ARE YOU READY? ON YOUR MARK... GET SET... GO!

The type of arrows God wants us to prepare as described in the Bible are...

1) READY ARROWS.

Psalm 21:12 says, "Thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them." This Scripture describes God's mighty men putting arrows on to the strings from the quiver. These arrows are attached to the many bow strings of God's well equipped army. The strings are obviously drawn into a firing position, ready and on the alert for the command to fire at the enemy.

From the very moment our children are born we need to understand that they have been given to us to "make ready" for the moment when God, in His sovereign wisdom, will place or notch them onto the string in order to be drawn against God's enemies. The great question is: how is it possible to have our children as "made ready" arrows to devastate the powers of darkness if we do not even have a military mindset to begin with?

"Ready arrows" come from ready parents who have applied the parenting skills necessary to make this happen. Moses' mother would have influenced and made ready, to the best of her ability, the mighty arrow called Moses. Likewise, Samson's father, who said to the angel, "How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?"(Judges 13:12). Zachariah prophesied over his son, John the Baptist, "And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways" (Luke 1:76) and "The child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the ay of his showing unto Israel" (Luke 1:80). The desert is always the best place to make "ready arrows."

Be encouraged. Colin