TODAY WE FACE THINGS WE NEVER FACED BEFORE AS THE WORLD REELS BACK AND FORTH LIKE A SHIP TOSSED ON A STORMY SEA! NO WONDER GOD SAYS PEOPLE’S HEARTS WOULD FAIL THEM FOR FEAR! FEAR IS AN ENEMY, AND THERE ARE MANY DEMONS OF FEAR AND TORMENT THAT GOES WITH IT! WHEN WE GIVE INTO FEAR WE ARE NOT MADE PERFECT OR MATURE IN LOVE FOR FEAR HAS TORMENT! PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR FOR GOD IS LOVE, AND LOVE IS TOTALLY POWERFUL SO FEAR MELTS AWAY LIKE WAX MELTS BEFORE THE FIRE!
IN FACT RIGHT NOW I PRAY THE LOVE OF GOD FLOWS THROUGH YOU DRIVING ALL THE FEARS OUT THAT HAVE BEEN OPPRESSING YOU! FEAR OF THE FUTURE GO NOW IN JESUS NAME! FEAR OF FAILURE, FEAR OF THE PANDEMIC, AND THE ENTOURAGE OF DEMONS OF FEAR, YOU ALL MUST LEAVE NOW AS THE HOLY GHOST BURNS YOU OUT OF THE FLESH!
PRAISE GOD FOR HIS DELIVERING POWER! YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PUT UP WITH ANY FEAR OR ANY TORMENT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IS SHED ABROAD IN OUR HEARTS BY THE HOLY GHOST! GOD SAID TO HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL HE HAD A LAND HE HAD GIVEN THEM, AND LED THEM TO IT, AND THEY SENT 12 SPIES IN TO SPY OUT THE LAND AND BRING A REPORT BACK. TEN SPIES BROUGHT BACK ANN EVIL REPORT OF UNBELIEF SAYING THAT THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE LAND AND THAT THEY WERE AS GRASSHOPPERS IN THEIR SIGHT. THEY WENT FURTHER TO SAY IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERCOME THEM!
THE SPIES HAD TOTAL FAITH IN THE TROUBLE AND NO FAITH IN GOD, OR WHAT GOD HAD PROMISED! NOTE THAT GOD ALREADY SAID THAT HE “HAD” GIVEN HIS PEOPLE THE LAND… IT WAS THEIRS, BUT THEY WERE ACTING IN FEAR AND UNBELIEF, AND BELIEVED THE “TROUBLE” WAS MORE POWERFUL THAN THE PROMISES OF GOD! THE PEOPLE OF GOD THREW UP THEIR HANDS IN DEFEAT!
THEY THOUGHT THAT GOD GAVE THEM THE LAND SO WHY DIDN’T “HE” PUT THE GIANTS, WHO WERE ENEMIES OUT? NOW THEY THOUGHT THAT ALL THEY HAD WAS TROUBLE, TROUBLE, TROUBLE! FIRST OF ALL, GOD NEVER SAID IT WOULD ALL BE A BED OF ROSES! GOD SAID THAT IN THE WORLD WE WOULD FACE TROUBLE AND TRIBULATION, BUT JESUS SAID TO BE OF GOOD CHEER FOR HE HAD OVERCOME THE WORLD! (JOHN 16:33) JESUS ALREADY CRUSHED THE TROUBLE SO BE FULL OF JOY AND LAUGHTER AS YOU ENTER INTO THE VICTORY JESUS ACCOMPLISHED! IN THE WORLD IS WHERE ALL THE TROUBLE IS.
SIN ABOUNDS IN THE WORLD. WHERE SIN ABOUNDS, GRACE DOES MUCH MORE ABOUND! (ROMANS 5:20) WHATEVER YOU FACE; WHATEVER THE TROUBLE; WHATEVER….. GOD IS GREATER, AND HIS GRACE DOES ABOUND MUCH MORE, AND LIFTS US AND DELIVERS US OUT OF ALL…ALL…ALL OUR TROUBLE!
GOD’S GRACE IS SO MUCH AND SO POWERFUL, HIS UNMERITED FAVOR AND BLESSING, THAT IT SWALLOWS UP ALL TROUBLE, AND MAKES IT AS IF THERE WAS NO TROUBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE! WHAT IS GREATER; GOD’S BLESSING OR THE EVIL BEHIND ALL THE TROUBLE? GOD’S PROMISE IS THAT BLESSING WILL OVERTAKE YOU IN THE CITY, AND IN THE COUNTRY WHEREVER YOU ARE, WHENEVER, AND HOWEVER NECESSARY!!!
WHEN THE ENEMY COMES IN LIKE A FLOOD, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WILL LIFT UP THE STANDARD AGAINST HIM AND PUT HIM TO FLIGHT! JOSHUA AND CALEB WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO WERE IN THE SPIRIT OF FAITH, AND THEY SAW THE SAME OBSTACLES, THE SAME GIANTS IN THE LAND, AND THEY SAID THAT THE GIANTS WERE BREAD FOR THEM, AND “LET US GO UP AT ONCE AND POSSESS THE LAND!” NOW THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS FAITH! FAITH LOOKS AT IMPOSSIBILITIES AND CRIES; “IT IS DONE!”
THE SPIES THAT BROUGHT THE EVIL REPORT DIED IN THEIR UNBELIEF AND NEVER ENTERED THE PROMISED LAND, BUT ONLY JOSHUA AND CALEB, WHO SPOKE AND LIVED BY FAITH, AND SAID WHAT GOD SAID, AND HAD SAID TO GO UP AT ONCE AND DRIVE THE GIANTS OUT AND POSSESS THE LAND, WENT INTO THE LAND WITH GOD’S PEOPLE, AND INDEED POSSESSED THE LAND GOD HAD PROMISED! ALL THE SPIES THAT BROUGHT THE EVIL REPORT OF THE LAND DIED IN THE WILDERNESS, AND DID NOT POSSESS THE LAND THAT WAS THEIR INHERITANCE!
THEY LET THEIR HEARTS BE TROUBLED AND AFRAID, AND LET TROUBLE RULE THEM INSTEAD OF FAITH AND THE POWER OF GOD! WHEN TROUBLE HAS ABOUNDED ON EVERY SIDE AND THERE “SEEMS” TO BE NO WAY OUT, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR YOU TO DO IS TO “NOT” LET YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED WITH THE TROUBLE! DO NOT PUT YOUR MIND OR FAITH INTO THE TROUBLE FOR IT WILL SWALLOW YOU UP, AND CAUSE YOU TO LIVE A DEFEATED LIFE UNDER THE LOAD YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO BEAR! WE NEED TO FACE THE TROUBLE WITH FAITH THAT SAYS: “TROUBLE, YOU ARE SWALLOWED UP IN THE VICTORY OF JESUS, AND I AM STEPPING ALL OVER YOU IN JESUS NAME AND THE JUST WILL COME OUT OF TROUBLE! (PROVERBS 12:13 )
GOD HAS GIVEN US THE LAND: “I HAD FAINTED UNLESS I HAD BELIEVED TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD IN THE “LAND” OF THE LIVING!” (PSALM 27:13) NOW IT IS TIME HAVING DONE ALL TO STAND, TO BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT, AND STAND WITH THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD ON, AND TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH FOR THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL, BUT MIGHTY THROUGH GOD TO THE PULLING DOWN OF STRONGHOLDS! (2 CORINTHIAN 10:4)
WE HAVE THE UPPER HAND, FOR GOD’S WEAPONS ARE MIGHTY AND PULL DOWN EVERY STRONGHOLD THE DEVIL HAS! IT IS TIME TO DO SPIRITUAL WARFARE AGAINST ALL THE EVIL PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, AGAINST THE WICKED SPIRITS IN THE ATMOSPHERE. WE HAVE THE AUTHORITY OVER ALL WICKED SPIRITS IN EVERY REALM ABOVE THE EARTH, ON THE EARTH, AND BENEATH THE EARTH, TO CRUSH THEM COMPLETELY AND LOOSE PEOPLE FROM THEIR POWER AND OPPRESSION, AND TURN THE CIRCUMSTANCE AROUND FOR GOOD TO THE PRAISE AND GLORY OF GOD!
THE WORD DELIVER IS IN THE BIBLE 383 TIMES FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION! PSALM 34:17 SAYS WHEN THE RIGHTEOUS CRY FOR HELP, THE LORD HEARS AND DELIVERS THEM OUT OF ALL THEIR TROUBLES. PSALM 50:15 AND CALL UPON ME IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE; I WILL DELIVER YOU, AND YOU WILL GLORIFY ME PSALM 34:4 I SOUGHT THE LORD, AND HE ANSWERED ME AND DELIVERED ME FROM ALL MY FEARS.
PSALM 27: THE LORD IS MY LIGHT AND MY SALVATION; WHO SHALL I FEAR? THE LORD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY LIFE; OF WHOM SHALL I BE AFRAID? WHEN THE WICKED, EVEN MY ENEMIES AND MY FOES CAME UPON ME TO EAT UP MY FLESH, THEY STUMBLED AND FELL! HAHAHA! I LAUGH AT ALL OUR ENEMIES, FOR WHEN THEY COME AGAINST US THEY WILL STUMBLE AND FALL FOR GOD WILL TRIP THEM AND PUT THEM DOWN!
THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES AND CANNOT STAND WHEN WE STAND IN THE STRENGTH OF GOD, FOR GOD IS OUR LIGHT AND SALVATION, AND AS WE WALK IN FAITH, AND ABIDE IN HIM WE WILL NOT FEAR! WHEN OUR ENEMIES COME UPON US TO DESTROY US THEY WILL STUMBLE AND FALL FOR: “IF GOD BE FOR US, WHO THEN CAN BE AGAINST US?!” (ROMANS 8:31)THOUGH AN ARMY SHOULD CAMP AGAINST ME, MY HEART WILL NOT FEAR; THOUGH WAR SHOULD RISE AGAINST ME, IN THIS I WILL BE CONFIDENT.
ONE THING I HAVE DESIRED OF THE LORD, THAT I WILL SEEK AFTER; THAT I MAY DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE, TO BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD, TO INQUIRE IN HIS TEMPLE FOR…IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE… HE WILL HIDE ME IN HIS PAVILION; IN THE SECRET OF HIS TABERNACLE HE WILL HIDE ME; HE WILL SET ME UP UPON A ROCK! AND NOW MY HEAD WILL BE LIFTED UP ABOVE MY ENEMIES ROUND ABOUT ME; THEREFORE I WILL OFFER IN HIS TABERNACLE SACRIFICES OF JOY, I WILL SING, YES, I WILL SING PRAISES TO THE LORD.
KNOW THAT YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD, AND IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH YOU ARE SAFE AND FREE FROM FEAR FOR “NO EVIL WILL BEFALL ME, NEITHER WILL ANY PLAGUE COME NEAR ME OR WHERE I LIVE, FOR HE WILL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER ME, TO KEEP ME IN ALL MY WAYS. THEY WILL BEAR ME UP IN THEIR HANDS LEST I DASH MY FOOT AGAINST A STONE!” (PSALM 91:12)
PRAISE GOD WE ABIDE IN HIM, AND HIS WORDS IN US, AND WE ARE DELIVERED FROM ALL TROUBLE SO… DO NOT FEAR ANYTHING… FOR THE ANGELS ARE HERE TO DELIVER YOU!
NOW IT’S TIME TO PRAISE THE LORD FOR OUR HEAD HAS BEEN LIFTED UP ABOVE OUR ENEMIES! HALLELUJAH! IT WAS A SHOUT OF FAITH THAT BROUGHT THEWALLS OFJERICHO DOWN AND DEFEATED THE ENEMY! THIS IS THE TIME TO SHOUT TO GOD WITH THE VOICE OF TRIUMPH, AND WITH THE VOICE OF PRAISE!
VERSE13: I HAD FAINTED, UNLESS I HAD BELIEVED TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING. THE REASON CHRISTIANS FAINT BY THE WAYSIDE AS THEY GIVE UP IN DESPAIR WHEN FACING TROUBLE IS BECAUSE THEY DID NOT BELIEVE TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING! THEY PUT OFF THE PROVISION AND MIRACLE WORKING POWER OF GOD IN THEIR UNBELIEF SAYING SOMEDAY IT WILL ALL BE BETTER WHEN WE GO TO HEAVEN AND THEN WE WILL “UNDERSTAND WHY” WE HAD TO FAINT AND BE MISERABLE AND LACK THE VICTORY JESUS PROMISED!
NO, NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO! LET’S GO UP AT ONCE AND POSSESS THE LAND RIGHT NOW FOR WE ARE WELL ABLE FOR GOD HAS GIVEN US THE LAND! WHO ARE THESE UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINES THAT THEY SHOULD DEFY THE ARMIES OF THE LIVING GOD!
CHILD OF GOD, NO MATTER THE TROUBLE THIS TROUBLED WORLD REELS FROM OR IS SHAKEN TO THE CORE BY, THE ENEMIES ARE BREAD FOR US, AND OUR GOD IS GREATER THAN ALL THE TROUBLE THE DEVIL AND HIS BOUND PEOPLE CAN CAUSE!
VERSE14: WAIT I SAY ON THE LORD; BE OF GOOD COURAGE, AND HE WILL STRENGTHEN YOUR HEART; WAIT, I SAY, ON THE LORD. GET BEFORE THE LORD AND WORSHIP HIM, AND THEN GET QUIET BEFORE HIS PRESENCE AND WAIT THERE. TAKE TIME TO SIT AT HIS FEET AND LEARN OF HIM AND AS YOU DO GOD SAYS HE WILL STRENGTHEN YOUR HEART AS YOU ARE OF GOOD COURAGE AND FEAR NOTHING!
I SEE ALL THE TROUBLE WE FACE BEING SWALLOWED UP IN THE VICTORY OF JESUS AND HIS RESURRECTION POWER! GLORY TO GOD, WE CANNOT LOSE AS WE WALK IN FAITH AND HOLY GHOST BOLDNESS! “THE WICKED FLEE WHEN NO ONE PURSUES, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS ARE AS BOLD AS A LION!” (PROVERBS 28:1)
PSALM 46 THEREFORE WE WILL NOT FEAR IS A DECISION OF FAITH SAYING I WILL…NOT…FEAR! THOUGH THE EARTH BE REMOVED, AND THOUGH THE MOUNTAINS BE CARRIED INTO THE HEART OF THE SEA; V.3 THOUGH THE WATERS THEREOF ROAR AND BE TROUBLED, THOUGH THE MOUNTAINS SHAKE WITH THE SWELLING THEREOF.
V.4 THERE IS A RIVER, THE STREAMS WHEREOF WILL MAKE THE CITY OF GOD GLAD, THE HOLY PLACE OF THE TABERNACLES OF THE MOST HIGH. V.5 GOD IS IN THE MIDST OF HER; SHE SHALL NOT BE MOVED; GOD SHALL HELP HER, AND THAT RIGHT EARLY. (GOD IS RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, IN AND WITH US, AND IS FOR US, AND : “IF GOD BE FOR US, WHO THEN CAN BE AGAINST US?!” (ROMANS 8:31). OUR HELP FROM GOD IS “RIGHT EARLY” AND NOT DOWN THE ROAD SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY, MAYBE, KIND OF, SORT OF, HIT OR MISS… LIKE THROWING A DART AND HOPING IT MIGHT HIT THE TARGET MABE)
V.6 THE HEATHEN RAGED, THE KINGDOMS WERE MOVED; HE UTTERED HIS VOICE, THE EARTH MELTED.
V.7 THE LORD OF HOSTS IS WITH US; THE GOD OF JACOB IS OUR REFUGE. THE NAME “LORD OF HOSTS IS USED 261 TIMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. GOD IS FIRST CALLED THE “LORD OF HOSTS” IN 1 SAMUEL 1:3. THE WORD LORD REFERS TO YAHWEH, THE SELF-EXISTENT, REDEMPTIVE GOD. THE WORD “HOSTS” IS REFERENCE TO THE ANGELIC ARMIES OF HEAVEN. SO, GOD IS THE GOD OF THE ARMIES OF HEAVEN! WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR FOR THEY THAT ARE WITH US ARE MORE THAN THEY THAT ARE AGAINST US! (1 KINGS 6).
THE KING OF SYRIA IS A TYPE OF SATAN IN THE BIBLE, AND HE OPPOSED THE PEOPLE OF GOD AND OPPOSED THE PEOPLE OF GOD AND OPPOSED THE PROPHET OF GOD, ELISHA!
THE KING OF SYRIA SENT HORSES AND CHARIOTS, AND A GREAT HOST; AND THEY CAME BY NIGHT, AND SURROUNDED THE CITY OF DOTHAN TO GET THE MAN OF GOD WHO WAS IN THE CITY, FOR ELISHA WAS EXPOSING THE PLANS OF THE ENEMY BY REVELATION FROM GOD, AND IT DELIVERED ISRAEL A NUMBER OF TIMES!
THE SERVANT SAW THE ARMY SURROUNDING THE CITY WITH HORSES AND CHARIOTS AND SAID: “ALAS, MY MASTER! HOW SHALL WE DO?” THAT IS WHEN ELISHA SAID, FEAR NOT: FOR THEY THAT BE WITH US ARE MORE THAN THEY THAT BE WITH THEM.
AND ELISHA PRAYED, AND SAID, LORD, I PRAY YOU, OPEN HIS EYES, THAT HE MAY SEE. AND THE LORD OPENED THE EYES OF THE YOUNG MAN; AND HE SAW: AND, BEHOLD THE MOUNTAIN WAS FULL OF HORSES AND CHARIOTS OF FIRE ROUND ABOUT ELISHA.ELISHA PRAYS A LITTLE PRAYER AND THE ENEMY ARMY IS BLINDED AND LED INTO CAPTIVITY!!! WE CAN DO THAT TO ALL THE DEVIL’S FORCES BY THE WAY!
WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? WHAT ARE YOU ANXIOUS AND TROUBLED ABOUT? HAVE YOU BEEN LOOKING AT THE ENEMY ARMY SURROUNDING THE CITY? LORD JESUS, OPEN THE EYES OF ALL WHO READ THIS NOW TO SEE! HAHAHAHAHAHA, I LAUGH AT YOU SATAN, AND I BLIND ALL YOUR DEMONS, AND WICKED SPIRITS IN THE ATMOSPHERE, AND HERE ON EARTH! JESUS, AVENGE US OF OUR ADVERSARIES NOW SPEEDILY AS YOU SAID YOU WOULD! THANK YOU JESUS!
V.8,9 COME BEHOLD THE WORKS OF THE LORD, WHAT DESOLATIONS HE HAS MADE INTHE EARTH. HE MAKES WARS TO CEASE TO THE END OF THE EARTH, HE BREAKS THE BOW, AND CUTS THE SPEAR IN SUNDER (BREAK APART, OR IN PIECES); HE BURNS THE CHARIOT IN THE FIRE. (DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY FOR OUR GOD REIGNS, SO FEAR NOTHING, BUT TRUST IN THE LORD AND THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT, FOR HE IS STRONG IN BATTLE AND THE BATTLE IS THE LORD’S. (2 CHRONICLES 20). READ THIS CHAPTER AND GET READY TO PRAISE THE LORD AND WIN.
AGAIN, THE PEOPLE OF GOD WERE UNDER ATTACK BY A VAST ARMY AND SO JEHOSHAPHAT WENT TO PRAYER AND PROCLAIMED TO GOD HIS RULE OVER ALL AND THAT POWER AND MIGHT ARE IN HIS HAND AND NO ONE CAN WITHSTAND YOU. HE THEN REMINDED GOD THAT HE TOLD THEM THAT IF CALAMITY CAME ON THEM OR THE SWORD OR JUDGMENT, OR PLAGUE OR FAMINE, TO COME IN HIS PRESENCE BEFORE THE TEMPLE THAT BORE HIS NAME AND CRY OUT TO HIM IN THEIR DISTRESS, AND HE WOULD HEAR THEM AND SAVE THEM. HE SAID HOW THE VAST ARMY CAME AGAINST THEM AND TO GOD HE PRAYED: ” O OUR GOD WILL YOU NOT JUDGE THEM? FOR WE HAVE NO POWER TO FACE THIS VAST ARMY THAT IS ATTACKING US. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT OUR EYES ARE ON YOU.”
THEN THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME ON JAHAZIEL AND HE SPOKE: “THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS TO YOU: DO NOT BE AFRAID OR DISCOURAGED BECAUSE OF THIS VAST ARMY, FOR THE BATTLE IS NOT YOURS BUT GOD’S. TOMORROW MARCH DOWN AGAINST THEM. YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO FIGHT IN THIS BATTLE/ TAKE UP YOUR POSITIONS; STAND FIRM AND SEE THE DELIVERANCE THE LORD WILL GIVE YOU. DO NOT BE AFRAID; DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED. GO OUT TO FACE THEM TOMORROW, AND THE LORD WILL BE WITH YOU!” EVERYONE BOWED THEIR FACE TO THE GROUND AND FELL DOWN IN WORSHIP TO THE LORD. THE LEVITES STOOD UP AND PRAISED THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, WITH VERY LOUD VOICE.
EARLY IN THE MORNING THEY DID AS THE LORD SAID AND JEHOSHAPHAT SAID: “HAVE FAITH IN THE LORD YOUR GOD AND YOU WILL BE UPHELD; HAVE FAITH IN HIS PROPHETS AND YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL.” THE PRAISERS WENT IN FRONT OF THE ARMY AND AS THEY BEGAN TO SING AND PRAISE, THE LORD SET AMBUSHES AGAINST THE ENEMY INVADERS AND THEY WERE DEFEATED!
SING AND PRAISE THE LORD OH PEOPLE OF GOD FOR THE BATTLE IS THE LORD’S, AND HE IT IS THAT DOES FIGHT FOR HIS PEOPLE, AND NOW IS THE TIME OF SALVATION, TODAY, RIGHT NOW IS THE DAY OF DELIVERANCE!
V.10,11. BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD; I WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE HEATHEN, I WILL BE EXALTED IN THE EARTH! THE LORD OF ANGELIC ARMIES OF HEAVEN IS WITH US, THE GOD OF JACOB IS OUR REFUGE, OUR PLACE OF SAFETY AND SHELTER!
AH, LORD GOD! BEHOLD YOU HAVE MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH BY YOUR GREAT POWER AND OUTSTRETCHED ARM, AND THERE IS NOTHING TOO HARD FOR YOU! JEREMIAH 32:17
“I HAVE GIVEN YOU THE LAND”