The 360 Degree Shield

UV 3367/10000 The 360 Degree Shield

The Lord has taken away the judgements against you; He has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, even the Lord (Himself) is in your midst; You will no longer fear disaster.

Zephaniah 3 v 15

This uni-verse is a 360 Degree Shield- internal, external, eternal, natural and supernatural. Since Jesus took all judgements upon Himself and He became our scapegoat, there are no judgements of sin against us. Rather, the Lord reserves judgements of rewards for good deeds done in obedience to His word. He has gone ahead of us to clear the mines planted by the enemy of our souls against us. The enemy’s power to harm us comes from our sin. He has the power to kill, steal, rob, destroy. The Jesus ‘heel of salvation’ has crushed the power of the enemy. We need to no longer fear the enemy but stamp on him with the shoes of salvation on our soles as we would a scorpion or some insect that has a sting. The sting with which the enemy hurt us was death but now we have victory over death. The sting of death has lost its power to harm us. It is utterly destroyed with the Resurrection of Jesus and He has now given us the same hope and power of resurrection.

Just as we do not have to fear death, we need not fear in life for the Lord is in our midst. We are part of His kingdom rule. As the King of hearts, He rules over ours. His kingdom power is available and accessible to us. He is only one prayer away. He enables and ensures we are victorious in all of life’s great challenges. He fights or battles the enemy on our behalf. We only need to hold onto our position of faith in His word, His presence and His grace. The enemy will attempt to rob our salvation, steal our peace and blessings, kill our joy but as long as we use the shield of faith to ward off His attempts and speak the sword of faith – the Word of God, we can defeat and hold him at bay.

We no longer have to fear disasters or overwhelming events that overtake mankind from time to time in the form of natural phenomena, financial upheavals, terrorism and so on. We are empowered for a zero worry, hundred per cent thankful and worshipful lives. Even if we face difficulties, challenges, problems, we can rest assured that we will have victory at the end, either in this lifetime or in eternity. The trouble is most of us do not have patience to wait for either a lifetime or for eternity. I am one of those who does not have this kind of patience. I recognized that the Lord is not only a covenant keeping God but a covenant making One. So I entered into a personal covenant with the Lord after a series of troubles that broke me down. I prayed, “Lord, whatever You tell me I will do . If I do not , please send me small warnings like dashing my feet against an object and I will heed.” The Lord has kept His part of the covenant while I try to keep mine.