Let's Fight The Common Enemy

Today's Devotion
Topic: Let's Fight The Common Enemy Together!
Text: 1 Sam 11: 1- 9.

1 Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to him, "Make a treaty with us, and we will be subject to you." 2 But Nahash the Ammonite replied, "I will make a treaty with you only on the condition that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you and so bring disgrace on all Israel."

3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days so we can send messengers throughout Israel; if no one comes to rescue us, we will surrender to you."4 When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these terms to the people, they all wept aloud.

5 Just then Saul was returning from the fields, behind his oxen, and he asked, "What is wrong with the people? Why are they weeping?" Then they repeated to him what the men of Jabesh had said. 6 When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God came upon him in power, and he burned with anger.

7 He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent the pieces by messengers throughout Israel, proclaiming, "This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not follow Saul and Samuel." Then the terror of the LORD fell on the people, and they turned out as one man. 8 When Saul mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel numbered three hundred thousand and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

9 They told the messengers who had come, "Say to the men of Jabesh Gilead, 'By the time the sun is hot tomorrow, you will be delivered.' " When the messengers went and reported this to the men of Jabesh, they were elated. Amen.

Beloved, whenever the enemy strikes and we look on in timidity, he demands more than we can give- just to humiliate us. It is time to pray, send the messages to all believers in bondage.

Tell them " By the time the sun is hot tomorrow, YOU WILL BE DELIVERED". BEGIN TO INTERCEDE NOW! Every Nahash that seeks to gouge out our eyes (or destroy our vision & purpose) must surrender NOW, IN JESUS NAME.

NB: The Y-OUTREACH NETWORK presents the sensational "FOR JESUS BAND (4JBAND)" in another powerful worship service dubbed "SHIBAH CONCERT". Theme: BLESSED, SO TESTIFY (Rev 12: 11). Date: Boxing Day 26th, Dec 2017. 3pm Sharp. Watch this space for more.

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