Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Who Stands With Us
When we believers are involved in spiritual warfare (which can be as simple as living our lives) we have God on our side. For the most part I think we all know that and try to believe that. But we battle an unseen enemy that produces real results in our lives that are not good. Things first happen in the spiritual and they then become a part of our physical reality. This is stated many times in the scriptures and most of us try to believe in this. However, there is something about spiritual warfare that I did not think about until this morning.
The spiritual world can see the rest of the spiritual world even though we cannot. The devil can see God and God can see everything. The same is true for angels and evil spirits. All forms of spiritual beings can see each other and us. This stood out to me when I read a psalm today, and I imagined what that must look like. Try to imagine what you are about to read is available to be seen in the spiritual world by all spiritual beings, and that for just a moment you can see this too.
Psalms 97:1The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
2Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
3A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
4His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
5The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
6The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
Imagine being our enemies, the dark spiritual forces. They are doing something to harm us. We cry out to God, singing of His power and might. Dark clouds appear on the horizon. The dark forces begin to get nervous and tremble because they know what this means. Suddenly in front of the dark clouds appears a large ball of fire! It is coming directly at the dark spirits, and is followed by an array of lightning bolts. They try to flee, but some are struck and fall. Finally the clouds are here, God is seated on His throne in the midst of the cloud, listening to us sing praises, and the enemies are gone.
This is what I imaging the enemy sees when we sing praises to our God. Sort of makes you want to sing a praise song right now, doesn’t it?
Prayer
Father, we praise and exalt You. Come in Your dark clouds with fire and lightning. Forgive us our iniquities, and destroy and scatter our enemies. Let righteous rule. Send us Your reign, and deliver us today. Send You healing and provision. Show Yourself the Mighty King! We praise and thank You. In Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name. Amen.