Surely the Lord Fights for His People

I wonder can you relate to this kind of battle. Maybe not the hailstorms, maybe not the vaccine and confusion, but I wonder can you relate to a battle that is already guaranteed, it is certain that you will be victorious because we know that the battle belongs to the Lord. Every single one of our battles that we encounter belong to the Lord. And if the god of the universe can bring down sniper bowling ball hail, I guarantee he can handle what you're going through. [00:39:43] (42 seconds)  #BattleBelongsToTheLord

Well, when they arrived from Gilgal after an all night march, they go into battle but they don't go on their own. Look at the two things that God does. The first thing God does is he sends them into a holy terror. He basically causes the people that were attacking the Gibeonites to be vexed, to be confused, to have some sort of crazy panic. And then his people, the Israelites, came in and destroyed them. [00:37:17] (28 seconds)  #GodSowsConfusion

So so if you ever served the military, maybe you've had this all night responsibility, you're gonna march throughout the night. And you get to a space where about three in the morning, you're angry at everybody. And around four, you just can't kinda do it, you just put the next foot in front of the other one, doing the next right thing. You just kinda keep going. And then by the morning, there's nothing left. [00:36:48] (22 seconds)  #KeepGoingThroughTheNight

Now we go through some stuff here on this earth. We have some challenges in our midst. We have trials and struggles and burdens, relationships that are estranged, financial burdens, struggles, all these different things that happen to us. And sometimes it can feel like we're drowning, like we're just struggling to keep our heads above the water. And God says, you have nothing to fear. And what he's really saying about that is just fear me. [00:35:21] (28 seconds)  #FearGodNotFear

That message that he gives to Joshua, the Israelites, is the same message he gives to us as well, isn't it? Now we go through some stuff here on this earth. We have some challenges in our midst. We have trials and struggles and burdens, relationships that are estranged, financial burdens, struggles, all these different things that happen to us. And sometimes it can feel like we're drowning, like we're just struggling to keep our heads above the water. [00:35:16] (26 seconds)  #GodsMessageToUs

Many of the Israelites just want to let's annihilate them. Let's destroy them. And Joshua said, no. We made a treaty, and we're gonna stand firm in our treaty, and we're gonna honor the treaty we made before God. Remember, they were gonna do the next right thing. How much though do we love it when somebody takes advantage of us and then something bad happens to them? [00:32:11] (25 seconds)  #ChooseMercyOverRevenge

So what do we have to fear? Sin? No. Death? Our enemies? The trials? The struggles? Well, the god that we have that is our god can vex our enemies. The god that we have that we love can bring down hailstorms. The god that we have that we love promises victories through our battles, through our struggles, through our trials. Why? Because surely, surely, the lord is fighting for his people. [00:47:06] (36 seconds)  #DivinePromiseOfVictory

The lord daily is fighting for you. He fights for you every day. He's already saved you, and he's now fighting for you to surrender. He's fighting for you to be obedient. He's fighting and doing battle in a cosmic world for us in a spiritual realm. He is doing battle in spiritual warfare right now to put a hedge of protection around you. He is battling still today against our enemies. So what do we have to fear? [00:46:31] (39 seconds)  #DailyDivineProtection