We have to learn to fight our own battles if we want to become mature believers. You can’t depend on someone else for your deliverance. Perhaps you have a prayer warrior friend you can call and say, “I’ve got a battle before me. Will you pray for me?".
Now that is scriptural, but it is not your God and your Father's complete will for you. Yehovah wants you to become a warrior! He wants you to be able to stand up against the rulers of the darkness of this world.
Note: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)
Note: When Israel was being oppressed by their enemies, God promised Gideon, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man” (Judges 6:16, NKJV). God told Gideon, “I have sent you; I will be with you.”
Notice: Judges 6:11-16: Then the angel of Yehovah came and sat under the pistachio tree in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites. The angel of Yehovah appeared to him and said to him: “You valiant hero! Yehovah is with you!” “Excuse me, sir,” answered Gideon, “but if Yehovah is with us, then why is all this happening to us? And where are all his miracles our ancestors told us about when they said, Didn't Yehovah bring us up from Egypt?’ But now, Yehovah has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites.” Yehovah [the angel acting as Yehovah's agent] turned to him and said, “Go in this strength of yours and save Israel from the hands of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?” But Gideon answered him, “Forgive me, Yehovah, but with what am I to save Israel? For my family is the poorest in Menasheh, and I’m the youngest person in my father’s house!” Yehovah [the angel acting as Yehovah's agent] said to him, “Because I will be with you, you will strike down Midyan as easily as if they were just one man.”
Things will begin to change the moment you are fully persuaded that God is with you.
Like Gideon, you may be fearful and wonder, “How can I fight? I’m weak and inexperienced.” Remember what God told Gideon:
“Go in this might of yours” (Judges 6:14). “What might?” you ask. Gideon’s might was bound up in coming to believe, to have faith in God’s promise to him:
“Surely I will be with you.”
Beloved, those same words, “I am with you”, is your strength! You will receive strength being enabled by the indwelling Spirit of Yehovah to carry out and do whatever He commissions you to do!
We know that we as His priests have been commissioned to preach the good news message that Jesus preached to the nations!
Note: Grace be unto you, and peace, from Him [Yehovah], who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven angels which are before His throne; And from Jesus the Messiah, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And has made us kings and priests unto his God and his Father; to Him [Yehovah] be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. (Revelations 1:4-6)
Jesus told his disciples after his resurrection from among the dead: "repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem". (Luke 24:47)
When they received the power from on high that Jesus sent down on the Day of Pentecost they went forth from that time preaching the message he gave them to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem. They did so knowing that the lord Jesus was with them every step of the way, even as he is with us every step of the way as we carry the message he received from his God and his Father to give to us to take to the nations! This is what we have been commissioned to do.
When we do so we are "Yehovah's valiant warriors" acting as His agents.
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