Fresh Manna 11 May
MEDITATION SCRIPTURE: “And the Amorites force the children of Dan into the mountain: for they will not suffer them to come down to the valley.” (Judg.1:34)
READ: JUDGES 1:34-36
34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountains, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
35 and the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in [a]Shaalbim; yet when the strength of the house of Joseph became greater, they [b]were put under tribute.
36 Now the boundary of the Amorites was from the Ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela, and upward.
The entire book of Judges seems to be the stories of a replaced Israel who intermittently entered into slavery in their own land. This was because they missed God’s pattern.
In all the battles they fought in the wilderness, during the era of Moses, they fought as a nation not as individual tribes. They against King Og of Bashan and king Sihon of the Amorites, who were great kings and great nations, but the united forces of Israel under the command of Joshua won great victories and dispossessed these nations of their lands (Numb.21:21-25).
The battle against Jericho was fought and won as a united force, but today we see a tribalistic, disintegrated Israel. We see the Amorites forcing the tribe of Dan to the mountains while they occupy the plains, what a tragedy.
Whenever God’s people deviate from divine patterns, they create loopholes for Satan to attack their liberty. Strange or ungodly patterns, no matter how fanciful and productive they may appeal at first, have a satanic mandate that must be carried out in the long run.
Giving the enemy no room means tracing your way back to the original pattern and abiding by it.
TURNING POINT: Whenever we deviate from divine patterns, we are giving Satan loophole to attack our liberty.
PRAYER POINT: Lord, help me to close up any loopholes that I may have opened up to the enemies in my life.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1KNG.14,15; Jn1:1-28
Thank you for studying today’s Fresh Manna (The Christian Pentecostal Mission International Daily Devotional) – Give No Room to the Enemy – written by REV. DR. O. EZEKIEL & REV. DR. M. EZEKIEL
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Fresh Manna 11 May 2021
