*“So David inquired of the LORD, saying,
"Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?" And He answered him,
"Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all." (1
Samuel 30:8 NKJV)*
While David
and his men went to ally themselves with Achish the King of Gath under the
lords of the Philistines in battle against their brethren, the Amalekites
invaded their city, Ziklag, burned it with fire and took captive all their
families and carried them away *(1 Sam.
30:1-3). *
When you also choose to be unequally
yoked with the unbelievers, or to ally yourself with the devil to judge,
accuse, condemn, betray, or oppose God’s children; you will become
vulnerable to your enemy and you stand the risk of losing your
inheritance.
Having been rejected by the lords of the
Philistines, David and his men returned to Ziklag, but alas, Ziklag had been
burned with fire and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been
taken captive.
Seeing the tragedy that had befallen
them, *“David and the people who were with him lifted up their
voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep” (1 Sam. 30:4
NKJV). *
Although David was greatly distressed
and the people were speaking of stoning him to death, yet he strengthened
himself in the LORD his God.
How did David strengthen
himself in the LORD His God when he had lost all his physical strength in
weeping over his losses?
By refocusing or resetting his mind
on the LORD his God!
Though David was physically and
emotionally exhausted, yet he began to meditate upon God’s promises, love,
faithfulness, kindness, and goodness towards him in the past. David looked
away from the ruins and losses he could see in the physical realm and fixed
his eyes on the greatness, awesomeness, and the power of God to do the
impossible.
That is how to strengthen yourself in the LORD
your God when you are in a distress!
Having being
strengthened in his inner man by focusing or fixing his mind on the LORD his
God, David then began to pray and seek for God’s guidance.
The Scripture records in *1 Samuel 30: *
* 7 Then David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son,
"Please bring the ephod here to me." And Abiathar brought the ephod to
David.*
* 8 So David inquired of the LORD, saying,
"Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?" And He answered him,
"Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all."
(NKJV).*
Sadly, many believers today, unlike David, only stop at weeping and
mourning over their losses, defeats, failures or tragedies in life. They
would not strengthen themselves in the LORD their God by looking away from
the losses, ruins, defeats, failures or tragedies they could see in the
natural realm to focus and meditate on God’s love, faithfulness, kindness
and power towards them as David did.
Having received the
divine mandate and marching orders to pursue the Amalekites troop and recover
all that the troop had taken captive and carry away from them, David and six
hundred men set out in pursuit.
But when they came to the
Brook Besor, two hundred men stayed behind who were so weary, faint or
exhausted that they could not cross the Brook. Therefore, they were left
behind at the Brook to recuperate or regain their strength.
However, David and the four hundred men who had strengthened themselves in
the LORD their God pursued still. These four hundred men, under the apostolic
leadership of David, who though physically exhausted like others yet refused
to stop, give up, or turn back until they had overtaken their enemies and
recovered all that had taken from them are “the Restoration Army.”
The Church today needs such men!
During the
Dark Ages of the Church when the Church leadership allied herself with the
world, Satan did exactly what the Amalekites did to Ziklag when David and his
men allied themselves with the Philistines.
Satan and his
host of darkness invaded the Church, took many souls captive, kindled strange
fire on God’s altar, defiled and drowned all the spiritual heritages and
legacies bequeathed to the Church by the early apostolic fathers.
Sound doctrines of Christ were replaced with vain and empty
fables, traditions, and religious rites. Many of God’s servants also began
to burn and run with strange passions and selfish ambitions.
However, from the 15th century God began to stir up the
hearts of some true believers in the Church to put out the strange fire the
devil had kindled in the Church, to set free the captives of the devil, and
to pursue and recover all the spiritual truths that the devil had drowned in
religious lies and rites. God began to restore the Fivefold Ministry gifts to
the Church in reverse order of the list recorded in Ephesians 4 v 11, because
we had made them hierarchical and put the Apostoic at the top of the list in
order of importance. God started with the Teaching ministry through the
revelation given to Martin Luther and his discoveery ...."That the just shall
live by faith".
Today, one of the most powerful retorational truths that the Spirit of God
is bringing to His Church is the revelation of the Church's true identity as
Jesus prescious Bride.
We are now in tbne Season of the BRide!
Rev 22 v 17 says "Let the Spirit and the Bride cry Come!". This is the cry
that only the Bride can cry. Understanding our true identity will qualify us
to cry that cry that will then release Jesus from heaven for the rapture of
the Saints.
Revelation 19 v 7 tells us that one day
"The Bride will have made herself ready. Let us rejoice
and be glad and give Him the glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His Bride has made Herself
ready".
LET US MAKE OURSELVES READY.
78 ”
Obviously, there is still need for further and deeper reformation in the
Church today. Therefore, God is raising a new breed of believers without
greed to put out every strange fire of false teachings in the Church, to
deliver the captives of the devil, and to recover all the lost souls,
spiritual truths and territories.
Beloved, what are you
going to do about the invasion, intrusion or incursion of false teachers and
prophets into the Church with strange and demonic doctrines that promote
division, worldliness, greediness, ungodliness, carnality and lusts?
Are you just going to take sides with the devil to cast stones
of accusation and blame on Church leaders as unwise people wanted to do to
David in those days?
It is not enough to weep and mourn over
the present terrible spiritual and moral condition of the Church. David and
his men didn’t just weep and mourn over the tragedy that had befallen them.
They also took some decisive actions as directed by God.
God
is raising in our generation an army of restoration, an apostolic people, a
new company of reformers, to pursue and recover all the spiritual truths and
legacies that were lost during the dark ages of the Church. The Body and the
Bride Network Ministry carries the mandate to be like John rthe Baptist and
..."Prepare rthe way for the Lord". This time He is coming as the Bridegroom
King!
Our mandate is to unity His Body as ONE and to explain to Her, Her Bridal
identity.
Will you join us in that specific and holy calling?
We
are a part of God’s restoration army and we will not stop at any brooks of
personal comfort, but will press forward until there is a mighty revival or
reformation in the Church that will usher in a great harvest of lost souls
into God’s kingdom and " complete the number of the gentile and my people
Israel. It also will prepare a glorious Church as a Bride for Christ to come
for!
Friend, let us arise today like the mighty men of David
from our brooks of personal comfort to give ourselves continually to
soul-winning, to spiritual warfare, to intercession, to exhortation and
propagation of the wholesome word, teaching or doctrine of Christ.
These are the days of battles. We must not be like the children
of Ephraim who being armed and carrying bows, yet turned back in the day of
battle *(Psa. 78:9).*
Many souls and
destinies are at stake. Therefore, you should not be at ease in Zion,
watching the incursion of the devil and his agents into the Church.
God is saying to you today, *"Pursue, for you shall
surely overtake them and without fail recover all." (1 Sam. 30:8
NKJV).*
*Prayer: *
*My Dear Heavenly Father, I praise You today for the Restoration
Army you are raising now in the Church. I enrol today in Your end-time
Restoration Army that will pursue, overtake and recover all the spiritual
truths and legacies that the Church has lost, in Jesus’ name.
Amen.*
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