With God\u2019s help, King Jehoshaphat overcame not just one army, but three! And his victory teaches us how we can win life\u2019s battles. First, identify the enemy.<\/i> Many of us have no clue who the real enemy is. We think it\u2019s the person who is interested in taking our job, our spouse, or our money. But many times the enemy is our own attitude! It\u2019s not so much what\u2019s happening that gets us down, it\u2019s our response to the situation. <\/p>\n
Before you can win on a personal level, you must identify the enemy. Note how Jehoshaphat reacted when he heard \u2018a vast army\u2019<\/i> was coming against him. He was \u2018alarmed\u2019.<\/i> (2 Chronicles 20:2\u20133 NIV) It\u2019s a fairly typical human response. We see a big problem, panic, and become fearful about what\u2019s going to happen to us. And in truth, fear isn\u2019t all bad unless we deal with it in the wrong way. We can use it to motivate us to conquer the problem and drive us closer to God. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s when we get discouraged, give up, get angry, and start asking, \u2018Why me, Lord?\u2019 that fear defeats us. If you\u2019re in a situation that\u2019s filling you with fear and anxiety today, remember\u2014God doesn\u2019t respond to need<\/i>; He responds to faith.<\/i> So stake your faith on His unshakeable Word and stand on His promise: \u2018Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.\u2019<\/i> (Isaiah 41:10 NKJV) Unshakeable trust in God\u2019s Word is what brings His help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With God\u2019s help, King Jehoshaphat overcame not just one army, but three! And his victory teaches us how we can win life\u2019s battles. First, identify the enemy. Many of us have no clue who the real enemy is. We think it\u2019s the person who is interested in taking our job, our spouse, or our money. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}