PRAYER IN BATTLE

"They were helped in fighting them, and God handed the Hagrites and all their allies over to them, because they cried to him during the battle. He answered their prayers, because they trusted in him." I Chronicles 5:20

Where's your battle? Is it at work? Is it at home? Is it within yourself? Your finances? Where ever the battle is, cry out to God from the battlefield! 

Sometimes we forget that we are to seek God in the middle of the struggle. You think you have to fix everything first. You try to get yourself together, clean yourself up a bit. In the meantime the battle is still going on around you. Don't wait, pray. Cry out to God. "Lord, give me the strength to do your will. Give me victory!" 

If you are like me, there are days you when feel like you leave one battlefield to fight on another. During one of the early battles of the civil war, General US Grant, rode from skirmish to skirmish urging his men to fight on until they finally were victorious. Sometimes that is what we have to do. Go from battlefield to battlefield and cry out to God for help, for victory, until the battle is won. 

The word says, "He answered their prayers because they trusted in him." So, cry out to him! That is your mustard seed of faith. Crying out to him. Keep fighting and keep trusting. The victory will come.

Father, we cry out to you from the middle of our battles! Answer our prayers and give us the victory! Praise be to you in us today!

VICTORY IS OURS!/ Psalm 44:4-5

"You are my King and my God,
     who decrees victories for Jacob.
 Through you we push back our enemies;
     through your name we trample our foes."
 Psalm 44:4-5

If there is going to be any victory in our lives it is because of our Kind and God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Just as the Psalmist realized the victories were all about God, we too must realize, only God can bring the victory.

"Through your name" we trample down our foes. I was just reading I Samuel 7 this morning and few things apply. First of all Israel repented (verse 2), and while they were seeking the Lord their enemy, the Philistines, decided to attack (verses 7). Isn't that the way it goes? We start to seek God in earnest and the trials start to come. The Israelites sought God and he gave them the victory (verses 14). 

Here's the deal: There will be battles. We will seek God and he will give us the victory. 

Father, help us to seek you. We look to you for the victories we need in our marriages, children, jobs and finances. Praise be to you in us today!