“Give thanks to the Lord, for his steadfast love endures forever.”
As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set an ambush against the Ammonites, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.
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ACAD – Fight or Flight: Joshua 6
“Take up the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant, and assign seven priests to walk in front of it, each carrying a ram’s horn.” Then he gave orders to the people: “March around the town, and the armed men will lead the way in front of the Ark of the Lord.”
ACAD – Fight or Flight: Exodus 14
They cried out to the Lord, and they said to Moses, “Why did you bring us out here to die in the wilderness? Weren’t there enough graves for us in Egypt? What have you done to us? Why did you make us leave Egypt? Didn’t we tell you this would happen while we were still in Egypt? We said, ‘Leave us alone! Let us be slaves to the Egyptians. It’s better to be a slave in Egypt than a corpse in the wilderness!’”
ACAD – Fight or Flight: Judges 9
Once upon a time the trees decided to choose a king. First they said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’ But the olive tree refused, saying, ‘Should I quit producing the olive oil that blesses both God and people, just to wave back and forth over the trees?’
ACAD – Fight or Flight: Judges 8
As soon as Gideon died, the Israelites prostituted themselves by worshiping the images of Baal, making Baal-berith their god. They forgot the Lord their God, who had rescued them from all their enemies surrounding them.
ACAD – Fight or Flight: Judges 7
“There are still too many! Bring them down to the spring, and I will test them to determine who will go with you and who will not.”
ACAD – Fight or Flight: Judges 6
“Sir,” Gideon replied, “if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about? Didn’t they say, ‘The Lord brought us up out of Egypt’? But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites.”
ACAD – Fight or Flight: 1 Samuel 17
“The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”
ACAD – Fight or Flight: 1 Kings 19
Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He went alone into the wilderness, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life.”
Did I stop fighting?
The ways of the world will twist and toss us about in reckless heaps. Reconciling what you know in your spirit with the visceral reactions of your flesh is a battle that keeps us off-balance throughout life. A survival trick is to remember the flesh and spirit are naturally in opposition, but flesh can be conditioned to align with the spirit.
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