News From The Heartland – Jeff Goss, St. Louis, MO

Julie and Jeff Goss

Strength for the Battle

As we travel from coast to coast ministering at farm shows and FFA State conventions, I am highly motivated to win souls because I feel we are in a battle to save our nation. If our nation goes down, then the whole world goes down. This is why there is such a battle for our nation, because the devil knows how vital America is to the world. In this battle, one of the devil’s strategies is very simple and it is found in Daniel 7:25 which says he shall wear out the saints of the Most High. Knowing all this we must do everything we can to keep this from happening. God in His wisdom filled His Word with scriptures on how we can stay strong in the spiritual battle we are in.

One of my favorites is Isaiah 40:29-32 that says “He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.”

The more we give out and minister, the more we need to wait upon the Lord in worship and prayer and be in the Word to renew our strength. If we do this faithfully, we can be like Caleb in Joshua 14:10 and 11 which says, “Now, the Lord has kept me alive, just as He said, for forty-five years, since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. I am still just as strong today as I was on the day that Moses sent me. My strength now is just like my strength then, both for battle and for going out and returning.”

God will also keep us alive to do battle for this nation and give us the strength of a young person when we are old like he did for Caleb. If you are feeling weak in this battle then I have a scripture for you out of Joel 3:10, “Let the weak say, I am strong.” Proverbs tells us that life and death are in the power of the tongue so instead of calling yourself weak and tired, be a doer of the Word and call yourself strong. If we do this then we will see Psalms 92:14 come to pass in our lives, which says “They shall still bring forth fruit in old age.”