Way of The Warrior- A Daily Devotional

Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him. – Malachi 3:16-18 ESV

Warrior.
What a great reminder of the difference between God’s B.S. and man’s B.S. Everything we do, or do not do- is driven by our Belief Systems (B.S.). God has shown us many times in HIS WORD, that His ways are not man’s ways. It is written; But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7) “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9) We live in a world that is, RIFE with STRIFE! The Prince of the Power of the Air is using hate, envy and covetousness as dividing wedges. The World is dividing people into 2 groups: The Haves or the Have-nots, Black or White, Male or Female, GOP or Dem, Red state or Blue state, Transgender or Cisgender, Trump or Biden…. God also divides the world into 2 groups of people. One group is at war with God, and one group is reconciled to God. Abba Daddy says there are only 2 types of people: Righteous and Wicked.

Leader, we think of God as a uniter, however, God has a multiplicity of paradoxes that stretch beyond the fabric of our mental capacity. How do you put the Pacific Ocean into a Dasani water bottle? How do you compare the finite human brain and cognition to the omniscience of the infinite creator of the world? Hear the Word of the Lord: “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” (Luke 12:49-53) “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household” (Matthew 10:34-36) God separates the sheep- his children, from the goats-children of the world. “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit upon his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left. (Matthew 25:31-33)

Conduit, the #1 weapon formed against us is CONFUSION! God is a God of clarity; the devil is the prince of confusion! As a Warrior for God we must Keep It Simple Soldier! (KISS) There are only 2 TEAMS: Yahweh’s Team and the Other Team! Hear the Word of the Lord: Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does. Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. (Psalm 1) The WICKED sets the mind on the things of the flesh (the world) while the RIGHTEOUS sets the mind on the things of the Spirit (God and the things of God). Proverbs 24:16 tells us that a Righteous man will stumble seven times and get back up, but the wicked will stumble into ruin. And know if you are Righteous, a child of the living God, you’re going to have conflict and be under attack from the wicked world, at this wicked time. It is written, “An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, And he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked” (Proverbs 29:27). No justice, no peace, is the cry of a wicked world! However, “There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.” (Isaiah 48:22) The REALITY OF THE RIGHTEOUS is No Jesus, No Peace – Know Jesus, know peace! The TIME IS NOW to put on the Righteousness of God–Jesus the Messiah!