MFM Devotional 27 January 2023: When God Fights For You 2
Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional 27th January 2023
Read and study Today’s MFM Daily Devotional January 27, 2023. God bless you as you meditate, Amen.
TOPIC: WHEN GOD FIGHTS FOR YOU (II).
Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya(DKO)
Bible In One Year:
Exodus 16–18; Matthew 18:1–20
Memory Verse: Psalm 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Motivational Quotes:
Who can battle with the Lord? There is absolutely nobody!
Prophetic Word for Today:
God shall cause your enemies to return the way they came, in the Name of Jesus.
Fire Scripture: 2 Chronicles 20:1-30
20 Later, the Moabites, the Ammonites, and some Meunites came to start a war with Jehoshaphat. 2 Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “There is a large army coming against you from Edom. They are coming from the other side of the Dead Sea. They are already in Hazazon Tamar!” (Hazazon Tamar is also called En Gedi.) 3 Jehoshaphat became afraid, and he decided to ask the Lord what to do. He announced a time of fasting for everyone in Judah. 4 The people of Judah came together to ask the Lord for help. They came from out of all the towns of Judah to ask for the Lord’s help. 5 Jehoshaphat was in the new courtyard of the Lord’s Temple. He stood up in the meeting of the people from Judah and Jerusalem 6 and said,
“Lord God of our ancestors, you are the God in heaven. You rule over all the kingdoms in all the nations. You have power and strength. No one can stand against you. 7 You are our God! You forced the people living in this land to leave. You did this in front of your people Israel. You gave this land to the descendants of Abraham forever. Abraham was your friend. 8 His descendants lived in this land, and built a Temple for your name. 9 They said, ‘If trouble comes to us—the sword, punishment, sicknesses, or famine—we will stand in front of this Temple and in front of you. Your name is on this Temple. We will shout to you when we are in trouble. Then you will hear and save us.’
10 “But now, here are men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir. You would not let the Israelites enter their lands when they came out of Egypt. So the Israelites turned away and didn’t destroy them. 11 But see the kind of reward those people give us for not destroying them. They have come to force us out of your land that you gave to us. 12 Our God, punish those people. We don’t have the strength to stop this large army that is coming against us. We don’t know what to do! We are looking to you for help.”
13 All the men of Judah stood before the Lord with their wives, babies, and children. 14 Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jahaziel son of Zechariah. (Zechariah was the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah.) Jahaziel was a Levite from the family of Asaph. In the middle of the meeting, 15 Jahaziel said, “Listen to me King Jehoshaphat and everyone living in Judah and Jerusalem! The Lord says this to you: ‘Don’t be afraid or worry about this large army, because the battle is not your battle. It is God’s battle! 16 Tomorrow, they will come up through the Ziz Pass. You must go down to them. You will find them at the end of the valley on the other side of the desert of Jeruel. 17 You will not have to fight this battle. Just stand there and watch the Lord save you. Judah and Jerusalem, don’t be afraid. Don’t worry, because the Lord is with you. So go out to stand against those people tomorrow.’”
18 Jehoshaphat bowed with his face to the ground. And all the people of Judah and Jerusalem bowed down before the Lord and worshiped him. 19 The Levites from the Kohath family groups and the Korah family stood up to praise the Lord, the God of Israel. They sang very loudly.
20 Early the next morning, Jehoshaphat’s army went out into the desert of Tekoa. As they marched out, Jehoshaphat stood there saying, “Listen to me, men of Judah and Jerusalem. Have faith in the Lord your God, and you will stand strong! Have faith in his prophets, and you will succeed!”
21 Jehoshaphat encouraged the men and gave them instructions. Then he had the Temple singers stand up in their special clothes to praise the Lord. They marched in front of the army and sang,
“Give thanks to the Lord!
His faithful love will last forever.”
22 As they began to sing and to praise God, the Lord set an ambush for the army from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come to attack Judah. The enemy was defeated! 23 The Ammonites and the Moabites started to fight the men from Mount Seir. After they killed them, the Ammonites and Moabites turned on themselves and killed each other.
24 The men from Judah arrived at the lookout point in the desert. They looked for the enemy’s large army, but all they saw were dead bodies lying on the ground. There were no survivors. 25 Jehoshaphat and his army came to take things from the bodies. They found many animals, riches, clothes, and other valuable things. It was more than Jehoshaphat and his men could carry away. There was so much that they spent three days taking everything from the dead bodies. 26 On the fourth day Jehoshaphat and his army met in the Valley of Beracah. They praised the Lord. That is why people still call that place, “The Valley of Beracah.”
27 All the men from Judah and Jerusalem were very happy as they marched back to Jerusalem with Jehoshaphat in the front. The Lord made them very happy when he defeated their enemy. 28 They entered Jerusalem with lyres, harps, and trumpets and went to the Temple of the Lord.
29 People in all the surrounding kingdoms became afraid of God when they heard that the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel. 30 That is why there was peace for Jehoshaphat’s kingdom—his God brought him rest from the enemies that were all around him.
Praise & Worship
MFM Daily Devotional 27 January 2023 Message:
God is the Defender of His people. Therefore, when He fights for you, your victory is sure. The Bible is full of many of such instances. Today, let us see God fighting for His children using another strategy.
In today’s Fire Scripture, God instructed King Jehoshaphat to ask his people to proceed to war. However, the arrangement was strange and contrary to human battle strategies. Awesome God! He asked that singers go before the warriors. What an awkward way to arrange the army for battle! Here is another instance to show that it does not matter how awkward, strange or unfamiliar the Word of the Lord sounds, you must obey (v 20). He is the Alpha and Omega! He knows the end from the beginning.
Mysteriously, while the singers went on singing, God Himself laid ambush for the enemies. Beyond human reasoning, the enemies “helped to destroy one another.” Two groups were against one, and later, the two against themselves. The children of Judah did not fight at all. It was God that fought on their behalf. They were not just victorious, but spent three days in taking the spoils. Amazing! This could only be God!
I decree upon your life that your enemies shall destroy themselves by the power of the Almighty, in the Name of Jesus.
In the book of Acts12:10-17, God assigned an angel to bring Peter out of jail. The angel of the Lord didn’t have to struggle with the security system or the soldiers. God has the key that locks and unlocks! Even the doors opened to them of their own accord! No power could stop them!
God shall send you angelic assistance to provoke your deliverance, in the Name of Jesus:
God is still in the business of fighting for His children. However, God’s children must not put their hands in sin, nor dwell in iniquity, else it might look like God’s Hand is too short to deliver them (Isaiah 58:1-8).
Don’t trust in the arm of flesh, neither lean on your own strength. Obey God completely. Remember to call upon God in prayer as Jehoshaphat and the children of Judah did.
PRAYER POINTS FOR 27TH JANUARY 2023:
MORNING
1. Coalition of demonic powers assigned to destroy me, destroy yourselves, in the Name of Jesus.
2. By Your Name JAH, O God, let my enemies encounter Your wrath and anger, in the Name of Jesus.
3. Enemies of my peace and joy, what are you waiting for? Receive double trouble, in the Name of Jesus.
EVENING
4. Triangular enemies, face yourselves and destroy yourselves, in the Name of Jesus.
5. Powers assigned to mock my God, O God, arise and put them to open shame; in the Name of Jesus.
6. Weapons of the enemy, fight against them and destroy them, in the Name of Jesus.
7. The Lord of Host and Man of war, arise and let all people know that You are my Defender, in the Name of Jesus.
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