You have seen it repeated here over and over: we are here in this season for a reason. The battle between good and evil that is taking place all around us is that reason. The Lord did not make a mistake, its you He wanted here in this season.
Exodus 3
7The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you b will worship God on this mountain.”
Most of us probably feel the way Moses did ^^? Who am I? There are a couple answers to that but one of the answers is each and every one of us needs to pull our weight. We have work to do and there are not many of us:
Matt 7:
13“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easya that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Those who enter the narrow gate are few....that means not many. That also means with a few each one is critically important.
That brings us to the next point which is this, the battle we are in is primarily spiritual. What we see around us in the natural world are the secondary effects of the primary driver: evil in high places.
Eph 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Any time there is a problem, a root cause analysis should be done to determine where the problem came from (its "root"). Cut off the roots and an evil tree will die.
Spiritual problems require spiritual solutions. So, when it comes to "doing something" about the mess we see around us it starts with prayer. Prayer is to the Christian what a radio is to an infantryman on the battlefield. When faced with a formidable army one lone infantry soldier can do little. But give that soldier a radio and he can rain down hell on the enemy's head. Prayer and belief are spiritual tools necessary in the spiritual war we find ourselves in. We have been given everything we need to do what we were put here to do.
There are many spiritual strongholds that need to be demolished. Those strongholds appear to be immovable mountains at first glance, but our Lord gave us tools to deal with these things:
Mark 11:23
“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.
The amount of spiritual power that can be brought to bear through one believer is immense. Then if that were not enough we can multiply that power with this:
Matt 18:19
“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
and if that were not enough, this power can be multiplied again when we pray back the Lord's own Word to Him asking Him to honor His promises. How can the Lord God refuse/reject His own Word?
and then to these ^^ things we add the cherry on top which is this:
Persistence
Luke 18
1And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 6And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
If we do what we were put here to do, we will not be disappointed. What we were put here to do starts with prayer.
Glory to God
grace and peace
