{"id":1773,"date":"2020-02-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2020-02-01T05:47:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T10:47:14","slug":"how-to-let-god-do-the-fighting-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/01\/how-to-let-god-do-the-fighting-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO LET GOD DO THE FIGHTING FOR YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.\u201d Exodus 14:14 NIV<\/em><\/strong>
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The key to letting God do the fighting for you is to be still.  The verse above comes in the middle of one of the most epic stories in the Bible.  Moses is leading the Israelites out of the slavery they\u2019ve been in for hundreds of years.  Pharaoh is in hot pursuit after them with his army of men in their horses and chariots. The Israelites are freaking out.  They\u2019re complaining to Moses that he should have left them in Egypt, it\u2019s better than dying. They\u2019re standing at the edge of the Red Sea, from all human appearance, trapped.  And Moses tells them, \u201cThe Lord will fight for you…be still.\u201d  <\/em>They were doing exactly what God wanted them to do.  He was directing one of the greatest stories ever told.  We\u2019re at the climax of the story, what\u2019s going to happen next?  The only way the Israelites will find out is if they be still.  How do we let God do the fighting? We be still.
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The Israelites really have no choice but to be still.\u00a0 If they go back the way they came, they will run into Pharoah and his men.\u00a0 If they go straight, they drown in the Red Sea. There is no place for them to go.\u00a0 God often puts us in a similar situation. We feel like all of our options are exhausted.\u00a0 We\u2019ve tried everything, and nothing has worked. We\u2019re trapped in a situation with no way out.\u00a0 But that is because we\u2019re looking at it from our limited human perspective. God\u2019s ways our not our ways, His thoughts not our thoughts, His perspective not our perspective (Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV<\/a>). \u00a0 Instead of giving up, we can do what Moses did, cry out to God (Exodus 14:10-15 NIV<\/a>).\u00a0 When we cry out to God, He gives us our next steps.
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When we cry out to God, He gives us our next steps.<\/strong>
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As soon as God heard the Israelites grumbling to Moses, He gave Moses direction.\u00a0 He told them to \u201cmove on\u201d (Ex. 14:15 NIV<\/a>).\u00a0 For the Israelites, that meant walking into the Red Sea.\u00a0 But first, Moses had to part it. Moses raised his staff, stretched out his hand and parted the sea (Exodus 14:16 NIV<\/a>).\u00a0 Where there had been no way, God created one.\u00a0 God knew what He was doing when He led the Israelites to the edge of the Red Sea.\u00a0 He knows what He\u2019s doing with the situation you are in today. Whatever seems hopeless, God has a plan.\u00a0 Whatever seems lost, God has a plan. Whatever impossible situation you are facing, God has a plan. But first you have to be still.
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Question of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What battle do you need to be still and let God fight for you?
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Further Reading:  <\/strong>Exodus 13:17-15:18 NIV<\/a>, Matthew 21:23-46 NIV<\/a>, Psalm 26:1-12 NIV<\/a>, Proverbs 6:16-19 NIV<\/a>
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\u201cThe Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.\u201d Exodus 14:14 NIV The key to letting God do the fighting for you is to be still.  The verse above comes in the middle of one of the most epic stories in the Bible.  Moses is leading the Israelites out of the slavery… Continue reading HOW TO LET GOD DO THE FIGHTING FOR YOU<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}