Fight Your battles on Your knees

When we look at our battles in life, do we look at the battle with our physical eyes or our spiritual eyes? You might ask, what are you talking about? We all have battles in life we are fighting and if we look at them through our physical eyes they can seem daunting. What we need to do is to fight our battles through our spiritual eyes.

In work there were always battles, and if you look at them through your physical eyes you can get very frustrated with work and at times it can seem like you are fighting an uphill battle with no end in sight. However, you need to learn to look at things through your spiritual eyes. When you fight it spiritually this is when you fight your battle on your knees in prayer. Here is what happens when you fight it on your knees, the battle is no longer fought by you, but by the Lord. Wow, you mean the Sovereign Lord is fighting your battle. Yes, that is what I am saying.

How do you develop faith that is strong like this? Every challenge we have is a opportunity for the Lord to show his faithfulness to us. Look at David when he fought Goliath, the Israelites were looking at Goliath through physical eyes and were frightened by his size. Then this young boy, David came along, and he saw Goliath through spiritual eyes and he knew Goliath did not stand a chance against God. King Saul tried to tell David that he was too weak and small to fight Goliath, once again looking through physical eyes. David recalled times when the Lord helped him defeat a lion and bear that was after the flock of sheep he was shepherding. This is what we must do as we develop our faith. Recall times when the Lord fought and won our battles in the past. Remember, it is the Lord fighting our battles through us. David realized this in (1 Samuel 17:47). As we go through these battles in life on our knees it strengthens our faith muscle.

1 Samuel 17:47

47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”

We need to start the day on our knees turning our battles over to the Lord in prayer and reading His Word. If we do this, then we will start to see our battles through our spiritual eyes instead of our physical eyes.

Romans 8:31

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

REMEMBER, if the Lord is fighting your battles, then the battle is already won. Now that is how David had great faith.

Message in Chinese

在膝盖上争战

当我们看待生命中的争战时，我们是用肉眼来看，还是用属灵的眼睛来看？你可能会问：“你是什么意思？”我们每个人在生命中都有需要面对的争战，如果我们用肉眼去看，它们会显得令人畏惧。但我们需要用属灵的眼睛来争战。

工作中总会有各种争战，如果你用肉眼去看，你会对工作感到非常沮丧，有时甚至觉得自己在打一场看不到尽头的艰难之战。然而，你需要学习用属灵的眼睛来看事情。当你在属灵里争战，就是在祷告中跪下争战。当你跪在地上争战时，会发生什么？那场战就不再是你自己在打，而是主替你争战。哇，你的意思是至高的主在为你争战吗？是的，我就是这个意思。

那我们要如何培养如此坚强的信心呢？我们所面对的每一个挑战，都是主向我们显明祂信实的机会。看看大卫与歌利亚的故事。以色列人用肉眼看歌利亚，被他的巨大身形吓得害怕。然后一个年轻的少年大卫出现了，他用属灵的眼睛看歌利亚，并且知道歌利亚在神面前毫无胜算。扫罗王试图告诉大卫，他太弱、太小，无法与歌利亚战斗——同样是用肉眼来看。但大卫记起主曾帮助他打败扑向羊群的狮子和熊。在我们培养信心的过程中，我们也必须这样做——回想主过去如何为我们争战并得胜。记住，是主在通过我们争战。大卫在（撒母耳记上 17:47）里明白了这一点。当我们在生命的争战中跪着前行时，我们的信心肌肉就会被加强。

撒母耳记上 17:4747 “又使这众人知道耶和华使人得胜，不是用刀用枪，因为争战的胜败全在乎耶和华；他必将你们交在我们手里。”

我们需要每天从跪下祷告开始，把我们的争战交托给主，并阅读祂的话语。如果我们这样做，就会开始用属灵的眼睛来看待我们的争战，而不是用肉眼。

罗马书 8:3131 “既是这样，还有什么说的呢？神若帮助我们，谁能敌挡我们呢？”

记住，如果主在为你争战，那这场战已经赢了。 这就是大卫拥有巨大信心的秘诀。

Fight your battle on your knees