Bible Texts: Ezk.22:29-30, Lk.18:1, 1Thess.5:17, Rom.12:12, Ps.24:1-3, Jas.1:6-7, Jn.10:10, Gal.4:19, Jn.14:26, Heb.11:1-6
Extortion is rife, robbery is evidence, the poor and the needy are abused, outsiders are kicked around at will, with no access to justice. I look for someone to stand up for me against all this, to repair the defences of the city, to take a stand for me and stand in the gap to protect this land so I wouldn’t have to destroy it. I couldn’t find anyone. Not one. (Ezk.23:29-30) MSG
I want every husbandman to examine the above Scriptures in Ezekiel chapter 23 and verses 29 through to 30 and pick some truths that will enhance his mentality of who he is and walk in the reality of the enormous power that God deposited inside of him.
In Ezekiel chapter 23 and verses 29 to 30, the word of God says that there was injustice in the land. The poor and the needy were abused and there seemed to be no one to help them. Armed robbery was rampant. Those who had valuable treasures lost them to thieves. God was not pleased and He went searching for someone that will stand in the gap. And who was God looking for? He was looking for the custodian of the city, the priest. If you consider the word of God in Jn.10:10, it clearly captures the type of calamity that befell the city of God. The thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy…… (Jn.10:10a). All the negative events that occurred in Ezk.22:30 led to the three cardinal assignments of the devil- to steal, to kill and to destroy.
Now as the priest over your wife and children, you may have observed continuous strife in your home. You may have also experienced emotional, mental, material and physical losses. It may appear as though your wife and children are being tossed around like sheep without a shepherd. It could be that your wife and children are being harassed by the devil and yet it seems you are at a loss as regards what to do. You have even concluded that there is no hope.
God is saying to you not to give up. Don’t throw in the towel. God wants you to stand strong in His word and in faith. God is challenging you today to know that He wants to intervene but He needs you to be available. God wants you to stand in the gap. He doesn’t want satan to have the final say.
But how do I stand in the gap as a priest? To stand in the gap means to intercede in prayers for your wife and children until Christ is formed in them and to enforce the perfect will of God for your home (Gal.4:19). The prayer altar is the platform God has provided for you to receive power from on high to dislodge satan, sin and worldly influences in and around your life, wife, children and home. And so, you must keep your prayer altar burning (Lk.18:1).
You must also pray to God with faith in your heart. This is because access to God and receiving anything from Him is triggered by faith (Heb.11:6, Jas.1:6-7).
To stand in the gap in prayers also requires you to make inquiries from God about what could be responsible for the negative and unpleasant happenings in your life and in the lives of your wife and children, and this you can do by the help of the Person of the Holy Spirit (Ps.24:1-3, Jn.14:26). God has all the answers and when He shows you the cause, He also empowers you to be victorious.
Therefore, don’t watch your life, the lives of your wife, children and home disintegrate. Stand in the gap and take charge because that is where your honour is as the good and godly husbandman.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, baptize me with the gate keeper’s anointing to watch over my wife, children and home.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, destroy the power of fear and doubt in my life and empower me to walk by faith.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to walk in holiness and in Your fear.
FAITH CONFESSION
I am an anointed intercessor for my wife, children and my home and I give myself to the demands of an intercessor because that is what makes me the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.
Force of Change 2022/2023: 70 Days of Fasting with Prayers
- PRAYER FOR HEALTH AND VITALITY (17TH JAN TO 26TH JAN 2023)
2Kgs.20:5, 2Chro.7:14, Ps.60:2, Is.57:19, Jer.17:14, Gen.20:17, Ex.15:26, Ps.147:3, Is.30:26, Mk.9:35, Gen.43:28, Pro.4:22, Jer.33:6, 3Jn:2, Ps.16:24, Lk.6:18
Day 36
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, preserve my life from the pestilence that flies in darkness
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, deliver us from every form of medical miscalculations and errors
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, make me flourish like a palm tree, in my spirit, soul and body
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Bro. Ebenezer O. Igure
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