Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

And I'm going to read again from this devotional.

We've had such good response from this, and I've been enjoying it as well.

I'm going to continue it for a bit.

Give Him 15 and Appeal to Heaven volume three. And the title of today's

post is, do not fear the lions. Isaiah 42.13, the Lord will go forth like a warrior. He will arouse his zeal like a man of war.

He'll utter a shout. Yes, he will raise a war cry. He'll prevail against his enemies.

At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, General George Washington instructed his troops,

the fate of unborn millions will now depend under God on the courage and conduct of this army.

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or the most abject submission.

We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

In Washington's day, a warrior's spirit was essential in order to win America's freedom. This kind of warrior's

heart is also necessary spiritually. The kingdom of God is full of paradoxes, seeming contradictions.

This being one of them, though called to possess the quality of love

more than any other, even to the point of laying down our lives, and to preserve peace with all men,

we believers are also called to war spiritually. We must war against the kingdom and powers of

darkness, false ideologies, and the strategies behind both.

Also, though we wrestle not against flesh and blood, we must boldly oppose laws, ideologies, and spiritual forces that war against Christ's cause. That's what this past election was all

about. In the Old Testament, God gives us examples of war your hearts. They are our examples,

not because we're called to force His will on people, but in order for their internal traits to be applied to our lives and spiritual battles.

David was one such warrior.

This brave fighter killed a lion and a bear to protect his father's sheep

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