Lynn Story Downham is a fourth generation artist who returned to North Carolina in 2014 after twenty-six years on the Florida panhandle. Her seventh family tree commission was for a “family tree for Jesus.” Twenty years later she is a born-again believer with a best-selling print, a beautiful family and a passion for sharing Christ through her art. Find out more on Facebook by looking up “Lynn Story Downham’s Art” or “Lynn Downham Jesus Tree.”
T H E B AT T L E I S H I S By Lynn Downham
“I’m gonna see a victory! I’m gonna see a victory! For the battle belongs to you, Lord!” These lyrics are running through and through my head as we sang them as a choir and congregation yesterday and I can’t get them out of my head now. Funny, because it is not my favorite song because we’ve sung this one so much. Apologies to the writer. But today, it is perfect. A dear friend is in an OR right now, in surgery, and there are many praying for him and I am reminded through these repeated lyrics that our battles ARE the Lord’s. The battles against principalities and powers could never be won in our own power, but only our mighty Lord’s.
If you will recall in my last writing, I asked you to hold me accountable for staying about the Lord’s business with the painting of the Tree of Life for Israel. I have done so and will continue to update you because this helps me not to get distracted from His business again. The trials and things that come against me to distract me from His business are from our enemy and His and I know that as I release them to Him to deal with them, the Lord will fight my battles for me. Praise God! What a wonderful feeling to know that there is a mighty God, yea the King of Kings and Lord of Lords is fighting MY battles for ME. That is just astonishing. If you have been walking with Him for long enough, though, you will remember all the times He has just “shown up” and fixed things right before your eyes. His ways are not our ways, and His fixes rarely look like how we thought He might fix it, but His plans are often far beyond our understanding. Whatever you are facing, whatever I am facing, let us hold close to the fact that Jesus is interceding for us with the Father. He is PRAYING for us and He hears our prayers. Remember to take all your cares to Him, release them at the foot of the cross, and thank Him for fighting your battles! I love you all, Lynn
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