Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Allow God to Fight for You


Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

God fights because He is Jehovah the Man of war, the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.  God fights in diverse ways through elements of creation, with the sword of His mouth – Revelation Chapters 2 verse 16, 1 verse 10, 2 verse 12, 11 verses 3 to 6, Significantly, God has numerous weapons at His disposal. He therefore deploys whichever best suits His purpose. After all, He is the Creator and Owner of everything created. Please read Genesis Chapter 1. Before anything existed, the Word had already existed alongside God because the Word is God; the Creator of everything that exist and will ever exist.


Importantly, God has a beautiful and unparalleled history of always fighting victoriously for His own. He fought for Abraham over seemingly powerful kings of his day who took Sarah away from him. Please Genesis Chapters 12 from verses 10 to 20 and 20. Please read Exodus Chapters 15 verse 3: 14 verses 13 to 14, 23 to 41, for in depth details of how God overthrew Pharaoh, his army and chariots in the red sea;  Psalm 24 verse 8, Joshua Chapters 10 verses 1 to 43, 11 verse 20 of how God fought for the Israelites against the nations who attempted to stop their progress to Canaan; 1st Samuel Chapters 5 verses 1 to 12, 6 of how God afflicted the people of Ashdod, Gath and Ekron with tumors for receiving and hosting the Ark of God. Some of the people even died. It was only after they returned the Ark with trespass offerings that they were free. Even the men of Beth Shemesh, fifty thousand and seven of them were struck down because they dared to look into the Ark of the Lord, an act of great irreverence as they had no business whatsoever looking into the Ark of God. 

The Bible records that God thundered against the Philistine army from heaven, confused them because they rose against Israel while Samuel was offering burnt offerings for Israel. The Philistines were consequently overcome by the Israelites and were subdued to the point where they had to restore occupied cities to Israel. They also stayed away from Israel. Please read 1st Samuel Chapter 7 verses 6 to 14. God also empowered David, an unschooled warrior to kill an experienced giant warrior like Goliath. Please read 1st Samuel Chapter 17 for details.



God also turned the three allied armies of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir; against each other when they mobilized against Israel. First, the Ammonites and the Moabites fought against Mount Seir until they destroyed the entire army of Mount Seir before turning against each other and destroying each other. It is significant that they had come against Judah to destroy Judah but God intervened and they destroyed one another leaving behind great spoils of war which the Judeans took three days in carting home. Please read 2nd Chronicles Chapter 20 for details.

Moses consistently reassured the children of Israel, telling them not to be afraid of any of their enemies because God would always fight for them and God did. Please read also Deuteronomy Chapters 1 verses 28 to 30 and 3 verses 21 to 22. God will fight for you and give you the victory that is yours in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

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