Warriors of God

by Odon Bulamba (summary only - 6th Jan, 2006)

Men in the Bible who were servants of God (soldiers) didn’t go to military camp to be trained but their life’s experiences made them to become good soldiers. There was one man called Gideon, ‘great warrior’ that God had chosen to recruit men to fight and this man had not gone to the university of warriors but because of the experience in his life, he became someone great. He also became someone great because God’s Hands were on him and rose him up and if God wants to raise us up, we have to become great warriors also. How will that happen? Are you ready to become a warrior of the Lord? Are you ready to be attacked and to lose your joy and your peace?

To train at a military camp to become a soldier you have to struggle a lot, it’s hard and difficult and you must forget pain. You are not free and the commander will say do this and that and your answer will be, ‘yes sir’ because the man who speaks has the power to make others do what he wants and one day God will give to us that authority to lead others but if your orders are not good (orders to impress others and not to glorify God), you will destroy the army of God.

Acts 19:14,15, these men wanted to have authority over evil spirits but the power of God was not on them and the evil spirits recognized that, but if Jesus gives you that power to become warriors, you will not fight people but against satan and to reach that level, God has to order you and you must answer, ‘yes sir’.

God prepares His warriors three ways:

Prayers; He’ll make you become a fervent prayer warrior and when you are praying the power of darkness will feel you are praying and in heaven and people around you will feel the anointment.

The Power of the Word; you can know the Word of God and speak about it and people will feel God speaking through it.

Your body; God will use your body as one of His instruments because your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit

In the army of the Lord, God can make you become someone for just one soul, e.g. Isabella can go to Africa and only one soul will become a Christian out of millions and she will feel disappointed but for God the number doesn’t count but the quality counts. If one soul is saved there is a party in heaven, imagine you can make God stand up from His throne and dance, how would you feel to know that you made God so happy?

Gideon was given many soldiers but God told him to have less numbers because God doesn’t need them all. All the soldiers were really good and they were all ready to fight but Gideon told those who were recently married to go back home. Gideon asked God to help him to choose the right soldiers and us as soldiers of God must ask for God’s help to know how we will work, with who and where. God didn’t choose the largest or best soldiers for Gideon but those who drank water from the river Jordan a certain way.
Things become hard sometimes because God wants to manifest Himself and to be a warrior of God, you have to go through hard situations where you’ll think can God really allow this, why is He taking me to the limit? One important thing you must not do to be a warrior of God is to worry. Once you are not worrying, you can past to the second stage of building your position in Christ and know that hard things will come but I’m ready to go through them. Thirdly, you’ll be ready to tell God, I’ve finished what you told me to do, what is next?

Some of the soldiers of Gideon drank with their hands and others lapped like a dog. When you drink with your hands you can see what is going on around you and we have to make sure after praying for a situation that we keep going because that is not the end of the story, at every stage we have to ask God for help because God has a good plan for us but satan tries to destroy it because he wants us to suffer and sometimes God allows satan to put us in trouble as part of our training. Jesus holds the victory on His shoulders because He accepted to go through the training with satan; Jesus was born in a stable and grew up with brothers and sisters who didn’t trust Him and He didn’t have a place to sleep.

When you go to military camp, don’t expect to sleep, you’ll go to bed late and get up early and you will have to run in the snow and when war arrives you will have to fight while others sit down. If we are accepting to be warriors, we have to accept to die for others. Jesus died for us and accepted to carry our sins and to be humiliated, can you accept to be humiliated for someone else?

Whenever a good warrior arrests his enemy, he’ll not kill him but put him in prison and when you get the opportunity to kill your enemy, do you give them the chance to live or just react? Jesus knew that Judas would betray Him but He still continued to eat with him until the last minute. Would we give that chance to someone we knew wanted to kill us? To be a warrior of God it’s above our knowledge and way of acting. The more Saul was building up hatred in his heart against him, the more he wanted to kill him and the more anger was building up until one day God revealed that to David. The more you are building things up in your heart, the more you are becoming slaves of that.

Gideon chose only 300 soldiers to fight; imagine if NZ went to fight against USA with only 300 soldiers. USA would laugh and think maybe NZ is crazy or joking. When God prepares His army, it’s a simple and tiny army, an army that satan neglects but on the field of battle, they will be victorious.

Tell God, ‘here I am, train me’, accept to be trained and don’t worry about what the world will think because after training you will become someone. We need to accept that training and it’s only through life’s experiences and if you don’t accept it, you will lose. The more things are hard in your life, the more you will discover solutions. Don’t think it’s because God is far away from you, or because God hates you, no, it’s because He is preparing something for you. Accept problems, hardship and situations and don’t give up praying, don’t give up on God and try to find your own solution because your life is not your own. God will also prepare you to train and recruit others. Think about Moses how he was told to go back to Egypt and tell Pharaoh to let God’s people go, nine times. God knows how to organize our way, He plans and knows that we will cross a problem but He will get us through it. We have to look after ourselves, and our friends and family and know how to fight for them.


SUMMARY

- It’s our life’s experiences that train us to be warriors of God
- To be a good warrior we must
- obey God’s commands
- ask God to lead us
- go through difficult situations
- not worry
- accept to die for others

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