SPEAKING TO THE GLORY OF THE LORD
Donna Raphael
www.heavensthunder.org
UNLIKELY WARRIORS RUN TO THE BATTLE
You
are the Lord’s chosen warriors. Though you have been hidden from view,
you have been trained up as the champion warriors of the Lord of Hosts.
You have faced many battles in the past and learned to rely on the
Lord for victory. You have been taught how to war by following the
strategies of the Lord Himself. Though you may appear to be the most
unlikely of warriors and rely not on conventional weapons, you are His
champions. You are armed with faith and truth; and dangerous because of
your total trust and belief in your Lord God Whose leading you follow
without hesitation or question. Now there comes a mighty threat of the
enemy that causes even seasoned warriors of the Lord to cower down. But
you know no fear, champion warriors! This is your time to arise and
run to the battle armed of the Lord. This is the day for which you are
trained. This is the threat for which you were fitted to take down. Be
not discouraged by doubts of even your brothers and sisters. Be not
dismayed by ridicule of the enemy. You know whose you are and to whom
the battle belongs. Declare His word that you may take down the giant
in the Name of the Lord!
I Samuel 17:
42 And when the
Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was
but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
43 And the
Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with
staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
44 And the
Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the
fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
45 Then said David
to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear,
and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts,
the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
46 This day
will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and
take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of
the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild
beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in
Israel.
47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not
with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you
into our hands.
48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose,
and came, and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran
toward the army to meet the Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in
his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine
in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell
upon his face to the earth.
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine
with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him;
but there was no sword in the hand of David.
51 Therefore David ran,
and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of
the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And
when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
