Psalms 144 1 Praise the Lord, who is my rock. He trains my hands for war and gives my fingers skill for battle.2 He is my loving ally and my fortress, my tower of safety, my rescuer. He is my shield, and I take refuge in him. He makes the nations submit to me.

 3 O Lord, what are human beings that you should notice them, mere mortals that you should think about them? 4 For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow. 

5 Open the heavens, Lord, and come down. Touch the mountains so they billow smoke. 6 Hurl your lightning bolts and scatter your enemies! Shoot your arrows and confuse them! 7 Reach down from heaven and rescue me; rescue me from deep waters, from the power of my enemies. 8 Their mouths are full of lies; they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead. 

9 I will sing a new song to you, O God! I will sing your praises with a ten-stringed harp. 10 For you grant victory to kings! You rescued your servant David from the fatal sword.

I read this psalm last night and the commentary said that biblical kings were warriors.. that a physical battle was a form of worship.. you were trusting God to defeat the enemy for you.. even though the king and the army were the ones fighting.. 

to relate this to ourselves.. we are daily in a spiritual battle.. do we worship God while we are in this battle? or do we whine and complain about how tired we are and we want it to be over? are we trusting God to fight with us and for us? or are we doing all of this in our own might and getting nowhere?

are we becoming closer to God while in battle? or are we becoming more distant?

turn your focus off the fight.. off whatever you feel is weighing down on you.. put that focus on God.. on how He has carried you through time after time.. begin right now to trust Him and know He will bring you out of this fight too.. and we will be victorious.. in Jesus name.. 

I am thinking about some things today... 

I wonder why so many women that are waiting on God are still alone.. doesn't the bible tell us that it isn't good for us to be alone? so I wonder why God would leave us alone so long sometimes.. and we don't want to go out and choose someone on our own because that is surely going to be a disaster... 

I wonder if in biblical times there were alot of unmarried women also.. we don't hear anything about that because in that time women were first of all property.. but also men didn't want daughters.. they wanted men.. male heirs.. well I'm sorry to let them know that in order to continue to have male heirs through generations you also have to have daughters for that to happen... 

women were put in arranged marriages at young ages.. what we would today feel is statutory rape.. and they stayed in these marriages all of their lives regardless of the situation.. do we walk away from marriage to easily today?

is one of the issues the fact that so many women believe they were called to ministry? so they are out here leading rather than submitting? 

is our lack of submission one of our real issues in why we can't be in relationships? we are always thinking of what we won't deal with.. what we aren't putting up with.. and we sit here alone and wonder why... 

now don't get me wrong.. I don't think we are to stay in an abusive relationship.. but we leave for everything today.. do we even know what we are supposed to be looking for in a man? are we actually looking for man traits in a man? or are we maybe expecting a man to act more like a woman? be emotional and supportive... 

are we our own worst enemy...............