God is Calling for Warrior Mentality (2010 to eternity)

When the Lord said that we were suppose to be a peculiar people I thought he only meant peculiar to non-Christians, but as it turns out following this weirdness of Christ feels like insanity to me sometimes.  It is becoming clearer to me now that the insanity that I sometimes feel is that crazy determination that nothing will destroy me.  This is the same attitude that is often cultivated in the military.  I have several family members who are from the military, and any one of them will tell you that in order to survive sometimes you have to almost be crazy.  It takes a while before that warrior invincibility attitude sets in. Being with the Lord in such close relationship has changed me from a victim mentality to that of the warrior.  This past year was a year of pain for me that caused the pain of previous years to look like tiny pinches.  I felt hurt after hurt, and it seemed like it would never stop. In the midst of some of the worst emotional pains that I have ever experienced I felt the pressing need to thank God for all he is to me.  Do you ever feel that crazy feeling when someone is about to do their worst to get you, that feeling that you will not be moved? I felt the compelling of the holy spirit to let the LORD know that no matter what I still trusted him.  I had this attitude that said "no one and nothing is going to cause me to trust you any less. I refuse to lower my shield of faith and I refuse to put down the sword of spirit which is the word of God.  I refuse to stop fighting the fight of faith. I refuse to be drawn away from his love for me."  I am not going to say that I didn't ask God why a lot. I would ask myself, "If the LORD  loves me why is he putting me through this?"  My answer just recently came.  God allowed me,and some others that I know, to go through this because it was necessary training for me as a warrior for the faith.  Through all of the mess he has been raising up in me a war cry, an attitude of crazy faith in God and his word in the face of opposition.  If a shout can tear down walls then I am going to take out cities in 2011 because I refused to stop praising God, and I hear a call for the trumpets of God's people to sound and for the people to give a loud shout unto God for the breaking down of strong holds and the advancing of God's kingdom. It is time for the warriors of God to wake up and stand strong."Finally my brethren be strong in the LORD and the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but again principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." Ephesians 6:10-13   "So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun.  When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him." -Isaiah 59:19   

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