In What Ways Can We Obtain And Maintain Strategic Victory?

It would do us no good to have spent the previous five chapters talking about everything and everyone being strategic, if we didn’t talk about how to obtain and maintain our strategic victory. Therefore, in the next few paragraphs I am going to give us a few ways that we can obtain, and then maintain the victory once we receive it. It would be impossible to talk about obtaining any type of victory without talking about faith. The bible declares in Hebrews chapter eleven verse six that without faith, it is impossible to please God, for they that come to God must first believe that he is God, and that he will reward them that diligently seek him. If you don’t believe that God is who he says he is, then how can you believe that he will do
what he says he will do? You must have faith! Time will not permit me to talk about all the victories in the Word of God that have been obtain by the exercising of someone’s faith. However, I will briefly touch on a few examples, and you can study them more in-depth at your leisure. If we just study the journey of the Moses and the children of Israel, we will find a multitude of victories that God gave them through faith.
It took faith for Moses to approach Pharaoh and demand the freedom of the children of Israel. It also took faith for him to believe that he would be able to defeat Pharaoh, his magicians and his armies. Just envision the victories that God gave them during the time of the plagues. God was strategic, giving Moses specific instructions every step of the way. It didn’t stop there; Hebrews eleven and twenty-nine tells us that it was faith that allowed them to cross the red sea on dry land. That miracle has strategy written all over it! God allowed their enemies to chase them into a place that he could show them his deliverance and drown their enemies too! It was faith that caused Joshua and Caleb to believe that they could have the victory in a land where their enemies looked like giants and they looked like grasshoppers (Numbers 13). Lastly, it was faith that allowed a young shepherd boy name David, with no fighting experience to kill a trained warrior who was also a giant (1 Samuel 17). There are many more stories of strategic victories in both the Old and New Testaments. However, the long and short of it all is, if you ever want to have any kind of victory, strategic or otherwise, you must start by having faith in the one that gives us the
victory! God will also give us strategic victory through our praise. There is no greater example of that then the battle of Jericho. Who can forget the story of Joshua and the walls of Jericho? The people of Jericho were on lock down, no one was allowed in and no one was allowed out. They barricaded themselves in because they were living in fear of the Israelites. God gave Joshua a detailed strategy that would cause the impenetrable walls to come tumbling down. He told the children of Israel to march around the city once a day for six days. Then on the seventh day, they were to march around the wall seven times and then shout. It was their shout of praise unto the Lord that caused the walls to fall. Listen beloved, when we praise God things happen. I like to say that prayer takes you to God, but praise brings God to you!