DESTROYING THE ENEMIES WITHIN (PART ONE)

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             An army general expressed his battle plan to his officers. He told them the strategy they were going to employ in conquering their enemies after they gained entrance into the city. When he concluded his explanation, one of the officers asked a formidable question, thus “sir, who is going to open the city gate for us, so that we can gain entrance into the city?” The general, answered the officer and said, “Don't worry officer I already have a fifth column inside the city they will open the city gate for us from within”
                The enemy keeps trying to create a fifth column in us believer, so that they can infiltrate and attack us from without. The devil knows that without the enemies with he certainly will not be able to win the battle, so he continues to attack our minds to accept his thoughts, ideas and suggestions, so as to gain an inroad into us, but these enemies must be destroyed to frustrate the plans of Satan in us.
                The children of Israel after a great victor over Jericho decided to war against Ai. Joshua sent me to spy out Ai to know how battle ready they would be. The men returned saying that it was needless for them to go with their entire army because the nation of Ai was few. They suggested that they should go with about two or three thousand men. They went against Ai with three thousand men. They went against Ai with three thousand soldiers and came back with a humiliating defeat the underestimated Ai smote about thirty six men of the army of Israel.
                Joshua was greatly displeased and decided to seek the Lord. The Lord revealed to Joshua that they disobeyed His instruction in their former battle against Jericho. Somebody took of the accursed thing and converted it for his personal use, therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies. Joshua went ahead and did a spiritual check and discovered that Archan the son of Carmi stole the accursed thing and hind them for his personal use.
           What is the accursed thing?. In Joshua 6 before the children of Israel invaded Jericho, Joshua by the inspiration of the Spirit of God told the army of Israel thus, “And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priest blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, shout, for the LORD hath given you the city”
“And the city shall be accursed, event it, and all that are therein, to the Lord …”
“And ye, in any wise keep your selves from the accursed thing, least ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel  a curse, and trouble it”
“But all the silver and gold and vessels of brass and iron, are concentrated unto the LORD; they shall come into the treasury of the LORD” Joshua 6:16 – 19
                What then are the accursed things?

                continue from next month - God bless you

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