Nahum 1:12-13 Thus says the Lord,
‘Though they are at full strength and many,
they will be cut off and pass away.
Though I have afflicted you,
I will afflict you no more.
And now I will break off his yoke from you
and snap the bonds that bind you.’
What's the enemy that's got you down today? For the kingdom of Judah, to whom the prophet Nahum wrote, it was a literal enemy: a foreign power who was threatening to invade and conquer them. But what's the enemy that's got you hiding in the corner today? Is it the national debt ceiling? Is it more your household debt ceiling? Is it the seeming inability of our nation's political leaders to accomplish anything together? Is it the seeming inability of people in your own house, or your own workplace, to talk together with respect and a spirit of compromise? What's the enemy that's got you fearing for your very sanity today?
Hear the promise of the Lord. Picture that enemy. Picture that power that seems way too big for you. Picture that power that IS way too big for you. And hear the promise of the Lord for you. The Lord will break off the yoke of whatever power has you down. The Lord will snap whatever bonds bind you as if they were made of balsa wood. Snap.. And the bonds are gone.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
Visit http://www.allsaintspalatine.org for lots of information about our ministries. It's not too late for you to sign up to either bring a child and/or volunteer for our "Pandamania" Vacation Bible School the first week of August.
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