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by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Beloved,
God always comes through for those who look up to Him and depend on Him for everything
because He is the strength of their lives. Please read 1st Samuel
Chapter 15 verse 17. King Hezekiah and the people of Judah turned to God for
help when besieged by Sennecherib and his unstoppable conquistador army that
had pillaged the nations around them. Sennecherib and his army threatened
Judah, insulted Hezekiah and the people of Judah and even dared to ask the
people of Judah not to allow Hezekiah deceive them. Hezekiah was resolute and this
made Sennecherib wonder as to who and what Hezekiah’s powerbase was. Rather
than truly inquire and walk with Hezekiah’s God, Sennecherib and the leadership
of his army dared to speak against God, telling the people not to believe
Hezekiah and that God was incapable of saving them.
God
heard every folly uttered by Sennecherib and the leadership of his supposedly
unstoppable army. Unfortunately for them, God sent one angel who single
handedly wiped out one hundred and eight five thousand soldiers in one night.
As if that was not enough, Sennecherib was killed by his two sons in the house
of his god; ironically while he was worshipping the god he boasted about, his
supposedly powerbase whom he claimed gave him power to conquer the nations and
was going to hand over Judah to him on a platter of gold. But unknown to
Sennecherib, the leadership of his army and his numerous soldiers; Judah
strength was in God the Creator and Owner of the Universe and to Whom,
everything and everyone submits.
Judah
then, which appeared small, weak and insignificant emerged a very strong
nation; even without shooting a single arrow; without even showing up at the
battlefield. Please read Isaiah Chapters 36 to 38.
Zerah
the Ethiopian with his well-equipped and his numerically strong army of over a
million soldiers and chariots came up against Judah’s army of just three
hundred thousand soldiers armed with shields and spears. Under the leadership
of King Asa who chose to look up God and depend on God for everything, God
routed the Ethiopian army. Many of them were killed while the loot from that
military campaign further enriched the Judeans.
Beloved,
to be in God and to trust Him completely as well as depend on Him for
everything is great strength and wisdom which makes a person, a family, an
institution, a community, a nation and a people strong and wise. Please read
Numbers Chapters 23 to 24 for what Balaam said about the nation of Israel when
he could not curse them because God restrained him from doing so.
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