Bring Your
Enemies
CLOSER

To 'Pray For Our Enemies' is often taken as a call to extend the love of God and grace to our enemies, and while that is true there’s another application of this — but it all depends on how you interpret the word FOR.

'For' can be used several ways like 'the car is out for repair', 'she runs for her health' - and in today’s verse we commonly interpret it like 'we are praying FOR her healing.' But consider this example of: “I am going FOR broke!” as in, Seeking To OBTAIN Something That I Do Not Have DESPITE THE RISK.”

This last case can have a tremendous benefit because when we pray to 'obtain' an enemy, we are praying for God to actually bring that enemy CLOSER TO US! While that may sound crazy, here are two examples when drawing our enemies close can HELP us more than HARM us.

David would never have been King of Israel unless he chose to draw close to Goliath, but what if he never left his flock?! You see, when he prayed FOR his enemy (i.e. to DRAW HIM CLOSER) then and only then could he have had the victory! And in the classic movie 'Top Gun,' Maverick knew that if he could DRAW HIS ENEMY CLOSER, then and only then could he obtain the victory!

In both cases victory was only possible when drawing their enemy closer.

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche aptly summarized this saying “What does not kill me makes me stronger” but that requires being willing to “Fly Into The DANGER ZONE.”

Friend, when trials come, and your enemy comes closer, consider it a God-given opportunity to both test and strengthen you, because in order to be “More than a conqueror” (Romans 8:37) means being willing to boldly stepping into that place of opportunity.

What step do you need to take and pray FOR *Your* 'Enemy'?

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