Seize the Moment – Day 835

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Jun '22

Seize the Moment – Day 835

Posted on Jun 30, 2022 by Jerry Ingalls in Devotions, General |

30
Jun '22
 

The Lord God of Mountain Tops and Valleys!

1 Kings 20

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, June 30.

 

Genesis 1:1 proclaims, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This truth is the key to Ahab’s victory over the king of Aram. In fact, it was for the honor of the one true God’s sovereignty over all that He granted Ahab a dramatic victory over the Arameans, as articulated in 1 Kings 20:28:

 

Then a man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel and said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because the Arameans have said, “The Lord is a god of the mountains, but He is not a god of the valleys,” therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”

 

As clearly portrayed in this passage, and again in verse 23, the king of Aram made his battle plans based on the ancient supernatural assumption that gods were either functional, such as a harvest or fertility god, or geographical, gods of different cultures and their corresponding regions. The fact that there was one God who was the Lord over the battle fields of both mountains and valleys was radically new and unimaginable. This revelation of God was a Copernican Revolution to their understanding of the supernatural. Every time Israel put their faith in the Creator God who is sovereign over all, He gave them unparalleled victories as a testimony to His power.

 

Yahweh is not simply one of the elohim, in competition with many for supremacy, He is God over all His creation. As the prophet declared in Jeremiah 32:17,
 
“Ah Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You.”

 

Seize the moment and put your full confidence in the Lord God of all, who is victorious regardless of whether you are on the mountain top or in the valley.

God bless you!
 
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