The Daily Fountain Daily Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 6 November 2019 – CAPTIVITY SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2019 TOPIC: CAPTIVITY SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY
READ: NAHUM 2:1-13
1. He who scatters has come up before your face. Man the fort! Watch the road! Strengthen your flanks! Fortify your power mightily.
2. For the Lord will restore the excellence of Jacob Like the excellence of Israel, For the emptiers have emptied them out And ruined their vine branches.
3. The shields of his mighty men are made red, The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots come with flaming torches In the day of his preparation, And the spears are brandished.
4. The chariots rage in the streets, They jostle one another in the broad roads; They seem like torches, They run like lightning.
5. He remembers his nobles; They stumble in their walk; They make haste to her walls, And the defense is prepared.
6. The gates of the rivers are opened, And the palace is dissolved.
7. It is decreed: She shall be led away captive, She shall be brought up; And her maidservants shall lead her as with the voice of doves, Beating their breasts.
8. Though Nineveh of old was like a pool of water, Now they flee away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry; But no one turns back.
9. Take spoil of silver! Take spoil of gold! There is no end of treasure, Or wealth of every desirable prize.
10. She is empty, desolate, and waste! The heart melts, and the knees shake; Much pain is in every side, And all their faces are drained of color.
11. Where is the dwelling of the lions, And the feeding place of the young lions, Where the lion walked, the lioness and lion’s cub, And no one made them afraid?
12. The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, Killed for his lionesses, Filled his caves with prey, And his dens with flesh.
13. “Behold, I am against you,” says the Lord of hosts, “I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no more.”
THE MESSAGE:
In our passage, the vision of the Prophet reveals that the Medes and the Babylonians were in readiness to destroy the Assyrians: he derides the attempts of the Assyrians who prepared to resist. Seeing God has punished his own people Judah and Israel, He will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them the Assyrians. Then the Assyrians will seek by all means to gather their power, but all things will fail them. They will flatter themselves and say that Nineveh (capital city of Assyria) is so ancient that it can never perish, and is as a fish pool, whose waters cannot be touched by those that walk on the banks. They will be scattered, and will not look back, even if men call them.
The message today is also comforting to you as the child of God. Revelation 13:10 says that he that leads into captivity shall go into captivity. Paul writes to the Romans, What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all. Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies? (Romans 8:31-33). Child of God, be assured that the pride of your oppressor shall be humbled in no time. All spiritual powers that they trust in shall fail them, because God has ordained this year to be your season of deliverance. He is the one that disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise (Job 5:12)
PRAYER: Father, I confess that Christ has spoiled principalities and powers in my life, and had made a show of them openly, therefore I triumph over them day and night, in Jesus Name. Amen.
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