by Joyce Adedayo Adams on Friday, April 16, 2010 at 1:44pm
I was having a discussion with a close friend yesterday in my home and we were talking about the move of God in and amongst believers in recent times. How Pastors are fired up and have been preaching messages that touch your spirit.
She then shared something with me that was such a revelation. My friend was at her home-town for Christmas and her Pastor was preaching about the first wisdom project that Solomon was confronted with after God appeared to him in a dream. (I Kings 3:16 - 28)
These women, harlots, gave birth to boys around the same time. One baby died and the mother of this dead child took the dead child and exchanged with the living child which belonged to the other woman. The case was brought before King Solomon and by wisdom, he judged rightly and returned the living child to his mother.
Now, my friend's Pastor likened this story to our spiritual lives and how the enemy steals our dreams, joy, blessing, marriage, whatever it is, while we are asleep, ignorant of his devices and replaces with a dead one. The devil is a thief. He is a murderer from the beginning. His work is to steal, kill, and destroy. While we are sleeping, (note: not physical sleep but spiritual lethargy), the enemy takes our dreams, our jobs, our marriages, etc right from under our nose and replaces with a dead one. Now imagine a worse calamity that would have occurred if we never even recognized that an exchange has taken place. This woman woke up to feed her child and she saw that the child was dead.
She then shared something with me that was such a revelation. My friend was at her home-town for Christmas and her Pastor was preaching about the first wisdom project that Solomon was confronted with after God appeared to him in a dream. (I Kings 3:16 - 28)
These women, harlots, gave birth to boys around the same time. One baby died and the mother of this dead child took the dead child and exchanged with the living child which belonged to the other woman. The case was brought before King Solomon and by wisdom, he judged rightly and returned the living child to his mother.
Now, my friend's Pastor likened this story to our spiritual lives and how the enemy steals our dreams, joy, blessing, marriage, whatever it is, while we are asleep, ignorant of his devices and replaces with a dead one. The devil is a thief. He is a murderer from the beginning. His work is to steal, kill, and destroy. While we are sleeping, (note: not physical sleep but spiritual lethargy), the enemy takes our dreams, our jobs, our marriages, etc right from under our nose and replaces with a dead one. Now imagine a worse calamity that would have occurred if we never even recognized that an exchange has taken place. This woman woke up to feed her child and she saw that the child was dead.
