Proverbs 3:7 – Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart from evil. 

We are not to think more highly of ourselves than we should… Pride will only lead to destruction… Don’t think that we can do it all on our own, that we can handle it, and we don’t need God! 

Jesus said that apart from Him, we can do nothing! But we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us! Don’t set your mind on high things… Things that exalt themselves above the knowledge of God… Be humble… Cast down those vain imaginations… 

Everything good that we have or that we will have, comes to us from the goodness of God… 

Respect and reverently fear the Lord. Hate what is evil… It will be health to your flesh and will give you strength to become the Unexpected Warrior you were created to be!

Proverbs 22:6 – Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. 

What does it mean to train your child in the way he should go? The obvious of course is to teach your child what is right and what is wrong… Teach your child what it is to have a relationship of their own with our Father in heaven… Teach them how the Living Word of God is able to make them wise for salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ… 

And it also means to look for their gifts and talents that the Lord has given them and guide them in developing and using those things for the kingdom…

But don’t irritate or provoke them to anger… don’t push them so hard that they resent you… but raise them in love, with training and discipline… with the counsel and admonition of the Lord… Train them how to be Unexpected Warriors!

Romans 1:20 – For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. 

Everything that God has created, from the visible to the invisible cry out as evidence of His handiwork to the glory of Him who made all things so that no man has an excuse to say that there is no God!

This passage goes on to say that “…although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools…”

And God had enough… He gave them up to lust after each other and dishonor themselves… they turned from the truth to a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator!

So, let us choose to honor what He has created by glorifying Him and becoming Unexpected Warriors!

2 Corinthians 7:10 – For Godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

Godly sorrow is felt in us when we truly come to place of regret for the sin I our lives. It’s when we have come to the end of a thing and realize that we can’t do it on our own… that we need a Savior!

The sorrow of the world is simply a regret that we were caught in something or a regret that we are suffering because of something that we have done. But it doesn’t produce any change in us and leads to eternal death or separation from God!

If you have children, you see this example in them. When they are caught doing something we’ve asked them not to do. Are they truly repentant? Or are they just sorry they got caught?

Our heavenly Father allows us to feel the sorrow and the shame of sin to bring us to a place of repentance and transform us into Unexpected Warriors!

1 Peter 4:10 – As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 

When we put on Christ, become born again, the Lord wants us to begin to use the gifts that He imparts to us to help build the kingdom of God.

As it says in Romans, we are one body – in Christ… but we are many members. And we each have our own giftings and talents, there are many tasks that need to be done, but we are all born of the same Spirit, we all are of the same God when we put on Christ! 

God loves diversity! And we are all uniquely and wonderfully made and given our own gifts and talents to complete the tasks God has for us… The different assignments we each have are not to compete with one another but to compliment and help each other toward the common goal of building His kingdom and becoming Unexpected Warriors!