RHEMA FOR LIVING OFM, REV (DR) LIZZY JOHNSON SULEMAN 4TH MAY 2020 – THE POTENCY OF THE ARK (PART 2).

RHEMA FOR LIVING OFM, DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE FROM THE DESK OF GOD’S SERVANT REV (DR) LIZZY JOHNSON SULEMAN.

MONDAY, 4TH MAY 2020.

BIBLE READING: PSALM 10-12.

TOPIC: THE POTENCY OF THE ARK (PART 2).

TEXT: “And the men of Kirjath-Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark Lord. And it came to pass, while the ark abode in KitKats-jearim, that the time was long ; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.” 1 Samuel 7:1-2

      The ark of God is very potent, but in the midst of sinners or in the suspended. The ark of God which in a moment disfigured Dagon, smote several cities of the Philistines when it was brought into their midst, how would it not transform the life of a man that harbored it for twenty years.

The problem was not the ark; the problem was the man Abinadab.
The strange god Ashtaroth which Samuel asked the children of Israel in verse 3 to get rid of if they want God to deliver them out of the hand of the philistine was still with him.
Samuel asked the Israelites to seek God alone and they did as Samuel instructed, put away Baalim and Ashtaroth and served God only (verse 4). With this in place, Samuel asked them to gather at Mizpah and he would pray for them and they did. And the philistines heard of it, they went out against the Israelites hoping to defeat them but unknown to the Philistines what gave them an edge then over the Israelites had been dealt with.
Scripture says, “but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel and they came no more to battle against Israel “ 1 Samuel 7:7-14. Truly the ark is potent.

PRAYER:
My Father, My Father, as I begin to pray, every root of sin in me, die by fire.

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