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The Attack of the Enemy

by Jerry Ousley  
8/26/2016 / Christian Living


In the last article we began telling you the story of how we lost a job due to a plant closure. We took what we thought to be the noble route of staying with our congregation instead of relocating to another part of the country in order to keep the job. Surely God would bless us because we chose to remain with the congregation the Lord had placed us over.

The funny thing is that just after we made the decision to stay it began to rain. It rained all day on Friday and all of Friday night. I got up before anyone else in our house on Saturday morning and looked out the window. Water stood over the streets, over the yards and to be frank it looked like our house was an island out in the middle of a very large lake. To say the least I got a little concerned and thought to myself, "I'm going to have to wake everyone up so they can get ready because I think we're going to have to evacuate."

But the rain began to subside. The sump pump in the basement was working overtime but thankfully we were going to be okay. A couple of hours later one of our elders knocked at the door with bad news. The church building hadn't escaped as easily from nine inches of rain we had received. In fact water had filled the basement (where two oil tanks just recently filled had overturned pouring out all their contents) and had risen to around six inches inside the building. We would have to replace the furnace, all the electricity, all the floors in the building as well as the walls. The building was not only ruined by flood water but also by nearly five hundred gallons of fuel oil that had permeated everything.

We did not have flood insurance, the building was unusable, I didn't have a job but the Lord had told us to stay. How could the Lord do this to us? We now had no job and seemingly no church building!

The point of this story is that when you get in the valley the enemy is certain to attack. Joshua spent that night in the valley with a few thousand men. Of course God had given them a plan to ambush the city but he and his men would take the brunt of the enemy's attack until the time was right.

Often we descend from the mountain top of victory into the valley. It may be a sickness we don't understand; it could be a financial crisis that we don't feel we deserve. Perhaps our character is being unduly questioned; or it could be a host of other things that drives us into the valley. While we are there we will be attacked. Sometimes that attack is severe. It is meant by the enemy to defeat us and maybe even force us to turn our back on our Lord and Savior. He whispers things that aren't true, like, "See, Jesus has forsaken you," or "You never had the goods anyway. Just give up and forget it!" His goal is to use the valley against us.

The enemy poured out like a flood from Ai to come against Joshua and his men. Even though God had given them a plan, until it had been executed it had to seem like he was forsaken until the right time came.

Our enemy has one goal when it comes to you and I; he wants us stopped. He wants us destroyed. He wants to completely annihilate us. He wants to do this because we pose a great threat to his plan. We stand for the Lord God Almighty. Our witness destroys his kingdom. He wants us out of the way.

When we find ourselves in the valley remember that God has a plan. He won't leave us alone forever. If we will stand firm and hold to our guns, rescue is on the way. We will make it and when we climb up out of this valley the mountain-view will be even more spectacular then we could ever imagine. Resist the devil like the Bible says in James 4:7 and guess what . . . he will flee from YOU.

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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