"Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:
With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah."

                            -II Chronicles 32:7-8

If I had a dollar for every time I quoted from this passage, I would be rich. To me, it perfectly illustrates the fact that if we have God on our side, then we have nothing to fear. Though they were surrounded by the Assyrian army to the point that they could not so much as leave the city, Hezekiah and his men put their trust in God and knew that they would not be forsaken. King Hezekiah understood what many of us have yet to learn: when God is fighting our battles, we will always win.

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?"

                            -Romans 8:31

The problem we often face is that when trials and tribulations come our way, we look at our own weakness and conclude we are doomed to failure. Convinced that we aren't strong enough to gain the victory, we throw our hands in the air and give up. But the Biblical way of handling such situations is to remember that "greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world." (I John 4:4) If we depended upon our own strength, we would lose every time. We've got to let the Lord fight our battles if we want to be victorious.

"Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?"

                            -Luke 14:31

 As Christians, we will always be outnumbered. But by trusting in the Lord, we can be victorious despite our often discouraging circumstances.