The Battle Isn’t Yours

I recently shared a revised version of one of my older messages “Facing Our Giants”. It is my hope that people will see that the can face the giants and mountains, the trials and storms of life because as I said in that message, “If God is for us, who is against us?”

Our relationship with God is stronger the more we know Him. David knew God, he was a man after God’s own heart. We are told in 1 Samuel 13 that God sought a man after His own heart and Acts 13 confirms that He found that person in David.

David knew God, he spent time getting to know God. In David we have a great example of some one who faced the giants in his life. David knew that he could trust the Lord.

We all to often trust in ourselves more than in God. We see an issue that we need to work through, we see the storm coming and instead of placing our trust in God we try to get through that issue on our own. 

Jesus told us to learn from Him that He would teach us how to get through.

Matthew 11: 28-30

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.   Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.   For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

He will give us rest. I want you to notice that He does not say that He will take the burden away. He says the He will give us rest and that we can learn from Him how to go through these storms, how to face these giants. He wants us to lean on Him and learn from Him.

David when he faced Goliath knew he would come through that battle, why? He had previously faced a lion and a bear. He had learned from previous battles. We are to do the same, and we can walk through those times with the Lord and He will teach us.

The one thing I want you to take note of, you must be willing to learn. You must be humble enough to realize that you can’t do it on your own, Jesus will teach us, but we must be willing to learn.

Let’s go a little deeper here. David was a man after God’s own heart, God remembered that and wanted us all to know that. He insured it was known by having it noted in the Book of Acts for all of us to see!

David knew that God was with Him. Jesus told us we would not be alone as He was sending the Helper, the Holy Spirit.

In my message “Facing our Giants” I shared part of the following passage from Romans.

Romans 8: 28-39

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.   For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;  and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

    What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?   He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?   Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;  who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was  raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.   Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?   Just as it is written,

 “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;

 WE were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

    But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.   For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,   nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Look at that passage, Good causes all things to work together for good, for who – for those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. Also did you see that “If God is for us, who is against us?”

God is with us, He works things together for good for those who love Him, do we all have a Heart that is after God’s Own Heart? Are we desiring, have we got close to God? Do we love God? Take a close look at the words in this part of the passage from Romans.

“But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.   For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,  nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

We conquer those giants, we calm those storms, we move those mountains through Him who loved us! There is nothing that can separate us from God, from the Love of God that is in Jesus Christ our Lord!

If God is for you who or what can be against you? There is no principality, power or any thing that can keep us from Him. There is victory and freedom in Jesus Christ!

We all sit back and wonder how we are going to get through this storm, that crisis, get around this mountain. We beat ourselves up for even getting into the situation in the first place. The world is filled with issues that we may have to walk through. But you are not defeated!

You are not defeated! The Lord is with you, we have the Holy Spirit to guide us and teach us. We also can not be held captive. Do you realize that Satan can not lock you up, he can’t even lock the doors to his own house? Jesus has the keys to death and hell. How can we be held captive in a place where the doors cannot be locked? All of you who feel that you are imprisoned, come out because the door isn’t even locked.

Revelation 1: 17-18

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last,   and the living One; and I  was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Come out because He who the Son sets free is free indeed.

John 8:36

So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

You are free in Christ Jesus, come out of that self-imposed prison cell, you are free. In all of this I have been saying that God is with us, He will show us the way, He has set us free, He will teach us, He will give us rest. But my friend there is something I want you to grasp hold of. Yes, He wants our hearts, our whole being, because He loves us. He wants us to have hearts that are after Him.

Do you realize that all those battles we are fighting, those storms, those burdens, are all to be turned over to Him, the victory has already been assured in Christ and the battle in the first place was the Lords!

2 Chronicles 20: 14 - 17

Then in the midst of the assembly the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite of the sons of Asaph;   and he said, “Listen, all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: thus says the Lord to you, ‘Do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God’s.   Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley in front of the wilderness of Jeruel.   You need not fight in this battle; station yourselves, stand and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out to face them, for the Lord is with you.”

Consider meditating on this “Do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God’s. … ’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out to face them, for the Lord is with you.” “If God is for us, who is against us? “ Jesus tells you that “I have the keys of death and of Hades”

  If God is for us and the battle if Gods, and Jesus has defeated Satan and holds the keys to hell and death, is it not true them that the Battle Isn’t Yours! Because “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.”