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JUNE 13TH SATURDAY SERVICE
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Sometimes while you are listening to me, God may speak to you. So be ready with your pen and book. God is good. We are going to learn about protection today. Four things I will draw your attention to you and two things I will explain Gods protection is in his word, Gods protection is in his will, Gods protection is in his promises, Gods protection is in the blood of Jesus We are going to learn at least two things today. Word and will. As time permits we will see if we can continue. Father God I pray that Your word will come alive today. Lord I pray that it will surpass my understanding and my ability and it will reach your children as it is in heaven so it be on earth. Lord I pray that You will surpass every opposition and You will speak to Your children. Let every word that comes out of my mouth be Your word and more than my voice let them hear You. Because one word from heaven will change their life. Holy spirit I ask You that You take charge of this moment and You will speak to everybody. Open everybody's heart, mind and their spiritual eyes so that they can understand what the will of God is.
God’s protection is in his word, God’s protection is in his will, God’s protection is in his promises, God’s protection is in the blood of Jesus. PROTECTION IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS When God sacrificed His blood on behalf of us it covered all our sins. Past present and future. So you are protected by the blood of Jesus and the sin against you does not exist against you anymore. Now I will go to Genesis 22. in this we will see that God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son. So what happens here is that this son is born after many many years. But God is suddenly saying that, God tested the faith and commitment of Abraham, Amplified bible says. God called his name ‘Abraham’ So when God calls you by name, He is seriously going to talk to you something. Watch out when He calls your name. Abraham says here I am. Now God says take your son, your only son of promise whom you love and go to the region of Moriah and offer him as a burnt offering.
So if I am in the place of Abraham, I will say, You gave me the son after years of water. Now you want me to let go of it? But here we see Abraham has no questions. Next verse Abraham gets up early in the morning, saddles his donkey and with tow of his servants and young son Issac and started for mount Moriah. Today out of the four things mainly I want to talk about being in the will of God
The safest place for you to be is in the will of God. Whether it is easy or difficult, whether you are comfortable or not, the only place that is where you are saved is the will of God. It took 3 days for Abraham to reach. And here they see there is no offering. Issac is asking, “father, I don’t see a lamb”. So Abraham says “God will provide”. now imagine for a moment on the mount, Abraham is about to kill his only son and only one thing that is telling him to do it is his trust in God. Its not comfortable, it is not easy to do. But he is in the will of God.
My first point is: When you are in the will of God, you will see God’s provision. Believe me if things are not moving for you, as if you are praying and praying and you are hitting against to wall and nothing is coming to pass, somewhere something is wrong. You are not in the will of God. Most of the time, we want to do what we want to do and we want God to bless it. Because somewhere we have little understanding of who God is, so we make a plan and then what we do. We want God’s power to come and rest on it. Sometimes it may work. May be by mistake we are in the will of God and we are doing it. But most of the time the provision does not come when you are not in the will of God. You will see a struggle, a constant struggle in your life if you are not understanding about Jehovah Jirah. So here God trades His own Son with Issac. Very important point that God is trading between Issac and Jesus. Taking Issac away and putting Jesus on that place. You see the ram. When Abraham started from home the ram started from his place. Ram doesn't climb otherwise to mount Moriah. Why that day the ram climbed was because God commanded it.
Write this down: When I am in the will of God, the moment I decide to obey, my provision starts to move from its origin.
The moment you decide to obey the Lord, your provision has already started to move towards you. So first point if you need financial provision, just check if you are in the will of God. The safest place is the will of God. The protected when you are in the will of God.
Now I will tell you a story of how you are protected when you are in the will of God. I will take you quickly to the story of kings Jehoshophat and Ahab. 2 Chronicles 18. Here Jehoshaphat is a good king. He had great wealth and honor. But suddenly he does something. He has alliance with Ahab who was a wicked king. How? Through marriage. Now let me tell you all of you. Married or unmarried. Marriage is an important decision in your life. Whom you get married can decide hell or heaven on earth for you. God is very good, even if you have made a wrong decision He can still work through it. But I request you, if you are unmarried look for the right partner. I am going to tell you the categories right now. Jehoshophat has everything that he need. He had good reputation too. Suddenly he decides let me have an alliance. Because alliance brings a lot of peace within the country. Sometime we compromise, that compromise can be very deadly. After the marriage he travels to meet Ahab.
Verse 3 3 Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth Gilead?” Note this down: A wrong alliance can take you and drag you into wrong battles in your life. You will be fighting battles that was not necessary at all till the time you come out of that alliance. This is powerful. You have to be very careful about your friends, the company that you sit and stand with, whom you get married to, whom you allow to speak into your life. In his heart Jehoshaphat knows that he should not go without asking God. So he asks Ahab, why don’t you ask the prophets whether we should go or not. Now as I was writing down characters I saw who king Jeshoshaphat was and who king Ahab was. Let me tell you, King Jehoshaphat was faithful, he walked in the ways of God, he taught people the law of God, he had great wealth and he feared God. Everything is according to the will of God. But then he is going ahead with Ahab to fight a battle that was not necessary. King Ahab was unrighteous, wicked, he opposed God all the time, he never worked with God, he turned the entire nation against God, his wife was Jezebel and he had very wrong counsel and he did everything that was wrong. Now a perfect king just because of an alliance goes with an imperfect king to fight a battle that was not required. Jehoshaphat replied, “I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will join you in the war.” 4 But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “First seek the counsel of the Lord.” 5 So the king of Israel brought together the prophets—four hundred men—and asked them, “Shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I not?” “Go,” they answered, “for God will give it into the king’s hand.”
So Ahab called his 400 prophets and all of them said Go ahead, Go ahead, you will win the battle. 400 people lying at the same time. Just because lot of people are telling the same thing, it doesn't mean it is the truth. There is something within God has placed in you, that is Holy Spirit. He has given you 6 sense that is common sense. He lives inside of your heart because he no longer leaves you cause Christ lives in you. So before believing the crowd, the mob whatever you are hearing, ask your heart. So Ahab is very happy 400 people lying to him, he is excited about the lie. As I told you Jehoshophat was someone who knew who God was. He says no, I am not satisfied, can you ask another prophet. So then one prophet whose name was Micha and he says
16 Then Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the Lord said, ‘These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.’” 17 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?” The king of Israel Ahab was furious hearing this. Because sometimes when people are completely deceived they don’t want to hear the truth. They cannot. Because if you are not hearing God, you will not be able to hear God from other person. So here what happens. 18 Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing on his right and on his left. 19 And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?’“One suggested this, and another that. 20 Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’“‘By what means?’ the Lord asked.21 “‘I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,’ he said.“‘You will succeed in enticing him,’ said the Lord. ‘Go and do it.’22 “So now the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths of these prophets of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster for you.” This is what I am going to warn you today. The safest place is the will of God. If God decides to fight you, you have nobody to save you. So here God sends the lying spirit so that this wicked king will be trapped and be dead. I want to tell you that when Jesus was sacrificed on the cross God’s anger was satisfied there. God decided that He is not going to be angry at the mankind anymore. God has a plan only to prosper you. But my friend, He cannot help you if you are not in His will. If this is the will of God an you are going that way He cannot help you. When God gave dominion to mankind, He deiced to give them will power and He will never mess up with the will power. He is only going to give you opportunity to choose. Everyday in your life you are going to get the opportunity to choose right or wrong. It is up to you what you choose. Let us see what happens next. Both the kings go in disguise. Interestingly thinking that now since we are going to defeat God we will disguise ourselves. So suddenly what happens, somebody is about to kill Jehoshaphat and Jehoshophat cries out to God and he gets saved. But the next moment king Ahab was killed. He was disguised but not in the will of God. No matter how much you want to hide, no matter how much you portray if you are not in the twill of God, you are not safe. No matter how weak you are, no mater how much you are struggling, you are in pain, but you are in the will of God, you are in the safe place. The result King Ahab gets killed just exactly the way Micah prophesied. I know God is speaking to you. God spoke to me today morning. Since morning God was telling me, this is going to be life changing for many. Spend time learning the spiritual fact. Your life will change forever. God has given every cl
