In the middle of the night I was awakened because I began to cough. I got up, grabbed a glass of water and returned to my bed. I sat there and the situations of the last few

days began to mount up in my mind. At 2AM it always seems to be a time of just you. I needed to focus or my alternative would be to get up and “walk it off”. I called upon the Lord and He appeared to me. But “calling” someone is the easy part a lot of the time. Then you have to have a conversation. And so the conversation began.

Have you ever had one of those nights? One of those days where things seem to add up? I have a couple of things going on that have the potential to stress me. To remove me from a place of rest. Rest is clearly more attitudal to remain in or get to than anything else. You know you have salvation. You know He is your deliverer. It is like people want to be “giant free”. Despite the promise of the Lord only Joshua and Caleb saw the place they wanted to be. That had been promised to them.

A friend wrote “sometimes you have to step in the water to see it recede”. A reference to the priests standing in the river and the water backing up.

Everyone has giants. The question is will you remove them?

In the middle of the night I found myself declaring His goodness, His goodness towards me and His promises. It soon became a song. A kid’s song perhaps, but still it caught my attention! I began to change my attitude, my disposition. (2AM…who wants to sing?!?!)

I saw Him clearly in my time of communion. I refused to let go. I refused to stop singing. Forty minutes later I fell asleep.

I awoke a few hours later. Still had the same issues I had last night, but today I feel different about them. I will still have to “do what I have to do”. I will still have to slay a giant or two.

I went through this time where I felt words had power. Then I was compelled to research and do some work. Others told me it was religious. I fell back a little to see what God would say.

This past week I am seeing the words we speak are more powerful than I previously thought. Are there still giants? Yes, BUT then there is God!

Just as the waters backed up because an action was taken… There was God. Just as the giants were there but men stood up…There was God. Just as our words are spoken… There is God.

Yes, we will have to “walk in rivers” and we will have “to slay giants”, but there is God! No great exploit (Daniel 11:32) will be done…without people. People like you. People like me. It is time to put our heart into community, our words into the air and our feet into the war. I get not every battle is mine. Or yours. But authority has been given to us in a metron established by God.

As I sang my silly song, I thought something is changing. Satan has no authority here. You do. I do. It is time to begin to do the work we were created for. Destined for.

I am sure others will have more and I encourage you to add them in the comments section below.

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