03/03/2024
Ref. 2 Chronicles 32:1-20
Am hoping everyone is ok and sound in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord.
In this life we live, a lot of battles will always come up and these battles are or may be of different magnitude and comes in different seasons. It's may be personal battles, family or even community.
Battles don't segregate. Either born again or not , faithful or not, battles (challenges) will always come.
As we see in verse 1 of
2 chronicles 32.
(After these deeds of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered Judah; he encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them over to himself)
You see, King Hezekiah was faithful to God and even in his faithfulness, the enemy arose not only to fight him but the attacking enemy wanted as well to capture the whole land and make Hezekiah and his people slaves. ( As of course the enemy had done to others).
But King Hezekiah applied some principles that helped him win the battle of which I think if each of us in battle could win if we apply them.
**Principle 1*
He consulted with his leaders and commanders.(Verse 3(a))
When the battle came, King Hezekiah dint decide by himself, he didn't only trust his brain.
He consulted his mighty men on what to do.
Please my dear brothers and sisters, when battle comes or in case of any challenges, you need to have "mighty men " by your side to consult.
You need to have wise and mature men and women by your side from whom you will have counsel.
If you are a pastor, wife, husband, Business man or woman, in whatever you do, you will need to have men and women by your side and not only men and women but men and women of understanding.
(Job 8:8-9
For inquire, please, of the former age, And consider the things discovered by their fathers; For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow. Will they not teach you and tell you, And utter words from their hearts?
Don't only trust your head after all two heads are better