Enemy Tackling Skills

When the enemy targets:

Nehemiah 4:22 “At that time I also said to the people, "Let each man with his servant spend the night within Jerusalem so that they may be a guard for us by night and a laborer by day."

Did you know the enemy targets to remove help, support, assistance, comfort, compassion and appreciation from you? He leaves you stranded and lost so that at that vulnerable moment , he aims to bring across the worst missile attack on you so that you don’t arise again, is anybody listening to me?

This morning both my workers who take care of very important areas of work at school, told me that their husbands beat them and there was a big fight at home. One month back another good worker left us stating that she got very sick and needs to be operated. It may look normal for you but I can discern the work of the enemy in attacking my workers so that he can sabotage our ministry (so he thinks) but while the cook was leaving I gave her a piece of cake and also few clothes and told her, ‘this is for doing a great job today’, she smiled from ear to ear and went home. The enemy can only try to disrupt the work but he cannot STOP it. Glory to Jesus! Nevertheless, be proactive and prepare for all that might be thrown at you, prepare a check list of all that you may need so that you don’t mess up. Recently when we were preparing for a “leadership camp’ for 4 days, I separately maintained a book with the name of camp on it, wrote all that I had to do and also prayed over it. Even the name of my tailor was in it because I didn’t want her to muddle my clothes or delay the delivery time, the name of the food caterer and everybody connected were in my book. On the first day of the camp, the food caterer came to me with red puffed up eyes and told me, ‘suddenly last night the cook fought with me and walked out’; however, he put a replacement and the food on all the 4 days were excellent(not without chaos though) Things went smoothly because we proactively prayed for the food caterers. None of the neighbors complained because they were in the prayer book too! Glory to Jesus! When we do things carelessly, proudly and rashly then we put the blame on the devil and say ‘oops, the devil messed it up.’ All of us have personal kinks to work out, and we all make mistakes, at least take onus of your mistakes and get on the road of amendment.

Who else can I quote as an example other than Nehemiah who was attacked on all sides, yet he planned strategies to be alert, vigilant, cautious, proactive and smart. In the above scripture, Nehemiah instructed his servants to sleep in Jerusalem and not return home after work so that they would be of help in case of an attack. A Leader should always think ahead!

PLEAD WITH GOD AND NOT WITH THE DEVIL!

2 King 18:26 “Then Eliakim said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

I can never write this piece, without head-on-collision with devils! A short snapshot of the above scripture, king Hezekiah was an awesome king of Judah, who also did what is right in the eyes of the Lord; however, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them. The devil does blast the righteous too, so stay in prayer during the good times too! Well, Sennacherib(big devil) sends his assistant Rabshakeh ( small devil) to frighten the people of Israel with threatening and obscenities – that’s all the devil can do. Listen now, when the enemy attacks, you should know how to tackle, that’s my lesson today. Are you there? Hezekiah sends Eliakim, his assistant to speak to Rabshakeh who was bombarding the people of God, he said: ““Please speak to your servants in Aramaic..” Oh, Hezekiah’s assistant goofed! Don’t you ever say ‘please devil’, don’t attack us, now that he knows your weakness, he would pound you more, the Bible says, Rabshakeh screamed more ‘louder’. Don’t plead with the enemy, plead only to God! Don’t you ever react in front of the enemy, stay calm and composed, ah, now you understand?

The next point we learn from the above scripture, is that, do not send the wrong person, who has no anointing, wisdom and acumen to tackle serious issues, someone needs to hear this. Depute the right person; however, king Hezekiah advises the people to do something awesome, he said, ‘people, be silent.’ Brilliant! The people obey the king. When someone is screaming, stomping and menacingly coming towards you, ‘leave the place!’ The Bible says: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (James 4:7) You sure need help when the attacker is violent, so submit to God, He will give you the wisdom to act.