Interesting that Paul in Eph. 6:12, says, that our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers. In life I’ve had to learn how to fight the right way while resting in the battle. Now for me, that has not always been easy. Today it is still a choice I must make.

I would like to remind you that the battle you are facing today is not yours, but the Lord’s. One thing you can be sure of, that as a child of God, Satan will ‘rage’ against you.

There’s a story in the Old Testament about King Jehoshaphat (2 Chr. 20 NIV) that illustrates this very well. Because a great multitude came against the people, the King and his people began to pray, fast and seek the Lord.

Listen to the King’s prayer – sound familiar? Some of us have probably cried out a similar prayer at times in our Christian walk, ‘for we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us (coming against us). We do not know what to do, but out eyes are upon you’ (20:12).  Boy, how many times have I cried out to God, ‘Lord I don’t know what to do, but my eyes are upon you?'

I love the simplicity and straightforwardness of the Lord’s response in verses, 14-15: this is how He speaks to me when I’ve called out to Him in my testing times, nothing complicated, words of comfort reassuring me to place my total trust and assurance in Him and to rest in Him in the battle. ‘This is what the Lord says to you: Do not afraid nor discouraged…for the battle is not yours, but God’s.’

God told Israel, and the Lord tells you and I today, ‘The battle is not against you, it is Satan’s rage against me, the Lord God, who abides in you.’

Look at what God said to Satan and his adversaries in Isa 37:28, ‘But I know where you stay and where you come and go and how you rage against me.’ God knows. And today He knows all about you and your circumstances. Have no fear!

Friend, where is your battle today, this week, this month?  Is it in your dealings with a friend? Maybe it could be in your marriage or with your fiancée? Is it in your work environment? Maybe you are battling in the area of your health? It could be something to do with your past that is still troubling you. Whatever it is, if you have a heart for Jesus and desire to walk ever closer to Him in all of life, you will face the rage of Satan and his hordes. However, let me assure you that, it’s still not your battle. It’s the Lord’s and He wants you to look to Him in it.

Don’t lose your confidence in the Lord. You could end your battle quickly if you choose – simply by quitting and giving into your fears and doubts. Don’t let that happen – it’s not a real ending.

Even though the battle is the Lord’s, we have a part to play in it: that is to trust and believe His promises in the face of hopelessness and what may seem, to the natural eye, insurmountable impossibilities.  Do not become like the children of God in the Old Testament, when they said, “Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”?’ (Isa. 40:27).

Paul says in Eph. 6: 13-14, when you have done all else, stand! As a follower of Christ, faith demands that I turn over all my life circumstances including my problems; such as all my critical situations, all my fears, all my anxieties and concerns – into the Lord’s hands. When we have done all that we can do, and we know our battle is beyond our power, you and I must submit all into His hands. I know that for some that’s a process.

Jesus is well acquainted with the raging, cunning rampant, wild, intense and furious activities of Satan, and we must truly believe He will act. He will bring us through floods and fires and put to flight the forces of darkness coming against us. These gates of hell (Matt 16:18), these ‘councils of the unseen world’ that seek to come against His church in society and all of creation. Listen to what God’s Word says concerning what He will do regarding the enemy: ‘Because you rage against me…it has reached my ears, I will put a hook in your nose, and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came’ (Isa. 37:29).

Friend, if you will hold fast to your faith in the midst of the battle – trusting in the Lord, resting in His promises, rejecting all lies – the whispers of Satan coming into your mind – you can expect God to come by His Spirit into your circumstances to settle whatever needs to be settled. He will overcome – ‘the battle is mine says the Lord’ and He will move heaven and earth to deliver you and make a way for you. The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it’ (Ps. 89:11). He’s still in charge today!

So today friend, the way out is to, trust, trust, trust! He, the Lord of hosts, is trustworthy - if you’ve handed the battle plan over to Him and you are keeping your eyes on Him. Then the battle is His!

Rest in it!