Battle

 

 2 Esdras 16:37 Behold, the plagues draw nigh, and are not slack. ³⁸As when a woman with child in the ninth month bringeth forth her son, with two or three hours of her birth great pains compass her womb, which pains, when the child cometh forth, they slack not a moment: ³⁹Even so shall not the plagues be slack to come upon the earth, and the world shall mourn, and sorrows shall come upon it on every side. ⁴⁰O my people, hear my word: make you ready to thy battle, and in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth.

 

Make you  ready to the battle! The Most High says. How are you making ready for your battle? How are you getting ready? Where are your weak areas and where have you compromised and let down the most high? It's time to back up! Its time to suck it up rule over your flesh. Bring your body into subjection. Get yourself inside and outside in shape. Discipline!!! Soldiers are disciplined. People where is your discipline?? Where is your commitment? Where are your priorities?

Colossians Chapter 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.