The Battle Is Not Mine: Faith, Fear, and Victory

5/26/24
This messgae delves into spiritual warfare and faith using key biblical passages. It highlights common challenges like interruption, fear, impatience, and critical decision points. The focus is on God's preference for the heart over appearances, emphasizing faith and confession for justification and salvation. Through Jesus Christ, believers find peace amid chaos by overcoming fear and impatience. David's story illustrates the outcomes of decisions made in fear versus faith, stressing trust in God's timing and strength, leading to restoration and victory. Ultimately, it encourages affirming righteousness in God, relying on His spirit, and declaring faith in navigating life's trials. #HeartOverAppearance
Most battles have these issues in common:
Interruption
Fear and/or impatience
Decision point
… the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the LORD’s command. (1 Samuel 13:14 NIV)
…The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7 NIV)
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. (Romans 10:10 NIV)
Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. (Romans 5:1 NLT)
Peace: To destroy the authority attached to the chaos.
When we become reliant on the Prince of Peace, we walk in peace.
But David thought to himself, “One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.” (1 Samuel 27:1 NIV)
Fear is trusting in Satan more than God.
Impatience driven by fear cuts God out of the process.
Our declaration over ourselves dictates the battle outcome.
And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple], he must deny himself [set aside selfish interests], and take up his cross daily [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me]. (Luke 9:23 AMP)
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. (Galatians 6:9 NIV)
So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep. (1 Samuel 30:4 NIV)
and David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” he answered. “You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.” (1 Samuel 30:8 NIV)
David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back. (1 Samuel 30:18-19 NIV)
The Position of Victory for Every Battle:
I am right in God’s sight.
I am justified.
God is fighting this battle for me, so I stay at peace.
Declarations:
I am made right in God’s sight, and Peace fights for me. (Romans 5:1)
He is good, and I trust His timing. (Psalm 107:1)
It is not in my strength, but by His Spirit. (Zechariah 4:6)
I am weak, but we are strong! (2 Corinthians 12:10)
What is the Holy Spirit saying to you today?
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