The Battle Shield

UV 3563/10000 The Battle Shield The Lord is my strength and my (impenetrable) shield; My heart trusts (with unwavering confidence) in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I shall thank Him and praise Him. Psalm 28 v 7 Even on our most troubled days, we can find a good reason to praise and thank God. Such is His grace and faithfulness that once He wraps us with His love, He becomes our virtual impenetrable defence. All we need to do is to continue to affirm our trust in Him with our hearts and our mouths. When we confess our faith in promises like this uni-verse or any other rhema verse the Lord has specifically laid on our hearts, He takes over the situation and He helps us overcome, emerge stronger and victorious. When we are undergoing the difficulty or trial, it might not seem very pleasant but once we cross over to overcoming, to victory, a song of praise and thanksgiving will swell spontaneously from our hearts. We will be even able to thank God for the trial for through it we experienced His deliverance, His love and help. Our faith gets even more stronger than before. We grow closer to God and realize He is real and cares for our every feeling and need. Sometimes, through our doubts and negative confessions of fear and anxiety, we might create unwittingly holes in the shield of faith through which the invisible enemy can penetrate. Hence, we should ensure our faith is complete, in tact, sealed and polished giving no opportunity to the enemy to enter or create doubt or confusion in our minds. We may not understand what is happening but in due course, the Lord will reveal it to us with a change in the circumstances or an assurance that He is in control. He is our all encompassing battle shield. We don’t hold this shield for He holds us as the apple of His eye. He is our glory and the lifter of our heads as the Psalmist described in song. The key to using this shield is not holding but yielding to God and His will. Praise and thanksgiving should be a constant song or refrain of our hearts. It should precede, accompany and succeed our deliverance, our victory. We do not fight alone any battle but the Lord Himself fights on our behalf. He can defeat the enemy singly, with many or with few. It is not a zero sum game or battle but a hundred percent sum game in which whatever the result, the victory is certain, it is hundred percent. Even if we perish, we succeed for we live forever with Christ.