When Will God Fight For Us?

We will continue our meditation of the word based on 2 Corinthians 9:8, And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: (KJV)

As we continue to ponder on the theme ‘God is able’ we understand that God is able to keep us from falling, God is able to deliver us, God is able to elevate us, and God is able to deal with those who oppose us and falsely accuse us.

We read in Ephesians 3:20, Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, (ESV)

In various situations that come our way we cry unto the Lord, and tell ask that He would intervene to help us meet our needs or handle our complicated circumstances. Sometimes, we don’t even know how to express ourselves to the Lord, and just think in our hearts that it would be good if somethings happened the way we wanted them to. The bible tells us that God is able to do more than we ask or think. In some other translations we read that God is able to do far more than we ask or even imagine. We may have so many thoughts that go through our minds, and may desire that things changed, and here’s the assurance from God’s word that God can even do things that don’t even occur to us in our thoughts.

The Israelites call on the Lord

The bible talks about a group of people who cried out to the Lord because of an appalling situation that they were in.

We read in Exodus 14:10, “When the Israelites saw the king and his army marching against them, they were terrified and cried out to the LORD for help.” (GNB)

As the people of Israel marched out of the land of Egypt, they walked into freedom from the cruel hands of the Egyptians, to whom they had been enslaved to for more than 400 years. They had come to the banks of the Red Sea, when they realized that the army of the Egyptians were pursuing them from behind. Pharaoh, King of Egypt had let the people of Israel go, but soon realized that his entire work-force of slaves had left him. He had used them to labor and work hard to build his empire. Pharaoh’s intent was to bring these people back so they can be his slaves again. The Israelites were in a critical situation. They had no way to go forward as the Red Sea was ahead of them, and no way could they retreat as they had Pharaoh’s army in pursuit of them.

Sometimes we too may find ourselves in similar situations. Our present situations are not good, and we have people who are in pursuit of us. These could be financial crunches that seem to have no way out. People who have given loans are probably pressurizing or intimidating you. This is just an example of some crisis that we could be in. In those desperate times we cry out to the Lord to intervene, and help us overcome these difficult situations. We will learn through this message that God will surely intervene, and help us when we call upon Him. God will help us way beyond what we can think, or ask or even imagine.

God heard and intervened

When the people of Israel called upon the Lord this is what happened as we read in Exodus 14:25, He made the wheels of their chariots come off so that they could hardly move. Then the Egyptians shouted, "Let's get out of here! The LORD is fighting for Israel! He's against us!" (GW)

The people of Israel must have at that time just thought that it would be enough if God would just save them from the hands of the Egyptian army that was in pursuit of them. They could not imagine that God would make the wheels of the chariots that the Egyptians rode to fall off so that they could hardly move. To the Egyptian soldiers this must have been a scary experience as they must have been to war earlier, but would have never experienced such a situation where their chariot wheels just came off. The Egyptians shouted in fear that they would get out, and get back because they comprehended that the God of the Israelites was fighting on their behalf against them. While they knew the Israelites were ordinary people, they perceived that their God who fought for them was the Almighty and powerful God, who had come to their aid.

Whenever, God steps in to fight our battles, our enemies will experience things that they have hitherto never seen. Let us understand that if God has to fight our battles as He did for the Israelites, there are certain things that we are required to do. When we comprehend this and obey God’s commands, we can be certain that God will certainly fight all of our battles.