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From today's reading, we discover that enlargement doesn't just come. A casting out must happen before enlargement can be possible, and in Israel's case, the nations had to be cast out. The nations were the occupants of the land that God had promised Israel to take up.At the time of this promise, those lands were still…
(24) For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.Exo 34:24 · KJV
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we see Jesus describing Himself as "he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth". In contemporary English, the word, "openeth" becomes "opens"; and the word, "shutteth" becomes "shuts". These two words are in the present continuous tense.The implication is that…
May His blessings on us be permanent in Jesus mighty name! The scripture above reveals 2 church locations. One was the church at Jerusalem, and the other, the church at Antioch.The church at Jerusalem was the 'mother' church and the one at Antioch had just started waxing strong. Earlier in that chapter, the bible give…
I thank God for His compassion and mercies towards us, they endure from generation to generation. we take a look at the consequence of breaking covenants. In the verse above, we see that every covenant involves an oath, and this oath is the most respected component in the covenant. As a matter of fact, despising or di…
This Scripture begins and ends with questions. Looking at both questions interchangeably, we discover that the prey is also a lawful captive. A lawful captive is an individual who is legitimately in bondage, a bondage backed up by a law.It's very interesting to note that there are laws backing captivity, laws that com…
We discovered that every enlargement is an elevation, and every elevation shows a demotion of someone somewhere. In the reading above, Noah pronounces a blessing and an enlargement on 2 of his sons and a demotion on the 3rd son. Notice that for each of the blessed sons, the cursed son was demoted to be a servant.There…
He promised to open our eyes to see heavenly realms provided we maintained our confession. Though the Holy Spirit moved, I discovered that each time I laid hands on someone, I felt the power of God bouncing off from their bodies, It wasn't actually getting into them but was rather rubbing off their bodies. In my worri…
The double portion is a scriptural prescription for a cheated child/servant of God. The bible for instance says that when a thief steals property kept in a neighbor's custody and gets caught, he's made to repay double for the theft. The bible equally says that when the children of Israel sinned against God and cheated…
The verse above begins with a condition, "if", a word we see scattered all over the word of God. We can see from the above verse that God is always willing and ready to rise up on our behalf and prosper us provided we meet up with specific conditions. Let's take a look at certain implications from that verse.The sleep…
