WE ARE THE DAVIDS AND SAMSONS OF OUR TIME
The Apostle Paul told the Corinthians: “We are
ambassadors who represent Christ” (2 Cor. 5:20). Because we have
Christ in us, we all have the opportunity to be ambassadors for Him in our
fields of influence: in our work, our family, our school, our neighborhoods and
all the places close to us. But the Lord also needs people who accept positions
bigger than their perceived ability.
One morning, the Lord gave Jane and me a new spiritual
realm of influence. He inspired us to pray for the shaking up of the judges in
the United States. It’s the judges who interpret the laws. They are supposed to
interpret the laws according to the intent of the Constitution, which is based
on the Bible. But many have strayed; instead, they make up their own
interpretations biased by peer pressure and personal agendas.
Jesus said this about the interpreters of the law in His
day: “O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For
out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of
the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out
of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things” (Matt. 12: 34).
So the Lord gave us some things to pray concerning
judges. We are to pray that the evil ones either get turned back around to good
or, if they refuse, their mouths are stopped, their mental capacity scrambled,
and their influence blocked.
Though I know very little about judges, I do know
something about prayer, and I do know something about taking down a devil
spirit influence. And I do know that the Lord never gives us anything He won’t
show us how to do and how to do well. We may think we are mere shepherds, but
we all have a warrior on the inside!
The shepherd boy David’s only job was to take care of his
flock of sheep. In his small realm of influence, he had to fight off a bear and
a lion who came after his sheep, and he did it. This small boy was called by
God later to defeat the giant Goliath, who threatened Israel’s whole existence,
and he did it. (See 1 Sam. 17).
Samson was just a regular guy. Before the incident with
Delilah, he had married a Philistine woman. One day, he went off, and the
wife’s father thought he abandoned her. The Philistine father kidnapped her and
gave her to another guy to marry. Samson went after her and burned up fields of
corn and vineyards as retribution for the evil they had done. They came after
him, arrested him, bound him up, and then God worked in this regular guy to do
something amazing.
“And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon
him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax [linen] that was
burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. And he found a
new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand
men therewith.
“And Samson said, ‘With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon
heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men’” (Judges
15:14-16).
One person who believed in our God wiped out a thousand
men with only the jawbone of a donkey. That’s miraculous, but no more
miraculous than what our Lord is asking us to do in these times.
You and I are the Davids and the Samsons of our day. We
may think we only have influence over a few, and those few are highly important
to God, but He may be asking us to step it up a notch. By revelation, He may
ask us to go into some very new areas of life, even physically. But whether or
not our jobs are to fight physically, we can never forget that our ultimate
battle is always spiritual, and the spiritual is what affects the physical
results the Lord wants.
Second Corinthians 10:4 tells us: “The weapons of
our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of
strongholds.”
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Eph. 6:12).
Believing and acting from a spiritual point of view will
always manifest in a material way. Let’s expect the Lord to expand our
spiritual realms of influence and be ready to say yes to whatever He asks. It
might be a little scary, but more than that, it’s exciting, wonderful, and such
an awesome privilege! The Lord is thrilled to have us; He loves us, and He
never gives us something He won’t show us how to accomplish.
Love, Carolyn
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