God shows us things that are overwhelming, things that we can’t handle, so we will turn to the Lord.

We have a place to go when overwhelmed.

God loves His Children too much to let them lean on material things. God will, in love, remove these things, because they will break when we lean on them, and so we can learn to lean on the Lord.

Some who know God, do not go to God, when overwhelmed. Those who reject God, cannot not go to God when overwhelmed.

When was Gods anger against us satisfied? At the cross.

What are the two best advantages you can have in any battle? •Superior power •Superior forces--brothers and sisters praying for you No matter what weapons used, the high ground gives a superior advantage when the forces are equal.

Those who have not been to the cross, who are denying the Lord, they must bare God’s anger unjustified.

When you go to the Rock, Christ, the Rock that is higher than I, we are taking the high ground.

Banners are how you directed the battles on ancient battlegrounds.

Are you thankful for the times you have been overwhelmed? Because it was then, you ran to God.

Without God's help we cannot win.

Sometimes when we hit snags or hard times, we don’t go to church as much. Hard times are when we need to go to church more.

We are often closer to our cell phones than to our God. Who do we first call when we are overwhelmed?

Mercy and truth. In God’s Word, mercy always comes before truth. God and His Word always gives us mercy first. What do you give someone first, mercy or truth?

Battles on earth may reflect spiritual purposes in heaven. Meaning God does take signs in human battles. The Bible does not say the Lord is a pacifist.

Many things we do here, we will do in heaven. We will worship in heaven, but we will not be able to evangelize any longer in heaven.

Jesus said to turn the other cheek, He did not say to look the other way.

If you want to gain strength for the battles of life, worship the Lord with believers, and with just you and the Lord.

The Bible does not say the Lord is a pacifist, it says the Lord is a warrior.

if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me: “Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Woe unto you, [ye] blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men's] bones, and of all uncleanness.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over [them] are not aware [of them].

And he said, Woe unto you also, [ye] lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Therefore rejoice, [ye] heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

25 Therefore the anger of the LORD is aroused against His people; He has stretched out His hand against them And stricken them, And the hills trembled. Their carcasses [were] as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand [is] stretched out still. 26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar, And will whistle to them from the end of the earth; Surely they shall come with speed, swiftly

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me [was] love.

Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.