Recover your peace. Recover your joy. Recover your love. Recover your faith. Recover your dreams. Yes you can DREAM.......AGAIN!
Recovering all has everything to do with how we respond to our tragedies. How we respond to our trials and tribulations. How we respond to our difficulties.
One of the more popular stories in the Old Testament is found in 1 Samuel 30 where David and his mighty men return home to Ziklag and find that an enemy has invaded their homes and kidnapped the women and children and stolen all their possessions.
Have you ever been blindsided? Unexpected events that robbed you of your peace, your joy? A time when you felt really vulnerable to life? Things happened that in the natural it seemed God was nowhere around or to be found.
This is all about THE ENEMY that had invaded their place of security and safety.
The Amalekites were the enemy. Descendants of Amalek! Why is this significant to us? Well let me give you four meanings of the word "Amalek."
1. The evil eye of doubt
2. Spiritual Blindness
3. Cutting of the neck
4. A dweller in the Valley
Can you see the progression the enemy wants to plant in our mind and heart after we've suffered loss?
We begin to doubt God which leads to spiritual blindness because the Bible says that without faith it's impossible to please Him.
Then we become blind to the things of God and there's a disconnect between our spirit man and Jesus Christ who the Bible identifies as the Head of the Body. He is our source of LIFE!
And when we're severed from our source of life we become "dwellers in the valley."
HEAR THE WORDS OF JESUS!
"The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows]." (John 10:10)
We all experience the "valleys" of life but Jesus never intended for us to become "dwellers in the valley."
None of us desire to inhabit the valley so how do we obviate the occasions to build a house when God simply wants us to walk through?
Before I give the simple answer, you and I can be certain that David and his friends were having a really bad day!
"When David and his men saw the ruins and realized what had happened to their families, they wept until they could weep no more." (1 Samuel 30:3,4)
But instead of allowing doubt to take root and eventually becoming a "valley dweller" David gives us the answer to walking through our difficult seasons with his response to the tragedy.
So here it is, it's really deep and profound!
TALK TO GOD AND DO WHAT HE SAYS!
"Then David asked the Lord, “Should I chase after this band of raiders? Will I catch them?”
And the Lord told him, “Yes, go after them. You will surely RECOVER EVERYTHING that was taken from you!" (1 Samuel 30:8)
I don't know about you but my vision in the valley is often limited and shortsighted. But when I talk to God and hear His voice I get a vision that is BEYOND my natural eye sight.
I get a "GOD" perspective that guides my way to RECOVERING EVERYTHING the enemy has stolen!
And that my friends brings us to a place of DREAMING.......AGAIN!
Talking and listening to God!
Ken Woolf
Recovering all has everything to do with how we respond to our tragedies. How we respond to our trials and tribulations. How we respond to our difficulties.
One of the more popular stories in the Old Testament is found in 1 Samuel 30 where David and his mighty men return home to Ziklag and find that an enemy has invaded their homes and kidnapped the women and children and stolen all their possessions.
Have you ever been blindsided? Unexpected events that robbed you of your peace, your joy? A time when you felt really vulnerable to life? Things happened that in the natural it seemed God was nowhere around or to be found.
This is all about THE ENEMY that had invaded their place of security and safety.
The Amalekites were the enemy. Descendants of Amalek! Why is this significant to us? Well let me give you four meanings of the word "Amalek."
1. The evil eye of doubt
2. Spiritual Blindness
3. Cutting of the neck
4. A dweller in the Valley
Can you see the progression the enemy wants to plant in our mind and heart after we've suffered loss?
We begin to doubt God which leads to spiritual blindness because the Bible says that without faith it's impossible to please Him.
Then we become blind to the things of God and there's a disconnect between our spirit man and Jesus Christ who the Bible identifies as the Head of the Body. He is our source of LIFE!
And when we're severed from our source of life we become "dwellers in the valley."
HEAR THE WORDS OF JESUS!
"The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows]." (John 10:10)
We all experience the "valleys" of life but Jesus never intended for us to become "dwellers in the valley."
None of us desire to inhabit the valley so how do we obviate the occasions to build a house when God simply wants us to walk through?
Before I give the simple answer, you and I can be certain that David and his friends were having a really bad day!
"When David and his men saw the ruins and realized what had happened to their families, they wept until they could weep no more." (1 Samuel 30:3,4)
But instead of allowing doubt to take root and eventually becoming a "valley dweller" David gives us the answer to walking through our difficult seasons with his response to the tragedy.
So here it is, it's really deep and profound!
TALK TO GOD AND DO WHAT HE SAYS!
"Then David asked the Lord, “Should I chase after this band of raiders? Will I catch them?”
And the Lord told him, “Yes, go after them. You will surely RECOVER EVERYTHING that was taken from you!" (1 Samuel 30:8)
I don't know about you but my vision in the valley is often limited and shortsighted. But when I talk to God and hear His voice I get a vision that is BEYOND my natural eye sight.
I get a "GOD" perspective that guides my way to RECOVERING EVERYTHING the enemy has stolen!
And that my friends brings us to a place of DREAMING.......AGAIN!
Talking and listening to God!
Ken Woolf
