1 Samuel 17:47 —
“This is the LORD’s battle, and he will give you to us!”

1 Samuel 17:45 —
“I come to you in the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies…”

Deuteronomy 20:4 — “For the LORD your God is going with you! He will fight for you against your enemies…”

Isaiah 41:10 — “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.”

Romans 8:31 — “If God is for us, who can ever be against us?”

We WILL face giants. But the battle is the Lords! And he determines our steps🙌🏻

Oh Miss Tina Binx! How I miss you! You were the subject of many photo ops.

Testimony Tuesday


There will be times in our Christian walk when we experience or hear about unexplainable things where the only conclusion is that it must have been God.

That’s why they are called miracles.

What would it take to move our faith from our minds to our heart to believe for miracles?

Doubt can be the destroyer of our faith, because it is also unbelief.

Imagine the power of one yielded vessel.

Imagine obeying God when everything in your human mind is telling you that it doesn’t make sense. You may look and feel foolish but I believe God does His best work when we defy the fear and obey His voice.

We know and believe God’s ways are higher, and yet sometimes we can feel like maybe He must of reached His limit for a miracle today.

Maybe there isn’t a miracle for today, or at least not yet.
Maybe it’s coming…maybe it’s the alignment that must come into play first before the coming miracle.

There will be times when we’ve been praying and believing for a miracle, and then all of a sudden the thing we’ve been petitioning for comes…suddenly.

Other times it is delayed, or we are still waiting for an answer.

Then there will be times when the answer isn’t the outcome we were expecting.
What do we do with that?

We continue to trust God even when the answer is no. Perhaps, even when the answer remains no, there still remains a plan.

Does God even care? We know He does.
Sometimes the answer to our prayers is for something that reaches far into the future.

It’s a “Not Yet” moment.

Just because the pain or suffering we experience feels unbearable while waiting for an answer; it doesn’t disqualify us from receiving a miracle.

The miracles are not contingent on our reactions to tragedy, or suffering.

Even Job cried out in his misery, and still he acknowledged God throughout and in the end God restored Job.

God still has a plan.
We don’t need to strive, we need to trust the same God you’ve read about in the Bible is the same God today.

All we need to do His set aside our doubts and trust that He is still in control and that His ways are not going to be the way we thought it ought to be.

In the meantime, we put on our Mountain Moving faith believing our God is a “Can Do” God.

We open our hearts to hear His voice to act on faith, to choose to believe God’s ways are purposeful despite how we feel or look at the circumstances.

We don’t have to understand, or analyze it, we just trust Him and wait in faith for the outcome.

It’s like when the sun shines and it’s a beautiful day, but within a few hours a storm rolls in with heavy rain. The sun hasn’t stop shining…it continues to shine even when things are clouded and dark. It faithfully shines bright as it always has. It was just temporarily hidden.

Then the glory is revealed.
God’s faithfulness.
God’s tender care.

“Jesus said… “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.””
Mark 9:23

Blessings,
—Paula
@CallToBattle

I was not able to download the following video so I will put a link below.
👇🏼
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeDNzGZxF2e/?

Some encouragement while you are waiting for your miracle.

I decided today is Feel Good Friday! Came across this sweet video. It just made me smile.
Enjoy your Friday!Here’s praying you’ll be blessed as you begin your weekend.

“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.”
II Corinthians 9:7

Testimony Tuesday

This morning I came across the following video. I loved this persons attitude.

It really touched my heart, and changed my perspective. In fact, I am going to receive this as a challenge in my own personal life.

It illustrates the belief that even the work required to maintain life’s blessings can be viewed with gratitude.

It’s not hard to look around ourselves and notice there is work to be done. Things that need to be managed, or taken care of. Chores to be done.

Tending life. Everyday. All the time. It never ends.

But what if we started looking at these things through a lens of gratitude as a gift from God?

Even just being able to awake, get out of bed and thanking God for another day, no matter what the day brings.

No matter what needs to be done today.
No matter what challenge awaits us.
No matter what unexpected event shows up.
No matter what is facing you right now…

Consider it a gift from God.

I believe in my heart, being grateful is where peace resides. Saying; “Thank you Lord” in the midst of toil, shows gratitude.

Be encouraged today.

“Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.”
Ecclesiastes 5:19

The thing I really love about this second video is the fact this woman who is sharing her experience didn’t realize how one simple act of kindness would make a huge impact.

In fact, she hesitated. She had doubted if she even heard God correctly.

I’ve been there.
I’ve said; “Is that you God?”

She took the risk and obeyed anyway.
She risked looking foolish.

Lesson here. Obey quickly.

We don’t have to have a reason or even know why God is asking us to act on something. He just wants obedience.

The blessing goes both ways.
It’s just as much for us as it is for the recipient.

Either way, God is glorified.


“If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;”
Isaiah 1:19

Another one on gratitude. 👇️️️️️️

Here’s your Feel Good Friday video!

Testimony Tuesday

Good morning friends and faithful warriors!
Given it is also the 200th Testimony Tuesday, and I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to share a personal breakthrough I had recently.

Today I’m sharing a personal testimony. To be honest, I struggled whether if I should share it for fear of judgment. Okay I said it. Well, let me clarify that. I believe the fear comes from shame the enemy placed on me for sooooo long.

And the irony of that statement is that the entire testimony is about fear and how it can affect our faith.

I came across a devotional channel on Instagram for single women like me. There was a story she shared about 2 Kings 19. She didn’t go into depth but the message was powerful, loud and clear especially for people like me. It was as if the message was for me alone.

That led me to dig deeper into 2 Kings 18-19. And I realized this message isn’t just for single people, it’s for everyone.

I can’t take credit for it, but I expounded upon this story and took it further and shared how it changed and realigned my thinking for my situation, and actually other situations as soon I discovered.

After several weeks and months of studying and praying about what I am about to share with you. The good Lord impressed upon me to share it here in hopes it will bless you and set you free like it did for me.

Blessings,
—Paula

Thank you: Sarah Williams @gracifyme for the inspiration.

The Letter of Fear

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In 2 Kings 19 there is a king who makes a threat.

King Sennacherib (phonetically pronounced: San-heh-reev) of Assyria has made known to the current King Hezekiah of Judah his intentions through a letter via a messenger.

This king is very proud of his track record, and states his intentions through what I call a “Letter of Fear.”

King Sennacherib’s letter comes via his field commander addressed to King Hezekiah.

This king of Assyria is confident.
He is dedicated to ensure that Jerusalem will fall because...

After all—there is evidence.

His exploits have been proven.

This king of Assyria states in this letter, what he is capable of and what he has accomplished.

This Assyrian army attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

He took pleasure in humiliating their leaders by openly taunting and defied Judah’s God, likening Him to the powerless gods in nations they already had overcome.

If you read and study the chapter before 2 Kings 19, you will see this type of demoralizing warfare. (2 Kings 18:28-35; 19:10-12)

Indeed, his list is impressive.
Indeed, there is evidence.
Indeed, all of his claims are factual.

King Sennacherib even goes as far to mock and defy Hezekiah’s living God;

“… ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.””
2 Kings 19:10

This king of Assyria names all the cities he has conquered.

And, he is extremely confident about the fate of Jerusalem that he sends his field commander to demoralize Hezekiah to convince him to give up.

Everything this king was pointing out in the letter to Hezekiah was truth.
It arrived as proof of his accomplishments.

I too, was handed a “Letter of Fear” from the enemy. I was a slave to the yoke of fear, and had carried it with me for many years, until I realized what I was dealing with.

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Like King Sennacherib’s letter, fear arrived with facts that were undeniable.
It had proof.
It carried evidence.

In my mind this letter of fear was predicting my future. It was as if it was prophesying over my life.

Here is some of the evidence fear had on me.

“I’m getting older”—this is fact.

“I am watching others receive answers to prayers I have been praying for”—fact.

“Another year has passed, and still no answer to my prayer”—fact.

“I keep praying for my family to come to the Lord, but there hasn’t been any evidence yet”—this is fact.

In addition to the above; I’m guessing that perhaps the enemy has also sent you a similar letter of fear…it may sound like this:

“The healing hasn’t come and I have been praying for years”

“My situation remains the same”

“My children are still lost”

“Divorce runs in my family, why should it be any different for me?”

“The drugs and alcohol are taking over my family.”

“My spouse was unfaithful.”


All of the above can be factual. There is no denying any of it.

The result—despair begins to write the ending. This is what fear does. It gathers evidence, facts, and records them in the letter of fear we carry within ourselves.

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The greatest weapon the enemy can threaten over us without a fight is fear. It’s psychological warfare.

An enemy that uses no physical weapons can derail a person and destroy them from within.

The devil…doesn’t want to fight you.
He wants to discourage you.
He wants you to give up.
He wants to undermine your trust in God.

Sennacherib told the people; Hezekiah was lying to them about being able to deliver them from his hand.
You can read the account here.
https://bible.com/bible/59/2ki.18.29-36.ESV

His intention is to make surrender an attractive option. And when I say surrender, I mean, to stop believing that God can still be good to you.

You can still have faith in God, but when fear arrives carrying facts, it can convince you there is no hope so you give up. You begin to wonder if God has forgotten you.

Fear has recorded the evidence, and now, just like in a trial, it presents its case in which the only outcome is; “This is how it’s going to be.”

The evidence doesn’t lie.

Fear can sound like a verdict.
It can sound like it knows the future.

The truth is; fear CAN be factual, but it CANNOT predict the outcome, nor your future.

Fear can distort things to convince you, you’re wasting your time praying.

But, here are some other facts that are worthy of considering.

Fear doesn’t decide your future.
It is not the judge of your life.
It may claim it has authority over what hasn’t happened yet, and it may make threats as though it is the final outcome.

Isn’t it interesting how fear can carry power over our minds over something that hasn’t happened yet?

Before I knew it, fear had arrived threatening my future, my dreams, or any hope I had.

The verdict has been handed down. I began to accept the lie—I relegated to my mind, the fact; “This is how it’s going to be, and I just need to accept it.”

It wasn’t until the Lord, led me to 2 Kings 19 when I had asked Him to “Open the Eyes of My Heart.” (Yes, I sang that worship song over and over and within days, He directed me to this story in the Bible)

This is where I learned what was really happening.