July
26
Ezra
5 - 7
ARISE AND FIGHT
MEMORISE:
‘And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice,
“Lazarus, come forth.”’ (John 11:43)
READ:
Joshua 6: 20- 21
After God has delivered your enemy into your hands, what should
you do? Should you shoot him from a distance, like David, or
smite him under your feet? David cut off Goliath’s head.
It is not enough to be delivered out of the hands of Pharaoh:
he must drown so you can gain complete victory.
‘And when he thus had spoken, he cried
with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.” And he
that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes:
and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto
them, “Loose him, and let him go”’ (John 11:43-44).
Jesus called Lazarus back to life. Yet Lazarus
could not move about freely, because he had been bound with
grave clothes. If those clothes had remained, he would have
been in bondage even after the great victory over death. This
means that you must fight to claim your miracles fully, as well
as to retain them.
A believer is a warrior because his Father is
a super warrior. Exodus 15:3 calls him a man of war. According
to 2 Timothy 2:4, you have been chosen to be a soldier, hence
God has given you his heavenly armour. He knows that it is a
battle of the fittest. The winner takes all. So if you cannot
fight, there would be need to find out if you are actually born
of God, as you claim.
According to our reading, after God ad given
Jericho to the children of Israel and the walls fell flat, it
was not a time to rest. If they had rested then, the people
of Jericho would have erected another wall to defend themselves.
Some of you go to sleep after God has given you a promise. If
you do not fight to possess that promise, it may never become
reality. Arise take up arms and begin to fight to possess your
Jericho and obtain your spoils today.
ACTION
POINT
Pray that the Lord will anoint the General Overseer and
use him
more mightily than he has ever done before, at any convention.