There is a gospel song with these words in it: “I went into the enemy’s camp and took back what he stole from me.” This is exactly what David did when the Amalekites came to Ziglag and carried away all that David held dear. At first, as you would naturally expect, “David was greatly distressed”; but after this, we are told, “But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.” It was then he inquired of the Lord as to whether he should attempt to get back what he lost. To which God replied in essence, “Go get it!” And at the climatic end of the story we are told, “David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away.”
How we need daring David’s today. Christians who will put on the “armour of light,” and storm the kingdom of darkness and take back what the devil and his hoard robbed them of. Maybe it’s your peace, joy, power, or self-respect that has been seized. Whatever the case, if it rightly belongs to you, it goes without saying, it does not belong to Satan! No matter if it be a lion, bear, giant, or the Amalekites, David faced his enemy head on. His adversary never saw his back parts. David was like the first century Roman soldier; there was no armour for their back.
I like what A.W. Tozer wrote in his book, I Talk Back To The Devil. When feeling pressed out of measure, he said he would fall to his knees and be given strength to pray “Now, Lord, I have had enough-I refuse to take any more of this heaviness and oppression. This does not come from God-this comes from my enemy, the devil! Lord, in Jesus’ name, I will not take it any longer-through Jesus Christ I am victor!” At such times he says, “Great burdens have melted and rolled away- all at once!”
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