YOU God’s Mighty Warrior

 

Throughout the ages God has had his mighty warriors. King David’s mighty warriors were nameless until they decided not to be bullied anymore by there enemies. These mighty warriors’s of God stood their ground when others in David’s army fled and God used them to spark victory after victory for Israel.

There are two accounts of David’s mighty men in the Old Testament and if you read both of these accounts back to back you will have a complete picture of these mighty warriors who fought for Israel and at David’s side. I have included

Read 2 Samuel 23:8-12

8 These are the names of David’s mighty men: Josheb-Basshebeth, a Tahkemonite, was chief of the Three; he raised his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed in one encounter.

9 Next to him was Eleazar son of Dodai the Ahohite. As one of the three mighty men, he was with David when they taunted the Philistines gathered [at Pas Dammim] for battle. Then the men of Israel retreated,

10 but he stood his ground and struck down the Philistines till his hand grew tired and froze to the sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. The troops returned to Eleazar, but only to strip the dead.

11 Next to him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines banded together at a place where there was a field full of lentils, Israel’s troops fled from them.

 12 But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field. He defended it and struck the Philistines down, and the LORD brought about a great victory.

The Lord Brought About a Great & Mighty Victory

As you read those 5 verses above I want you to notice one thing, “The Lord Brought about a Great Victory”, for these valiant Mighty men. Each of these three men had done one thing that the other soldiers in David’s army did not… They each stood their ground and the Lord blessed them. Had the Lord not blessed each one of these mighty men they would have been killed.

How did the Lord bless these mighty warriors? He endued them with his mighty power. These men were ordinary soldiers, just like the rest of the men in David’s Army. Just like you and me. There weren’t any one of them special in their own right.

• They didn’t have an Olympian physic
• They weren’t Gigantic like Goliath
• They didn’t have any special skills other than the training that every soldier in David’s army practiced.

What made these ordinary men different from the rest of the soldiers and turn them into King David’s elite mighty men?

I can only speculate that these men might have been sitting around the camp fire one night, after a long day of special boot camp, feeling defeated at heart as well as physically because of their many retreats from battle against their enemy.

I can almost spy, when King David, arrives at their fire that night and knowing that his armies spirits had been broken, he ministers to his troops on how The Lord Brought about Great Victories, on his behalf from his youth until now.

How God endued him with his mighty power, when he was just a boy and shepherding his father’s sheep, when on one occasion a bear came out of the woods hunting one of his sheep for food.  How he jump onto this huge animal and killed this bear with his bare hands.

On another occasion,  a lion, came out from the woods and he over took the lion and killed it as well. How David defeated the mighty Goliath with a simple sling shot and a small rock.

The Lord brought about great and mighty victories on David’s behalf, and for his chosen people Israel.

You God’s Mighty Warrior

 

God wants to bring about great and mighty victories for you in your life today. Just like he did for David and his mighty men, he wants to bless you abundantly.

God will not give you mighty power to kill other men like; he gave King David’s mighty men. Today, we are in a new dispensation—His dispensation of “Grace”.

The scriptures reveal in 2 Corinthians 10:3–5;

3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.

 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

If you are a Christian, I have good news for you… God has already blessed you. He has already made you victorious through Christ.

Do you have a stronghold in your life?  Then friend isn’t it time to take out the sword of the spirit which is the word of God and command that strong hold through your authority that Christ has given you to be removed in his name?

1Chronicles 11:10, says;  These were the chiefs of David’s mighty men–they, together with all Israel, gave his kingship strong support to extend it over the whole land, as the LORD had promised.

Today, you as part of the Church of Jesus Christ, need to give his Kingship strong support. Israel, was to occupy the land. You and me, we are commanded to make disciples throughout the whole world. Those mighty men slewed their enemies like a pro bowler would take out all twelve pins in one swoop. We are to lead men to their deaths so Christ, can live through them.

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You are God’s Mighty Warrior.