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  • Warfare Strategies of the Kingdom of God III

    Early this year in February and March, we discussed the Warfare Strategies of the Kingdom of God. We started with how God trained David the singer/shepherd boy to David the king warrior. We also explored Nehemiah’s strategy of a tool in one hand and a weapon in the other, Jehoshaphat’s strategy of leading the army with priests who gave praise as well as the Esther’s strategy of eradicating Haman, the decree against the Jews and promoting Mordecai. How God encountered Gideon and trained him was also extensively discussed (although God may lay it upon my heart to continue). Guess what? The LORD gave me about 9 names and I have only discussed 4. Today, we will discuss the Moses’ strategy.

    the Moses Strategy

    In Exodus 17:8-16, we see that the people of Israel were up against the Amalekites. This is before they even get the 10 commandments in Exodus 20. The Amalekites were literally the first nation to fight against Israel as they came out of Egypt. They attacked Israel unprovoked without a justifiable reason. I’m talking about the enemy coming to attack very early into your life when you don’t even know your purpose or what you carry. That near-death experience you had in your childhood and that trauma you suffered in your teenage years was an Amalekite move of the Kingdom of darkness to frustrate your journey.

    What did Moses do? When you are attacked suddenly, what will you do? When there’s a premature attack long before the kairos moment, how do you handle it? The Moses strategy. By now, you should realise that every story in the Bible is super relevant. Every word in Scripture was specifically chosen to communicate. Every battle fought in Scriptures speaks volumes because they reveal precepts, principles, postures, practices and patterns.

    The Secret Things are from the Secret Place

    The Moses strategy can only be used by those who have a rich relationship with God in the secret place. It’s not self-confidence. It’s not just showing up and acting like a boss. The LORD has already promised to help us out on the day of calamity. When it strikes, Wisdom will appear beside you and show you how to navigate the situation. Wisdom will direct your steps and show you mysteries no man can teach you. The average Christian has a more active outer court life than a priestly Most Holy Place lifestyle. Thus, we rush to enter the Most Holy Place when things suddenly go south. Problems shouldn’t draw you closer to God more than love does.

    Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s about time we grew up. It’s babes who need a total intervention when things mess up. Every miracle in Scriptures included the participation of man. You may want God to get up and come and do it but isn’t it more romantic for God to do it through you? When you have an active prayer life and the altar of your secret place is on fire, the Amalekites strategy will not expose you. If your strength fails on the day of adversity, your strength is weak. We should be already ready before the day of battle because the enemy does not play by the rules. Moses didn’t pray so me too, I will show up and speak to the mountain because I don’t need to pray. My dear, you can’t fool spirits. If you don’t have it, you don’t have it. Whenever trouble comes and you see a man face it without praying for long in public, it’s because he already prays in secret. Refer to the ministry of Jesus!

    How to Do it Is As Important to God as What to Do

    When Wisdom tells you what to do, do exactly that. Moses does not need to fight in the battle himself. God is majestic; there’s a particular way He wants His things done. Wisdom teaches us who and how protocol and administration should be handled. If God tells you to do something, don’t just do it. Many people have been shocked to do what God told them and still see failure. You can hear God and do what God told you with your human wisdom. It will fail because it is the Wisdom of God that builds only what lasts. Once God tells you what to do, ask for His Wisdom on how it ought to be done. Wisdom is direct. It’s never ambiguous. Joshua in the valley, Moses on the mountaintop with Aaron and Hur.

    The Moses strategy is wisdom fully at play. Moses was to lift up his hand as an expression of the Hand of God destroying the enemies of God. It goes deeper than that. That was a picture of Jehovah Nissi, the LORD who is a Banner over us. His Hand is continually upon His people, and He lifts us up with His Victorious Right Hand. His Banner over us is Love, and He covers us in the shadow of His wings. A little problem, though. Moses is human and cannot stand and lift up his hand throughout the battle. Nonetheless, God is so vast that each human who comes to earth is meant to portray an aspect of God not fully known hitherto. That includes you and I.

    Understand this and it will forever help you in life; once God gives you Wisdom on what to do and how to do it, you plan your life in that direction. God is not going to tell you every little detail you need to do because the expression of your free will is still allowed within the confines of His Will. Did you get it? You are called to participate in His Will and every decision you make must be fully influenced by what He communicates to you. We saw that in the Nehemiah and Jehoshaphat strategy where it wasn’t a specific instruction from God that they do what they did but the strategy they chose was nevertheless in direct alignment to the Will of God expressed to them.

    The Place of Strategy

    By prophecy, you know what God wants you to do. By wisdom, you know how He wants you to do it. By strategy, you execute what He wants done. This pattern is also seen when Joseph talked with Pharaoh about the famine. It is foolish to strategize when you haven’t ascertained the Will of God concerning the matter. This upside down attitude of strategizing on our own before showing it to God to approve it is a waste of time. Everyone’s hands will become heavy eventually. If you really heard from Wisdom from the beginning, you would have listened and told Aaron and Hur to follow you to the top. The battle is won by the edge of the sword, yes. Yet, skill is nothing if you don’t have the Spirit. Don’t run into battle without a covering.

    Joshua and the people fighting did not realise that the outcome of the battle was not the number or the skillset or style. It was directly influenced by the covering. In the realms of the Spirit, just like in this realm, what you are allowed to do is what you have a permit for. You need a backing. How far you go is predetermined by what covers you. We ought to actively participate with God in the establishment of His Will in our lives and in the world. It was this encounter that led to Moses building an altar because the Name of the LORD has been revealed to him. I pray that as we plan and navigate life, God will order our steps in Him and bring us to the place of understanding that it is WITH Him that all things are made possible.

    The Moses Strategy teaches us to

    • have a rich hot-vibrant relationship with God on a daily basis, not when battles happen suddenly.
    • operate in the Wisdom of God to know precisely what to do – and how to go about it – in that given situation.
    • have a covering and permission for whatever we do in order to guarantee fruitfulness. Authority precedes strategy.
    • partner with God to establish His Will rather than having a mindset of watching God step in to do what man can do.

  • Gideon: Taking Back Territories for the Kingdom of God

    Has the enemy encroached on your land? Has evil taken over a territory? Has your nation become morally bankrupt? The United States moved from having global evangelical ministries and being the centrepiece of God’s endtime movement to not being able to define what a woman is when the woke virus infested the nation. The UK and many other European countries are now suffering from this moral decadence. It’s like Psalm 12 all over again. In countries like Ghana, inasmuch as there is still sin, the people involved in sin at least acknowledge their sinfulness and hide it from the public eye as much as possible. You know a territory is terrible when their definitions of moral objectivism is blurry and absurd. How do we take back territory for the Kingdom of God?

    Gideon was the fifth of the 12 Judges of Israel. It’s amazing that we have discussed 4 people so far; David, Nehemiah, Esther, Jehoshaphat (the fourth king of Judah) and we are now on the 5th Judge of Israel; Gideon, under the Warfare Strategies of the Kingdom of God series. You can follow by reading Judges 6 alongside this post for a better understanding. Let’s delve in!

    Legal Governance of Territories

    Just like in government, every territory has a ruler/governor who rules the place legally. By “legally”, I mean the powers are vested in that entity by the people themselves. It’s the same in the realms of the spirit. Every territory is ruled legally by whom the people choose as a cooperate body. Judges 6:1 shows that the people chose evil and did not want God to rule over them. Thus, there was a change in government; a handing over. The Bible is intentional about the choice of words. It clearly emphasizes that God delivered them into the hands of the Midianites. There was a change of hands. See, there are territories legally ruled by poverty (many places in Africa). There are those legally ruled by lust, like Vegas. Others are legally ruled by greed while others are ruled by filth. Note the word “legally”. God will not force Himself on anyone. It’s the will of the people that determines their ruler.

    The enemy now had an upper hand after the handing over, and decided to only attack their substance at the time of harvest. Every altar is powered by the sacrifices offered on it. Once a nation gives themselves to evil, there will be a rise in a particular vice as an offering to service that national altar. A rise in abortion, huh? Or a rise in suicide rates? A rise in obesity and health-related problems? Or a rise in political corruption? Sometimes, it’s a waste of time to try to solve symptoms when the underlying problem hasn’t been dealt with. The nation of Israel became greatly impoverished.

    Recognizing Patterns

    I have noticed that when the enemy gets the upper hand in a territory, people are not quick to realize. Perhaps, he kills an aunt by elephantiasis and no one realises it was him. Then two years later, he kills another aunt with the same disease but people brush it off as a coincidence. By the time it happens the third time, too much damage has already been done. The Midianites did not invade Israel randomly—they showed up only during harvest time. This was no coincidence; it was a diabolically calculated move to keep Israel impoverished. Judges 6:3-6 describes how the enemy would swoop in and take everything, leaving Israel with nothing.

    Israel, can’t you see that for the past 7 years, the Midianites only show up at harvest time? Can’t you see the negative pattern? Aren’t you aware of the diabolical trend? That is the “offerings” that the enemy comes to legally take as his dues for ruling over you. The enemy is wicked o. Meanwhile, if God asked for 10%, we will be grumbling. The enemy is taking 100% of all the produce. Sometimes the “dues” are that it doesn’t matter how much money anyone makes in the family, they will be poor; all their money will keep being used to pay for some strange unplanned expenses from time to time.

    The enemy is a thief but he makes sure that he steals from you by consent. He deceives you to get your consent and steals what rightfully belongs to you. How does a territory/family/community/nation break free? They must cry out to the LORD. I have seen people blame God for the problems the enemy caused because of their own decisions. Proverbs 19:3 says “there are some people who ruin their own lives and then blame it all on God”. Stop blaming God. Cry out to Him.

    How merciful God is; He heard their cry right away. However, here is the issue. It didn’t happen in a day when we chose evil instead of God and yet, we expect God to do magic in a day. God is all-Powerful and will deliver you the same day you call on Him. For sure! However, you have been masturbating or drinking or smoking half of your life; you have to go through an entire mental deliverance session. Your spirit is free but your mind needs to unlearn your old ways and that must take time. This is why the first thing He did was send forth His Word through prophet. Selah!

    The Gideon Strategy: A Sustainable Victory

    All this is part of the Gideon strategy. We want a quick fix but God wants a sustainable victory. God is about to take the least of this greatly impoverished nation and make him into a warrior who will rule the land for the Kingdom of God as long as he is alive. He will take the foolish things to always confound the wisdom of darkness. Surely, you are not more zealous than God to see your territory sane again. Trust His recovery plan. Your territory has to be transformed by the renewing of the mind because it conformed to the system of the world for long.

    Even Gideon himself was filled with bitterness and mediocrity when God encountered him. He was so greatly affected by the great impoverishment of the nation. How many people in corrupt countries think their countries will always be corrupt? Even the good people start to believe the lies. He called Gideon a mighty warrior, even though he saw himself as weak. God does not define us by our past or present circumstances—He defines us by His purpose for us.

    When you cried out to the LORD, He heard you immediately and work began behind the scenes. He sent a prophet with a message of God’s verdict and the hope of restoration. God told them that He has delivered them from the hands of Egypt before. Believe 100% in His track record and watch Him restore the territory to its former glory. God also made it clear that they brought this upon themselves because they didn’t obey His voice.

    God is justified in whatever decision He chooses to make but He decides to show them mercy by raising a Judge, and that is where He encountered Gideon in a winepress threshing wheat. Where you have a personal encounter with the LORD gives a clue about what He is about to do; He is about to thresh His people and consecrate their gain to Himself again. Also, never forget God’s choice of words in your encounter with Him.

    What we have discussed so far in 12 verses;
    1. Recognize the enemy’s legal hold over your territory. Evil gains power through the people’s choices.

    2. Understand the enemy’s strategy. Here, he attacked during harvest time to greatly impoverish the nation.

    3. Break the cycle by crying out to God. Stop blaming Him and start repenting.

    4. Trust in God’s track record. He has done it before and He will do it again.

    5. Embrace the Gideon Strategy. God’s plan is not a quick fix but a lasting transformation.

    If your family, community, or nation is under demonic oppression, God is looking for a Gideon. He is searching for someone He will raise up to tear down demonic altars and establish the Kingdom of God in that territory. Will you answer the call and let His Kingdom come on the territory as it is in Heaven?

    ….to be continued