October 10, 2019
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, I greet and bless everyone in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. The blessed word that God has given for you today, is from the book of Isaiah 43:4, “Because You are precious in My sight, You have been honoured. And I have loved You.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, from the above context we understand that our God cares for His children and they are very precious in His sight. So He honours them in the midst of ungodly people. A few of them are David, Samson, Daniel and Joseph. God honoured these men of God in the strange lands. Firstly we see David. The Philistines cursed David by his gods. But David said, “This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands and I will strike you down and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God. David was anointed by God to be the king of Israel. And he was a man of great strength. He tells king Saul “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep and once your servant has killed both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine Goliath will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, David was confident of his victory over Goliath. He said, then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear, for the battle is the Lords, and He will give you into our hands.
Likewise we see Samson. He went down to Timnah with his father and mother. To his surprise a young lion came roaring against him. And the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and he tore the lion apart as one would have torn apart a young goat, though he had nothing in his hand. Though Samson disobeyed his parents, and took for himself a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines, God considered because he was anointed by God. For his birth was predicted by the Angel of God who appeared to the woman and said to her “ the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. And he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The spirit of the Lord, came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of their men, and took their garments and gave the changes of clothing to those who had explained the riddle. Though Samson was chosen by God to be the judge, of Israel, and allowed him to kill the lion and thirty Philistines, yet he did evil in the sight of the Lord because he loved Delilah from the valley of Sorek an ungodly woman. She betrayed Samson, because she was bribed by the Lords of the Philistines to discover the source of his unknown strength. He discloses the source of his strength hidden in his curly locks of hair. Delilah deceives him and reveals the secret of his strength to the Lords of the Philistines. Whereby he was bound by them and his hair was completely shaven. As a result he lost all his strength. The Philistines came upon him and bound him with bronze fetters, and put out his eyes and he became a mockery as he became a grinder in the prison.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, then Samson called upon the name of the Lord. He said, “Oh Lord God, remember me I pray, Strengthen me I pray, just this once. O God that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes.” God took pity on Samson and strengthened him. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his lifetime.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters God never forsakes his chosen people for they are precious in His sight. Similarly you are precious in Gods sight. He will never forget you nor forsake you. God will be with you always, even to the end of the age. The Righteous shall never be shaken. The God of Israel goes before you, and will be with you. He will make all your crooked places straight. He will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. He will set you free from all your owes.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the great mountains. Therefore we the children of men put our trust under the shadow of Your wings. Make us strong like these men of God and help us to overcome all our problems that we face in our day to day life.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
