Standing Still While God Fights
The week you decide to abide is the week it gets loud. Scripture does not treat that as a coincidence. It treats it as a war, and it fights it strangely: an accuser who has to ask permission, armor God wore first, a choir sent out ahead of the army, hills full of horses and chariots of fire. October opens four stories about people who never swung a sword, and twenty-nine Hebrew and Greek words for standing still while God fights.
We are not going to see a demon behind every flat tire. We are not going to pretend that the fight is mostly about feelings. And we are not going to hand you a technique. What we are going to do is open four stories about four people who found themselves in the middle of something they did not start, could not win, and could not get out of, and watch what God did.
From the Welcome letter, Words of Battle
Each session is designed for 45-60 minutes of group or individual study. Hebrew and Greek words below link to their full library pages where they exist.
Job. A conversation in heaven he never heard, everything gone in an afternoon, three friends who said nothing for a week and then should have kept saying it, and God answering out of a storm.
Paul. A prisoner in Rome chained to a soldier, writing to a church about armor he can see from where he sits, and the prophet seven hundred years earlier who saw God put it on first.
Jehoshaphat. Three armies on the road, a king who admits he does not know what to do, and singers sent out ahead of the soldiers.
Elisha. A city surrounded overnight, a terrified servant, a prayer to open his eyes, and an enemy army led blind into the capital and fed a meal.
Integration. What four people who never swung a sword have in common, and what to do with it on Monday.