God never abandons us, but He wants to give us a strategy in the battles we face.
Exodus 17:9-10 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will station myself on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought against Amalek.
They did not just amble into the battle. They went in with a plan and a strategy.
Once, in our church, we received a prophetic word regarding this: ‘You don’t know how you are going to face the future. The Lord is saying: Are you ready to walk on the water? Are you ready to walk on the water with Me? The Lord is speaking to you, and you feel a tugging in your heart. You have not walked on the water; you have not taken the step of faith. It’s a place where you are not limited by gravity, not limited by the storm, not limited by fear. He is standing there with a strategy for you! He is standing there with what you need for your marriage. He is standing there with what you need for your business, He is standing there with what you need for your finances and you are on the other side. He is saying to you, COME! If you need to take a step of faith, to stand on the water, and walk with the Lord but you don’t know how or you don’t know how you are going to take the first step, remember the Lord does. Don’t look down, don’t look back, and don’t look at where you are now, in the boat. Don’t look at the storms above you. Look forward at the Lord, who is looking at you and who is smiling at you, and He is saying, My child I love you and I have a strategy for you. Come and experience that bit of the limitlessness that you can experience because you are coming to Me!’
We can trust God to give us a strategy for what we are facing or are up against. Usually the strategy will require more from us than what our comfort zones want to surrender. But it is the key to victory. We must make the choice to place a foot outside the security of the boat. We must face the enemy, but God will give you a strategy.
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
So the battle is raging between these two nations, Israel and Amalek. Unbeknown to them God was doing something, but perhaps initially they did not see it. But as the battle went on they discovered that when they looked and saw Moses, if his hands were up, they would have the upper hand. But if his hands were down, the enemy had the upper hand. They could never have foreseen this and it must have taken some time for them to figure it out. It did not happen with their knowledge and it was something no one could have predicted. The Bible says:
And so it came to pass………..
So it came about ………
They must have worked it out and then discovered that God was with them and He was fighting for them, if only Moses could keep his hands up! Once they figured it out, they put together another strategy to hold up Moses’s hands. Aaron and Hur held them up for Moses!
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