This world is now a battlefield. It is a hostile zone. Many snares have been set for you by spiritual forces who plot your destruction. If you don’t like the way things are in the world, rest assured that you are not meant to. “Do not love the world,” says John (1 John 2:15). This world is not your holiday resort. It is your field of mission. You are a soldier who has been dropped in hostile territory. You have a mission to fulfil, after which you will be picked up and taken home. This planet was meant to be your home, and one day it will be again. It was created good, but this goodness has been instrumentalised for human purposes. And it isn’t going well. “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it” (Psalm 24:1), but it is under the occupation of a hostile system. You are either part of this system (Ephesians 2:2) or you are on mission to restore it to its rightful owner, one person at a time. We fight this battle not with military or political tools, but through prayer and through our testimony to Jesus Christ. Psalm 142 is one example of what it looks like to pray in the turbulence of the field of battle. Learn to pray and cry out to God like this. God will guide you through the field of snares and ambushes. You can fulfil your mission in peace and confidence, because “the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” 1 John 4:4).
Ask God to guide you, protect you, and empower you to fulfil his mission.
Read Psalm 142.
