DIVINE CHAMPION II-
17/02/2014
Yesterday’s message
was titled “DIVINE CHAMPION I”. Today’s message is titled“DIVINE
CHAMPION II” as given by Pastor E. A. Adeboye in Open Heavens
Devotional (Adeboye, 2014). In today’s message, we have been asked to
memorise lsaiah 40:31 “
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they
shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary; and they
shall walk, and not faint” and read
Isaiah 40:28-31
. The Bible in one year reading for today has been taken from
Isaiah 49 to
51 and
Psalm 40:1 -10
(Adeboye,
2014).
Quoted below is the
message. God bless you richly as you contribute to today's discussion
"Yesterday we
discovered that our Lord Jesus Christ is the number one champion and that He
makes His people champions. We saw also that a divine champion is a person
raised up and supported by God. One attribute of a champion is strength.
The divine champion is one who receives divine strengthening. 1
Samuel 2:9 says by strength (i.e. human ability) shall no man
prevail. The required divine strength for success, achievement, getting to
the top etc is supplied to the divine champion by God. Hannah, who by
inspiration of the Holy Spirit proclaimed those words in prayers, had
that experience. She became a champion by divine strengthening. She
received strength to put an end to her barrenness, thus her shame and
reproach were taken away. Every barren child of God using this devotional
1* right now, today marks that turning point in the story of your life; the
strength for conception comes into you . right now in Jesus‘ Name. Having delivered
our first three children by caesarean section, by this same divine
strengthening, my wife safely delivered our fourth child by herself
contrary to the expert's opinion.The Lord who did it for us will do it
for you.
By the time divine
strength came upon Elijah the divine champion, He ran on foot ahead of the
king's chariot to the city of Jezreel (1 Kings18:46). Thus, the divine champion
is always physically strong in his body - no room for sickness at all.
Though it was by divine ability that David tore both the lion and the bear
while shepherding his father's flock, he would not have been a sickly fellow to
be in the wilderness looking after the animals. Likewise, though God was
the one behind his killing of the giant Goliath with a catapult, he would
no doubt have been healthy in his body to be strong enough to pull
the catapult string. Jesus our Master is the number one divine champion;
we can only be divine champions because He is. There is no one occasion
recorded where he was having a simple headache. Therefore, we His
Champions have no business being sick. Rather, what Jesus was doing
is what we are meant to be doing also, i.e. giving health to the sick (Acts 1
0:38)."
Today's prayer
point is: "Father, make me a divine champion full of the anointing, and give
me a strong sickness-free body for your service".
As we pray this
prayer point with the whole of our hearts today, I pray that the Almighty God
will give us overflow of anointing that will perfect all that concern us in
Jesus name, amen.
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