![]() ![]() When you don’t know what HE is doing now, remember what HE has done in the past. Jehoshaphat had a place to go to in time of attack. You don’t need someone’s drama! It’s all the battle you can fight to handle your own drama! III Shocked Not Shaken Unreliable information can cause you so much emotional drama. Don’t be so quick to fight someone else’s battles. Another person’s peace is not your battle. If you are fighting to change someone else, your fighting the wrong battle. Don’t spend your time fighting battles that aren’t yours, because you will not have strength to fight battles of your own. You see, christians need to be careful what you join yourself to. ![]() He could have been killed in that battle, but he learned not to make those unholy alliances, and try to fight someone else’s battles that does not belong to him. He had barely made it out of an unholy alliance with Ahab. He had learned to seek the Lord, and not listen to some who would steer you astray. He knew what he would do when that time came because that was predetermined. Something about an urgency to make you do what you should have done a long time ago. No time to do anything else but go to God. The enemy is coming in, and only about 25 miles away. After being spared and not destroyed, now they arise to attack Judah, and destroy what God has built up. Jehoshaphat knew the story of the two nations that had been spared when the children of Israel entered the Promised Land. Oftentimes when we realize that we are in an uninvited attack, it sends us to our knees. We may be enjoying life, good health, a good home, strong relationships in our families, and out of nowhere, something we didn’t see coming, just attacks our peace of mind, and what was a blessed life, suddenly becomes bereft with loss, pain, and sorrow. The same is true in our individual lives. “We are not ignorant concerning satan’s devices”, and we should be all the more aware of his strategy when it Comes to defending against his intrusion into the purpose and blessing of God. Those transition points in the life of a church are extremely precarious times. Our adversary the devil usually launches his attacks at a time of high tide spiritually. And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah. Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents and he had riches and honour in abundance.Ħ. He destroyed the pagan places of worship and repaired the Temple, and restored the prophets to a place of prominence.ĥ. ![]() He was repairing the walls of the cities and fortifying them with protection from Judah’s enemies. He was restoring the rightful worship of the LORD. He was bringing back the reading of God’s Word. He continued the revival that his father Asa had begun in his reign. He was leading Judah in a good direction. A Battle Usually Comes When Things Are Good He had done nothing to provoke it, but now, like it or not, he was forced to fight a battle, ill prepared and no plan of action. In our text, Jehoshaphat, king of Judah found himself in a fight to survive. Suddenly you are faced with a battle with a spiritual enemy that took you completely by surprise. Sometimes a battle just comes out of nowhere! In what you thought was a calm and serene emotional landscape, suddenly, a person is cast into the midst of an out of control wildfire of anger and hostility. Certainly, prayer and consultation with God’s Word is important, but good common sense can go a long way in helping us avoid devastating and debilitating struggles in faith and practice. ![]() Amidst all the rhetoric, slogans seem to find their way into the discussion in most of them, one of which is “Choose your Battles.” In family and marriage counseling we hear “be careful not to use battle language.” So, the wise church leader, Parent, and business manager must become a strategist when confronting divisive issues that can prove deadly in a home, church, school, ministry, or community. The Battle Is The LORD’Sīeing a pastor for nearly a half century, I have attended many Pastor’s Conference’s, and spoke at many of them myself. Sometimes a battle comes out of nowhere! We may be enjoying life, good health, a good home, strong relationships in our families, and out of nowhere, something we didn’t see coming, just attacks our peace of mind, and what was a blessed life, suddenly becomes bereft with loss, pain, and sorrow. ![]()
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