Wednesday October 08th, 2025
Meditate on Romans 8:6 Amplified
« Now the mind of the flesh (carnally minded) is death [both now and forever—because it pursues sin]; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace [the spiritual well-being that comes from walking with God—both now and forever]; »
Read 2 Chronicles 16:1-14NKJV
1 In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
2 Then Asa brought silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben-Hadad king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,
3 “Let there be a treaty between you and me, as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold; come, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”
4 So Ben-Hadad heeded King Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.
5 Now it happened, when Baasha heard it, that he stopped building Ramah and ceased his work.
6 Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones and timber of Ramah, which Baasha had used for building; and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.
7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him: “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.
8 Were the Ethiopians and the Lubim not a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the Lord, He delivered them into your hand.
9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars.”
10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.
11 Note that the acts of Asa, first and last, are indeed written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
12 And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady was severe; yet in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.
13 So Asa rested with his fathers; he died in the forty-first year of his reign.
14 They buried him in his own tomb, which he had made for himself in the City of David; and they laid him in the bed which was filled with spices and various ingredients prepared in a mixture of ointments. They made a very great burning for him.
Some people find it difficult to trust God.
They would rather put their trust in things that they can see than in the Lord that they cannot see.
- Many times, it is because we feel we are intelligent and our intelligence has helped us in the past so we want to be able to use it for everything.
I once went to minister the Holy Ghost baptism to a group of people; the uneducated ones were baptised almost as soon as the ministration started, but the educated ones were looking around, trying to understand how the baptism would come.
These were doubting Thomases.
Thomas was a man who would not believe until he saw with his eyes. John 20:29NKJV says
« Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” »
Apostle Paul also said in 2 Corinthians 4:18NLT
« So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever »
Where you look to when you are in need of help is where your faith lies.
For example, David said he would look up to the hills from whence came his help – the Lord, Psalm 121:1-2.
If you look to man, then your faith lies in man.
If you look to your money, then that is where your faith lies.
- God can use either to meet your need, but you are to look to God and God alone.
God is displeased when you have faith in anything or anyone else but Him. Hebrews 11:6KJV says
« Without faith it is impossible to please God »
Until you take your eyes off the physical and set them on Him in the Spirit, some things will remain out of your reach.
In our Bible reading for today, Asa found it difficult to look to God for his healing even when physicians had failed him.
This is a stronghold of the devil that must be broken.
If you study your Bible diligently, pray without ceasing, and fellowship regularly with other believers, you would soon begin to see how the spiritual controls the physical.
Spend more time with God than you do with man and that stronghold of dependence on physical things will be broken.
Application – Put your trust in God, He is the only One that can help you.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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