A few nights ago, I had a dream that I feel is significant in light of the crisis in Israel. I was in a church with a group of people looking out the window. A very futuristic military plane was flying overhead. It was yellow on one side and black on the other. It could maneuver very quickly and fly in any direction. The plane started coming toward the windows of the church then would swoop up at the last minute. I told the Lord that He needed to hold His hand up to protect the church and He said, “You hold your hands up.”

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I felt like it was a call to pray and praise with the authority we are given in Christ. I’ve been reading about Joshua, as he conquered the Promised Land.

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Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is in your hand, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out toward the city the javelin that was in his hand. As soon as he did this, the men in the ambush rose quickly from their position and rushed forward. They entered the city and captured it and quickly set it on fire.

The men of Ai looked back and saw the smoke of the city rising up into the sky, but they had no chance to escape in any direction; the Israelites who had been fleeing toward the wilderness had turned back against their pursuers. For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that smoke was going up from it, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai. Those in the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives. (Josh 8:18-22)

God gave Joshua courage and authority to win the battle, and after it was won Joshua reminded the people of every word spoken by the Lord to the Israelites in the wilderness.

Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law. There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who lived among them. (Josh 8:34-35)

This is a time to raise our hands, stand together as the Church in our God given authority to fight the battles, and remember the promises of Scripture.

Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray—not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it. (1 Tm 2:8-9)

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How will you lift up your hands toward the Lord for victory?

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