Time to Deploy?

I was just thinking this morning --40 years ago, I longed for a group like we have. A group of ladies who I can trust and share deeply with.  A "support" group. I had to wait a long time for it. We are blessed. God wants us to enjoy that.

But, I feel conviction too- look around us. Things aren't like they were 40 years ago - not even like they were 5 years ago! My idea of a perfect ladies' Bible study group 40 years ago isn't as relevant in today's world or in today's church!

At our age, we certainly see progression and intensifying  of  the evil coming against our country, Israel, the world, Christianity, young people - even children in our church. Human trafficking, pornography, homosexuality, depression, terrorism. Even our pastors - actually "especially" our pastors. . The things Lee deals with daily in his office and on the mission field…

I would really like to get comfortable in our little group - it seems that soldiers have a real camaraderie - they have each others' backs. Each one is trained and performs his job - mans his post. It is imperative that we trust and value each other, that each person gain the confidence and ability to use their gifts, but what is God's purpose in giving us these gifts, these weapons, this trust, this camaraderie?

The comaraderie is not the warrior's purpose - not the reason the army was assembled.  The training is not the warrior's purpose . There is a war to fight. We began as a prayer group. That has been made clearer by the War Room movie and Andra's excellent teaching on warfare.

I, for one, don't like to fight. Never really wanted to be a warrior. I never sought courage or battle skills because I didn't want to admit I needed them.

Ps. 18:34 "He teaches my hands to war."

Unlike  the leader we talked about yesterday - I don't even know how to "organize" a prayer meeting! Much less really pray.

We have an army, we have a comaraderie, we have knowledge. Maybe it's time to DEPLOY.

Would you join me in praying for direction in how to be stewards of the gifts we have - of the love, unity and trust we have? How to employ these things on the actual battlefield? How to really stand against the evil we see?

Let's just pray for direction and against distraction. Ask God to begin to show us how to be effective in war. We have the weapons. We need a strategy!   I am going to go back to the outline Andra gave us, and meditate on the verses.  God wants to give us direction, but it will come through each one of us as a body- together - each person bringing a piece of the puzzle.