ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.

Monday March 11th, 2024.

Topic : Prevailing In The Spirit (2).

Memory Verse: James 5:17. Elijah was a man with human frailties, just like all of us, but he prayed and received supernatural answers. He actually shut the heavens over the land so there would be no rain for three and a half years!

Bible Reading : James 5:13-15. Key Verse: v17.

Are there any believers in your fellowship suffering great hardship and distress? Encourage them to pray! Are there happy, cheerful ones among you? Encourage them to sing out their praises! Are there any sick among you? Then ask the elders of the church to come and pray over the sick and anoint them with oil in the name of our Lord. And the prayer of faith will heal the sick and the Lord will raise them up, and if they have committed sins they will be forgiven.

Yesterday, we began to see that power to control things including nature is made available to the believer who lives a prayerful life, using Elijah as a case study. We saw that the heavens over Israel witheld rain and dew over the land for three and half years at the word of the servant of God. Immediately after his encounter with Ahab the king, the Lord sent him to the brook of cherith to be taken care of while the famine lasted. When his time there was up, he was sent to a poor widow. His presence in the house and life of the widow was enough to gurrantee divine provisions while the famine lasted. “Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.” ‭Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
‭‭1 Kings 17:1-4 NIV‬‬.

Now I want to bring out something important in James 3:15. King James version called it affliction and The Passion Translation called it great hardship and distress. It was recommended that when we begin to have such ugly experience anywhere we find ourselves, the only way to stay afloat and be victorious is to pray. We need to understand here that anywhere we see affliction or great hardship and distress, the devil and his demons are at work and no man can fight or prevail over the enemy of our souls who comes to steal joy, kill and destroy every good thing he can have access to in the life of any man that he breaks into. Today we must learn that a praying man or people cannot sink in times of affliction, famine and hardship. In the place of prayer, we develop or build capacity to rule over powers of darkness that operate through their human agents to inflict humanity with all kinds of affliction that causes pain and severe hardship as seen in Nigeria and some nations today.

In the place of prayer, we are able to control things even in the political and economic circles to our favour, especially when we obey divine instructions. “Most of all, I’m writing to encourage you to pray with gratitude to God. Pray for all men with all forms of prayers and requests as you intercede with intense passion. And pray for every political leader and representative, so that we would be able to live tranquil, undisturbed lives, as we worship the awe-inspiring God with pure hearts. Therefore, I encourage the men to pray on every occasion with hands lifted to God in worship with clean hearts, free from frustration or strife.” 1 Timothy 2:1-2,8 TPT.

Prayer :Thank you Father God for making power available to your children in the place of prayer. Help me Lord to always take full advantage of enormous resources available in your presence to live above the forces of hardship, pain and afflictions all my days in Jesus wonderful name….. Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading : Judges 14:1-20.

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