WALK THROUGH FIRES OF OPPRESSIVE TROUBLE, INSULTS AND DISGRACE

Praise God Child of God!

  God wants you well. Instead the devil uses its broods and you face  OPRESSIVE tendencies:  Cruel, domineering, tyrannical, repressive, unfair, despotic, overbearing, unjust

  God wants Peace and Life for you. Instead you face TROUBLE: Worry, distress, anxiety, misfortune, suffering, woe

  God wants Joy, Rejoice and Praise for you. Instead you face INSULT: Abuse, rudeness, offence

  God wants Glory and Honor for you. Instead you face DISGRACE: Shame, dishonor, discredit, scandal, ignominy, humiliation, degradation

Child of God, are you faced with insults and ridicule and you are wondering where to get help. Your help is not in any strong human being or nation, your help is in God.

Just as Hezekiah in the book of Isaiah ,you too have faced Insult and ridicule.  The devil in someone else – in your boss – in your friend – in your parent – in your brother or sister – in your spouse – in your child – in your neighbor – in your landlord – whether superior or subordinate, related or unrelated has caused you to start writhing, be uncomfortable, want to run away from something, want to give up, and you wonder whether you are still any relevant as they have done everything to ruin your efforts to make you feel irrelevant.

I tell you child of God, it is not that person doing those things to you. The devil in the person is the one controlling that person – regardless of who they are – and now the devil has controlled that person to act on you in these ways; that person:

Never appreciates anything you do, despises you, laughs at you, scoffs at you, shakes their head in amusement whenever you are scared and as you get raged to flee away from their bullish ploys, slanders – gossips – and back stabs you yet they pretend to do you a favor, looks you into a proud condescension, mocks your God, is raged against God, is arrogant against God.

Like, Hezekiah, you too face all these kinds of defiant threats not just against you but also against our Living God. Those troublesome, insulting and disgraceful people in your lives are people who do not believe in our Living God, they are people: who worship idols, practice witchcraft, love to tell lies, love to live in pretense, love to live in denial, live with corruption, pray with a motive, pray with expectations, are wicked and sinful.

When you are the child of God like King Hezekiah in the book of Isaiah being attacked for no peaceful reason, insulted for no genuine reason, and disgraced, in Hezekiah’s View, the Bible says that at such a time you must be aware that:

“This is a day of trouble, insult, and disgrace. It is like when a child is ready to be born but the mother has no strength to deliver it.” (Isaiah 37: 3 NLT)

So how do you pray about such oppressive trouble, insult and disgrace?  Child of God, no matter who it is that, has attacked you, they represent the devil and so they are broods of the devil. As such the Bible (Isaiah 37:4 NLT) says perhaps the LORD your God has heard the devil’s representative defying the living God and will punish him for his words, so pray for God to defend you against such broods of the devil. 

Child of God for you and me to seek God’s attention for our defense against the broods of the devil, we have to pray like King Hezekiah as guided by God through prophet Isaiah. This is how you must pray against oppressive trouble, insults and disgrace:

1.   Be Remorseful and disgusted of the devil’s ploys
2.   Refuse to be disturbed by whatever the devil throws at you as you cannot control what he and his broods throw at you
3.   Listen for God’s message of peace, and how to act in with God’s approval in response to the devil’s insults and ridicules
4.   Pray for the Living God’s defense
5.   Use God’s armor to fight back for your peace and honor
6.   Hold to the proof that God will protect you against the wicked
7.   Talk down all the devil’s evil ploys in honor of your living God and with hope and boldness that God is defending you and your belongings already.

 1. Be Remorseful and disgusted of the devil’s ploys

Child of God once attacked by a devil’s brood, show that you are disgusted for the person attacking you not acting in the will of God. Physically wear sadness, writhing and weeping to the living God or even go immediately into fasting as it is how you can express the remorsefulness. Hezekiah (Isaiah 37:19 NLT) showed his disgust when he said, “they were not gods at all – only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.”

  2. Refuse to be disturbed by whatever the devil throws at you as you cannot control what he and his broods throw at you

As a child of God, ignore all words and evil statements that are thrown at you from the wicked people who attack you. All they say will be intended for trouble, confusion and destruction. Nothing that comes from them will be intended for good. The LORD God tells you and me through prophet Isaiah to King Hezekiah (Isaiah 37:6 NLT) that, “Do not be disturbed by this blasphemous speech…” See you have no control over what the devil throws at you but you have control on how you respond, so calm down and refuse to fear or be intimidated. This is the time you need to seek the power of God, his love and self -control.

3. Listen for God’s message of peace, and how to act in with God’s approval in response to the devil’s insults and ridicules

As a child of God, you cannot go into the fight without God and you win.  One thing you have to be aware of is that the person attacking you is being controlled by the power of the devil and so you can only face the person, not in your way but rather in the way approved by God. This is the time to listen from God and seek for his help. God in the Bible (Isaiah 37:7 NLT) through prophet Isaiah tells you, “Listen!” We have to Listen to God, once we do, God himself would want to help you by making sure He makes your enemy want to return and go back where he came from to be destroyed with their devil ploys there.  So act in the promises of God and with patience endure through the trials and sorrows as you wait to emerge the winner with God by your side.  

Direct all the threats meant for you to the living God. Show God everything in the same way it was thrown at you just as king Hezekiah did. King Hezekiah on receiving a blasphemous letter from, the Bible (Isaiah 37:14 NLT) says, “, he went up to the LORD’s Temple and spread it out before the LORD.” It is after you have exposed the blasphemy of your enemy to the LORD that you should pray for God’s defense against the enemy’s wickedness.

4. Pray for the living God’s defense

Child of God once attacked with oppressive trouble, insults and disgrace from any person. It is after you have exposed this oppression to the LORD God that you start to pray before God to protect you against the devil’s broods and ploys. When praying honor God, want to be listened to and want to be heard and want to be seen as you pray while reporting the entire devil’s defiance to God. Hezekiah prayed before the LORD (Isaiah 37:15-20 NLT) and said: “O LORD Almighty, God of Israel…..You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and earth. Listen to me, O LORD, and hear! Open your eyes, O LORD, and see! Listen to Sennacherib’s words of defiance against the living God…It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations, just as the message says. And they have thrown the gods of these nations into fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all – only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands. Now, O LORD our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O LORD, are God.” Show that those insulting you rely on idols, witchcraft, and other gods for their protection yet you rely on the living God for your protection. Show that you trust in God and are asking God to rescue you from all evil power and ploys.

5. Use God’s armor to fight back for your peace and honor

Walk in the fighting shadow of God’s light. Walk behind God’s word of battle. Use God’s word to reclaim your position of peace and honor.  One thing you need to understand is that by anyone speaking blasphemy or attacking you in wickedness, they do not attack you even though you may be the body being attacked, at the instance in which they represent the devil, you who is being attacked, once you follow the will of God, at that instance the attacker will be attacking the LORD not you. After Hezekiah praying and exposing the enemy’s blasphemy, God responded through Isaiah (Isaiah 37:21, 24, 29 NLT) and said, “This is my answer to your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria… This is the message that the LORD has spoken against him; … By your messengers you have mocked the Lord… And because of your arrogance against me, which I have heard for myself, I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your mouth. I will make you return by the road on which you came. ” So since every attack on you a child of God is an attack on God himself, a mockery or abuse or insult or disgrace or oppression on God’s own, because of your oppressor’s arrogance against you, which you must have heard for yourself, now use God’s armor against your oppressor:

In this time and era, through the mighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Put God’s hook in the attacker’s nose. Put God’s bridle (noose or trap) in the attacker’s mouth, and boldly speak in the mighty name of Jesus Christ for your attacker to be made by God to return wherever they came from and never to return as they are destroyed by God himself from where they came from.

That way, without you on the front line in pursuit of the devil who is manifest in his oppressive and troublesome broods, through Jesus Christ; through God you will be fighting a winning battle for your peace and honor against your enemy who will also be an enemy of the living God.

  6. Hold to the proof that God will protect you against the wicked

Once you have placed yourself on the battle side of the living God where you are able to boldly refute the oppressive trouble, insults and disgrace the devil intended for you, at such boldness with trust in Jesus Christ you will have held yourself to the proof that the LORD will protect you against any of your ungodly wicked and sinful oppressors.  To Hezekiah, Isaiah (Isaiah 37:30 NLT) said, “Here is the proof that the LORD God will protect this city from Assyria’s king.” Once you have proof of God’s protection, you have insurance of surviving any wrath from the devil and his broods. It is at such assurance of God’s insurance that you can escape any unfair attack.

The Bible (Isaiah 37:31 NLT) shows that with the insurance of us being protected by the living God, you who survive, you who escape the siege will take root again and be established again to flourish and multiply. The LORD’s insurance therefore gives you and me the mandate to escape the ravages of the siege (all restrictions and obstructions), so stand firm on the blessings God has given you and refuse to lose ground, refuse all negative curses and blasphemous words against you from the wicked and speak on yourself God’s words or promises of peace that you will flourish and multiply, that the position in which you are is for the LORD, and that the LORD Almighty makes your victory against all evil attacks happen. The Bible (Isaiah 37:32 NLT) says, “The passion of the LORD Almighty will make this happen!” Once you have felt in your conscience that God is fully in control and is making things happen, talk down all the devil’s ploys that were ever spoken against you.

  7. Talk down all the devil’s evil ploys in honor of your living God and with hope and boldness that God is defending you and your belongings already.

As a child of God, conclude by refusing to accept what your enemy oppressively intends for you. This is where you go directly to God and demand using the name of Jesus Christ and by faith you get what you request. It is at this point that God expects you to speak against your enemy in the way He spoke against the evil king of Assyria, say:

In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I refute all the insults, ridicules, oppressions, blasphemies said against me by all those wicked people and broods of the devil. Then go ahead and be specific by saying, my enemies will not enter my territory to do any harm, my enemies will not march outside my gates with their shields, my enemies will not hide on me or near me or tag along me in disguise, my enemies will not alter any words or attack me with any intention of oppressing me or causing me trouble or insulting me or causing me any sort of disgrace. Then command your enemy to return by the same path on which they came to attack you with assurance in the Mighty God that they will and must return and that your enemy will not enter any of your territory by the grace and power of God. That it must happen for God’s honor as long as it is the living God who defends you and your belongings and you belong to the LORD God who protects you. The Bible (Isaiah 37:33-35 NLT) says that this is what the LORD God said about the King of Assyria:

“His armies will not enter Jerusalem to shoot their arrows. They will not march outside its gates with their shields and build banks of earth against its walls. The king will return to his own country by the road on which he came. He will not enter this city, says the LORD. For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David, I will defend it.” (Isaiah 37:33-35 NLT)

But now child of God the LORD who created you according to Isaiah 43:1-5 NLT says, “Do not be afraid for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine. When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown! When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I gave Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba as a ransom for your freedom. Others died that you might live. I traded their lives for yours because you are precious to me. You are honored and I love you. Do not be afraid for I am with you…”  

In all your walks, whenever you walk through fires of oppressive trouble, insults and disgrace, be assured that you will not be consumed by the flames as long as you pray in faith while fully trusting in our living God.  For the LORD God honors and loves you and He is your Savior.

For You who has never given your life to Christ

You do not want to go through this disaster when you are not born again. You are welcome to the life of salvation. Believe me you do not know what the future holds for you in this disaster.

so pray and give YOUR LIFE TO CHRIST say: 

My Lord Christ Jesus, I believe you are the Son of God. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. I submit my life to you. I confess my sins and ask you to come into my life and save me. I want to know You. I want to learn to trust You. I know I can not save myself. As of today and now, I ask you into my mind - heart - and soul as I accept you as my personal Lord and Savior. Please help me in Your name because I believe I am now born again. Amen.

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SCRIPTURES:

• Isaiah 37: 1-35  Holy Bible, New Living Translation

• Isaiah 43:1-5  Holy Bible, New Living Translation  

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