“O SATAN, THE LORD REBUKE YOU”

Post date: Aug 21, 2013 4:01:08 AM

Many Christians are getting very discouraged, angry, disappointed and disrespectful to the word of God and to civil authorities these days. Many are giving in to unscriptural behaviors and pressures to do what they had given up doing, many are going backward instead of forward all things of faith, many have lost that fresh fire of joy that enveloped them the day they gave their lives to Christ Jesus, and many are just following but have lost all interest in almost everything that is godly in life. Many are withholding the things they had given or should give to the church of God, to the people of God and to the house God. Many have refused to forget their pains, denials, loneliness and the frustrations they have experienced in life as believers in the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. But despite your previous experiences, the previous stories you have told, you will soon tell a new and better one. Christ Jesus is actively with you.    

The same eyes that saw your frustrations and could not help or refused to help when you needed it and the same ears that heard your painful experiences and could not do otherwise or refused to do otherwise, will soon see your next redemption and hear your words of the miraculous change from above. Not until God stops you from succeeding, the devil will be wasting his time trying to prevent you as he did to Joshua. Join me to say “Satan, the Lord rebuke you”

God’s eyes are on you and His ears are hearing you, though it may seem He is too far from where you are. There is no barrier He cannot break, no obstacles He cannot overcome, no location He cannot conveniently reach and no situation He cannot change permanently. His love for you had not change and will not change. He is observing you for good and will redeem you from all shackles of shame that causes anger and discouragement. “Satan, the Lord rebuke you”   

Because God did not prevent these things from happening to you does not mean He cannot or will not deliver you from all of them. “Then the guiding angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at Joshua’s right hand to be his adversary and to accuse him. And the Lord said to Satan, The Lord rebuke you, O Satan. Even the Lord, Who now and habitually chooses Jerusalem, rebuke you. Is not this returned captive Joshua a brand plucked out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and was standing before the Angel of the Lord. And He spoke to those who stood before Him, saying; Take away the filthy garments from him. And He said to Joshua, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich apparel. And I Zechariah said; Let them put a clean turban on his head. So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with rich garments. And the Angel of the Lord stood by. And the Angel of the Lord solemnly and earnestly protested and affirmed to Joshua, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in My ways and keep My charge, then also you shall rule My house and have charge of My courts, and I will give you access to My presence and places to walk among these who stand here. Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your colleagues who usually sit before you, for they are men who are a sign or omen for behold, I will bring forth My servant the Branch. For behold, upon the stone which I have set before Joshua, upon that one stone are seven eyes or facets, the all-embracing providence of God and the sevenfold radiations of the Spirit of God. Behold, I will carve upon it its inscription, says the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity and guilt of this land in a single day. In that day, says the Lord of hosts, you shall invite each man his neighbor under his own vine and his own fig tree.” Zechariah 3:1-10

God saw what Satan was doing to Joshua, though He did not prevent them from happening, He did not fold His arms forever, He sent His angel to rebuke the Satan who was afflicting him, and commanded the filthy garments to be replaced according to His instructions, and He gave Joshua His instruction. The same God who delivered Joshua will deliver you. For prayer Click here