The godly kings would ask the Lord if they should battle. The Lord would answer them.
When God was in the battles, meaning, when He wanted them to win or encouraged His people to take land, He would bless their efforts.
When they went on their own strength, things did not go so well.
God teaches us to look for the blessings. That is where we find Him.
He directs us when we have decisions to make.
While we might not have the violent life and death battles of old,
we still have battles and we need to make sure our hands and clean and our hearts are pure.
I had a French drain built that ended up being faulty.
The owner of the company said he would not correct it and he hung up on me.
The Lord told me to let it go. So I did.
There have been other times that I have had mistreatment and the Lord has fought for me.
Those times have been so smooth that it was obvious God’s hand was in each of them.
The Lord may or may not tell you He is with you.
It can get complicated. God does not like the widow and the orphan to be taken advantage of.
That means more than the widow and the orphan, but anyone who is in a weakened state.
God does not like it when people are taken advantage of.
Seek the Lord and listen.
Be willing to stand down if He makes it clear to you. Do not insist on making sure you are treated right.
I often wonder about that man who built the French drain improperly and refused to correct it,
if he will hear about it again on Judgment Day since he decided not to make things right with me.
He is a Christian. I know God was not pleased. I may never know.
I do know Vengeance belongs to God and He will repay all of us for every deed whether it be good or evil.
And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear:
for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands. 1 Samuel 17:47
Additional Scriptures
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Revelation 22:12
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
James 1:27