Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He
prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
The
fact is we have an enemy who is ready for battle, yet the battles that the
enemy brings us to are not the typical battles we may be thinking of. There are no foot soldiers or tanks headed our
direction. The battles we get in to as
Christians are mostly those in the spirit world, in our minds and sometimes in
the places we least expect them.
For we are not fighting against
flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen
world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in
the heavenly places.
There
will be some battles that have to do with relationships that you have to fight
for or work hard to make work. Most of
the battles find a home or footing inside our spirit, and they are hard to
fight.
Our
enemy wants us to believe that we are alone in these battles. We are lied to that no one else understands
or needs to know about what we are going through. Those are lies from our enemy who is seeking
us, like the first verse said, and that is battling us in areas where we have
little ability or experience apart from what God gives us.
We
have to trust God and lean on him to go through the battles that come up. I have found that God will prepare us if we
let Him.
Say to those with fearful hearts, “Be
strong, and do not fear, for your God is coming to destroy your enemies. He is coming to save you.”
I am the LORD; there is no other
God. I have equipped you for battle, though
you don’t even know me,
May
God help us to be ready for the battles, and may we let Him fight the battles
for us. It is time to be strong, to lean
on God and remember that God prepared us for what is ahead.
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