In Christ

28  Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 
29  Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. —Matthew 11:28 - 29

Victory in Christ?

Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. —2 Corinthians 2:14

King Asa: A Pattern For Victory

Therefore he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and make walls around them, and towers, gates, and bars, whilethe land is yet before us, because we have sought the Lordour God; we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered. —2 Chronicles 14:7

9  Then Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah. 
10  So Asa went out against him, and they set the troops in battle array in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. —2 Chronicles 14:9 - 10

And Asa cried out to the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, it is nothing for You to help, whether with many or with those who have no power; help us, O Lord our God, for we rest on You… —2 Chronicles 14:11a - c

… and in Your name we go
against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; do not let man prevail against You!” —2 Chronicles 14:11d

NAMES OF GOD
Jehovah-Tsidkenu: My Righteousness
Jehovah-M’Kaddesh: My Sanctifier
Jehovah-Jireh: My Provider
Jehovah-Rohi: My Shepherd
Jehovah-Rophe: My Healer
Jehovah-Shalom: My Peace
Jehovah-Shammah: Ever-present One
Jehovah-Nissi: My Banner

Jehovah-Tsidkenu: My Righteousness

In His days Judah will be saved,And Israel will dwell safely;Now this is His name by which He will be called:
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. —Jeremiah 23:6

Jehovah-M’Kaddesh: My Sanctifier

7  Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. 
8 And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them: I am the Lord who sanctifies you. —Leviticus 20:7 - 8

Jehovah-Jireh: My Provider

And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.” —Genesis 22:14
Jehovah-Rohi: My Shepherd

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. —Psalms 23:1

Jehovah-Rophe: My Healer

And said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.” —Exodus 15:26

Jehovah-Shalom: My Peace

So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and
called it The-Lord-Is-Peace. To this day it is 
still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. —Judges 6:24

Jehovah-Shammah: Ever-present One.

All the way around shall be eighteen thousand cubits; and the name of the city from that day shall be: THE LORD ISTHERE. —Ezekiel 48:35

Jehovah-Nissi: My Banner

And Moses built an altar and called its name, 
The-Lord-Is-My-Banner. —Exodus 17:15
1. In Your Name.

And Asa cried out to the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, it is nothing for You to help, whether with many or with those who have no power; help us, O Lord our God, for we rest on You, and in Your name we go against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; do not let man prevail against You!” —2 Chronicles 14:11

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. —Hebrews 11:6

1  Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You,
2  As You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 
3  And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 
4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
6  “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 
7  Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. 
8  For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. —John 17:1 - 8

9  For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 
10  and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power —Colossians 2:9-10

2. We go.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have 
apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are behind and reaching forward to
those things which are ahead. —Philippians 3:13

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put
his hand to the plow, and looking back,
is fit for the kingdom of God.” —Luke 9:62

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. —Romans 8:14

He must increase, but I must decrease. —John 3:30

3. Do not let man prevail against you.

… O Lord, You are our God; do not
let man prevail against You!” —2 Chronicles 14:11g

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power and the glory, the victory and the majesty;For all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours;Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and You are exalted as head over all. —1 Chronicles 29:11

20  Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 
21  to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. —Ephesians 3:20 - 21

For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. —Colossians 1:16

4. In Christ the battle is already won.

12  So the Lord struck the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.
13  And Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar. So the Ethiopians were overthrown, and they could not recover, for they were broken before the Lord and His army. And they carried away very much spoil. 
14  Then they defeated all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the Lord came upon them; and they plundered all the cities, for there was exceedingly much spoil in them. 
15  They also attacked the livestock enclosures, and carried off sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem. —2 Chronicles 14:12 - 15

13  And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 
14  having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
15  Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. —Colossians 2:13 - 15