Scriptures for Spiritual Victory #9

Our Sunday School study these past few months has taken us through the prophecies God gave Zechariah, which can be difficult to understand, as they were to Zechariah. How, after God used the Babylonians to chastise Israel and level the Temple, could things ever be restored? Zechariah gets part of the answer in chapter 4:

5 Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.” 6 Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. 7 Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”

When the battle seems impossible, and victory hopeless, we need to remember that it is not our own might or power that matters; it is the power of the Spirit of God that matters.  It is indeed the grace of God who works in us, doing what we cannot do on our own. What we cannot see is the Spirit of God at work, and what we cannot hear is Him shouting:  "Grace, Grace, Give it more Grace!" What seems hopeless to us is indeed possible with God.