Friday, May 11, 2018

Using Alpha Power to Deal with Battles


UV2943/10000 Using Alpha Power to Deal with Battles
With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 32 v 8

When the odds are against us, if God is with us, we need not be worried or anxious. When Hezekiah, the King of Judah faced overwhelming odds of the formidable Assyrian army of King Sennacherib, he was not daunted or discouraged by the taunts of the enemy for his faith and courage rested on the Word of the Lord to be with him, to help him, to strengthen him, to uphold him with the right hand of His power and righteousness. Mere human power cannot prevail against the might of righteousness of God. For with the enemy is only a hand of flesh and only mortal weapons while with us as a mighty warrior to fight our battles is the Lord of Hosts or the Lord God of the armies of heaven. Therefore, Hezekiah asked his people not to be afraid or discouraged for he said, “Greater are those who are with us.”

Our battles in life today are often not military or physical but intellectual, social, financial and above all, spiritual. We only need to exercise our faith daily in the power and prowess of the Lord to vindicate us as long as we hold onto His hand with a firm grip and do not resist Him. We need to have a vice-like grip on the sword of the Word of the Lord. Whatever be the battle we are currently fighting, the Word is versatile enough, alive, dynamic, relevant and powerful to be the text in our context which we need to believe, claim, pray, declare, hold on to, recollect again and again. Whatever be the circumstances we are going through, we should have a victor mentality not a victim mentality.

Moses fought and won against only one enemy- Pharaoh and his mighty Egyptian army while Joshua was a more intrepid warrior. He fought and won against 31 kings before claiming the promised land of Canaan for the descendants of Israel or Jacob. To put the text in context, 31 kings to us implies 31 spiritual strongholds that keep us from entering into our spiritual inheritance. Virtually, every day we are fighting a battle against one spiritual king or other or a combination or spiritual strongholds. Their goal is to prevent us from entering into our inheritance in Christ of peace, prosperity, eternal life, joy, love and mercy and if we perchance we have entered and experienced any or all of these, to cease or seize it from us. If we do not wrestle in prayer with the Lord, they may well be able to wrest it from us or arrest us in our spiritual journey to the promised land- the kingdom of God. We can wrestle without moving a finger or a muscle by resting on the Word, calmly believing that the Lord is true to His first and last word- the Alpha and the Omega, the first to the last word, the Alpha to the Omega in all our battles every day of our lives. The ultimate outcome is the concern of our Commander-in-Chief Jesus but we can be assured He will ensure we are victorious as long as we allow Him to fight our battles.

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