Enemies…..
Yesterday, out of the blue, someone came up to me and asked if I would pray for her…I really don’t know this person, but she trusted me to pray…”I am trying to take a stand for my faith, set some boundaries, be strong and the enemy is attacking.”
We talked about Joshua…
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9”
We went our separate ways…but it got me to thinking…did the tribes Joshua was sent to conquer symbolize enemies we face now…? So of course, I had to look it up…and there are several articles written about it from a Christian perspective as well as a Jewish one..
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction.
You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.
“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God.
The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Deuteronomy 7:1-2,5-7,9

http://www.biblefellowshipunion.co.uk/2014/Sep_Oct/7Enemies.htm
Hittites: Sons of terror, Subliminal torments, phobias, terror, depression.
Girgashites: Clay dwellers, focus on earthliness, unbelief.
Amorites: bitter; a rebel; a babbler..
Canaanites: Addiction to earthly wealth.
Perizzites: Limited vision, laziness, low self-esteem.
Hivites: Vision limited to enjoying an earthly inheritance, anything goes as long as you enjoy it!
Jebusites: Threshers, suppression of spiritual authority in others, legalism.
From…
http://chchurch.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/7/8/5278676/7_enemies_in_the_promised_land_keith_w_3_jan_am.pdf
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:19-23
Those “enemies” listed are ones we can face currently, those that strip us of victory…even when we have been given victory over them….fears, rebellion, laziness, earthy vision over heavenly….
God gives the victory…thank YOU….
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