The battle is the Lord's!

It may be that you are facing some daunting battle today that threatens to envelop your whole existence. If this is the case, I wish to share some encouraging thoughts with you. As I am sitting here, a song is playing in my head, sung by Ron Kenoly and his team, called The Battle is the Lord's. Simply click on the highlighted words to find it on YouTube.
This song was inspired by a passage in the Bible which can be found in 2 Chronicles 20. In this passage the nation of Judah is faced with a three-fold alliance of nations who are marching in battle towards them. Judah is a tiny nation by comparison and poorly equipped for the battle. Jehoshaphat, however, has learned not to take things to heart, but rather to take them to the Lord, and this is exactly what he does. He leads his people in prayer, encouraging the whole nation to prostrate themselves before God, to seek His face and His will.
This pays brilliant dividends. God actually tells Jehoshaphat when his enemies will be at a certain spot. Now, in terms of military strategy, things can hardly get better. This is precise and accurate intelligence from the most reliable source ever! Not even the joint enemies could foretell their own location as accurately as Jehoshaphat's Informant had. What would have made sense, would have been for Jehoshaphat to gather his top military advisers and strategists to come up with the best battle plan to defeat the enemy. Yet, this is not what happened. Instead, God gave Jehoshaphat a military strategy that seemed to make no sense at all.
God told Jehoshaphat to line up a huge band to make music. The he was also to line up a huge choir to sing along with the music. This noisy band of musicians and choral singers were then to march IN FRONT OF the army towards the place where the enemy would be found, as revealed by God. There was absolutely zero stealth in this strategy! It seemed pure madness, from a purely human point of view.
Yet God does not have a human point of view. He has a unique perspective, as was once again proved by the outcome of the battle. When Jehoshaphat and his troop of merry men arrived at the place of meeting, they found the enemy all wiped out. Every last man had died. What had happened was that two of the three-fold alliance, had banded together against the third and killed them all off. In the process, the other two got ticked off with each other as well, and before Jehoshaphat and his army could even show up, they had all managed to slaughter each other! All that was left for the people of Judah to do, was to gather the loot - and this took them all of three days to do, there was so much of it.
Perhaps, you are facing an overwhelming alliance today. Perhaps, your enemy seem too strong, too wise, too well-equipped for you to prosper against them. Perhaps you need reminding that the same God who saved Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah, is the One who gave you the right to call Him Father. Call upon the name of your Father. Call upon Jesus. Call upon the Holy Spirit with whom you have been equipped. Then allow yourself to sing songs of jubilant victory and stand back to watch the salvation that God brings. Allow your enemies to destroy themselves and accept the loot that God will entrust to you.
You are not alone. If God is for us, who can be against us? I pray that you may have wisdom to know and understand God's will in your life. Amen.

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