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God Is My Banner


God will always be the conqueror for His people

What do you credit for making you what you are today? Maybe you credit yourself with being exceptionally smart, handsome or pretty. Maybe it’s because you think you know how to get out there and create opportunities for yourself, and all this enables you to drive that expensive car or truck, live in a beautiful new home, and keep your well-paying job. You’ve got brains! You’ve got muscle! You’re a work-a-holic!

Life brings changes, especially when we leave God out of our lives. Eventually, even God’s people go through a “dry desert”, just like the Israelites did. Like them, we are likely to run up against one dead-end after another, and one problem after another. Some of us will even blame God, and admit defeat. Defeatism is a curse. It can overwhelm us, and cause us to give up; give up on our blessings, our opportunities through Christ, and even our personal healing!

When Moses saw his people starting to accept defeat he went straight to the Lord (Exodus 17:4). He wasn’t about to give up, nor was he going to rely on his own human wisdom. Instead he turned to the Lord, essentially saying; “You brought us out here, Lord. Now you will have to take care of us. What would you have me to do Lord?”

God gives us our best answers when we run up against problems, and turn to Him, depend on Him. God is our banner! He is Jehovah nissi. After Moses defeated the Amalekites he built an altar to commemorate the great victory. Here is what the Bible says about that altar:

And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi [“the Lord is my banner”]: For he said, “Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation” (vv. 15, 16).

Ask God, “What would you have me to do Lord?” Make Him your banner!

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