Old Testament Scripture Reading: Nahum 1:2 – 11 (KJV)
Nah 1:2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Nah 1:3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Nah 1:4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Nah 1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Nah 1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Nah 1:7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Nah 1:8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Nah 1:9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Nah 1:10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Nah 1:11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
New Testament Scripture Reading: Galatians 5:16 – 23 (KJV)
Gal 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Gal 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Transforming Power Statements:
1) God has endured His enemies from the fall of Adam all the way up until this very second, but has promised that His enemies will be brought to an end in His wrath and be utterly destroyed and never have another chance to corrupt the things that He has made a second time as stated by the Prophet Nahum and many others.
2) A great percentage of Scripture is dedicated to the education of believers which is for the purpose of teaching them to conquer the same kinds of obstacles caused by the enemies of God, which make constant attempts to destroy the peace of God from His chosen, who must receive training from the Holy Spirit through the Scriptures to know how to persevere and prosper over every one.
3) Paul’s letter to the Galatians and many others are living instructions for the saved to come to learn what the enemies of God are and exactly how to identify them as we learn that it is not flesh and blood that are wrestling with but rather “spiritual wickedness in high places” which constitutes the place of the battlefield we must learn to fight on to secure the VICTORY!