We await your salvation and deliverance! In Jesus’ name. Arise, arise, Riders of Thoden Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be. Grimbold, take your company right, after you pass the wall. Rescue us from the wicked with your sword. Gamling, follow the Kings banner down the center. Heavenly Father, we need you today! Rise up against our enemies, O LORD. He is a good King, who goes to war for his people! We may have some growth to do in our own lives, too, but God does not abandon his people. His intervention may not always come in our time or the way we expect. And so, he wrote in Psalm 17, “Arise, O LORD! Stand against them, and bring them to their knees! Rescue me from the wicked with your sword!” Whatever our enemy is, we can cry out to God in faith and expect him to act. The Psalmist knew that mankind is lowly and humble. With his courage, strength returned to his arm and he gave forth a rallying cry, Arise now, arise, Riders of Theoden! Slowly, he stretched forth his hand and grasped his sword. He was Rohan’s king and the people needed him. “Arise, O L ORD ! Stand against them, and bring them to their knees! Rescue me from the wicked with your sword! By the power of your hand, O L ORD, destroy those who look to this world for their reward.”

His voice rang clear as he chanted in the tongue of Rohan a call to arms. Suddenly he lifted the blade and swung it shimmering and whistling in the air. As his fingers took the hilt, it seemed to the watchers that firmness and strength returned to his thin arm.

Arise arise riders of theoden