Pray… With the kind You show Yourself kind, O Lord. With the blameless You show Yourself blameless, with the pure You show Yourself pure, and with the crooked You show Yourself astute. You save the afflicted and oppressed, and You humble the proud. You light my lamp and illumine my darkness. By Your power I can face any enemy and by my God I can overcome any obstacle, for all things are possible with You. Your way is blameless, and Your Word is tried. You are a shield to all who seek You. Who is God but You and who is a rock except my Lord Jesus? You gird me with strength and make my way blameless as well. You make my feet quick and sure, setting me in high places and sharpening my mind for battle, where I learn to discern good and evil. You have given me the shield of Your salvation, Your Spirit sustains me, and Your gentleness lifts me up. You help me watch my steps and keep my feet from slipping. I can fight the good fight against my enemy, overcoming my fears in Your perfect love. As I grasp Your plow with both hands You shatter the powers of darkness, so they are unable to enter in and deceive me. You have clothed me with strength for warfare, subduing the forces of evil beneath my feet. You have made my enemy turn back, dismantling the sum of his powers. His minions cry for help but there are none to come to their aid. You cast them before the wind and their power is emptied out as waste in the streets.
You have delivered me from sin and set me in a place only slightly lower than Your own. Angels long to look in to what I see. They serve me, yes, when You hear my cries You send them rushing to my defense! By Your strength the powers of darkness submit to me, wholly undone as they come trembling out of their fortresses. Oh, that the wicked would repent and cry out to You, for then You would answer them! You live, O God, and blessed be my Rock! Exalted be the God of my salvation who executes justice for me, puts my enemies under my feet, and delivers me from my every fear! Surely You lift me above the evil that rises up against me, rescuing me from my confusion. Therefore, let me give thanks to You in my fellowships, O Lord. Let me sing praises to Your matchless name, for You deliver Your children and show mercy to Your anointed. Grace is upon me, and it endures to all those who call upon Your name from hearts made pure.
Consider…Put on the full armor of God…that you may be able to stand. That we worship the Rock of Ages, so alive and abiding in us, should cause our hearts to stir, our passions to be enflamed, our spirits to quicken, and our hands to grasp the battleaxe for war! Our God can be all things to us in whatever fight we find ourselves. He is the tenderest of nurturers when we are pressed to retreat, a worthy counselor as we prepare, and the shrewdest of commanders when we are on the attack. In every trial the Spirit waits to do mighty things through us. He lives to come to our aid in the midst of impossible odds, illumines our darkness, and emboldens our spirits as we face the accuser of our souls. It is only our failure to first believe and then engage that stays His hand. Through His power fixing our minds on the things in heaven above we can discern the enemy’s deceptions. Oh, blessed be our Rock who lives to intercede for us, abides in us, and gives us the power to thwart Satan’s evil plans for us!
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