A. For your spiritual battles defending the faith:

JUD 1:3. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you

of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you,

and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith

which was once delivered unto the saints.

2COR 10:3. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

2COR 10:4. (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

2COR 10:5. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

1COR 10:11. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

B. If you must physically defend your loved ones or country:

LUK 11:21. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:

JOH 10:11. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

C. Fleshly might is no match for the power of God:

1SA 17:45. Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

2CH 32:8. With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

PSA 9:19. Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

PSA 9:20. Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

ISA 31:3. Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

HOS 1:7. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

D. They may seem strong but their strength has departed:

NUM 14:9. Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

JER 46:17. They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

E. God decides the outcome not physical carnal might:

1SA 2:4. The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

2CH 25:8. But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

PSA 33:16. There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

PSA 33:17. An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

PSA 35:10. All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

PSA 44:3. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

PSA 44:4. Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

PSA 44:5. Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

PSA 44:6. For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

PSA 44:7. But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

F. You are not to trust in fleshly might to fight your foes:

2KI 18:21. Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

PSA 44:5. Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

PSA 44:6. For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

ISA 31:1. Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

G. You are not to fear the power of man:

DEU 3:22. Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.

PSA 27:1. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

PSA 27:2. When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

PSA 27:3. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

PSA 118:6. The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

PRO 29:25. The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

ISA 2:22. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?

ISA 51:12. I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

ISA 51:13. And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

JER 1:8. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

LUK 12:4. And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

LUK 12:5. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

H. God is on your side & you shall win:

DEU 20:1. When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

DEU 20:4. For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

DEU 31:8. And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

1SA 17:47. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hands.

PSA 108:13. Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

ROM 8:31. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

2CH 14:11. And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let no man prevail against thee.

2CH 14:12. So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

2CH 20:12. O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

2CH 20:13. And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

2CH 20:14. Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;

2CH 20:15. And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

2CH 20:16. To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

2CH 20:17. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

2CH 20:18. And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

2CH 20:19. And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

2CH 20:20. And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

2CH 20:21. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.

2CH 20:22. And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

2CH 20:23. For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

2CH 20:24. And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

2CH 20:25. And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

ZEPH 3:17. The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest

in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

I. The armies of Heaven are on your side:

2KI 6:14. Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.

2KI 6:15. And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

2KI 6:16. And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.

2KI 6:17. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

2CH 32:7. Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:

2CH 32:8. With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

2CH 32:21. And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

MAT 26:52. Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

MAT 26:53. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?

JOS 5:13. And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?

JOS 5:14. And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant?

PSA 68:17. The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

PSA 91:11. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

ISA 37:33. Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

ISA 37:34. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

ISA 37:35. For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

ISA 37:36. Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

J. You become far more powerful than your adversaries:

1JOH 4:4. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

JOS 1:5. There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

JOS 23:9. For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.

JOS 23:10. One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.

DEU 11:25. There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

DEU 28:7. The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

K. God can help you win against overwhelming odds:

1SA 14:6. And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.

2CH 14:11. And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let no man prevail against thee.

2CH 16:8. Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.