Why Am I feeling the Blows!!

I have been on a journey this year, and have been faced with many questions- about the battle. I have heard this scripture used as a cliché “the battle is not yours it is the Lords’. Well, if it is the Lords, then why am I feeling the blows? Here is what I got after prayerfully pondering my situations concerning the battle. Here is that scripture in its context 2 Chronicles 20:15-17

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15 He said: “Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. 16 Tomorrow march down against them. They will be climbing up by the Pass of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the gorge in the Desert of Jeruel. 17 You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.’”

I just realized something for the first time in these verses it says in verse 17. You will not have to fight THIS battle. That means, that we need to first discern our strategy when the battle comes. We do this by going to God like Jehoshaphat did and getting instructions. Whether to fight or not fight- if we are told not to fight then like Jehoshaphat what is the next plan of action. If we are told to fight like in Joshua 8:1-2 then how do we precede in the fight.

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Ai Destroyed

8 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land. 2 You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.”

 

So I am concluding that I have been feeling the blows because I have failed to first find out how God wanted me to address the battles that I faced-the battles that I am told to fight I may be knocked down but I am able to get back up again. Then once that I was just suppose to remain still and praise in, but decided to do something contrary are the times when I feel, exhausted and near defeat!

I have some vast armies in my life, and I realize that I don’t even begin to know in my own knowledge how to proceed against them. Also,I am incapable in my own strength to fight and win. I will not go forward without first approaching God and asking him for a plan of action, I will wait in his presence until I hear from Him, and I will not leave assuming anything!

exhausted and near defeat!