Thus saith the Lord

“I will go before you, Cyrus,
and level the mountains.
I will smash down gates of bronze
and cut through bars of iron."

Isaiah 45:2-3

Every now and then (more often than not)- i need Superhero God. Someone who can swoop down and save me in my desperate time of need when the enemy has tied me to the railroad track. Isn't that where we all are without Him?

I need a bar bending, laser-eyed, fire spiting, thunderous, wild, mighty warrior God that can pull me from the fires of iniquity, temptation and desperation.

I need a smashing, crashing, no holds barred savior who makes the enemy tremble when I walk into the fire of spiritual warfare.

Thanks for the reminder of Who You really are!

Cool Quote:

Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that...But most people do not believe this in their hearts. Most people show by their priorities and their casual approach to spiritual things that they believe we are in peacetime, not wartime...Very few people think that we are in a war that is greater than World War II, or than any imaginable nuclear war. Few reckon that Satan is a much worse enemy than any earthly foe, or realize that the conflict is not restricted to any one global theater, but is in every town and city in the world. Who considers that the casualties of this war do not merely lose an arm or an eye or an earthly life, but lose everything, even their own souls, and enter a hell of everlasting torment? Until we feel the force of this, we will not pray as we ought. We will not even know what prayer is...Prayer is the communication with headquarters by which the weapons of warfare are deployed according to the will of God...Prayer is the walkie-talkie of the church on the battlefield of the world in the service of the word. It is not a domestic intercom to increase the temporal comforts of the saints. It malfunctions in the hands of soldiers who have gone AWOL. It is for those on active duty. And in their hands it proves the supremacy of God in the pursuit of the nations. When missions move forward by prayer it magnifies the power of God. When it moves by human management it magnifies man.

John Piper, Let the Nations Be Glad,