“We Are In Great Distress”

August 4, 2018

“We Are In Great Distress”

Blessings folk!

The people are drawing near to the end of their petition to the Most High.

Note how they describe their status…

Neh 9:36-37
“Behold, we are slaves today,
And as to the land which You gave to our fathers to eat of its fruit and its bounty,
Behold, we are slaves in it.

“Its abundant produce is for the kings
Whom You have set over us because of our sins;
They also rule over our bodies
And over our cattle as they please,
So we are in great distress.

They were slaves…though the Lord had called them to be free upon the land given to them.

The land was given by God so that they could eat of its fruit and its bounty.

Now, they are slaves.

How were they slaves?

The abundant produce the land was producing was for the kings.
(God had warned them this would happen if they continued to demand a king.)

They had sinned in demanding a king.
God gave them a king.
The prophetic Word of the Lord had come true.

The kings ruled over the land.
The kings ruled over their bodies.
The kings ruled over their cattle.
All as the kings pleased.

They were in great distress.

The same is true today.

The status is the same.

It has been said that “there is no greater slave than he who thinks he is free”.

We are enslaved, politically and religiously, because of the “kings” upon the land.

Only the Lord can truly set us free.
Only the Lord can defeat the great distress.

Seek Him.
Allow Him to do so.

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