WHAT DO YOU SEE? - Part 2

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For SUNDAY, 2ND APRIL, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: WHAT DO YOU SEE? – Part 2

MEMORIZE: “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.” — Isa 6:1 (NKJV)

SCRIPTURE READING: 2 Kings 7:5-7.

“5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there. 6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. 7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.”

EXPOSITION:

What did you see? What you see has effects directly or indirectly over your life. It can either give you joy or sorrow. It can make you victor or victim. It can either improve you or demoralize you. What you see remain in your mental faculty either for future honor or revenge. Many people lost their hope in recovery because of what they have seen. What we see or hear is life builder – either positively or negatively.

Let us examine what happened to the Syrian army through what they thought they heard. How the siege of Samaria was taken away early in the morning, at the edge of night (2Ki 7:6,7), not by might or power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts, striking terror upon the spirits of the besiegers.  There was not a sword drawn against them, not a drop of bloodshed, it was not by thunder or hail-stones that they were discomfited, nor were they slain, as Sennacherib's army before Jerusalem, by a destroying angel; but, the Lord made them to hear a noise of chariots and horses. The Syrians that besieged Dothan had their sight imposed upon, 2Ki 6:18. These had their hearing imposed upon. For God knows how to work upon every sense, pursuant to his own counsels as he makes the hearing ear and the seeing eye, so he makes the deaf and the blind, Ex 4:11.  Whether the noise was really made in the air by the ministry of angels, or whether it was only a sound in their ears, is not certain; which soever it was, it was from God, who both brings the wind out of his treasures, and forms the spirit of man within him. The sight of horses and chariots had encouraged the prophet's servant, 2Ki 6:17. The noise of horses and chariots terrified the hosts of Syria. For notices from the invisible world are either very comfortable or very dreadful, according as men are at peace with God or at war with him. 

 

Hearing this noise, they concluded the king of Israel had certainly procured assistance from some foreign power: He has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians. There was, for aught we know, but one king of Egypt, and what kings there were of the Hittites nobody can imagine; but, as they were imposed upon by that dreadful sound in their ears, so they imposed upon themselves by the interpretation they made of it. Had they supposed the king of Judah to have come with his forces, there would have been more of probability in their apprehensions than to dream of the kings of the Hittites and the Egyptians. If the fancies of any of them raised this spectre, yet their reasons might soon have laid it: how could the king of Israel, who was closely besieged, hold intelligence with those distant princes? What had he to hire them with? It was impossible but some notice would come, before, of the motions of so great a host; but there were they in great fear where no fear was. 

 

Hereupon they all fled with incredible precipitation, as for their lives, left their camp as it was: even their horses, that might have hastened their flight, they could not stay to take with them, 2Ki 7:7. None of them had so much sense as to send out scouts to discover the supposed enemy, much less courage enough to face the enemy, though fatigued with a long march. The wicked flee when none pursues. God can, when he pleases, dispirit the boldest and most brave, and make the stoutest heart to tremble. Those that will not fear God he can make to fear at the shaking of a leaf. What do you see or hear that set you on the run? Hand it over to God today for timely intervention.

PRAYER POINT: 

I. Lord, I renounce all manipulated vision from the pit of hell against me & destiny in the name of Jesus Christ. 

II. I receive grace to be seeing the vision of heavenly glory and of my blessed destiny in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  1 Kings 4-6.

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