“So I had a text that said that some people had gone and taken a class in shooting and I thought ok, God. And I’m looking and I’m wanting to send them a smiley face back with a gun and there’s not a gun on my choices but there’s swords. And I’m thinking Lord, to fight with a sword, you have to face your enemy. To fight with a gun, you can go way behind and hide. But to fight with a sword, I’m like God, I thank You that I don’t have to ride in the battle and look my enemy in the eye in order to kill my enemy. But with the children of Israel, God said pick up your sword. You are well able to take this land. That meant I had to have the faith to know the enemy couldn’t take me out when I faced him with my sword. That I know that God had given me the land. See, this is what dire straits is all about. They didn’t pick up their sword. They backed out and said I can’t face my enemy and that’s why we go through dire strait every year. But, see what we’ve got to do each day, is I pick up my sword and I will take this land. There’s nothing that’s going to stop me from being victorious. So the Lord said, the land is mine because it’s His. So I pick up my sword and I become 1 of the 3 in the room that I will fight because I am totally sold out in Jesus.”
Ruth Ann McDonald