I've talked a lot about the 2008 presidential campaign and I've tried to help you to think, pray, and act as I believe God would have us do in this race. Recently, I've been thinking much about one strategy in particular.

It has to do with implosion, you know those buildings you see on TV that topple from the inside, top to bottom. How they do it always amazes me. Some mastermind reduces a strong structure to rubble in a matter of minutes with no help from the outside!

We serve the ultimate Mastermind. We often forget that He's in charge of all this, and the outcome is meant to bring Him glory. No one else.

Doesn't it make sense then, that one of the prayers we should pray is that those working against godly things will implode?

It's happened before. Take Jehoshaphat, for example, in 2 Chronicles 20. His enemies were the Syrians, and they were far bigger and more powerful than anything he and his army could conquer on their own. "And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah . . . and said, 'O Lord God of our fathers, are You not God in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdomes of the nations, and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to withstand You? . . . We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You' " (20:3, 6, 12).

I love the way God answered His servant, who acknowledged the only possibility of victory was through God's strength:
You will not need to fight in this battle;
Position yourselves;
Stand still;
See the salvation of the Lord, who is with you;
Do not fear or be dismayed;
Tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you (20:17).

So this army who was almost assured defeat, put aside their fears after they'd given the battle over to God. Then they started singing praises. One can only wonder how ridiculous this must have looked.

But not to God:
"Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord sent ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated" (20:22).

God the Mastermind made the enemies implode! Their strong structure fell to the ground as they turned on one another. No one escaped.

I believe we can follow Jehoshaphat's example in facing our own battles. We can pray, fast, pull together, and acknowledge our weakness and God's strength. Then we can sing and praise God as we watch Him do His thing. He can cause the enemy to implode, turn on one another, right before our very eyes. And then like Jehoshaphat and his people did, God's people can move in and take away the spoil (20:25).

We don't have to know how God will do it or which methods He will choose to bring about the demise of those standing against Him. All we have to do is acknowledge our reliance on Him and His ability to bring about victory.

That was the strategy Jehoshaphat used, and I believe we can use it, too.