"Who's Fighting Your Battle"

 "Who's Fighting Your Battle"

"On hearing the Philistine’s words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified." 1 Samuel 17:11

The Israelite army was suppose to be on the battlefield fighting Goliath and the Philistine army.  Instead they were on the sidelines watching and waiting for something, or someone, to step in and do the fighting for them.  I see this very thing happening nowadays.  As Christians we are suppose to be fighting our own battles.  But too often we want someone else to do it for us.  We want our pastors, the intercessors, a spiritual mentor, etc. to do for us what we should ourselves be doing.  We want them to do our praying and believing for us.  We want them to do our studying of God's Word and then spoon feed it to us.  While these ministers have their place, and we are to bear one another's burdens, and we are suppose to help support each other when we get weak in the faith, and we should help hold each other's hands up, God doesn't intend for us to do nothing and wait on someone else to do it for us.  He intends for us to fight our own battles.  It is not your place to fight my Goliath.  It is not your responsibility to stand in the place of faith for my situation that I should be standing in.  You aren't the one who should be going into my battles if I am not willing to go into them myself.  It is my place to hear from God for me not yours.

It is time that we stand up against Goliath for ourselves.  It is time we pick up the stones and sling (prayer and faith) and be ready to cast them at the giant.  David was the one who did go out to face Goliath.  When he did, he didn't use Saul's armor or take Saul's weapons with him.  He used his own.  He faced them equipped for himself.  

I hope you are getting the meaning of what I am saying.  Yes, ask people to pray with you, ask them to agree with you, ask them to help you, and God does use others to speak into your life, but don't abdicate and relinquish your spiritual responsibility to someone else.  Stop letting them do for you what you should be doing for yourself.

Have a great day.  Are you letting someone else fight the battles you yourself should be fighting?