Key to Spiritual Battle

1 Chronicles 5:20-22 provides us with a key to the battles we face in our daily lives. (It does pay to read through the Genealogies!):

"they cried out to God in the battle, and He answered their prayers because they trusted in Him . . . For many fell slain, because the war was of God."

What we know is that for those who have pledged allegiance to Christ the main war is of God as we fight against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heaven places. Let us be careful lest we choose battles that God Himself has not chosen. This requires a sensitivity to the Spirit under the tutelage of the inspired Scriptures which we must know and cannot be left to our own whims.

Here in this passage is a commentary on much of the Psalms which are the cries of Christ and His Church against persecution and trials within the war of life which is composed of numerous battles. The keys for God's people are:

1. Cry out to Him in the battle
2. Trust Him to hear and answer
3. Count on the falling of the enemy as when Jesus saw Satan falling from heaven like lightning
4. Make sure your battle is of the Lord and not of your own devising

Keep up the good fight!