Morning by Morning, August 13 - Brave in Battle, Trusting the One Who Give Us Victory
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I welcome You here in my heart and here in every moment of my day. ...
I’m thinking this morning of my son in the United States Army, Airborne Infantry. As always, he is preparing for battle with the men and women who wear our colors, defend our nation, and fight for freedom wherever they’re sent. Their assignment is to “respond to crisis contingencies anywhere in the world within 18 hours” and are deemed to be “the U.S. Army’s most strategically mobile division.”
As I prayed, I sent him this Word this morning from the words You spoke through Your priests before the days of battle of the armies of Israel:
“When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army. He shall say: ‘Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. For the Lord your God is the One who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory” (Deuteronomy 20:2–4).
You are the One who goes with us into battle. You are the One who gives us victory.
Just as the armies of the earth go into battle, so do the armies of the Lord who are called by Your name to engage the spiritual battles we face every day -- battles of good and evil, truth and lies, freedom and bondage, spirit and flesh. Battles within and battles without.
But You go with us into battle. You give us victory, as we turn to You and call on Your name and trust in You, no matter what we go through.
There is a true peace that only comes through confrontation with what is wrong, that never comes with the complacency of the compromise of appeasement. That true peace comes in fulfillment of the Promise of Your Word in the spiritual battles we face every day:
“The God of peace will shortly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!” (Romans 16:20)
You don’t crush our spiritual enemy under our feet in our strength, our wisdom, or the weapons of this world, but by the name of Jesus on our lips and character of Jesus being formed in our hearts. It’s only by the power of “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
And by the power of Your grace, we don’t ever have to be fainthearted or afraid. For You empower us by Your Spirit to be brave in battle and fearless to victory. No matter what we face, no matter what the battlefield looks like at the end of the day, we always have victory when our eyes on You and Your Spirit is in us.
“Thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing Him” (2 Corinthians 2:14). “And this is the victory that overcomes the world -- our faith” (1 John 5:4). “Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!” (1 Corinthians 15:57) In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you be brave in the spiritual battles you face, trusting in the One who gives you victory, with the name of Jesus on your lips and the nature of Jesus being formed in your heart, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries
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