The King Jehoshaphat’s Strategy Pastor Estuardo Bran Guatemala, April 28th. Year of Abundance
When we talk about abundance, we need to consider that in some times we can receive abundances that are not from God, for that reason we need to be cautious about what we are receiving; maybe, we can receive an abundance of sin, which we reject in every moment, in the name of Jesus. Let’s see this verse, which is going to be the base for the following study: 1Co 16:9 (KJV) For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. We may receiving the abundance from God, but the enemy can raise up to destroy ourselves completely; this battle against defeated enemies, also making war in any moment, so we cannot move forward and reach all that God called us to be and carry it to his church. Thanks God, we are with him. He takes care of us, so the enemy cannot be the lord of our life; here we are properly trained, so we can have the best strategy because He is the best strategist excellence; therefore, we need to follow him and walk like he, so we can have victory in the wars that we fight in the name of Jesus. Inside the kingdom of heavens we can see that there is a heavenly army, which are attentive to help us in the battle that we are fighting; for that reason God has left us spiritual weapons that we need to use in a properly way., so the enemy cannot come to take advantage of our lack of knowledge. Because the enemy will not miss a single opportunity to defeat; so we need to be properly shielded or properly coated because if we have a dress that does not correspond simply the enemy we will be easy prey; obviously this is what we need to learn to teach the bride of Christ as the Bible says: Eph 6:11 (KJV) Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. One of the military tactics used by the devil, is: the tactic of deception. the question then It would be: Have you ever been disappointed?, because if so, it is because the enemy has been launching his attack and we are not properly dressed in the armor of God and when he see that we have a crack through which can weaken, there will continue his attack. If we are aware at some point that we have a fissure, a wound in the soul; It is better we get before God that we may be restored, and be healed then left only a scar to remember that even being in armor, we could have a wound that at some point the devil can detect and, as I said before, continue his attack for not equally respond to the attack. One of the ways we can have a crack, is when we do not recognize coverage ministerial as happened with the giants of Canaan; the Israelites saw that they had that weakness and was as achieved victory over them; but then that we should teach that if do not recognize authority, the devil will see this weakness and have dominion over our lives. He has a problem with this, if we are in that condition, God will not allow us to face our giants, consequently not enter Canaan because that is where the giants are; giants face until we recognize authority. Another point we need to consider is that if we defeat enemies in part; at worst possible time and return with greater force. In the Bible, we see that one of the Israel partially defeated enemies is the king of Aram, whose name means haughtiness and pride. That means we have not defeated enemies are completely precisely haughtiness and pride with which we arrested
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The King Jehoshaphat’s Strategy Pastor Estuardo Bran Guatemala, April 28th. Year of Abundance
the blessings that God has for us, our ministry, family, life and for the whole congregation; but if we take the moment of humiliation, that enemy will not rise again. However, we need to test our lives, because if we beat those already enemies; it could be that after a while back, and if we are not on guard, we will be surprised and vanquished. But, how can we be on guard? Allowing truly we die to our ego, because at any moment could return the pride and the haughtiness. So God told Israel to watch his heart not be proud when multiply their silver; that means we must not let our heart be lifted believing that if we have reached, have revealed word, is not because we are very dexterous with the Bible; the reality is that if we have revealed word is because God is infinitely good and is constantly visiting our life. 2Ch 20:1-2 (KJV) It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi. One of the first things that we see in this quote is that enemies can walk in unit; while God's people sometimes are attacking each one to another; so in our disunity enemies are strengthening. What force we can have when being attacked but we live in? No real unity, so it is vital, there is unity of spirit and love among us. On the other hand we see that at some point the enemies came against Jehoshaphat crowd. That word can be translated as abundance, so we said at the beginning that the abundance could come from God, but also from darkness. Also, we can see that Hazezontamar means: division of palms; teaching that the enemy, which seeks to deliver its abundance is the division among the children of God. 2Ch 20:3 (KJV) And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. Notice what it was that made the king to fear he had when he faced his adversaries were He humiliated. That is why God sometimes allows adversaries to reach our lives because of soon it turns out that we forget that we are dependent on God, we forget that we need to be in constant prayer with God; We forget what sheep are grazing, they are feeling; but as God is abundantly merciful, allows arriving enemies and that is when we started to cry before the face of God. Not forget that the strategy before the attacks of our enemies is humiliation and fasting. When we speak of fasting, we can remember what the Book of the Prophet Isaiah says: Isa 58:6-7 (KJV) Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? However we also need to see that the term fasting means that we close our mouth, It leads us to think that if we do it we prevent our lives from pollution, because sometimes we fall into the mistake of saying that is not what goes into the mouth defiles, but what comes out; but we stop to think not to go out that pollution must first enter and contaminate our interior, so that it could not help, we can help us closing our mouths, does not only mean the fact of not eating, but also
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we close the ears to the gossip, close our eyes to what we should not see, close our heart to hatred, so our love not mengue. Another thing to what we can serve the fast is to remove toxins and poisons we can bring in the heart or soul and that we have not noticed; because the problem is often we give us aware that the snake has bitten us until it expresses the fact that we do not want to recognize coverage, although there are many other demonstrations, perhaps that's the main thing. From this we can then conclude the importance of spiritual fasting, because if we recognize that the enemy at some point could glad we cheated, we also know that we are contaminated. It is best to fast by abstaining from contamination or even more, we can be ridding ourselves of all toxin and relocate, allowing God wills humiliation and it is then that the way is a purification in our heart and soul.
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