Who's Fighting for You?

I truly hope you all are having a wonderful week! I hope you were able to watch the lightning show that happened this week on the livestream, with the storms that rolled through. I personally really enjoyed watching it as I fell asleep that night. It gave me peace seeing a small smidgen of the power of God as the lightning flashed across the sky! I used to love a good thunder storms, our current house has a covered porch so we can sit out there in the summer and watch a good thunder storm roll through. After my experience with the tornado of 2022, I now find myself a little leery of being in the middle of a good storm, but I did enjoy watching it on the livestream Tuesday night. I tried to get a screenshot of a good lightning strike behind the barn and this weeks picture is all I could get. I am too slow on the screenshot button, LOL.

The little bit of God's power we get to see in a good storm has been one reminder of what I needed this week as God has reminded me He is fighting for me. I don't want this to sound like a whiny post I am just being real and honest, because we are all real people and have all sorts of storms in our lives. I am not going for pity here but want to encourage you to stop and ask yourself who is fighting for you? You see right now in our life, there is a lot of stuff going on that feels overwhelming. There is a lot of responsibilities that are exhausting to accomplish. There is just a lot that feels like it is trying to take me down right now. At 11:30 today, I was having an adult hissy fit at God about how I can't seem to get a win anywhere. Everywhere I turn things don't go the way I want them to, and I am so tired of the fight! I am just so tired and have no fight left.

That is when I felt it, I felt a piece of paper that I had completely forgotten about in my pocket. I wondered what is that? I pulled it out and well it was a piece of paper I had written on at 6:30 this morning and it said:

"Deuteronomy 20:3 + 4 The priest shall say to them, "hear O Israel, you are approaching the battle against your enemies today. Do not be fainthearted, do not be afraid, or panic or tremble before them. For the Lord your God is the One who goes with you. To fight for you against your enemies to save you."

You see when I read that in my quiet time in the garden with God this morning, that verse really jumped out at me, so I wrote it out, thinking it would help me to memorize it. Then I decided to put it in my pocket so I could pull it out every once in a while throughout my day to read and memorize it. Oh how quickly I forget the lessons God is trying to teach me. Oh how quickly my focus goes from God to the world in my day. It wasn't 5 hours later I had myself in such a tizzy I was crying uncontrollably about a worldly business who has taken advantage of me and taken a large amount of money I cant seem to get back. All while I was trying to do what God asked me to do, (long story maybe I will write about later when I can) I had been stolen from, ripped off and I am receiving a lot of emails that don't make any sense to me?

Why would I not remember that if God has lead me here He will fight for me. God is the one who goes with me! Oh how quickly I forget. And that storm on the livestream was a reminder of His power. God will save me, and my money, if that is His plan. But no matter what happens with this situation God has me covered and I need not be fainthearted, afraid, I need to not panic and tremble, as I was in that moment. I just need to keep moving forward and know He is God and in control.

So I write this to let you know, we all have those days. We all fall apart sometimes, but who is fighting for you? Would you say, your spouse, or family or best friend? Well I can tell you I have all that going on too. I am fighting, my husband is helping, friends and family are there for me, but not one of us has the power God has to really fight these battles. And I would have missed this lesson completely and would probably still been throwing that adult tantrum about how hard and unfair life was if I hadn't taken the time to get up this morning and spend a little time with God in the garden of relationship, and wrote out that Bible verse I was carrying in my pocket.

I know who is fighting for me today and I can't wait to see how He works this one out! It's gonna be really cool! He will do the same for you if you let Him.