The Training Ground of God

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Psalms 144:1
Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

David was a man skilled in war. From his days as a shepherd boy to the days of serving in Saul's army to leading his own army, David learned to be a skillful warrior. How does one become a skillful warrior?

The only way one can become a skillful warrior is to be trained and placed in the middle of the battle. It is only when we are placed in the furnace of battle that we truly learn to fight the real battles. Practice doesn't make you battle ready. War games won't prepare you for facing your real enemy in the battlefield. The stark reality of being in the midst of the battle makes us effective warriors.

Simply reading your Bible will not make you a warrior for the Kingdom. Knowledge without experience is mere folly. Only when you are placed in situations where there is nothing or no one who can save you but God will you learn the lessons of warrior faith. This is the training ground of God, which will make you into a soldier for Christ in the marketplace. Consider it to be suicidal faith-faith that says I want to be dead to anything that keeps me from fulfilling God's purposes for my life. It is when your efforts can do nothing to change your circumstance and you are at the mercy of God. These are the real training grounds of God. Do not shrink back from the battle that God may be leading you to today. It may be a training ground that is necessary for the calling He has on your life.

If you can trust Him in these times, you'll know that you have gained a faith that will move mountains and will sustain you in the most difficult of circumstances. "Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle."

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[Finalapproach29er]

Thanks for posting this.

I questioned God about this today. I guess He used you to give me an answer.

I’m afflicted and its frustrating because Im supposed to be in the prime of life.

Maybe the future will be better.

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I know how you might be feeling, God afflicted me with the loss of my marriage, the loss of my job, and the loss of other things. But through it all, He taught me a lesson, that to this day I have not forgotten. The lesson was one of submission, and what it means to completely submit, without question to His divine and perfect will. I trust and obey Him today, like never before, but still it was an extremely hard lesson to learn.

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