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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Warrior's Prayer, #2
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower (verse two).
God is our Rock, our personal Rock. The world is characterized by constant change and commotion. People run here and there. The wicked are as the troubled sea, being continually in motion, in a state of change. One moment they appear to be quiet and at peace. The next moment they are in a state of uproar, angry, tumultuous, threatening. There is no true and lasting peace to the wicked or to those who are in contact with the wicked.
Civilizations rise and fall. Economies are strengthened and then collapse. People become famous, their names are household words, and then they vanish like smoke. There is no rest or quietness of spirit or soul for those who put their trust in the world.
God has founded the world on the seas and established it on the floods (Psalms 24:2). But the men of faith look for a city that has foundations.
God's warriors are not men and women of constant change. Like their Father and Lord, they change not. The impregnable Lord is their Rock. They are bold in the hour of danger. They do not hold up the Rock, the Rock holds them up. They are as Mount Zion: they cannot be removed. They do the will of God. They abide forever.
The Lord is our fortress. How many Christians are superstitious! They do not fear Christ nearly enough but they do fear the devil and his demons. When we are serving the Lord and are abiding in Christ we have no need whatever to fear Satan. The angel of the Lord is encamped round about those who fear God and delivers them from every spiritual and physical danger.
Whenever there is a confrontation between the Ark of God and the demon powers, it is the demons who fall on their faces in terror. The Lord's warriors understand this fact.
They are not afraid in the night seasons, in the early hours of the morning when men awake in terror because of the oppression of demons. They do not panic. They do not cower in dread. They call on the Lord. They rest in the unconquerable majesty of the Almighty Christ. The Lord Himself is their fortress.
The Lord delivers us from the strongest enemies. We may be bound with lust or self-will or physical infirmity. Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers him out of them all (Psalms 34:19).
The Lord always will deliver us from the bondages of sin and self-seeking when we call on Him in total sincerity. If we name the sin as sin, rejecting it with all our determination and are willing to live without this "pleasure," then the Lord will deliver us from the particular bondage. (Sometimes the prayers of the elders are necessary to obtain final victory for us.) God's warriors do not walk in known sin.
To be continued.