Dear family I invite you together with one voice let us bring our good evening greetings to our lord Jesus let us thank him for this great occasion this great gift we will praise our Lord we shall have some few minutes of personal adoration and we shall come together to conclude with our general
Prayers Teache I Me For Mee Beloved it is the second time the Lord got around him the second time in the second month after 3 days we are brought before alone we are being asked in the second month on 10 Occasions to be Reinforced the manth has been dedicated as a month of reinforcement we had the opportunity to reflect on the life of Judith who was found alone in the midst of strangers Judith had God’s presence Judith was blessed with the Divine reinforcement we explained what made the reinforcement possible Judith decided not to contaminate
Herself Judy decided to utilize every moment she had to present herself before the Lord dearly beloved on this second occasion the Lord is asking you and I to flee from every presumption so that we may be reinforced reinforcement means provision of the necessary elements materials for us to live as the Lord
Wants us to leave for us to be who the Lord want us to be tonight we are going to reflect on the second book of Samuel chapter 24 2 Samuel 24 if your bibles are with me you with with you kindly open with me to 2el 24 let’s share a few words together
Reinforcement you know this story but look at how it is brought into our context you know the story but look at how tonight it is going to be brought into the on the third day experience on the third day experience you will even begin by asking yourself oh father but
In this test as we see there is no three days hey wait there is a three days there I’m going to lead you gradually because this is what the Lord offers us tonight second 24 I Shar this with you then we observe personal adoration in silence wherever we find
Ourselves David is going to take a sensus of his people David will command joab and the commanders of the army who were with him to go through all all the tribes from D to BBA the expression from D to BBA it’s like you saying from north to
South because the tribe of D was in the north and BBA was in the South so in scripture in the Old Testament from D to BBA that expression means the whole of Israel from the north to the South the whole of Israel so from down to B that is the
Meaning I did a research on it and uh in an archeological study I did I I did I presented my work on the Water Systems from D to B so this is what I’m telling you believe what I’m telling you D to B expression means the whole of Israel they
Engages joah to count all the people what is the motive what is the reason for this presumption he wanted to know the number of men of vience strong men he could use in times of War but Israel is protected by the Lord David is not protected by numbers
And David been protected by numbers he would have been killed by golad had they been protected by numbers he would have been slain by Saul had David been protected by numbers would have been killed by the jid David is forgetting where he coming from David has never been protected has
Never un relied on numbers the strength of an army but the god of Israel that is presumption presumption beled after David took the Sens and he knew that God did not approve of it he was sorrowful I take you to 2 samel 12 24 verse 10 2el
2410 but after he had the people counted David felt remor and said to the Lord I’ve sin greatly in what I have done to you but now oh Lord I ask you to forgive my sin for I have acted foolishly 2 Samuel 24:10 before he took the senses his Commander job asked him but he didn’t pay attention 2 243 job told the king may the Lord your God multiply the people 100 times and may my Lord the king see this blessing but why does my Lord the king want to take but Prevail he didn’t
Listen presumption can make us lose our reinforcement now I’m taking to you you where the threee appears God will send his Prophet to David to tell him move dearly beloved let’s look at 2el 24 verse number 12 go and give David this message the Lord says
This I offer you three T and I will let one of them before you according to your own choice so God went to David and asked him do you want 3 years of fing in your land or do you want to be pursued for three months by your enemies while you
Flee from them or do you want three days pestilence in your land now think and decide what answer I shall give you who sent me David answered I am greatly troubled let me fall into the hands of the Lord whose Mercy is abandon but let not me
Fall into the hands of men David knows that men are wicked so the number he wanted to do the number of strong men there will be a pestilence God will take the numbers to tell David that it is God who re enforces him e e for for for for for okay you Gra I oh bless me now myor I come friends wherever we find ourselves before our Lord Jesus Christ I want ask each and every one of us to ask the Lord with what can my life or with what should my life be reinforced with with you my life be
Reinforced what can reinforce Our Lives what with what or what can reforce my life what is it that the Lord wants to set our minds on to I’m using Minds here as a kind of C but I mean our whole lives what is God bringing us our lives
To to understand that these lives our individual lives then our life as a bra family depend on this but not on that why has David leaned all this while enjoying God’s protection then all of a sudden he decides to go his own way when God has not died when God has not abandoned
Him when God has not declared that he no longer move with him it was so that the Lord said he had rejected but for you David he has never told you he has rejected you take David out of the equation a question and bring ourselves
In God has not told any of us that he has rejected him any more God has not told any of us that he’s not going to work with you anymore so why this presumption that now we want to do things on our own friends in all
Humility let us ask God for pardon again somebody LED David to know that what he has done was wrong somebody might must bring our attention to the fact that we have been presumptuous the whole of this day this image kept ringing in my ears and I know the Lord was asking me to
Bring it to us for meditation tell my people it is better for you to come before me in penitence in sorrow ask him forgiveness of all your sins every day every moment you are than to say oh I have no sin Jesus has done everything on the
Cross there is no need to confess again friends for and I any opportunity we have to pray the first thing we need to ask God lord I don’t care how holy I am I know that I cannot present myself as holy before you because my Holiness is as F I
Don’t dare even to use the the word holy for myself no matter how you look at it yourself no matter how you see yourself the qualification the word holy can never be used for me can never be used for you that is why we come before God in humility telling
Lord I don’t I don’t I don’t think that I have even any gra sin to confess yet I ask you to cleanse me because I want to be sure that nothing keeps me away from you that nothing pushes me away from you that nothing stands before me in you pray dearly
Beloved ask God for this cleans really beloved David has enjoyed a lot of bounty he has been a recipient of so many good things like us but there comes that one moment in life when we think or we decide this one let me do it myself so that even if somebody advises
Admonishes us somebody tells you no don’t go this way we tend to rubbish what that person says because we think that we are the one in Authority the power now belongs to us we are the ones that have to decide and those others have no right to intervene after having asked God for
Pardon we want to asking for the gift to desend when in our daily activities in our exit and in our entries our hearts are becoming proud and we don’t realize them we are not going to ask the Lord to take from us that which you have relied
On that which we want to place our trust in no David countered them people he wanted to know his military mind there will be a plague that will take numbers from the same number he wanted to know we are quick to tell the Lord that we don’t want to pursue
Whatever we wanted to do again we want to retreat and in our ret treat him the Lord will stay his hand else he would have taken that which we have relied on we have placed our hopes on that we have placed our lives on when this can never Bring how many of you can I a head to said or a single day to his days none of us none of us the last time I said Here In God’s Presence that if man had the ability to add head to his head if man had ability
To add days to his days or her days some of us be here because there are some who have more than us and they would have aned all of us and even take the air that we breathe we our air and store them for the man has no has not got that
Power no man has got that power what can reinforce Our Lives yes that is how a Christian should talk yes I’m not afraid of death why should I be afraid Of What we call a back the back of a tree b a r k they are being stripped off tonight tell the Lord in his presence individually wherever you find yourself Lord you ask me to flee from every presumption and the message that is coming for us tonight is that you are
Making us like trees to stand in your presence but in these trees that you are established men want to peel the backs Off he peel up the of you not leave our days you not enjoy our lives we will not be that which trees have to be the Lord should look at all those wielding these Source machetes ready to PE us off ask the Lord whatever that picture that image
The Lord has given us whatever it represents whoever is attempting to peel off the BS of our [Applause] trees s right there pray pray tonight pray tonight the Gospel of Luke about the prodal son you know what happened this son in his father’s house the youngest enjoyed
Everything are you not surprised that it is the youngest that decides to leave the one who is sled the last born who should be loved because he the youngest he the weakest he’s tender yet he is the one who acts part of his father’s property an abundance Home Free a living home
He forfeit that which will come to him he forfeit the reinforcement the family could give him the reinforcement his brother could give him as a brother the reinforcement his father could give himar beloved let us bring ourselves once again Body Soul before our lord Jesus we don’t want to act like the prodal
Son we don’t want to flee from your presence dear Lord because it is here that you will be Reinforced here that we have the gift of this Brotherhood we don’t want to abandon this Brotherhood and throw ourselves into a Brotherhood that cannot sustain and reinforce this life my Abandon this fraternity where we unite before God knowing the God who protects who reinforces us and throw ourselves into places where we don’t know what on Hebrews 12:1 in the of February it will be one of the reinforcement therefore with this great Crow of witnesses around us let us lay
Aside every encumbrance and sin that so easily restraint us we have a cloud of witnesses around us why should we abandon this cloud of witnesses dear Lord I don’t want to flee I don’t I want to break Brotherhood I want to break I don’t want to break friendship keep me
Here Jesus Keep Me Near The Cross he says keep me in your presence this young God man a living home was also forting the reinforcement of the father we don’t want to leave the reinforcement the Lord promises us because this is the second time we are meeting here if the whole February is
Dedicated to this reinforcement and this is the second time when we have eight other occasions why should we even abandon him after the second occasion when we have eight other opportunities de Lord whatever it take for me to be here whatever it would take for me to be under under this
Cross in your presence keep me stable keep us stable thank you Lord Jesus now theid Passage 2 24 2 24 to conclude the man who wants to rely on his military mind has been directed by God’s Prophet to build an altar and to sacrifice it is in sacrificing that we will be
Reinforced it is in sacrificing that we will be protected it is in sacrificing that God is going to was the SS from the hands of those who wanted to peel us off it is in sacrifice that the Lord will maintain Us in his presence look at what David did he goes
To the treas field of Aruna 2el 24: 20 David wanted to purchase the field the land but Aruna said let my Lord the king Take the treas FL and offer the sacrifice that seems good to him then you give his ugs and his animals to the king for burn offering the treasures like
The O for wood and he add ver 23 all this F came to the king may the Lord your God hear you whatever even you want to use for sacrifice will be even given to free of charge because it is in this sacrifice that you be reinforced I will be reinforced we shall
Be reinforced it is in this sacrifice friends as a Catholic Christian as a Christian where do you offer the sacrifice people are trading their goods they are taking their resources to fetish priest where are you going to sacrifice to be reinfored David says I will not offer to
The Lord anything that doesn’t cost me I will not offer to the Lord any that doesn’t cost me Whatever is needed for reinforcement sacrifice for reinforcement will be provided God has done it before when Abraham was tempted God himself provided a ram for the sacrifice the only thing God wants to know is a clear and good disposition that willingness to sacrifice to be reinforced all that we need is that
Willingness and clear disposition Lord we are ready to sacrifice so that we may be reinforced David’s pestilence to reduce whatever he had trusted he had placed his trust for end on the third day we are not going to be struck with pestilence but what we want to ask God is
That those that would have pursued us those who stub only still hold theour and machetes those who stub want to peel the BS off that is those who want going to be our pursuers when God has not sanctioned them but they come with their own strength with their own fre against us as
Pursuers these are those who want the Lord to stop on the 10d day our reinforcement will also consist in God preventing these people and neutralizing their HS and their malicious intents Lord Jesus we humbly ask you as you ask us to throw ourselves in your presence to abandon ourselves and to surrender
Completely we humbly ask you pursue and take those that we decide to be our pursuers when they have not been sanctioned by you to follow loss let’s thank the Lord for having kept us in his presence for this holy hour dear Lord you have Sanctified us in your presence this holy
Hour may this out with you serve to be our protection in the three days with you an hour it’s like a thousand days with you an hour for us will serve as a three days protection and reinforcement may this holy hour with you set as our 3day enforcement till you
Bring us before you your presence again glory be to the father to the son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall the world without amen dear family God bless you for your for your patience for your dedication
And for your faith as we’ve concluded we pray that this holy hour of the Lord will serve as an hour of our Consecration and an hour of our fortification if for the Lord a day would amount to th days then this hour can serve as our three-day fortification
And reinforce you God bless you all have a good night
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