Exodus 14:14 says "The Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace."
When you are in the middle of a trial, it feels like it is never-ending. Will we be able to conquer? Will the battle plan actually work? The devil just keeps attacking and the battle feels like it just won't stop. Even when we know the battle plan is solid and we know what to do, it is hard. At times, God tells us to hold our peace and He will fight the battle for us. Do you know how hard it is to just surrender control to God?
God has been dealing with my heart lately that we need to start proclaiming the victory over all situations. Over the sickness that we are fighting, over the stressful situations that you may be facing, just proclaim victory over your life. We need to proclaim God's victory. He wrote the battle plan. He knows what your future holds. God even understands the stress from the middle of the battlefield.
Victory, victory shall be mine. Victory, victory shall be mine. If I hold my peace and let the Lord fight my battle, victory victory, shall be mine. This is an old song that I have been thinking about lately.
Did you know that God has gone before you to prepare the way and we can proclaim victory no matter what the situation looks like? We can read the back of the book and know that we have already won. Are you the type of person to read the back of the story to see how it ends before reading a book? My mom always likes to know how the story ends to see if she wants to spend time on reading the book. I sometimes read the back of the book to see if I am going to like the ending before finishing the book and sometimes I'll just read through the book from front to back. Well, when it comes to life, sometimes we don't want to just wait and read the book, we want to skip to see how the ending is going to turn out. Unfortunately, with life, we can't jump to the ending because our story is still being written. However, if we trust God, we can know that he will give us the victory in the end.
Do we have to go through trials to shape us or to help other people? Most certainly. Is life fair all the time? No, no, it is not. Sickness comes our way, trials come our way, but we know that God holds us in his hands. We know that no matter what God is going before us and fighting our battles for us if we just step back and let Him take charge. It's difficult to do at times because often we want to be the ones in control. We want to tell the situation how it should go or how it should end, but that is not often how life works. However, we know that God is fighting with us and for us in each battle.
"We were created to be soldiers, not spectators." This was a quote from Pastor Lester this past week at church and it really struck me. God did not design us to just sit on the bench and watch what is happening in our lives. He created us to be soldiers and to fight for what is right.
Sometimes when sickness comes our way people question you, "What did you do to have this happen to you? What sin did you commit?" Did you know there was a person in the Bible that was asked this question? He was born blind and when Jesus healed him, the people all questioned and wanted to know whether he sinned or his parents sinned to cause him to be blind. John 9:3 NKJV states Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him." Sometimes our difficulties are not caused for any reason other than to reveal the works of God. This is when it is the hardest to be in the middle of the trial or battle because you feel like everything is against you, but that is also when God is doing the most work through your life to reveal his works to everyone around you. Just remember when it gets the hardest that is when you want to proclaim the victory. Just keep claiming God's victory and He will lead you to victory.
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