june 6th - june 12TH 2022
ACTS 23:12-22
(BIBLE USED AMPLIFIED VERSION)
Now when day came the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath (curse) saying that they would not eat or drink until they had killed Paul. There were more than forty men who formed this plot and swore this oath. They went to the chief priests and elders and said we have bound ourselves under a solemn oath not to taste anything neither food nor drink until we have killed Paul. So now you along with the Council Sanhedrin Jewish High Court notify the commander to bring Paul down to you as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. But we are ready to kill him before he comes near the place. But the son of Paul’s sister heard of their planned ambush and he went to the barracks and told Paul. Then Paul calling in one of the centurions said take this young man to the commander for he has something to tell him. So he took him and led him to the commander and said Paul the prisoner called for me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you. The commander took him by the hand and stepping aside began to ask him privately what is it that you have to tell me? And he said the Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the Council Sanhedrin Jewish High Court tomorrow as if they were going to interrogate him more thoroughly. But do not listen to them for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him and they have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. Even now they are ready just waiting for your promise. So the commander let the young man leave instructing him do not tell anyone that you have given me this information.
Giving Thanks
Psalm 95:5-7 O come let us sing joyfully to the Lord O come, let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our Maker in reverent praise and prayer. For He is our God and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.Today if you will hear His voice do not harden your hearts and become spiritually dull as at Meribah the place of strife and as at Massah the place of testing in the wilderness.
Asking for forgiveness of sins
Psalm 51:1-4, have mercy on me O God according to Your loving kindness. According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness and guilt and cleanse me from my sin. For I am conscious of my transgressions and I acknowledge them. My sin is always before me against You, You only have I sinned and done that which is evil in Your sight so that you are justified when You speak your sentence and faultless in your judgment.
Any time we enter into prayer and fasting the enemy's strategy is to capture and imprison your soul to make your fasting ineffective
Isaiah 49:24-26 says Can the spoils of war be taken from the mighty man or the captives of a tyrant be rescued? Indeed this is what the Lord says even the captives of the mighty man will be taken away and the tyrant’s spoils of war will be rescued for I will contend with your opponent and I will save your children. I will make those who oppress you consume their own flesh in mutually destructive wars and they will become drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine and all mankind will know with a knowledge grounded in personal experience that I the Lord am your Savior and your Redeemer the Mighty One of Jacob. Lets spend time praying against that strategy so that our prayers will not be captured in the demonic world.
Thanking God for answered prayer in Jesus Name we pray.