Jesus Christ’s Watchmen

I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the lookout tower. I will watch to see what He will say to me and what I should reply about my complaint. Habakkuk 2:1 CSB

The Lord has appointed us as caretakers of this earth, for our respective cities, nations and organizations. A follower of Christ is a watchman for the Lord. He watches happenings in this world and reports it faithfully to the Lord and He takes the message from the Lord and communicates it to the world. 

We are to watch all day and all night. We are expected to be vigilant and alert. We are to take a stand on virtually every aspect of life and be a witness in every area or domain of life. We are to examine and analyze the trends and reach a conclusion of what is the Lord’s will. We are to watch out for the souls of the people we interact with as a shepherd is concerned for his sheep. We are to be sensitive to what the Lord is speaking into our lives and be attentive to His Word. 

We are the Chief Spiritual Officers of our families, organizations, cities and nations. Each of us has a specific jurisdiction or area to watch over. The Lord gives us the tools we need- wisdom to search scripture and discover life-saving and life-enhancing truths, the authority of Jesus Christ, a voice to raise the alarm and call God’s warring angels to our help, grace to see the needs of our brothers and sisters.  

As spiritual watchmen we must watch out for the attacks of the enemy and warn people of these risks and dangers. As watchmen, we are not to leave our posts or abdicate our responsibilities. Be faithful and diligent. We ward off attacks by mounting the prayer tower and spending time in prayer. Prayer gives us strategic height to have a commanding view of what lies ahead of us, in our home, community, city, nation and the world. Jesus described satan as a thief, robber and killer. As watchmen, our role is to reduce the extent of his thieving, robbery and killing. We do this through our active prayer life and intercession focus on pre-empting it from stealing and robbing lives, peace, health, eternity and faith from people.

It is the Lord who acts on our prayer reports. Spiritual watchmen unlike the watchmen of the world report the positive and the praiseworthy. They send up prayer reports as well as praise requests. At times when the Lord is about to reproach or rebuke or punish, the watchman stands in the gap and intercedes for people.