Never outnumbered!

“So he answered, ‘Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.’” (2 Kings 6:17 NKJV)

Elisha, a prophet of God in Israel, was in a city called Dothan. The Syrians were trying to defeat Israel, but their battle strategies were constantly foiled because this prophet, through revelation from God, kept telling the king of Israel the words that the Syrian leader “spoke in his bedroom.” So the Syrian king sent his great army after Elisha.

When Dothan was surrounded, Elisha’s servant panicked. But the prophet, who could hear things no one else could hear, was also able to see things no one else could see. He told his servant not to be afraid, then asked the Lord, “Open his eyes that he may see.”

The servant was amazed. He saw "the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire" — the army of the Lord was all around them. Then Elisha asked God to blind the soldiers and he led them to Samaria, right into the hands of the king of Israel.

I’ve heard contemporary stories like this one — missionaries attacked but suddenly the attackers left. Years later they were converted to Christ and told how they saw armed soldiers guarding the missionary’s home, yet the missionary could not see them. Whether the solders were real or imagined is not the point. God knows how to protect His people.

Depending on His plan for my life, He can foil anyone or anything that tries to harm me. I can walk in confidence, knowing that whatever comes my way, greater is He who is in me — and who surrounds me — than whoever or whatever comes against me.