2 Kings 6:8-18" Seeing Your Life's Circumstance From God's Point of View"
Now the king of Syria was making war against Israel; and he consulted with his servants, saying, "My camp will be in such and such a place." And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are coming down there." Then the king of Israel sent someone to the place of which the man of God had told him. Thus he warned him, and he was watchful there, not just once or twice. Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled by this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?"
And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom." So he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him." And it was told him, saying, "Surely he is in Dothan."
"Therefore he sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city. And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"
"So he answered, "Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." And Elisha prayed, and said, "Lord , I pray, open his eyes that he may see." Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. So when the Syrians came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord , and said, "Strike this people, I pray, with blindness." And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha". (NKJV)
“ Seeing Your Life’s Situations From God’s Point of View”
In this life, there are 2 ways we can see your life’s situations. We can see our situations from the “human perspective”…The human perspective is when we look at our situations from our point of view. Or … we can see our life’s situations from God’s perspective…which requires us to look at our life situations from HIS point of view. Now…I don’t know from which perspective you currently looking at them from…but I can tell you…from personal experience...as you take a introspective look at your current life situations, ... that it’s better to see them the same way God sees them rather than looking at them from your point of view. The reason I can say this is I personally found out that we are either "reactive" or "pro-active" in our responses to our situations based on how we view our lives trials, tribulations and challenges in general. Another important reason we should see all our life’s situations from God’s point of view… because of the "sovereign wisdom" that our "omniscient" God possess! What about the "Wisdom of God":
The Wisdom of God
God is so wise…He can take the foolishness of preaching and confound the “wises” of men…I'm talking about "Jehovah"… God’s “Greek name”… "Yahweh"... God's Hebrew name ...the "True and Living God" that can make so much sense… out of what seems to be "utter nonsense"…. Our "Elohim" (Creator) God can…cause a brown cow to eat green grass yet give white milk…Our "Messianic" God that can take someone who’s lost in sin… and Jesus, Our "Savior" God will take them in…and cause a light from Heaven… to fill their very soul…And then, fill their heart with love…..and write their name above…that they will discover that just a little talk with Jesus… will make everything alright….. In other words…God can go into HIS "laboratory of redemption" and take out all that evil that "blackened" our lost souls and dip our souls in His shed red redemption blood and we come out washed white as snow….He’s Alpha and Omega God…."He is" and knows the beginning …and "He is" and knows the end… Let me show you what I mean….
Concerning King Benhadad: Angry and Disgusted
Reading from the Biblical text, starting in verse 6, we are introduced to Benhadad, the king of Syria …He is angry… very angry because once again, Israel just foiled his plan to ambush and to conquer them… The king had made top secret plans …. classified….not known by anybody that wasn't in the strategy meeting…(so he thought) A strategy meeting that took place in the king’s bed chamber but when the Syrian army got to the Israeli border…… once again, Israel was already there…waiting on them …locked and loaded …with an ambush of their own…and the Bible said Israel ran Benhadad and the Syrian army back across the border…
Benhadad's Covert Strategy:
Imagine how the meeting went in the “bed chamber” of your imagination: The king points to a specific place on a topographic map… laying out the terrain in Israel…: The king said: “In such and such place…. I’ll place my command post… “That place”…. is the best place to set up our ambush …If we attack them right there…we’ll catch them by surprise …. They’ll be at our mercy…and there will be nothing they can do… to stop us” from conquering them… Well…
What the king didn’t know was "Jehovah- Shammah" (which means the Lord is present)… was present right there in that “bedchamber” meeting…God heard everything that was said ….and saw what they were planning. Benhadad didn’t know… that Israel's God is “omniscient”…He knows everything about everybody…that Israel’s God is “omnipotent”…because He’s got all power… so much power…that He has “healing power” in the hem of his garment…He’s got “delivering power” just by speaking the WORD….He’s got both “saving and cleansing” power because Christ shed His precious blood in heaven before He did it on the cross at Calvary outside Jerusalem! He didn’t know that Israel's God is “omnipresent”…that ‘s everywhere at the same time….and “immutable” because He’s the same yesterday… today … and all eternity…He never changes….yes, the Lord was there and heard everything they said in that bedchamber…
Man and "Covert" Strategy: Failed Ambush
This lets all of us know… that in reality… we have no secrets that we can keep from God….As a matter of fact…God already knows what you’re going to do before you do it. He already knows what you are thinking before you gather that thought in your mind… God knows what you’re going to say even before you fix your lips to say it…Syria’s king didn’t know it… that God was in the midst…and their ambush plan were already blown up… even before they got them set up…That’s the kind of God we serve…. God is constantly blowing up satanic ambushes… even before the devil can get his evil scheme… fully set up against you… Isaiah said in Isaiah 54:17: “no weapon” that formed against us shall prosper …and every tongue that rises up against us, the Bible says God shall condemn… Remember: You don't have to worry about "persecutions" they will form….oppressions...they will form….accusations will form…the demons will form… the lightning will flash….the thunder will roar….the sin-breakers will dash….and try to conquer our soul….but if we just remember… what Jesus said….Jesus said: still fight on….He promised never to leave us….never to leave us alone….NO WEAPON….formed against us shall prosper He protects us from dangers seen and unseen...
Concerning Elisha: "God Sent"Prophet
Well…in verse 9, God sent the Prophet Elisha to talk to the King of Israel to warn him not to take his army into a waiting ambush… Can’t you hear Elisha say: King… God told me to tell you King Benhadad’s setting up an ambush….. to trap you in such and such place!... Whatever you do… take heed…and beware….that you don’t go and pass through that place ….and get caught in Syria’s trap. …Now if it wasn’t bad enough that the enemy wasn’t trying to trap God’s chosen people back then….
Now…Satan is trying to ambush and conquer the modern church…God knows his every move down to every demon and every domestic (that’s people) he’s going o use…. To set up the church…That’s why God uses his pastors, ministers and teachers and seasoned witnesses to warn us about the coming ambushes from the demonic world…
The Bible says: be sober …be vigilant … because your adversary the Devil is going up and down…to and fro…in the earth…seeking whom he may devour… .Right at this very moment...the Devil is mapping out a wicked… evil war strategy against each and every one of us…. He trying to steal from us….to kill our hopes and dreams… and to destroy us….trying to mess us up with the will of God…He lies in wait… He sets up demonized ambush after ambush…with lying and conniving deceptions…aimed at the “such and such places” in our lives….
You know what? We got a lot of “such and such” places!..in our lives…. our finances…a Such and such place …our marriages… and relationships….a such and such place…. your children…and family….such and such places…don’t forget your job… our “elected” government…Such and such place could be your physical and mental health…the physical church … the choir….the ministry itself…Satan leads a relentless attack..corrupting deacon board…corrupting pastors and preachers…choir members and pwe sitters…... Whatever you do…Don’t let the Devil ambush you in your such and such places!
Israel's Response:
Elisha gave the king God’s message …The king of Israel responded the right way. He took heed to the advice of the man of God and stayed out of harms way and by doing so, God saved him at that border not just once not twice…but 3 times! Preacher how did he do that? Well…. The king of Israel took his army and went to the same spot where Benhadad was to set up his ambush and got there before Syria did. Israel then set up a “counter attack” of their own and waited on Syria to dash across the Israeli border. As soon as Syria crossed the border and came in Israel, Israel ‘s army rose up and beat them back across the Syrian border 3 different times! What a mighty God we serve!!
Can’t you see the look on Benhadad’s face when he came face to face with Israel’s army: He was shocked, amazed, confused and mad! So much so that when they got back into Syria, an angry Benhadad makes a “scathing accusation” against his own army: There’s “treachery” in the ranks! Somebody in here has breached our national security! One of you leaked our war strategies to the enemy! As a matter of fact: I got a question! Which one of you is on Israel’s side?
One of his trusted soldiers said: Nobody your majesty…The problem is not with our army,…the problem is with a Prophet.,,,the problem is Elisha,…that prophet in Israel…..
Let me tell you something…in this evil….jacked up.. and wicked generation …calling the gospel preacher or Christian Church “the problem” is the “highest compliment” any preacher or church can ever get!!!…when they preach and teach the WORD of God in Spirit and in Truth…and whenever you do that sooner or later somebody in their anger against the truth will call you THAT!!.
If it wasn’t for “THAT PREACHER” THAT PASTOR….. ”THAT DEACON”….”THAT CHIOR MEMBER” ….And don’t make them that mad too many times….the next thing you know…… they’ll start calling you “THAT SO AND SO”…Well…..THAT is not your name…If anybody asks you who I am….tell them that I am a child of God …NOT A THAT!!1
Here’s another point……the Syrian soldier gave ELISHA credit for something GOD DID!!!Got a “hot” news flash from God for you…. WHATEVER good came through you…you didn’t do it by yourself…GOD did it through you….Paul said…it’s no longer I …but…Christ that lives in me…..Don’t YOU ever take credit for anything GOD DID THROUGH YOU…As a matter of fact…Everything that happened to you ….or through you that was good…God did it…YES HE DID!!! GOD PICKED YOU UP…..TURNED YOU AROUND….PLACED YOUR FEET ON SOLID GROUND…GOD did IT….
God used the prophet…. to “stand in the gap”…to intercede and run interference..and that’s all we are…”gap standers”….. “intercessory preaching and prayer warriors….God’s latter day witnesses.. cut in the mold of John the Baptist …telling a sin-sick dying world…Repent ye for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand…We are Gap standers …not ICONS……All we did… was answer the call from the Lord… and now we do just like he Jeremiah did:: …STAND YE IN THE GATEWAY and proclaim the WORD OF THE LORD!!!……
What’s the advantage of being of a Gap Stander
First of all…Gap standers have the favor of God….Every intercessor in the bible that stood in the gap for someone else had a powerful anointing and presence of the Holy Ghost resting mightily upon them…Not only that…
God is a fierce protector of HIS “gap standers…. It’s not that “gap standers” don’t go through testing….persecutions or trials…but… a gap stander is battle tested and battle ready….Their theme song is I’m on the battlefield for my Lord….and I promised HIM that I would serve HIM until I die…Gap standers go through…just like everybody else…Sometimes they go through more because they had the will to do and he soul to dare….
Gap standers know that weeping may endure for a night…but JOY … COMES IN THE MORNING!!!
They know God will give you insight …beyond your eyesight. …God will put substance….in your stance… joy for all of your sorrows….hope for all of your tomorrows….
God will let you see what your enemies are attempting to do…. And tell you what the enemy said about you…. Sometimes…God will warn you ahead of time …whenever the enemy is lurking around you… and poising himself to launch a sneak attack against you…. God is not limited… or blocked from any secret rendezvous or backroom meetings….He’s God!!!! And besides HIM…..there is NO OTHER…Ain’t no mountain high enough…ain’t no valley low enough … ain’t no river wide enough…no underground cave deep enough or dark enough…. to keep HIM from you!!
Second: as a gap stander…God wants you to know that your enemies are HIS enemies. Whenever an enemy, demonic or domestic fight against you, attacks you, tries to block you …slanders your name.. injures you… lies on you …or say all manner of evil against you. …remember what Jesus said…Jesus said: whatever you do… to the least of these my brethren… you also do it unto me.
Third…as a gap stander…We serve a loving God … God, in HIS grace is showing mercy and loving restraint not just toward us, but toward our enemy too ….He lets it rain on the just as well as the unjust…….BUT…. let me warn all our enemies: BOTH demonic and domestic…GRACEFOR YOU is not forever… God is longsuffering…but God is just… and he has a “cut-off” date for evil too …. Sometimes during the grace period…people get worse and worse…since iniquity seems to abound…. Paul said GRACE did much more abound … Don’t worry about the witchcraft and root workers…I stop by to tell you… their cut-off date is right around the corner…..
We all deal with the Devil…. constantly talking in \our eargate …. saying all kinds of grotest and vile things about us and God…constantly coming against our identity in Christ….attacking us in our spirit… and tries to mangle and dump a lot of smut in our mind….always trying…to overload our thinking with a whole lot of mess….
Satan hates the Spirit of God in us and His holy mantle resting on us…… So he unloads his arsenal of gross and vile talk like a an AK-47… blatantly trying to mess our mind up so bad that if you don’t ask God to quicken your spirit and thicken your skin,…some of you just might knuckle under the pressure …become suicidal and think that your life ain’t worth the living… and believe that you are better off dead than alive…. That’s a lie from the pit of hell…:
I HEARD Peter say: Beloved, think it not strange when fiery trials come to try you as if some strange thing has happened to you…No matter what grotest or blasphemous things demons and demonized domestic people say about you …and about God… … it doesn’t change who God is… nor…does it doesn’t change God’s love for you either…because In the end…. God is still God… and you are still you too…blessed…and highly favored…Too blessed to be stressed….You want to know something else…nothing the devil say… changes what God is going to do …for you….What God has for you….it is for you…
This and I’ll head toward the highway…
God told me just the other day: William Boddie….whenever I send out my word and wherever I send it…nobody domestic and nobody demonic…can stop my word…from doing whatever I set my Word to do….if they refuse to humble themselves, pray, seek my face…and turn from their wicked ways….the time will come when I will pour out my wrath upon the face of this earth and they will reap just what they sow….I come by to tell you…if your skin has gotten a little thin…because of all the fierce persecution that came your way …God know about all of our enemies….God will make all of your enemies your footstool…God will, if you let him……He’ll cut off your enemies…prepare a table before you… in the presence of our enemies and sometimes, if your enemies let him…God will convert and save your enemies…
Well now….when the king of Syria, found out that Elisha told the king of Israel of his plans,….Benhadad told his army… Go find that prophet ….tell me where he is …so I can fetch him and deal with him…The spies left the king and found out that Elisha was living ….and sent word that Elisha was living in Dothan, …about 14 miles north of Samaria. . .When the soldiers told Benhadad where he was …..He sent horses and chariots….50,000 men after the man of God… in the course of the night to bring Elisha back dead or alive…..The Syrian army came that night… and surrounded the city of Dothan, where Elisha lived… Elisha had a young servant …who was an early riser… because he had problems sleeping at night….The bible said…that night…he happened… to be wide awake… when the army came…The bible said… the servant went outside… and when he got outside ….he look around… and he saw…that the whole city …was completely surrounded …by Syria’s horses and chariots…when he saw this…..he got afraid ….and he ran straight to Elisha …
I heard him say…. Elisha….my Master… the whole city is surrounded … .there are horses and chariots everywhere…what are we going to do?..... The young servant of Elisha saw their situation from a “human” point of view”… …but Elisha saw their circumstance from God’s point of view…. I heard Elisha say…Don’t be afraid ….for they that are with us are more than they that be with them….And at that moment…. Elisha looked up toward heaven and then he started praying: Lord…I pray to you… that you open his eyes that he may see….that they that are with us are more than they that are with them…the bible said …. God peeled back the curtains of heaven…. and opened the young man’s eyes…. and when he looked up at the mountain top… the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire…right behind the Syrian army… ain’t God alright…The enemy had Elisha and his servant surrounded but God had the Syrian army completely surrounded.
And that what I want to tell you….When you see your life from God’s perspective you will see that if God be for you…who can really be against you…Whenever the enemy tells you that he’s got you surrounded and there’s no way out ….Tell your enemy he may have you surrounded… but The Lord has him surrounded…Sometimes….we are hard-pressed on every side.... but from God’s perspective we are haven’t been crushed… Sometimes…trouble comes and we are perplexed, but from God’s perspective …we have the assurance that….we are not in despair… persecuted comes all the time,….God said…but not forsaken….Sometimes….we’re struck down…..God said…, but not destroyed that’s because we are always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus… that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body….Jesus died that we might live…They crucified him on the cross…..Blood came streaming down…….
In this life, there are 2 ways we can see your life’s situations. We can see our situations from the “human perspective”…The human perspective is when we look at our situations from our point of view. Or … we can see our life’s situations from God’s perspective…which requires us to look at our life situations from HIS point of view. Now…I don’t know from which perspective you currently looking at them from…but I can tell you…from personal experience...as you take a introspective look at your current life situations, ... that it’s better to see them the same way God sees them rather than looking at them from your point of view. The reason I can say this is I personally found out that we are either "reactive" or "pro-active" in our responses to our situations based on how we view our lives trials, tribulations and challenges in general. Another important reason we should see all our life’s situations from God’s point of view… because of the "sovereign wisdom" that our "omniscient" God possess! What about the "Wisdom of God":
The Wisdom of God
God is so wise…He can take the foolishness of preaching and confound the “wises” of men…I'm talking about "Jehovah"… God’s “Greek name”… "Yahweh"... God's Hebrew name ...the "True and Living God" that can make so much sense… out of what seems to be "utter nonsense"…. Our "Elohim" (Creator) God can…cause a brown cow to eat green grass yet give white milk…Our "Messianic" God that can take someone who’s lost in sin… and Jesus, Our "Savior" God will take them in…and cause a light from Heaven… to fill their very soul…And then, fill their heart with love…..and write their name above…that they will discover that just a little talk with Jesus… will make everything alright….. In other words…God can go into HIS "laboratory of redemption" and take out all that evil that "blackened" our lost souls and dip our souls in His shed red redemption blood and we come out washed white as snow….He’s Alpha and Omega God…."He is" and knows the beginning …and "He is" and knows the end… Let me show you what I mean….
Concerning King Benhadad: Angry and Disgusted
Reading from the Biblical text, starting in verse 6, we are introduced to Benhadad, the king of Syria …He is angry… very angry because once again, Israel just foiled his plan to ambush and to conquer them… The king had made top secret plans …. classified….not known by anybody that wasn't in the strategy meeting…(so he thought) A strategy meeting that took place in the king’s bed chamber but when the Syrian army got to the Israeli border…… once again, Israel was already there…waiting on them …locked and loaded …with an ambush of their own…and the Bible said Israel ran Benhadad and the Syrian army back across the border…
Benhadad's Covert Strategy:
Imagine how the meeting went in the “bed chamber” of your imagination: The king points to a specific place on a topographic map… laying out the terrain in Israel…: The king said: “In such and such place…. I’ll place my command post… “That place”…. is the best place to set up our ambush …If we attack them right there…we’ll catch them by surprise …. They’ll be at our mercy…and there will be nothing they can do… to stop us” from conquering them… Well…
What the king didn’t know was "Jehovah- Shammah" (which means the Lord is present)… was present right there in that “bedchamber” meeting…God heard everything that was said ….and saw what they were planning. Benhadad didn’t know… that Israel's God is “omniscient”…He knows everything about everybody…that Israel’s God is “omnipotent”…because He’s got all power… so much power…that He has “healing power” in the hem of his garment…He’s got “delivering power” just by speaking the WORD….He’s got both “saving and cleansing” power because Christ shed His precious blood in heaven before He did it on the cross at Calvary outside Jerusalem! He didn’t know that Israel's God is “omnipresent”…that ‘s everywhere at the same time….and “immutable” because He’s the same yesterday… today … and all eternity…He never changes….yes, the Lord was there and heard everything they said in that bedchamber…
Man and "Covert" Strategy: Failed Ambush
This lets all of us know… that in reality… we have no secrets that we can keep from God….As a matter of fact…God already knows what you’re going to do before you do it. He already knows what you are thinking before you gather that thought in your mind… God knows what you’re going to say even before you fix your lips to say it…Syria’s king didn’t know it… that God was in the midst…and their ambush plan were already blown up… even before they got them set up…That’s the kind of God we serve…. God is constantly blowing up satanic ambushes… even before the devil can get his evil scheme… fully set up against you… Isaiah said in Isaiah 54:17: “no weapon” that formed against us shall prosper …and every tongue that rises up against us, the Bible says God shall condemn… Remember: You don't have to worry about "persecutions" they will form….oppressions...they will form….accusations will form…the demons will form… the lightning will flash….the thunder will roar….the sin-breakers will dash….and try to conquer our soul….but if we just remember… what Jesus said….Jesus said: still fight on….He promised never to leave us….never to leave us alone….NO WEAPON….formed against us shall prosper He protects us from dangers seen and unseen...
Concerning Elisha: "God Sent"Prophet
Well…in verse 9, God sent the Prophet Elisha to talk to the King of Israel to warn him not to take his army into a waiting ambush… Can’t you hear Elisha say: King… God told me to tell you King Benhadad’s setting up an ambush….. to trap you in such and such place!... Whatever you do… take heed…and beware….that you don’t go and pass through that place ….and get caught in Syria’s trap. …Now if it wasn’t bad enough that the enemy wasn’t trying to trap God’s chosen people back then….
Now…Satan is trying to ambush and conquer the modern church…God knows his every move down to every demon and every domestic (that’s people) he’s going o use…. To set up the church…That’s why God uses his pastors, ministers and teachers and seasoned witnesses to warn us about the coming ambushes from the demonic world…
The Bible says: be sober …be vigilant … because your adversary the Devil is going up and down…to and fro…in the earth…seeking whom he may devour… .Right at this very moment...the Devil is mapping out a wicked… evil war strategy against each and every one of us…. He trying to steal from us….to kill our hopes and dreams… and to destroy us….trying to mess us up with the will of God…He lies in wait… He sets up demonized ambush after ambush…with lying and conniving deceptions…aimed at the “such and such places” in our lives….
You know what? We got a lot of “such and such” places!..in our lives…. our finances…a Such and such place …our marriages… and relationships….a such and such place…. your children…and family….such and such places…don’t forget your job… our “elected” government…Such and such place could be your physical and mental health…the physical church … the choir….the ministry itself…Satan leads a relentless attack..corrupting deacon board…corrupting pastors and preachers…choir members and pwe sitters…... Whatever you do…Don’t let the Devil ambush you in your such and such places!
Israel's Response:
Elisha gave the king God’s message …The king of Israel responded the right way. He took heed to the advice of the man of God and stayed out of harms way and by doing so, God saved him at that border not just once not twice…but 3 times! Preacher how did he do that? Well…. The king of Israel took his army and went to the same spot where Benhadad was to set up his ambush and got there before Syria did. Israel then set up a “counter attack” of their own and waited on Syria to dash across the Israeli border. As soon as Syria crossed the border and came in Israel, Israel ‘s army rose up and beat them back across the Syrian border 3 different times! What a mighty God we serve!!
Can’t you see the look on Benhadad’s face when he came face to face with Israel’s army: He was shocked, amazed, confused and mad! So much so that when they got back into Syria, an angry Benhadad makes a “scathing accusation” against his own army: There’s “treachery” in the ranks! Somebody in here has breached our national security! One of you leaked our war strategies to the enemy! As a matter of fact: I got a question! Which one of you is on Israel’s side?
One of his trusted soldiers said: Nobody your majesty…The problem is not with our army,…the problem is with a Prophet.,,,the problem is Elisha,…that prophet in Israel…..
Let me tell you something…in this evil….jacked up.. and wicked generation …calling the gospel preacher or Christian Church “the problem” is the “highest compliment” any preacher or church can ever get!!!…when they preach and teach the WORD of God in Spirit and in Truth…and whenever you do that sooner or later somebody in their anger against the truth will call you THAT!!.
If it wasn’t for “THAT PREACHER” THAT PASTOR….. ”THAT DEACON”….”THAT CHIOR MEMBER” ….And don’t make them that mad too many times….the next thing you know…… they’ll start calling you “THAT SO AND SO”…Well…..THAT is not your name…If anybody asks you who I am….tell them that I am a child of God …NOT A THAT!!1
Here’s another point……the Syrian soldier gave ELISHA credit for something GOD DID!!!Got a “hot” news flash from God for you…. WHATEVER good came through you…you didn’t do it by yourself…GOD did it through you….Paul said…it’s no longer I …but…Christ that lives in me…..Don’t YOU ever take credit for anything GOD DID THROUGH YOU…As a matter of fact…Everything that happened to you ….or through you that was good…God did it…YES HE DID!!! GOD PICKED YOU UP…..TURNED YOU AROUND….PLACED YOUR FEET ON SOLID GROUND…GOD did IT….
God used the prophet…. to “stand in the gap”…to intercede and run interference..and that’s all we are…”gap standers”….. “intercessory preaching and prayer warriors….God’s latter day witnesses.. cut in the mold of John the Baptist …telling a sin-sick dying world…Repent ye for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand…We are Gap standers …not ICONS……All we did… was answer the call from the Lord… and now we do just like he Jeremiah did:: …STAND YE IN THE GATEWAY and proclaim the WORD OF THE LORD!!!……
What’s the advantage of being of a Gap Stander
First of all…Gap standers have the favor of God….Every intercessor in the bible that stood in the gap for someone else had a powerful anointing and presence of the Holy Ghost resting mightily upon them…Not only that…
God is a fierce protector of HIS “gap standers…. It’s not that “gap standers” don’t go through testing….persecutions or trials…but… a gap stander is battle tested and battle ready….Their theme song is I’m on the battlefield for my Lord….and I promised HIM that I would serve HIM until I die…Gap standers go through…just like everybody else…Sometimes they go through more because they had the will to do and he soul to dare….
Gap standers know that weeping may endure for a night…but JOY … COMES IN THE MORNING!!!
They know God will give you insight …beyond your eyesight. …God will put substance….in your stance… joy for all of your sorrows….hope for all of your tomorrows….
God will let you see what your enemies are attempting to do…. And tell you what the enemy said about you…. Sometimes…God will warn you ahead of time …whenever the enemy is lurking around you… and poising himself to launch a sneak attack against you…. God is not limited… or blocked from any secret rendezvous or backroom meetings….He’s God!!!! And besides HIM…..there is NO OTHER…Ain’t no mountain high enough…ain’t no valley low enough … ain’t no river wide enough…no underground cave deep enough or dark enough…. to keep HIM from you!!
Second: as a gap stander…God wants you to know that your enemies are HIS enemies. Whenever an enemy, demonic or domestic fight against you, attacks you, tries to block you …slanders your name.. injures you… lies on you …or say all manner of evil against you. …remember what Jesus said…Jesus said: whatever you do… to the least of these my brethren… you also do it unto me.
Third…as a gap stander…We serve a loving God … God, in HIS grace is showing mercy and loving restraint not just toward us, but toward our enemy too ….He lets it rain on the just as well as the unjust…….BUT…. let me warn all our enemies: BOTH demonic and domestic…GRACEFOR YOU is not forever… God is longsuffering…but God is just… and he has a “cut-off” date for evil too …. Sometimes during the grace period…people get worse and worse…since iniquity seems to abound…. Paul said GRACE did much more abound … Don’t worry about the witchcraft and root workers…I stop by to tell you… their cut-off date is right around the corner…..
We all deal with the Devil…. constantly talking in \our eargate …. saying all kinds of grotest and vile things about us and God…constantly coming against our identity in Christ….attacking us in our spirit… and tries to mangle and dump a lot of smut in our mind….always trying…to overload our thinking with a whole lot of mess….
Satan hates the Spirit of God in us and His holy mantle resting on us…… So he unloads his arsenal of gross and vile talk like a an AK-47… blatantly trying to mess our mind up so bad that if you don’t ask God to quicken your spirit and thicken your skin,…some of you just might knuckle under the pressure …become suicidal and think that your life ain’t worth the living… and believe that you are better off dead than alive…. That’s a lie from the pit of hell…:
I HEARD Peter say: Beloved, think it not strange when fiery trials come to try you as if some strange thing has happened to you…No matter what grotest or blasphemous things demons and demonized domestic people say about you …and about God… … it doesn’t change who God is… nor…does it doesn’t change God’s love for you either…because In the end…. God is still God… and you are still you too…blessed…and highly favored…Too blessed to be stressed….You want to know something else…nothing the devil say… changes what God is going to do …for you….What God has for you….it is for you…
This and I’ll head toward the highway…
God told me just the other day: William Boddie….whenever I send out my word and wherever I send it…nobody domestic and nobody demonic…can stop my word…from doing whatever I set my Word to do….if they refuse to humble themselves, pray, seek my face…and turn from their wicked ways….the time will come when I will pour out my wrath upon the face of this earth and they will reap just what they sow….I come by to tell you…if your skin has gotten a little thin…because of all the fierce persecution that came your way …God know about all of our enemies….God will make all of your enemies your footstool…God will, if you let him……He’ll cut off your enemies…prepare a table before you… in the presence of our enemies and sometimes, if your enemies let him…God will convert and save your enemies…
Well now….when the king of Syria, found out that Elisha told the king of Israel of his plans,….Benhadad told his army… Go find that prophet ….tell me where he is …so I can fetch him and deal with him…The spies left the king and found out that Elisha was living ….and sent word that Elisha was living in Dothan, …about 14 miles north of Samaria. . .When the soldiers told Benhadad where he was …..He sent horses and chariots….50,000 men after the man of God… in the course of the night to bring Elisha back dead or alive…..The Syrian army came that night… and surrounded the city of Dothan, where Elisha lived… Elisha had a young servant …who was an early riser… because he had problems sleeping at night….The bible said…that night…he happened… to be wide awake… when the army came…The bible said… the servant went outside… and when he got outside ….he look around… and he saw…that the whole city …was completely surrounded …by Syria’s horses and chariots…when he saw this…..he got afraid ….and he ran straight to Elisha …
I heard him say…. Elisha….my Master… the whole city is surrounded … .there are horses and chariots everywhere…what are we going to do?..... The young servant of Elisha saw their situation from a “human” point of view”… …but Elisha saw their circumstance from God’s point of view…. I heard Elisha say…Don’t be afraid ….for they that are with us are more than they that be with them….And at that moment…. Elisha looked up toward heaven and then he started praying: Lord…I pray to you… that you open his eyes that he may see….that they that are with us are more than they that are with them…the bible said …. God peeled back the curtains of heaven…. and opened the young man’s eyes…. and when he looked up at the mountain top… the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire…right behind the Syrian army… ain’t God alright…The enemy had Elisha and his servant surrounded but God had the Syrian army completely surrounded.
And that what I want to tell you….When you see your life from God’s perspective you will see that if God be for you…who can really be against you…Whenever the enemy tells you that he’s got you surrounded and there’s no way out ….Tell your enemy he may have you surrounded… but The Lord has him surrounded…Sometimes….we are hard-pressed on every side.... but from God’s perspective we are haven’t been crushed… Sometimes…trouble comes and we are perplexed, but from God’s perspective …we have the assurance that….we are not in despair… persecuted comes all the time,….God said…but not forsaken….Sometimes….we’re struck down…..God said…, but not destroyed that’s because we are always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus… that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body….Jesus died that we might live…They crucified him on the cross…..Blood came streaming down…….
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