Serves God
14 In righteousness you will be established:
Tyranny will be far from you;
    you will have nothing to fear.
Terror will be far removed;
    it will not come near you.
15Â If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing;
    whoever attacks you will surrender to you.
16 “See, it is I who created the blacksmith
    who fans the coals into flame
    and forges a weapon fit for its work.
And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc;
17Â Â Â Â Â no weapon forged against you will prevail,
    and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
    and this is their vindication from me,”
declares the Lord. (Isa. 54:14-17, NKJV)
We live at a time when our attention and time are divided between so many things and it is easy to neglect service to God. If we want God to fight our battles, we must be willing to show and serve him. There is a move of God that can only be activated by service as seen in Exodus 23:25-29.
25 And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
26Â There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
27Â I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
28Â And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
29Â I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
Shows up for God's assignment and takes initiative according to his word
God fights for men who take up his assignment without fear or hesitation.
7 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
3Â And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
4Â If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
5Â And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
7Â Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
8Â And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it (2 Kings 7: 1-8, KJV)
God also fights for the needy, afflicted, orphans and widows
5 A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
6Â God sets the solitary in families;
He brings out those who are bound into prosperity;
But the rebellious dwell in a dry land. (Psa. 68: 5-6, NKJV).
God not only fights for those with material need but also those with spiritual need.
This year, make sure that you answer God’s call to service and show up for his assignment without hesitation and you can be sure that he will fight for you.
