Battling Heavy Odds with God

UV 3262/10000 Battling Heavy Odds with God
You will not need to fight in this battle; take your positions, stand and witness the salvation of the Lord who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you.

2 Chronicles 20 v 17

Often, we are disappointed and apprehensive when we are outnumbered and face heavy odds. We imagine we alone are fighting a losing battle. But the Lord says in this uni-verse that the battle is His. He will do the fighting for us. He will obtain victory and deliverance for us against powerful foes and enemies. It is not a physical battle but a call to spiritual warfare, to be engaged in prayer on our knees and often, prostrate before Him. The time we tend to spend worrying about the uncertainties of our own future or the power of the enemy we should devote to prayer, worship and thanksgiving for the deliverance and the victory the Lord is fashioning for us in the spiritual realms, not yet visible in the physical.

We should not shy away from the battlefield. We need to take our positions in the trenches of spiritual warfare. Like Elisha’s disciples we need to open our eyes of faith and see the numerous chariots of fire deployed by the Lord led by angel commanders. Like Joshua and his troops of worshippers, faithful, disciplined and obedient people, every day of the week, we only need to go around doing our routine duties, while remembering the Lord is at work behind the battle scenes. We only need to shout that the Lord has given the battle victory into our hands. Of course, we need to blow our trumpets, break our earthen pitchers that hide the flame of the Holy Spirit burning in us. Blowing our trumpets implies that our hearts should resonate with the Lord’s own heart. Breaking the earthen pitchers holding the torch is a metaphor for breaking anything that hides the power of love of God in our lives. It implies letting go of our fears, reservations, doubts and allowing the flame of our faith and love for the Lord to burn freely and fully.

Whenever and wherever, there is a coincidence of our faith, hope and love with the Word of God, victory in our battles is birthed. That coincidence does not happen accidentally. We need to be at the place of battle, the position of engagement. While manning our positions of responsibility in the battle, we need not panic, be alarmed at the heavy odds against us or the formidable strength of the enemy lines. He can cause us to win against many or few, against ordinary mortals or spirits or giants like Goliath. We need to keep ready and primed our spiritual weapons – prayer, the Word, the inner and strong faith, a keen and clear vision, feet firmly planted and rooted on the ground. We need to see the victory the Lord is giving to us ahead of its actual occurrence. The Lord being with us, in us and for us is the greatest source of our strength and victory.