Fourth Binding Meditation

Linda Rock
5 days ago
3 min read

We have been listening and learning as the prayer of St. Patrick has been exposed to us. In this time of continuous praying, we are learning more about prayers of faith. As this servant of the Most High, faces, vicious attacks by unscrupulous people and powers that will make him incapable and unfit to do the work to which he has been called, he prays. As enemies try with all their skill, might and schemes to thwart the mission of God at hand, God’s servant continues in prayer. Prayer intensifies and strengthens, as the attacks become more and more vicious.

The progression and intensification of enemy attacks against you, only means that your praying becomes more pointed, more involved and unwavering, as faith is most stubborn in resolve. Faith makes itself even more visible, as in prayer, you continue to bind unto yourself every aspect of our Three in One God, whose promises are never vain.

The fourth and final Binding Meditation

Christ be with me, Christ within me,

Christ behind me, Christ before me,

Christ beside me, Christ to win me,

Christ to comfort and restore me,

Christ beneath me, Christ above me,

Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,

Christ in hearts of all that love me,

Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

Wrapped in his unmoved and uncompromising breastplate, we have come to what I refer to as the clarion, trumpet call. Permit me to show this picture of Joshua and the Lord’s army, as Jericho is about to be taken down. When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in and they took the city. Joshua 6: 20.

What I see and hear is that the blast of trumpets, was the signal for the fighting army to shout. In other words this is what transpired, in this order.

Sounding of the trumpets
Shouting of the army
Shattering of the walls.

Will you have your ears tuned, your minds quickened, your hearts cleansed and your spirits renewed, if at all you are under ambush by vile, vicious enemies, whether within or without? Will you see this precise moment in St Patrick’s prayer, as the signal for us to shout, shattering and rendering the enemy, weak as fawns, to overpower us? What is our shout as the Church army of God? What Power can no enemy on earth, or under the earth stand against? May we never doubt the Supreme, Supernatural, Victorious and Unconquerable power there is in the Name of Christ Jesus.

Therefore, with St. Patrick, we, also, with uncompromising faith, hedge ourselves with Christ all around us. We each need to know and show this personally.

I believe that Christ is with me, within me, behind me, before me and beside me. I have Christ and He will win me from all ambushers.
I trust Christ to comfort and restore me, for He is beneath me and above me, in quiet or in danger.
I know that Christ is in the hearts of all and He is in the speech of friend and stranger.

If this is your solemn, unyielding, undoubted call, then surely no enemy, ambusher or otherwise, can ever claim victory over you. Faith is undiminished, unruffled and unbroken. You and I too, can claim triumph, like St. Patrick, in victorious praise.