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Your Child of Promise (4)
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Your Child of Promise (4)
23 MAY 2016
‘Time would fail me to tell of …Jephthah.’
Hebrews 11:32 NKJV
Your child of promise may be far from perfect today, and their transition intoGod’s Kingdom may be anything but smooth. ‘Time would fail me to tell of
Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and
the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire,
escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became
valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of aliens’ (vv. 32-34 NKJV). When you
read these names and know their stories, you realise Satan will fight your child of
promise from the day they’re born until the day they die. And if he can’t get to
them, he will try to get to their children. Jephthah had to rise above the stigma of
having a prostitute for a mother and a father who wanted nothing to do with him.
But he overcame all this, led Israel to victory over their enemies, became known
as ‘a mighty man of valour’ (Judges 11:1 KJV), and ended up listed alongside
the Bible’s greatest heroes, including Abraham, Moses, Esther, Ruth, and David.
Abandonment, abuse, addiction, absenteeism, anger, and aggression - none of
these can stop God from using your child of promise if you’ll ‘stand in the gap’,
pray on their behalf, and keep speaking God’s Word over them. ‘What is the
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gap?’ you ask. It’s the difference between what is and what can be; the
difference between who your child is right now and who God knows he or she
will become in the future.
Bible in a Year: 1 King 10-11; Acts 5:1-20;
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