14/08/2018
THE VALLEY OF ACHOR
âAnd I will give her her Vineyards from thence, AND THE VALLEY OF ACHOR FOR A DOOR OF HOPE.â Hosea 2 :15A
In this verse above, Godâs promises to use the same things that brought shame, despair and death into our lives to usher glory into our lives.
What is The Valley of Achor? Literarily, the valley of Achor is the valley where Achan and his entire family where thrown into, stoned and set ablaze because of Achanâs greed and disobedient when he took the materials of the heathen which the Lord instructed his country (Israel) not to touch. Find the entire story in the book Joshua 7: 1-26. Now after hundreds of years, God uses Zechariah the prophet to revisit the issue. Now, God revisits the issue of the valley of Achor with a very hopeful and loving approach, saying that the same valley of Achor where an entire kindred were isolated and shamefully destroyed will be for a Door of Hope. God revisited the issue first through the prophet Isaiah where he said, âAnd Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, AND THE VALLEY OF ACHOR A PLACE FOR THE HERDS TO LIE DOWN IN, FOR MY PEOPLE THAT HAVE SOUGHT ME.â Isaiah 65 : 10
The valley of Achor represents that ministry, relationship, body, business, location, child that has ridiculously embarrassed you. It represents those talents or God-given visions, gifts or divine assignments you have experienced remarkable shame in. Here, men have ridiculed you, gossiped about you, thrown right accusations and false accusations against you. These are areas you have been rejected, despised, abandoned. Here men and demons contributed to destroy that dream, to quench your spirit and leave you and your loved ones in the hands of death.
But God still has hope in that situation. If we receive Jesus, or as believers, if we turn our face back to him in prayer, bringing that situation before him he will bring back gory.
He will NOT CHANGE that marriage or that business or that God given assignment, that child and so on, NO, he wonât. He will use that same shame stricken, painful, embarrassing marriage or that business or that God given assignment, that child and so on to showcase his glory. He will choose no other place to reveal his glory than (the valley of Achor) that same place where you have been shamed. He will choose no other place to reveal his riches than that same part of your life that has been marked with poverty. He will choose no other place to reveal his healing than that sick body. He will choose no other person to reveal his purity and strength and victory over sexual sins and various addictions than that same person that was weak, helpless and addicted to sin.
The work has been done. What Jesus did on his cross was that He made every valley Achor in your life to be a door of hope. So it has already done it for you. Live your life in this understanding of what has been done and pray it into manifestation as the Spirit leads.
Like this page for more of these articles if you have not done so, share and tag all your friends so they too will be blessed. To send messages click the message button on the Page or send Email to [email protected] for prayer requests and counseling. May His Peace keep you in Jesus name, Amen.