Mobile Daily Devotional with Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel
Week 24, Day 5
Thursday, 17 June, 2021
TOPIC: YOU ARE REPLACEABLE 5:
FEAR CAUSES REPLACEMENT
Memory Verse: 1 Kings 19:18
“18 Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
Bible Reading: 1 Kings 13:1-3,14-17
“1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” 3 And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.”
“14 And he said, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.” 15 Then the LORD said to him: “Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria. 16 Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel. And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place. 17 It shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and whoever escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.”
Fear is another weapon that can cause the replacement of a man. Many are unable to separate being careful from being fearful. To be careful is to be sensitive and watchful but to be fearful is to conclude and accept defeat.
Prophet Elijah is a man of fire, 2 Kings 1:1-12. He is the man who executed 850 prophet of Baal and asherah, 1 Kings 18:40. He is a prayer machine, 1 Kings 18:41-44. He speaks to kings without fear, but the same Elijah was replaced all because of fear of Jezebel. He ran away and left his servants behind, what an irony? Can Jezebel be so strong to resist the fire of God? Can she be that powerful to resist his prayers? No, but He was afraid to face her and he ran away.
God met him and he was complaining of all the occurrences. God never listen to his comments. He command him to get three replacement for himself. He was so powerfully endowed that one person couldn’t contain his power. From him alone two kings were anointed and prophet Elisha. May we not be afraid to the extent of being replaced in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen. That spirit of fear in us that stop us from following God’s leading is cast out in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen.
It was Elijah’s fear for Jezebel that produces Elisha, Jehu and Hazael as his replacement. What are those fear that you’ve set above God? Stop seeing fear and start seeing God in that situation.
1 Tim. 2:7
“7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
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