THE BATTLE IS THE LORD’S | THE WAR WITHIN SERIES

2 Chronicles 20:15 NLTPremise ⁃ Battle proceeds reward. The truth is, you cannot fight alone and expect to win this battle. You must relinquish your control, expectations, and trust over to God understanding that you may be apart of the battle but it doesn’t belong to you.Fundamental Truths 1. God doesn’t need what you may think He needs to win the battle for you. 1 Samuel 17:47 NLT2. The battle isn’t fought in the flesh, it’s fought and won in the spirit.Ephesians 6:12 NLT3. It’s not what you posses, what you can do, who you know or what you believe about yourself that will win the battle. But by the spirit of The Lord.Zechariah 4:6 NIV4. Learning to keep still and hold your peace in the middle of chaos is the secret to activating the movement of heaven to war on your behalf. Exodus 14:14 NLTExodus 14:14 NIV5. The weapons we use as believers are from above and not around. Learning to use the weapons of the spirit will dictate the outcome of the natural.II Corinthians 10:4-5 NKJVScriptural Insight1. Listening is essential in war. If you don’t know what the game-plan or instructions are then how will you know how to fight? Listening is seeing. Without listening you walk in to battle blind.“He said, “Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat!”2. What you are facing may be huge and even considered mighty but never let it discourage you from trusting God. And never have more faith in fear than you do the Lord. Start telling your “big” (small) problems about your bigger (Huge) God.“This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid! Don’t be discouraged by this mighty army…..”3. The battle wasn’t yours to begin with. Why are you worried? Who cry’s over a fixed battle? We already won!“for the battle is not yours, but God’s.”