Running Against Odds, Leaping Over Barriers

UV 871/10,000 Running against Odds, Leaping over Barriers For by You I can run upon a troop; And by my God I can leap over a wall. Psalm 18 v 29 By God’s grace we can face impossible odds in life. Our circumstances might look like an advancing troop and a wall that confines us. But we can run against our circumstances and overcome it. We can pole-vault over the wall of our circumstances with the help of the promises and principles hidden in the Word of God. The wall or barrier that satan brings against us will itself become the source of our lasting victory and everlasting joy. Each uni-verse brings out a promise to be claimed or a principle of life to be followed. When we analyse, understand and apply the Word in our lives, it is like drawing a sword or weapon from its scabbard. When we pray claiming a promise for ourselves, we are rushing forward in a surge of faith to leap over the walls that act as a barrier in our lives. With God on our side, we are bound to be the winning side. With Christ in us, we can leap over the wall of satan. Satan brings up walls of failure, hostility, sickness, threat of death and loss against us often all through our lives. God uses these occasions to prove that He is on our side and He being God Almighty is invincible. David enquired of God every time he thought of taking on the Philistines and other enemies. Only after he got a green signal, he went ahead in the strength of his faith and came back with outstanding victory. Our walls of faith are salvation and our gates are our praise of the Lord. Salvation is compared to a wall as Jesus is the keystone in this wall. Our thoughts, words, actions and reactions are like the bricks that make up the wall over a lifetime. If the wall does not hold gates for entry and exit, it will be like a prison wall around us. When we praise the Lord, the points of praise and worship are the gates for God’s presence to enter and for us to enter His presence. Scripture says that “ you will possess the gates of your enemies.” It implies that we will have victories that will spontaneously trigger praise and worship from our hearts, minds and mouths. It implies that we will get the opportunities and blessings that originally belonged to those who opposed us or attacked us. David inherited the kingdom that belonged to King Saul. Prateep V Philip