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Exodus 14

This day, everything that is representing hindrance in your progression to the promise land, God will deny it. Pray that that agent of hindrance in your way will be changed by the Unchanging changer–from hindrance, to a wall of protection against other forms of hindrance as you pass through to your promise land. He alone is the Almighty God, the Healing healer. He alone is perfect in knowledge, and He alone is mighty in strength of understanding. The numbers of His years cannot be discovered and He is excellent in power. Ask that the power of God that divided the Red Sea, and made a way for the children of Israel to go forth, to make way for you against all forms of hindrances in your journey today. Exodus 14:22, ÒSo the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and a wall to them on their left.Ó Do you believe in a prayer-answering God? If you believe, begin to advance this day knowing that the prayer-answering God has answered you. The children of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Israel, knowing that God answered their prayer, went into the midst of the sea instead of backing up in fear. They walked on a dry ground where water was supposed to be covering. The same water of hindrance gave them a passage, and also turned out to be a wall on both sides for a safer passage. It was not recorded that anyone was trapped dead among the children of Israel, neither was it recorded that they were soaked as they progressed in their journey. That tells you that GodÕs deliverance is perfect! See it as a picture and it will become your own personal album. God is faithful. He has answered you before you pray it because He knows you will pray it. What He said He will do, He has done it. Glory be to the Almighty God! Amen and amen.                                                           

Remain Little< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

1 Samuel 15:10-23

How long should you remain little? It is better to remain little forever. Being little does not indicate that you have to be small in stature or in thinking when you are in the midst of your colleague. Being little will always be a blessing because it keeps you spiritually locatable. Being little will always make you receptive to ideas and suggestions when it matters. Above all, being little will definitely make you consistent to GodÕs direction. Saul was little in his own eyes when God spotted him for a great assignment. 1 Samuel 15:17, ÒSo Samuel said, ÔWhen you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Israel? And did not the LORD anoint you king over Israel?ÕÓ It is clear that Saul was anointed king because of the spirit he had in the beginning of GodÕs placement of his life. When he became king, when he was elevated with a title, and when he was in a place of power, he was no longer little in his own eyes. Saul became a man that followed only the dictate of his heart. No wonder Jesus said in Matthew 18:3, ÒAssuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.Ó To be little must fall in line with one being as little children. Have you really considered where God has positioned you today? Have you considered it as a special place for a special assignment where the purpose of being there is yet to be revealed unto you? Let not your shoulder rise above your head because you are not beyond GodÕs hand. Give no room to what could cause GodÕs hand to be withdrawn in your life assignment. Do not let God regret His placement of your life. Ask for grace to carry you through. He is a faithful God. 

Repeated Failure< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

1 Samuel 13:5-15, 15:1-9

The first time King Saul failed was when he began to focus in the strength of his army. The second time he failed, it started with his army. In his first failure, Samuel required of Saul to wait for him in carrying out burnt offerings and peace offerings before going to war against the Philistines. Saul waited but he could not wait long enough before he carried out the offerings himself. 1 Samuel < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>13:11, ÒAnd Samuel said, ÔWhat have you done?Õ Saul said, ÔWhen I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Micmash.ÕÓ So he took the law into his own hands and did what was not supposed to be done by him. One will think Saul learned from the first mistake, but Saul did not, instead he went into a repeated failure. He was to go and attack the Amalekites by GodÕs command. After receiving the command from Samuel, the first thing he did was to turn again to the army.  1 Samuel 15:4, ÒSo Saul gathered the people together and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.Ó Saul always looked to the army. Saul wanted to make sure he could carry out the command with what he had instead of what God can do through him. He was concerned in the numbers, but God does not operate by numbers but by act of obedience. If he had gone by virtue of the lesson learned from the first experience, God would not have regretted His calling of Saul. Saul probably acted without purpose, but before God, there is no excuse. It is possible to get into a repeated mistake but the result is always failure. Repeated failure is a careless mistake and it can be extremely costly. Today, ask God to deliver you from careless mistakes.

Tolerating Sin< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

Ezekiel 9

What is funny to worldly people has now also become funny to the people with the word of God. Abomination is no longer an ugly sight to the church anymore. Just as the word is condoning abominations, GodÕs temple is also playing a part by not crying over all kinds of abominations. As a < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>temple of God, you cry over by extending a loud and clear sound of rejection, by distancing yourself or by calling on God to touch the heart of the people with abomination. Once among the children of God, abomination was reigning and God responded, Ezekiel 9:4, ÒAnd the LORD said to him, ÔGo through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.ÕÓ God knows that action speaks louder than words. What you condone you are also done in it. As a temple of God, you cannot be quiet with wrong doings; it will be an indication of you accepting it. God recognized those that are not quiet against abomination then, and He will still do the same today and tomorrow. To those who did not sigh or cry against abominations, there was no mark but judgment, Ezekiel 9:5, ÒTo others He said in my hearing, ÔGo after him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary. So they began with the elders who were before the temple.Ó The judgment of God respects only the obedient, it will not fail; it will only take GodÕs timing for it to be manifested. Ask God for the grace not to be a part or be the one that tolerates sin.

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Philippians 4

You can refuse to be drawn away from God. Idolatry will draw you away from God if you do not refuse idolatry. Anything that you go after and whatever it is that is taking you away from serving Him is an idol. When you begin to want another personÕs possession, things that do not belong to you, you are being gradually drawn away. Being drawn away will not become clear to the person that is being drawn until that person has drowned in the sea of lust. Colossians 3:5, ÒTherefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.Ó You do not have to be a part of the wrath of God if you choose not to; God will enable you. However, the choice is yours, God has given His love and it is left for you to enter His love boat of salvation. When you are drawn away by idolatry, you have forsaken God. It is evil to forsake God. Jeremiah 2:13, ÒFor my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns-broken cisterns that can hold no water.Ó Draw yourself away from idolatry. What you do not have now you can have it at His appointed time. Do not make yourself a victim of the evil one. God will not fail you, God shall supply your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>4:19)