Based on 2 Kings 6:8-17 You are surrounded. You are surrounded by people who don’t necessarily share your morals, values, or faith in Jesus. These people are not always necessarily actively opposed to what you believe—maybe they just don’t really want anything to do with church or Bible study. And there are those who are actively opposed, and there are still those too that maybe make fun of and poke at you because of what you believe. It is, unfortunately, the culture in which you live as a warfighter. In our nation’s military, there’s that mindset of work hard, play hard. But not just in the military culture, it is in our American society too. Recent studies show that almost a third of our population identifies as religiously unaffiliated. Sixteen percent of all American adults say they attend a worship service regularly. Sixteen percent! You and I are surrounded. And yet your Lord Jesus says to you and me today, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” This is the encouragement that the prophet Elisha spoke to his servant when they were surrounded, quite literally. The Lord’s people, the Israelites, were at war with