As we continue looking at Psalm 46, in verses 8-11 we see God as our victorious warrior. The desolations He makes in the earth are explained by Jamieson-Fausset-Brown as literally, ‘who hath put desolations’, destroying our enemies.” Making wars to cease might refer to the time the angel of the Lord slew 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in one night giving God’s people victory in 2 Kings 19:35; it could allude to a few times when there may have been brief periods of absence from war; however I see the ultimate fulfillment as yet future under the reign of Christ, (see Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3). His message is “Be still, and know that I am God, I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth” Psalm 46:10. As He has done, and will do, in the natural realms, He also does in the spiritual! So today, if you are experiencing warfare and strife within your spirit and life, come to Jesus and allow Him to speak peace in the midst of the turmoil, breaking sins power and destroying enemy weapons. An old hymn says “He breaks the power of canceled sin, He sets the prisoner free; His blood can make the foulest clean; His blood avails for me.” Sins power was cancelled by Jesus death at Calvary, and now its power over us is broken as we allow the Holy Spirit to work in us giving us victory over our enemies (habits, addictions, turmoil, fears, things that have held us in bondage) “For the Lord of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge.” Psalm 46:11.
Victory over enemies
By Rose Hill
The Lord says come My works to see,
From wars and troubles I set you free.
I’ll break in two the pieces of war,
The strife you know will be no more.
You must be still and understand,
That I am working in the land.
The nations will exalt My name,
Giving glory to the God who with power came.
Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version copyright …1982 by Thomas Nelson Co. used by permission.