Hi Brian! 

The word for this week is "arise". We'll be looking at two verses in particular, both from the Old Testament. 

Psalm 68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. KJV

Micah 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. KJV

These are both the Hebrew word "quwm" (koom). Strong's Concordance says: a primitive root: to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative). Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon says: to rise, to stand, to stand up, to become powerful, to be established, to endure, to persist. Vine's Expository Dictionary adds this: Sometimes used in an intensive mood to signify empowering or strengthening. In a military context, it may mean to engage in battle. When we put our trust in God as our Protector and Defender, we are trusting the the ONE Who has never failed and Who has the Name at which every other name bows down! His enemies scatter in all directions when HE comes on the scene. I love Romans 8:31:

31 What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?] AMP 

I also like this paraphrase of that verse:

If God is for us, then it doesn't do anyone, any good to be against us! Why? Because they will ultimately fail! No one can defeat GOD! Then in Micah we see the attitude that a born again believer should have if they know their authority! We will all face situations, circumstances, tests, trials, temptations and problems, but we never have to give in to them! 1 Corinthians 10:13 tells us this:

13 For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently. AMP

So, the warning to the enemy is, 'don't ever think you've won over me, because I will just get back up and see YOU defeated'! Besides, we know the end of the book and what his future holds! WE can always get back up, but he cannot! Knowing these things should cause us to operate in all things without fear! Here is Hillsong Worship again with a song that I have really taken a liking to! "Who You Say I Am":

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!