2 Chronicles 20:14

2 Chronicles 20:14 says, Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation;  The Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel when he was in the midst of the congregation.  When we as Christians are gathered to worship God, we need the Holy Spirit to guide each of us so that collectively we may worship God.  Verse fifteen adds, And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.  Jahaziel told them to not be dismayed, or feel overwhelmed I believe, but seeing the large host against them, because the battle wasn't theirs, but God's.  Sometimes, we as Christians may feel that we might as well give up the fight because those who stand against us are so numerus, but it is God Who fights for us, and He has already won the victory.  Verse sixteen continues, To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.  Jehaziel then told them tomorrow to go fight and he even told them where they would find the enemy.  If we are listening, God will tell us where danger lies, but we still must go where He sends us even if we think it is dangerous.  Verse seventeen concludes, Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the Lord will be with you.  He then told them that they wouldn't even have to engage in battle, but to just go and stand where God said they should be and that God would be with them.  We are not going to defeat Satan and his forces by our own power and abilities, but we are just to go where God sends us and put our faith in Him, because the victory is His, no matter what happens in this life.  Verse eighteen states, And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the Lord, worshipping the Lord.  Jehoshaphat and all the people of Judah humbled themselves before God in worship.  We as followers of Christ need to daily humble ourselves before God and follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit in whatever we are doing.  Verse nineteen adds, And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high.  The Levites, those who did God's work in the temple and the congregation, stood and praised God.  We need those who are leaders in the church today to stand and praise God when we gather to worship Him, and we need to join them in doing so.  Verse twenty continues, And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.  The next morning, they went to where Jahaziel had said God wanted them to be.  It is a good thing for Christians to gather to worship God, but it is even more important that we then go out into the world and do what He call us to do.  If we do, we will prosper spiritually.  Verse twenty-one concludes, And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth for ever.  Jehosaphat then appointed singers to sing praises to God as they went.  We need to always let the world know that we as Christians are simply servants of God and to sing His praises in the world.  Verse twenty-two says, And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.  While the people of Judah were singing praises to God, He was destroying their enemies.  If we live by faith in God and give Hime the praise, He is always going to destroy our spiritual enemies.  Verse twenty-three adds, For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.  Those who would destroy Judah ended up destroying each other as the people of Judah looked on.  God had defeated them as he had promised, and He has defeated all Who would stand against Him today.  Verse thirty-four continues, And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.  When the people of Judah got to the watchtowers, all they saw was dead bodies.  As followers of Christ, when we look out at the world today, we need to realize that spiritually all our enemies have already been destroyed.  Verse twenty-five concludes, And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.  All that was left for the people of Judah to do was claim the spoils of war, and it took them three days to do so.  We have already claimed the spoils of the war between God and evil if we are Christians, and that is everlasting life.  We need to live in victory, not for material possessions, but for God's glory.