Our God is strong; His strength fights and wins for me; I find great joy in his strength; I praise his power. He grants my heart’s desire and gives me life and salvation, even long life forever; He crushes my enemies: sin, death and the devil. He has given me great blessing and made me exceeding glad.
Our God does all this for the king, and my Lord Jesus Christ has made me a king (and a priest) to rule over and take dominion over sin, death, and the devil. When these enemies are controlled the vacuum is filled with the presence of God and the joy of the Lord, who is my strength. My Lord has found out the enemies, burned them up in a fiery oven, shot unerring arrows at them so that they could not perform mischievous evils against me.
All this strong fighting is done for me by His goodness and mercy without any merit or worthiness in me. God’s saving grace forgives sins and makes me clean; His restraining grace resists the devil and actually stops sin; His empowering grace gives the desire and ability to do good works according to His design. Our God is strong!