Deuteronomy 28:7 – ‘The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.’

DAILY READING –Acts 16:1-15; Judges 2-3; Job 34

A kibbutz is a large group of farmers living together, or a collective community in Israel. During the Independence War, one of Israel’s oldest kibbutz was suddenly attacked by Syrian forces, with two hundred armored Syrian vehicles including forty-five tanks. About seventy Israeli farmers living in this community, who were not regular soldiers, had no weapons with which to defend themselves. However, they decided they wouldn’t go down without a fight. Though the Israelis were incredibly low on weapons, they quickly assembled two ancient French cannons that they had and began to use them against the Syrians’ more modern and better equipped cannons and mortars.
This minimal Israeli force also began to throw molotov cocktails at the Syrians. Surprisingly, an Israeli man made a direct hit on an approaching Syrian tank. As the tank burst into flames, suddenly the entire Syrian column turned around and began to flee, possibly believing that the Israelis had a large multitude of anti-tank weapons. The use of Israel’s little artillery took the Syrians by great surprise, and so they fled without knowing that they had the greater weapons and that those Israeli famers had virtually no weapons. This, of course, was a miracle, and so the Kibbutz was preserved.
Deuteronomy 28:7 says, ‘The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.’
Indeed, when God arises for our help, no matter how greater our enemies may appear, our victory is always assured.
In Isaiah 37, King Hezekiah was being attacked the Assyrian army greater than his own army. The Assyrian king had sent a blasphemous message that had thrown King Hezekiah into great distress of mind and profound dismay. And so Hezekiah went into the temple and spread the letter before God. Faced with an enemy and situation he could not handle, he cried out to God for help. In answer, God sent an angel that went into the camp of the Assyrians and killed 185,000 soldiers overnight. When the Assyrians arose early the next morning, behold, there were many dead bodies. The remaining soldiers fled. Later on, the king of Assyria himself was also killed, bringing to an end all his threats and oppression against King Hezekiah and his people.
Today, a king of Assyria may be threatening you in your finances, health, marriage, etc. But understand that the same God is available to deliver you. Just like Hezekiah did, take that matter confronting you to God in prayer and trust Him to show up for your deliverance. Prayer triggers the intervention of the Omnipotent God. As you pray, God is able to release an angel that will go into the camp of your enemies and totally devastate them. It doesn’t matter how mighty the forces against you or how intimidating the situation, God is able to give you the victory. God is not limited in how He can save: He can save by few or by many. He can use the most unlikely and the least expected sources to secure your deliverance. We just need to continue to trust in Him and let Him handle our battles.
God says in Isaiah 54:15, ‘Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.’
Indeed, every spiritual gang-up against you will surely fall for your sake. Understand that there is no situation that comes against you today that cannot be handled with prayers. And in this season, as we continue to cry out at the prayer altar, let’s be assured that God is already visiting our matter and devastating every gathering of the Assyrians in Jesus’ Name.
PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for arising for my deliverance and devastating every gang-up of the wicked against me. Thank You, Lord, for continually giving me the victory and making me a conqueror in every battle of life in Jesus’ Name.
QUOTE
The battle you are faced with today is a good warfare because God has already fore-ordained a victorious end for you.