Streams of Joy Daily Devotional 3 May 2024 Message Written By Pastor Jerry Eze
Streams of Joy Daily Devotional 3 May 2024 (Friday) Message
TOPIC: Rise
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MEMORY VERSE
“But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.” (Psalm 3: 3)
SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Samuel 30:1-20 (NIV)
1 David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it,
2 and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.
3 When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
4 So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.
5 David’s two wives had been captured—Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
6 David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
7 Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelek, “Bring me the ephod.” Abiathar brought it to him,
8 and David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” he answered. “You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.”
9 David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind.
10 Two hundred of them were too exhausted to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit.
11 They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat—
12 part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.
13 David asked him, “Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?” He said, “I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago.
14 We raided the Negev of the Kerethites, some territory belonging to Judah and the Negev of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag.”
15 David asked him, “Can you lead me down to this raiding party?” He answered, “Swear to me before God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to them.”
16 He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah.
17 David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.
18 David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.
19 Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back.
20 He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, “This is David’s plunder.”
FOCUS VERSE: “And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;” (1 Samuel 30: 1)
Streams of Joy Daily Devotional 3 May 2024 MESSAGE
Our Focal Scripture speaks of how David came back to Ziklag to find that his properties had been burnt and his wives and children taken away. The name ‘Ziklag’ means ‘to press’. Ziklag connotes that situation where something is being pressed down. Notice that it was after David left Ziklag that he was anointed as king. So his kingship seemed to have been pressed down in Ziklag. He had it in him, but in ZIklag, it could not rise.
Friend, hear me as I hear the Lord: everything in your life that has been pressed down, I command the hand of the enemy to be lifted off it. Every opportunity that has been pressed down by the enemy, I command an immediate release now. I command every rising that has been pressed down to manifest by fire. Every evil hand that is pressing down your greatness, I command it to be broken. Every evil hand pressing down your favour, increase, elevation, etc., I command it to be broken.
David would have imagined that Ziklag was keeping him safe from Saul, but the fact was that Ziklag was also keeping him away from the throne. Ziklag was pressing down what the Lord had destined for David. Hear me as I hear the Lord: everything in your life that the Lord has destined but the enemy is pressing down, I command it to be released. Every platform that heaven has ordained for you that is pressed down, I decree, the days of being pressed down are over.
I decree, that every siege on your destiny is lifted. Every confinement of the enemy on your destiny is lifted. Every satanic pressure that is making you smaller in destiny, let it disappear by fire. I decree, let the fullness of your destiny find expression. Let all that God destined and ordained you to be, begin to manifest. Let every capacity in you that has been locked up in Ziklag be released. Wherever your value is being hidden, let God arise.
The days of being locked down by the enemy, are over. The days of confinement are broken forever. You cannot be pressed down. Rise out of your confinement.
DECLARATION
I rise out of every confinement; my greatness will not be pressed down, in Jesus’ name!
FURTHER READING: Psalm 3
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