"A Prayer for Victory"

As odd as this may sound, there is a case for victory that is against God's perfect will to take place in our lives. Something to seriously think about; especially if you are praying for victory for something that takes you away from that which God has intended for you to go through. I am not necessarily speaking about a trial that involves sin; although I do believe that God uses those experiences that we learn in falling to the betterment of our service to Him; at least He can do so, if we are currently yielding our lives to Him. What I am primarily speaking about is victory over certain situations that might be totally beyond our ability to control. You have no doubt heard that old phrase, "Winning the battle but losing the war"; a term that is often lived out by many who suffer through a nasty divorce, or trying to deal with an unruly child. Sometimes it is best to suffer a temporary defeat in the present, in order to assure a victory will be waiting in the future. When it comes to God's will for our lives, our way of winning may not bring us into that victory that He has intended for us to experience or the desire that He has for us to be in a place where we are drawn closer to Him. As you may have already guessed, the title for Psalms Twenty in my Bible says, "A Prayer for Victory"; and, although that may not  be the title that is written in your Bible (if you even have a title), let me assure you, this is a Psalm that is a prayer for victory; whether it is a Psalm that was written for a particular situation that David was going through, or something that was prescribed within his court and to those that served under him, it is a king asking for corporate prayer to have victory. There is a reason that prayer for victory is so very important in the life of those that call upon the name of the Lord; besides the fact that we want God to intervene in those things that come against us; prayer is our communication with God in the simplest form, for allowing God is adjust our way of thinking; not so much as our petition to Him, that He might bend to our will, but that we might come closer in line with His will for us. Take the life of Joseph for instance; no doubt the he was a man of dreams and visions, but he was also a great man of prayer; and how many years did he pray for God to restore him to the house of his father, while being taken further and further away from that which he had no doubt sought in his heart for God to do. All the while, God had taken from defeat to defeat: from the pit to slavery, from slavery to prison, and from prison to victory. God had brought him to a place where he had not only gained victory for his own life, but where he had opportunity to offer victory to all that were in his father's house and throughout all the land. Whether we are suffering through a sickness, or pestilence, or even incarceration, God's victory may or may not involve having the victory over that certain situation; but, He will have the victory in the lives of every single child of His, even those that might appear to be unruly, because those that are His are His, that's just how it all works out... "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and unbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering: for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord." (James 1:2-7)