The Blessed Battle

Despite our many toils and dangers
We are still aliens and strangers

The world we live in is not our own

Yet we’re to bloom where we’ve been sown

Though we live in the world the war we wage

Is not as  world does-as nations rage

The battle is waged within our souls

We fight with the weapons the Spirit controls

Chorus:
Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed

Tremble not at this great horde,

For the battle is not yours but the Lords

So as we lift our righteous swords

We know the battle is the Lord’s

The weapons of the world cannot win

Against our own indwelling sin

But resurrection power avails

To overcome where our might fails

The weapons of the world cannot begin

To defeat the monarch of dead men.

But Christ has won the victory

And so from Sin we are set free.

Bridge:
Taking captive every thought

A prisoner of the war  that is fought

Not by power, nor by might,

but by the Spirit we fight the good fight

Chorus:
Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed

Tremble not at this great horde,

For the price is not yours to pay

So as we lift our righteous swords

We know the battle is the Lord’s

Zechariah 4:6 ;2 Chronicles 20:15;2 Cor 10:3-5

Romans 3:1; Peter 2:11; Rom 8:38-39; Eph 2:2; Eph 6:12;Col 2:15

October 2, 2019

Anthony Foster