SELECTIVE BATTLES

SOMETIMES THERE JUST AREN'T WORDS FOR YOUR SITUATIONS, OR FEELINGS. TODAY IS THAT DAY FOR ME!

SILENCE DOESN'T CONCEDE DEFEAT, NOR DOES A REFUSAL TO MANIFEST ANGER, DISAPPOINTMENT, OR DISGUST INDICATE SURRENDER

EVERY BATTLE JUST CAN'T BE FOUGHT, OR ENGAGED IN. A WISE GENERAL NOT ONLY SELECTS HIS ENEMIES AND BATTLES, BUT ALSO DEVISES THE METHOD IN WHICH HE WILL ENGAGE THE ENEMY.

SOME OF OUR GREATEST VICTORIES WILL COME FROM DOING NOTHING. SATAN LOVES TO PROVOKE US INTO ACTION, AND BEFORE WE KNOW IT WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE FIELD WITHOUT A PLAN OF ENGAGEMENT, EXIT STRATEGY, OR EVEN THE PROPER WEAPONS.

NOT TO MENTION THAT SOME BATTLES DEEMED WORTHWHILE IN THE PAST ARE NO LONGER WORTHY.

IF THE COST TO GAIN VICTORY IS GREATER THEN THE SPOILS OF WAR, WE WAR AND, LOSE LIFE AND REVENUE IN VAIN IN THE NATURAL.

SPIRITUALLY WE LOSE POWER, ANOINTING, AND VIRTUE IN SENSELESS PURSUITS.


Rom 9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

EVEN GOD REALIZES THAT SOME ARE NOT WORTH HIS REPEATED OFFERS OF MERCY AND HE REACHES A POINT WHERE HE ALLOWS THEM 2 BECOME HARDENED.

WHEN THE WORD STATES "HE HARDENETH" WE MUST BE ABLE TO RIGHTLY DISCERN THE TRUTH BEHIND THE TRANSLATION, AS WELL AS KNOW THE GOD WE SERVE.

THE MORE ACCURATE TRANSLATION WOULD TELL US THAT GOD REMOVES HIMSELF FROM THE PERSON. HE DOESN'T ACTUALLY MAKE THEM HARD, BECAUSE THAT WOULD MAKE HIM UNJUST, BUT ANYTIME THE LORD REMOVES HIMSELF FROM THE PICTURE THERE CAN'T HELP BUT BE A HARDENING, BECAUSE HE IS LOVE, AND LOVE REMOVED CAUSES HARDNESS.

NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT KNOWING GOD LETS US KNOW IT IS AGAINST HIS NATURE TO PLACE ANYTHING UPON US THAT WOULD BE PERMANTLY DETRIMENTAL.

SO THEN IF GOD REALIZES THAT SOME OF US ARE SIMPLY NO LONGER WORTH THE BATTLE, THEN WHO ARE WE TO ATTEMPT TO HAVE MORE GRACE AND MERCY THEN GOD.

JUST LIKE GOD REMOVES HIMSELF FROM THOSE HE HAS REPEATEDLY REACHED OUT TO ONLY TO BE REJECTED TIME AND AGAIN, THEN WE MUST LEARN WHEN IT IS TIME TO WITHDRAW FROM SOME OF OUR BATTLES.

LET IT GO, LET GOD DEAL WITH THE STIFF NECKED AND REBELLIOUS, WE CAN FAST, PRAY, COUNSEL, APOLOGIZE, PLEA, NEGOTIATE, LOOSE, AND BIND, BUT IF THEY DON'T SURRENDER OUR FIGHTING IS IN VAIN.

SALVATION IS A WAR OF ATTRITION. FATIQUE WILL BRING THE LARGEST, FINEST TRAINED ARMY TO IT'S KNEES.

IT IS A COMMON PRACTICE DURING WAR TO REPEATEDLY THROW NUMEROUS SMALL ATTACK AFTER ATTACK AT FORCES THEY NO THEY CAN'T DEFEAT.

THIS IS DONE TO WEAR THEM DOWN LITTLE BY LITTLE SO THAT WHEN THE BIG CONFLICT IS AT HAND THE SUPERIOR FORCES WILL BE WORN AND FATIQUED FROM THE SKIRMISHES.

SO WHEN OTHERS THINK YOU SHOULD BE FIGHTING AND PURSUING, WE MUST SIMPLY DO WHAT THE LORD LEADS US TO DO.

IF THAT IS TO LET IT GO, THEN LET IT GO, MAYBE WHAT WE FIGHT TO HOLD ON TO HAS ALREADY SERVED IT'S PURPOSE AND SEASON, AND IF THAT IS SO, THEN GOOD RIDDANCE TO IT.



2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: MAYBE WE ARE OUT OF WORDS TO PRAY BECAUSE GOD HASN'T ORDAINED THAT PRAYER ANY LONGER. HE DOES HAVE MERCY ON WHOM HE WILL. NOT ON WHOM WE WILL.

WE ONLY KNOW WHATS SEEN, AND GOD KNOWS THE HEART. WE THINK THEY ARE SALVAGABLE, BUT GOD KNOWS THEY WILL REPEATEDLY REJECT THE TRUTH.

WHY HAVE MERCY SITTING AT THE FEET OF PROUD, HAUGHTY REBELS, BENT ON LIVING LIFE ACCORDING TO THEY'RE OWN COURSE, TO BE TRAMPLED ON AND WASTED.

GOD'S MERCY COULD BE ASSIGNED TO ONE THAT WILL HEED, REPENT, AND BE SAVED.

I GUESS IT'S NOT OVER TILL IT'S OVER, SO UNTIL THEN, BE ENCOURAGED AND TRUST IN THE LORD. THATS MY GOAL!




I PRAY GOD'S PEACE N MERCY B UPON U AND URS !



G-TEP aka K.J. DUMPSON