MESSAGE FROM THE ALTAR. DEVOTIONAL SERVICE.31/10/2021. FEAR NOT THEIR FEAR.

FEAR NOT THEIR FEAR.

ISAIAH 8 :11-13; 21-22.

11. With his great power the LORD warned me not to follow the path which the people were following. He said,
12. ” Do not join in the schemes of the people and do not be afraid of the things that they fear.
13. Remember that I, the LORD Almighty, am holy; I am the one you must fear.
14. The people will wander through the land, discouraged and hungry. In their hunger and their anger they will curse their king and their God. They may look up to the sky.
15. or stare at the ground, but they will see nothing but trouble and darkness, terrifying darkness into which they are being driven..

HEBREWS 13 : 6
Let us be bold, then, and say: ” The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me ?”.

ISAIAH 43 :1-2

1. Israel, the LORD who created you says, ” Do not be afraid — I will save you. I have called you by name — you are mine.
2. When you pass through deep waters, I will be with you; your troubles will not overwhelm you. When you pass through fire, you will not be burnt; the hard trials that come will not hurt you.

PSALM 115 : 11
Trust in the LORD, all you that worship him. He helps you and protect you.
(GOOD NEWS BIBLE).

The year has been a catalogue of pain and sorrow as every form of violence and repression has been visited on the landscape and the people. The people are terrified as the government becomes ineffective in taming the horrific deeds of vicious terrorists. The Land travails in the suffocating grip of insecurity. Many people are at crossroads, confused about what to do. Some people have resigned to ‘fate’, waiting for the worst to happen. Another group of people have gone ahead to join the terrorists, for ‘security’. Some people have formed themselves into ‘liberty camps’, seeking emancipation for the oppressed. Then, the bands of ‘prayer warriors’, pleading for Divine interventions as solutions to the situations. The government plays the ‘ostrich’, rejecting the notion of being overwhelmed.
Fear pervades the atmosphere; peace eludes the Land. There is no hope of the situation becoming better for the rest of the year.
But, the Lord has warned me “not to follow the path which the people were following”. The Lord has told me to warn you “not to follow the path which the people were following”. The Lord has told me “not to fear their fear”. The Lord has sent me to you “not to fear their fear”. The Lord has assured me that we should trust Him to protect and deliver us from the chaotic and heartbreaking scenarios unfolding before our eyes, for even the ‘prayer warriors’ are not in one accord; are not united in supplications and intercession as to move God’s hands !
The journey to safety; to land of mercy is individualistic. God enjoins us to have total faith in Him and to trust our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, as Captain of our warfare to give us victory and peace that the world cannot experience.
If you have not given your life to Jesus Christ for safe-keeping; if you have not accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour; if you are still rejecting the Holy Spirit as an interceding Spirit of God; then there is an urgent need to make amends now for tomorrow may be too late. Life without Jesus Christ is synonymous with crises.
With God on our side, we need not fear their fear anymore.
May the remaining months of the year bring you fulfilment, in the precious name of Jesus Christ.