The struggles we face in life are often referred to as life’s battles. We stress and strive to overcome pain and obstacles. We muscle through with the thought, “I can do this!” but if we get really honest, we can’t.

A battle is defined as struggling or fighting to tenaciously achieve or resist something. How we handle a battle determines how we receive God’s promises and victory.

King Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 20) discovered that when he was overcome with fear brought on by a looming battle, the best reaction was to desperately cry out to God and get serious in his surrender of man-made plans. He called the people to a fast, and began to recount to God, in the presence of the people, everything great thing he believed about Him. He reminded God of His promises towards His people, and his trust in those promises. He fixed his focus on God rather than the problem.

When faced with battles we must remember:

Face the fight. God said they’d have to get up in the morning and face the battle, but He didn’t say it was their job to fight it. If we don’t face our battle we’ll never experience the joy of letting go, and watching God win.
It’s not our fight. Some battles are simply too big for us. We must give the battle back to God rather than strapping it on our backs and trudging on.
Worship through the fight. Scripture says it was before they saw movement or victory that they began praising the Lord. This builds our faith and makes the victory God’s story, not our achievement.

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