So that would probably be the elderly and the children and women. They just kill them mercilessly, take all the goods. They were just plundering what they had. They were plundering, what they wanted was the blessing, we'll steal it away, take the life, steal the blessing. So people who struggle with loss of strength, loss of vision, if you start to lose your vision you'll straggle. You lose momentum in your life, don't have a dream to hold in your heart. We lose momentum. We haven't got something we're looking towards, and moving towards. As that goes further out, we just straggle back. We begin to slow down in our Christian life. They were tired, they were weak you know, and perhaps they're - the word there 'tired' means to be crushed; or they actually had wounds or difficulties or challenges because of their journey. Now all of us at times have crushing blows come against us. I'm no exception. We have times when blows come against us, which crush you in your spirit, or hit your soul and affect your soul, so it slows you down.
When you're slowed down like that, that's when the enemy comes to pick you off. That's the nature of this thing, and so when we get hit or knocked or whatever, and we begin to slow down, and our spiritual life's slowed down; we begin to lose our vision, get a bit fuzzy and whatever or get offended or get hurt; or don't know what God's doing or feel a bit lost and everything. When that happens that's when this enemy comes to steal out and take your life, take your spirit life and get you to stop praying, stop being in your word, stop fellowshipping, stop connecting, stop giving, just stop doing the things that will engender spirit life. So one of the things I think in the coming season, I feel God's just been stirring me that we get the basic disciplines going back, the foundational things we need to be doing, to see that we're established in them. So if you haven't got a regular prayer life, you'll be lagging behind; if you haven't got time in the word, you'll lag behind. See, if we're not fellowshipping, connecting, we'll lag behind. There are many things that are basic disciplines. If we don't do them, then we begin to lag behind and get weary, just worn out and tired.
So what was the impact? Now the impact was horrendous, and if you want to see a little bit more about Amalek and how it operates, go look in the Story of Saul. I won't go into there, I'd rather just finish and give you the strategy for winning! A strategy for winning - let's go and have a look back in Exodus 17. Now Moses said to Joshua - notice this, a clear direction given: choose some men and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God. So Joshua did as Moses said; so here's the first thing, right positioning. Everyone had to be positioned right. Moses needed to be on the mountain, on the hill, holding up the rod of God. He needed those around him, who would support him. He needed someone in the battlefield, who would lead the army. See, he needed people to be aligned in the army, so they could fight and engage the enemy. In other words, everyone had to be in their right place. One of the key things to getting victory in spiritual conflict is to be positioned right.
You have to be positioned right. The Bible tells us God sets members in the body, as it pleases Him. In other words, He puts us into a body of people, and He has a place for us to fit. He has a part of the church to fit into. Sometimes we don't find it so easily, but there's a place for you, there's a place for you in the body. Then there's a positioning spiritually in your relationship with God. You know we were singing: we walk in the freedom Christ has won, so I need to be positioned in my walk with God so I am standing boldly, confidently, no guilt, no shame, standing in the presence of God, able to draw on His resources and speak on His behalf as an ambassador, as a king into the earth. King Saul had a destiny, a dream, a vision, an anointing, a call of God, to be a king in the earth; just like you and I have an area we're called to be king, to bring the life of God into, but this is what happened to him. He was called to go up against Amalek but he compromised, lost the battle against Amalek, and lost his positioning. Very, very important your positioning. I'll go onto that in another session, but we need to know where and how God has placed us.