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"David took the stronghold of Zion" - 2 Samuel 5: 7
The city of Jerusalem was a thorn in the flesh of the people of God. In spite of the fact that the whole land had been given to them, they were never, until David was king, able to possess it all: and the most strategic city, from which God's appointed was to reign, was alas, a city in which the enemy was deeply entrenched.
"The Jebusites were far too much for the children of Israel, and they could not cast them out" Joshua 15:63; and then we discover that the Benjaminites had settled down in Jerusalem on the basis of a peaceful co-existence with the enemy Judges 1: 8,21.
This could not possibly be allowed to continue; so when David became king of all Israel, we are told that he took the stronghold of Zion. That which had baffled them through their whole history, became amazingly easy when David was king; and one of the first evidences of the enthronement of Jesus Christ in our lives will be that deeply entrenched habits of evil will be put under subjection and under the feet of our risen Lord inhabiting the temple of the Holy Spirit, your body and mind.
That which has defied our best efforts; that which has caused heartache and many a tear, many a sense of remorse, defeat and frustration; and that which has made us almost give up the fight altogether - how wonderful when Jesus is King it is put under His feet. He comes into our lives to establish His Kingship, and to celebrate it by giving us the first taste of deliverance and victory over the power of inbred sin.
The city of Jerusalem was a thorn in the flesh of the people of God. In spite of the fact that the whole land had been given to them, they were never, until David was king, able to possess it all: and the most strategic city, from which God's appointed was to reign, was alas, a city in which the enemy was deeply entrenched.
"The Jebusites were far too much for the children of Israel, and they could not cast them out" Joshua 15:63; and then we discover that the Benjaminites had settled down in Jerusalem on the basis of a peaceful co-existence with the enemy Judges 1: 8,21.
This could not possibly be allowed to continue; so when David became king of all Israel, we are told that he took the stronghold of Zion. That which had baffled them through their whole history, became amazingly easy when David was king; and one of the first evidences of the enthronement of Jesus Christ in our lives will be that deeply entrenched habits of evil will be put under subjection and under the feet of our risen Lord inhabiting the temple of the Holy Spirit, your body and mind.
That which has defied our best efforts; that which has caused heartache and many a tear, many a sense of remorse, defeat and frustration; and that which has made us almost give up the fight altogether - how wonderful when Jesus is King it is put under His feet. He comes into our lives to establish His Kingship, and to celebrate it by giving us the first taste of deliverance and victory over the power of inbred sin.
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then thank God and share all Love and Joy with our neighbour. I say this with love, cavell. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.
