THE
BATTLE IS HIS
BREAD
47 “All
those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give all of you into
our hands.” 1 Samuel 17:47 (NIV)
51 “He
gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing kindness to his anointed, to
David and his descendants forever.” 2
Samuel 22:51 (NIV)
29 Then I
said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. 30 The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you,
as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, 31 and in the desert. There you
saw how the Lord your God carried
you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this
place.” Deuteronomy 1:29-31 (NIV)
6 I do
not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory; 7 but you give us victory over
our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame. 8 In God we make our boast all
day long, and we will praise your name forever. Selah Psalms 44:6-8 (NIV)
15 He
said: “Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This
is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do
not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not
yours, but God's.’” 2 Chronicles 20:15
(NIV)
“Our
God will fight for us!” Nehemiah 4:20 (NIV)
8 “We do
not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the
province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to
endure, so that we despaired even of life. 9 Indeed, in our hearts we felt
the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves
but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he
will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver
us.” 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 (NIV)
BUTTER
“If faith never
encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles
with evil, how can faith know its own power?
In my own pilgrimage, if I have to choose between a faith that has
stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naïve faith that has never
known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.” Gary
Parker
“A
primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing
God’s work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God’s warrior marches forth to battle,
strong in his own might, when he boasts, ‘I know that I shall conquer, my own
right arm and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory’, defeat is not
far distant. God will not go forth with
that man who marches in his own strength.
He who reckoneth on victory thus has reckoned wrongly, for ‘it is not by
might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts’. They who go forth to fight, boasting of their
prowess, shall return with their gay banners trailed in the dust, and their
armour stained with disgrace. Those who
serve God must serve Him in His own way, and in His strength, or He will never
accept their service. That which man
doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away;
He will only reap that corn, the seed of which was sown from heaven, watered by
grace, and ripened by the sun of divine love.
God will empty out all that thou hast before He will put His own into
thee; He will first clean out the granaries before He will fill them with the
finest of the wheat……Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being
filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.” C. H. Spurgeon
“Sometimes the enemy seems to get an
advantage over us; but the battle is not over yet. At last thou shalt
have the victory, and carry the day for all that. In hard struggles
remember the power of Christ, who, in his resurrection, broke through
everything. With him thou canst also break through, and be more than
conqueror. Yea, in every conflict, if thy faith be firm, thou canst be
sure of victory beforehand; for faith engages Christ’s power, and his power
ensureth victory; it is as impossible for thine enemies to keep thee always in
bonds, as it was impossible that Christ could be kept in the grave by the
stone, seal, and keepers. Nay, the greater their force is, the more
glorious will be the victory of Christ over them.” K. H.
Von Bogatzky
“But
the battle is the Lord’s, and He will conquer.
We may fail – do fail continually – but He never fails.” Hudson Taylor
HEART
SAVOR
- · The battle belongs to the Lord. Victory is in His hands.
- · I am not to trust in my own strength rather rest in the powerful hands of the all-powerful.
- · It is God on Whom I have set my hope.
