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*Isaiah 58:9 MSG*
Then when you pray, God will answer. You'll call out for help and I'll say, 'Here I am.'

*When God Shows Up -Day 2*

The whole of *Exodus 14* shows so much intrigues like no other place in the bible.
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When the Israelites left 430yrs of

slavery In Egypt, they breathed a sigh of relief.💃🏼
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Their joy was however, cut short when they confronted the reality on ground.🙆🏽‍♂️

👉🏼They were in a position that had little or no way out. They were in-between the massive Red Sea & the merciless soldiers of Pharaoh.🙆🏽‍♂️
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They knew it was a dead end & Pharaoh & his army knew it too. There was no way out.😥

Exodus 14:3 MSG
"Pharaoh will think, 'd Israelites are lost; they're confused. d wilderness has closed in on them

👉🏼 Suddenly, God showed up in His Almightiness, in His power, in His Might
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*Isaiah 43:2 MSG*
When you're in over your head, I'll be there with you. When you're in rough waters, you will not go down. *When you're between a rock and a hard place, it won't be a dead end* -
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👉🏼No nation on earth could help the Israelites..
👉🏼No army in the world could

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Part 2
It's your day💃🏼
It's your week.💃🏼💃🏼
It's your month.💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼
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*On a day like this, it was Mephistopheles day,

Reading thru 2Sam 9:1-5 KJV
And David said, Is there yet any that is left of d house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
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However, one man named *Ziba* who was strategically positioned in the palace, purposed to stand in the way

*2 Samuel 9:4 MSG*
"Where is he?" "He's living at the home of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar."
*2 Samuel 9:5 MSG*
King David didn't lose a minute. He sent and got him

from the home of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.
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Lodebah, where Mephibosheth was, was a place of no pasture. ( *You recall I mentioned yesterday that, when it's your appointed day, your location isn't a barrier* .)
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👉🏼In lodebah, Everyone had a sad story to tell.

👉🏼In lodebah, Mephiboshet's princely status was forgotten.
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He was forgotten by his nation and worst still, by his family.
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*He had lost all.*
Down in Lodebar, Mephibosheth lost his rank, lost his prestige, lost his respectability, lost his reputation, lost his superiority,

lost his self-will.

👉🏼Down in Lodebar, Mephibosheth went from living in the palace to hiding out with a family friend.

👉🏼Mephibosheth went from the prince to servant.

👉🏼Mephibosheth went from powerful to afraid.

*And On a day like this, his big day came. God remembered

#With God, you have nothing to lose

You see, when it's God's war, the battle strategies always look ridiculous. Seasoned Generals would argue against it. They will point out the foolhardiness of applying the strategy.

"This is ridiculous. Are you insane?

This is war and not child's play"

Many onlookers would murmur the same sentiments.

When it's God's war, you cannot comprehend it. The only thing you can possibly predict, is the outcome.

2 Chronicles 20:15b MSG
This is God's war, not yours,

God said to king Jehoshaphat when three kings united against him. All the king needed to do, was get the worshippers ahead of the soldiers and all, in one accord begin to praise and thank God.

That was it.
A battle strategy indeed. They dint have to lift a finger. God laid

ambushment against the three kings.

2 Chronicles 20:17 MSG
You won't have to lift a hand in this battle;

When the Israelites were delivered from Egypt and the shackles of slavery, they were caught between pharaoh's merciless army & the mighty redsea.

They dint have to lift a finger. God said, "Stand still, and see me in action. The rest they say, is history.

When God briefed Joshua on how to penetrate the fortress of Jericho, without a doubt, I believe Joshua must have said to God, "can You please repeat what You just said?

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1 Samuel 16:6 MSG
When they arrived, Samuel took one look at Eliab and thought, "Here he is! God's anointed!"

He was dead-wrong😱
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*Eliab* wasn't the one, and neither was *Abinadab* . *Shammah* too looked like the one with the aroma of God's endorsement, but,

prophet Samuel was wrong about all three of them. They were rejected by God.😱
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The one with the *aroma* of God's endorsement was not even anywhere near the place a life changing decision was going to be made.
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The choice one was *David* . He was the endorsed one.

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was evident the choice one was not around

*1 Samuel 16:11b MSG*
"...Samuel ordered Jesse, "Go get him. We're not moving from this spot until he's here."

*No-one sat until he came in.* Hmmmm.
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A life changing decision is about to be taken concerning you. The kingmakers

will not be comfortable until you show up.
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Your life is about to turnaround for good.
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Anywhere you are today, an order to get you in position and in place will be issued.
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You are the choice one. The one on whom the aroma of God's endorsement is evident. There is a throne

From my Church mind

A SHORT EXHORTATION

WHY SHOOT OUR WOUNDED? Ps. 109:21-31

A Detroit newspaper reportd that a patient in a local hospital was shot and killed as he lay in his bed recovering from a previous gunshot wound. D victim had been listed in fair condition prior to

the shooting and was looking forward to going home. Hospital patients and employees were stunned. A spokesperson said that nothing like this had happened in the 50yrs of the hospital's existence.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could say the same for our churches?

Wouldn't it be encouraging if we were able to say that in 50yrs of meeting together for worship, fellowship and spiritual healing, we had not had a single instance of a wounded member being cut down by the unkindness of a fellow Christian?

Many among us have experienced the pain that David expressed in Psalm 109. When he was hurt and vulnerable, insensitive people took advantage of him. Certainly, if he had sinned, he needed their loving correction. what he didn't need was their scorn, gossip, and selfish neglect.

Who shoots his foot after stubbing his toe? No one in his right mind. Neither should anyone with the mind of Christ act unmercifully toward a wounded brother or sister in the body of Christ. Rather, we must "show mercy" (v.16).

Give me, Lord, a lot of mercy
For my fellow men

A SHORT EXHORTATION

Theme- ...God, you "Deceived" me -Prophet Jeremiah

Jeremiah accused God of deceiving him, yes, you read right. No he did not, you might say, o yes he sure did 🙆🏽‍♂️😱
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Jeremiah 20:7a KJV
O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived...

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Incidentally, he was in the "WILL OF GOD" doing exactly what God told him to do. He was speaking the mind of God, yet, he was arrested, thoroughly lashed and thrown in solitary confinement.

"What's going on here? " he asked.
"This can't be happening to me, I'm in the will of

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God for crying out loud" yada, yada, yada

How can a "whole Prophet" accuse God of deceiving him, we may ask. Well, he did.

Things were not going the way he thought they would. He had expected the hearers of God's message to be trembling with fear at the godly warning of

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impending doom he was dishing out.

He was largely frustrated and disappointed. "Lord, this must be a joke, and if it is, it ain't funny at all..."

You see, when one is in this "precarious state," all manner of stuffs may begin to manifest. While some will pray for strength

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to go on to the end, others may be nagging and complaining, and sadly, many fall into the latter category.

Well, we must understand that even in the will of God, unpleasant things do happen.

Even in the will of God, we can grow weary, tired, disappointed, discouraged,