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May1st 2006 Hand In Hand Ministries Publication
Bethesda-House of Grace
Amalek
Exodus 17:1
"Then all the congregation of the children of
The children of
Rephidim = Place of weakness; discouragement and feeble knees.
When we come to Rephidim (place of weakness), we do not have to camp there and
die of thirst No we can take the Word (water) which strengthen us and move on.
When we "camp" in Rephidim, Amalek (the enemy) will come because of our
weakness, and remember there is no water (Word).
Exodus 17:8
"Now Amalek came and fought with
Deuteronomy 25
17. "Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt,
18. "...how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the
stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear
God".
I am going to stay out of Rephidim by staying at the water - the Word of God.
Exodus 17:14
"Then the Lord said to Moses, write this for a memorial . . .
I will utterly
blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven".
The Lord said here to Moses that He is going to destroy Amalek - the enemy
(Satan and his kingdom). And when the Lord said He is going to do something, we
can count on it. It will come to pass. Like in the days of Moses, God is looking
for a man (woman) that will stand against Amalek in the Name of God. May God
find us willing to do that.
Years passed, but God said He is going to destroy Amalek and He found a man in
Saul to do it.
1 Samuel 15:1-7
2. "This says the Lord of hosts: I will punish Amalek for what he did to
3. "Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not
spare them".
Are we ready to be found by God to go and "utterly destroy" Amalek (the works of
the enemy in ours and the body's lives)?
Saul went out and attacked Amalek, but . . .
1 Samuel 15:7-9
9. . . . “but Saul and the people spared Agag and were unwilling to utterly
destroy them.
10. Now the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying
11. I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king . . .
Samuel spoke to Saul.
1 Samuel 15:18-19, 26
18. "Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy . .
.
19. Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? . . . Saul had his answers
ready for Samuel,. . . to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal." (:21) and
Samuel reminded him that "to obey is better than sacrifice" (:22).
26. " . . . you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected
you from being king over
After Saul failed to do the will of God "I will utterly blot out the remembrance
of Amalek from under heaven", Amalek came back and attacked
David's Conflict with the Amalekites
1 Samuel 30:1-3
1. Now it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag, on the third day, that
the Amalekites had invaded the South and Ziklag, attacked Ziklag and burned it
with fire,
2. and had taken captive the women and those who were there, from small to great;
they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way.
3. So David and his men came to the city, and there it was, burned with fire; and
their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive.
David knew what to do.
1 Samuel 30: 6-8
6. Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because
the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his
daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.
7. Then David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, "Please bring the
ephod here to me." And Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
8. So David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I
overtake them?" And He answered him,
"Pursue, for you shall surely
overtake them and without fail recover all."
David did what God told him to do and pursued Amalek.
1 Samuel 30:17-20
17. Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not
a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and
fled.
18. So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David
rescued his two wives.
19. And nothing of theirs was lacking, either small or great, sons or daughters,
spoil or anything which they had taken from them; David recovered all.
20. Then David took all the flocks and herds they had driven before those other
livestock, and said, "This is David's spoil."
Again some of the Amalekites escaped and the Word of God said "I will utterly
blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven", the last battle against
Amalek took place.
1 Chronicles 4: 42-43
42. Now some of them, five hundred men of the sons of Simeon, went to Mount Seir,
having as their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of
Ishi.
43. And they defeated the rest of the Amalekites who had escaped. They have dwelt
there to this day.
When God said that He is going to do something, we can be assured that He will
do it. God said He "will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under
heaven", and He did. In our lives, God will do the same. If we can be obedient
and do what God tells us to do, He will "utterly destroy" {Amalek} the enemy in
our lives.
Loo
king
at the above history which happened in the Old Testament, we can clearly see
that through Scripture there is a live lesson for us today.
So
many
times God tells us to do
something to strengthen us. A clear commandment in the Word is that we should
pray. But if we decide to do our own thing and only pray when we feel like it or
when trouble hits, we will become weak and we will end up in the place called
“Rephidim”, the place of weakness. And this is where the enemy is waiting for
us.
The Scripture say that “our adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour”. When we are weak, we are opening the door for the enemy to “devour” us. The enemy does not have the right to attack and devour us, unless we open the door by disobedience. If he had, he would not “walk about like a roaring lion, seeking”. Let us purpose in our hearts to stay out of “Rephidim”, the place of weakness by staying in obedience to the Word of God.
Deborah
Potgieter
Ministries Website: Bethesda House of Grace
email: bethog@bethog.org
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Missionaries, Willie & Cornelia Potgieter. Also known as
Abraham
&
Deborah as God has changed our names before we moved to
While we were in
Appointed by Pastor Jerry Hulse
and the
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