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Fasting Day_1 - Opening Session

TITLE: GOD OUR HELPER AND THE IN WHOM WE RELY ON

SCRIPTURE: 2 Chronicles 14 but we focus on verse 11-15.

We read about King Asa who enjoyed a peaceful reign because he did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God (verse 2). He took the opportunity of the peaceful season to fortify the cities of Judah and remove all foreign alters and sacred stones of the false gods which other Kings before him established (verse 3-5).

We also read in verse 4, “He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey his laws and commands”. Just as Asa did I am here to charge you to seek the Lord this 21-days and even more the whole of this year. One beautiful phrase the you will read in the accounts of the Kings of Israel and Judah is that “so far as they sort the Lord God and obeyed him, they prospered and enjoyed peace”. This is what the Lord God promises us as his children.

As children of God, we are not immune to challenges. No one goes around looking for trouble, but as the word of God tell us in Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world…”, the devil will always find trouble for you as it came to Eve in the garden. In verse 9, King Asa was enjoying his peace when “Zerah the Cushite marched out against them with an army of thousands upon thousands and three hundred chariots” to fight Judah. What do you do when unannounced challenges begin knocking at your door?

In verse 11 we read that King Asa called on the Lord his God. This is how to respond to your enemies, even when you have the resources to fight back. Every battle we encounter God tells us it is his battle only if we will acknowledge and surrender it to Him. In 2 Chronicles 20, we also read how King Jehoshaphat fearing the three armies (Moabites, Amonites and Meunites) that were coming up against them, cried out to God for help. In these two accounts we see of God’s deliverance for his children.

We will cry out to God this 21-days in the same way “Help us, Lord our God, for we rely on you” (2 Chronicles 14:11). The battles of the immigrant can never be fought by your strength or your documentations or you knowing your right. Win the battle in the spirit world first and see how God turns it up in the physical. David told Goliath “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty…” (1 Samuel 17:45). Have faith my dear brother and sister, have faith for God will turn things around. Trust God and believe his word as you read it each day.

Shalom.