Sunday, September 23, 2012

GOD ALWAYS FIGHTS for HIS CHILDREN!!!!!!!




I talk to a lot of folks when I go places, and sometimes we talk about God, and sometimes we don’t!!!



Of course, I can’t say much without talking about God and most people who know me understand that!!!!



The one subject that I hear more and more about lately is the end of the world!!!   Most folks know that we are truly in the last days!!!!



And most folks know exactly who the Children of Israel are!!!!  



As a matter of fact over the years, I have never been asked who I was talking about when I have spoken of the Children of Israel!!!



More likely than NOT folks will say, “Those folks are the Jews aren’t they?”  Or someone will say, “They are God's chosen people!!!” 




Of course, there are always those that say,
“If we have to go to war, I want to be on their side because I know that God is going to fight for HIS people!!!”




And you know, those people are absolutely correct!!!




WHEN GOD’S CHILDREN CRY OUT TO HIM, HE IS COMING TO FIGHT FOR THEM!!!!!!!




Do you know that in one battle God threw hailstones down from Heaven on the enemies of The Children of Israel???



Through trickery and deceit the men of Gibeon (the Hivites) made peace with the Children of Israel and when a great army came to attack them they sent for Joshua and the Children of Israel.


Joshua 10:1-6 (CEV)

1 King Adonizedek of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured and destroyed the town of Ai, and then killed its king as he had done at Jericho. He also learned that the Gibeonites had signed a peace treaty with Israel.

This frightened Adonizedek and his people. They knew that Gibeon was a large town, as big as the towns that had kings, and even bigger than the town of Ai had been. And all of the men of Gibeon were warriors.

So Adonizedek sent messages to the kings of four other towns: King Hoham of Hebron, King Piram of Jarmuth, King Japhia of Lachish, and King Debir of Eglon. The messages said,

“The Gibeonites have signed a peace treaty with Joshua and the Israelites. Come and help me attack Gibeon!”

When these five Amorite kings called their armies together and attacked Gibeon,

the Gibeonites sent a message to the Israelite camp at Gilgal: “Joshua, please come and rescue us! The Amorite kings from the hill country have joined together and are attacking us. We are your servants, so don’t let us down. Please hurry!”



Joshua 10:7-11 (NKJV)

So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.

And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand; not a man of them shall stand before you.”

Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly, having marched all night from Gilgal.

10 So the Lord routed them before Israel, killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, chased them along the road that goes to Beth Horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

11 
And it happened, as they fled before Israel and were on the descent of Beth Horon, that the Lord cast down large hailstones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword.




Did you know that God made the sun stand still that same day???



Joshua 10:12-14 (NKJV)

12 Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel:


“Sun, stand still over Gibeon;
And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”

13 So the sun stood still,
And the moon stopped,
Till the people had revenge
Upon their enemies.

Is
this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.

14 And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the Lord heeded the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel.




Have you ever read about
the time that The Philistines gathered together to fight Israel and God thundered down out of Heaven against them???


1 Samuel 7:7-13 (NKJV)

Now when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel had gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

So the children of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”

And Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Then Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.

10 Now as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But the Lord thundered with a loud thunder upon the Philistines that day, and so confused them that they were overcome before Israel.

11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and drove them back as far as below Beth Car.

12 Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”

13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they did not come anymore into the territory of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.




When Ben-Hadad’s siege against Samaria caused a great famine in the land, the Lord caused the Syrians to hear the sound of a great army and run away in terror!!!  They were so scared that they left ALL their belongings behind them!!! 



2 Kings 7:3-12 (NKJV)

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?

If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die.”

And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise no one was there.

For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses—the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!”

Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact—their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—and they fled for their lives.

And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried from it silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back and entered another tent, and carried some from there also, and went and hid it.

Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore, come, let us go and tell the king’s household.”

10 So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, saying, “We went to the Syrian camp, and surprisingly no one was there, not a human sound—only horses and donkeys tied, and the tents intact.”

11 And the gatekeepers called out, and they told it to the king’s household inside.

12  So the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “Let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.’”



2 Kings 7:13-15 (CEV)

13 One of his officers replied, “We have a few horses left—why don’t we let some men take five of them and go to the Syrian camp and see what’s happening? We’re going to die anyway like those who have already died.”

14 They found two chariots, and the king commanded the men to find out what had happened to the Syrian troops.

15 The men rode as far as the Jordan River. All along the way they saw clothes and equipment that the Syrians had thrown away as they escaped. Then they went back to the king and told him what they had seen.



2 Kings 7:16 (NKJV) Then the people went out and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.




We can see that THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY is always watching over HIS CHILDREN, especially HIS CHOSEN ONES, The Children of Israel!!!  They did NOT even have to fight this enemy!!!! 



They ONLY had to wait upon THE LORD in order to see HIS SALVATION AND DELIVERANCE!!!



GOD ALWAYS TAKES CARES OF HIS KIDS!!!! 



Hide and watch!!!! 


If you dare!!!

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