HE WILL DO THIS

Sitting still, doing nothing except trusting in the Lord, causes a feeling of uncertainty! Especially when we look out into the world and today’s report is flying drones the size of a car! What a tremendous temptation to take the battle into our own hands.

He will do this. (Psalm 37:5)

All this takes time. 

As I reflect, I realize the enemy is working hard to shape the landscape but we have already tilled the ground, sown the seeds and now we wait and trust until God’s purposes are fulfilled. 

We understand this principle when it comes to planting a garden, and we need to learn the same lesson regarding our prayer life. It takes time for God to answer prayer.

The hardest part, even with faith in The Lord is waiting for his timing is not ours.

Each time we pick up the battle, I am reminded by His Spirit the Lord does not fight our battles when we insist upon trying to fight them ourselves. It is not that God will not but that He cannot, for our interference hinders His work. 

Spiritual forces cannot work while we are trusting earthly forces. 

“Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,” says the LORD Almighty. (Zechariah 4:6)

Often we fail to give God an opportunity to work, not realizing that it takes time for Him to answer prayer. It takes time for God to color a rose or to grow a great oak tree. And it takes time for Him to make bread from wheat fields. He takes the soil, then grinds it. He enriches it and wets it with rain showers and with dew. Then He brings the warmth of life to the small blade of grass, later grows the stalk and the amber grain, and finally provides bread for the hungry.

In this time of uncertainty—wait. If you have any doubt—wait, never forcing yourself into action. If you sense any restraint in your spirit, do not go against it—wait until the way is clear.

In the meantime, we must persevere in prayer and seek to enforce the sentence that was levied against satan at the cross. As we do, victory will come in our lives as we put on our spiritual armor each day (see Ephesians 6:13–18), resisting his advances so he will flee (see James 4:7), and encouraging one another in love and building each other up (see 1 Thessalonians 5:11). As we remember that it takes spiritual weapons to win spiritual battles (see 2 Corinthians 10:4–5). Most of all, we employ the weapon of prayer against the enemy. We pray on earth, and God answers from heaven. Between heaven and earth is where the battle takes place! The day is coming very soon when “Satan, who deceives the whole world . . . [will be] cast to the earth, and his angels [will be] cast out with him” (Revelation 12:9).

There is no limit to what we may ask and expect of our glorious El Shaddai—our almighty God. And there is no way for us to measure His blessing, for He is “able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” (Eph. 3:20). A. B. Simpson

He is the God of limitless resources—the only limit comes from us. Stop worrying and Expect God to defend and over-throw our enemy! 

He will Do This!