Words from OT (Hattrick)

Chevra I'm mamash so so sorry I'm sending this out so close to Shabbos but gevalt chevra I hope this teaching allows us to reach the highest places (physically and spiritually) and we can have the holiest shabbos together
The hot topic for this week seems to be the first pasuk so ill jump on board. The pasuk says that when we go out to war against our enemies, Hashem will put them in our hands and ensure that we will be victorious. Straight up.
The Holy Kotzker Rebbe asks a gevaldika kasha: the pasuk in bamindbar (10:9) says that when we go out to war, if we blow the shofar and remember Hashem, then Hashem will ensure our victory. So asks the Kotzker: I thought our pasuk in ki teitzei says that Hashem will put our enemies in our hands without us doing anything at all...? What's pshat??
He answers that our pasuk is talking about when we go out to war against our enemies - then Hashem will make us victorious automatically. The pasuk in bamidbar was talking about if we get attacked - then we need to blow the shofar and actively remember Hashem in order to be victorious.
So we see that if we actively go out to war, that action of going out to war is enough to allow us to be successful. Goood.
Many explain that this pasuk is really alluding to us going out to war against the yetzer hara (R Gedalya Shorr explains that nowadays this is the pashut pshat in the pasuk - its not just a remez...) -- So we see that if we actively go out and fight our yetzer hara's, Hashem ensures success. During this month of Elul, which is specifically designated for us to be waging mayhem on our yetzer hara, this is a very empowering and important idea. The extremely important message I think we can all learn is that pre-emptive strikes against our yetzer hara are so so important. Once we already get used to do something we shouldnt be doing, it is so much harder to break out of the habit or the situation. But if we beat the yetzer hara before it even gets to give us a run for our money, then gevalt it has no chance.
Just to make this thought very practical and into something we can all work on together as a plu, I thought one area I myself need chizuk in and maybe some other people also is talking during davening. The thing is tho I think that the battle against this yetzer hara is not once we are sitting down - should we talk or not talk, the battle is where should we sit. If we launch our pre-emptive strike against our yetzer hara and dont sit in a place where we know we will have a struggle - the yetzer hara's got nothing. Once we're sitting next to a friend or someone else we know we are going to speak to, its so much harder for us to beat the urge.
So chevra again I hope we can all work on this together - I know its something I need help in and hopefully with our efforts we can have a more meaningful Elul and like I said we will be able to bring the Messiah and we will all be tancing on the Temple Mount
JB