”
Our faith
is demonstrated in Life’s battles when we put our complete trust in God...And praise wins the victory over our enemy...without the battles we'd never experience the victories...stand strong in the power of His might!!!
"...let
us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of
light." Romans 13:12
Thanks
for stopping by “Today’s Word of Purpose”…and remember to keep Him close to
your heart!!
Love Debbie
