Thursday July 06th, 2023
« So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, that he might fulfill the word of the LORD which He spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh. »
Read: 2 Kings 2:19-22NKJV
19 Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please notice, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the ground barren.”
20 And he said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.
21 Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’ ”
22 So the water remains healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.
Understand:
There are foundational problems which have the capacity of hindering the progress of a person’s life.
Some people ignorantly struggle with such problems and are unable to overcome them until they die.
This will not be your portion in Jesus’ Name.
The story in today’s Bible reading is a good illustration of foundational problems and their consequences.
The men of the city of Jericho confessed to Elisha that the situation of their city was pleasant, but its water was bad and its ground barren (2 Kings 2:19). Jericho’s problems started when Joshua cursed it after its fall (Joshua 6:26).
However, God divinely intervened through Elisha, His prophet, and life was restored to it.
Are you a victim of foundational problems?
I decree that an end has come to those problems today in Jesus’ Name.
Another example of foundational problem is seen in the case of Abiathar, who was a descendant of Eli. He was stripped of his priestly office because of the sin he knew nothing about.
Narrating his plight, 1 Kings 2:27NKJV says:
« So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, that he might fulfill the word of the LORD which He spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh. »
As a result of errors made by Abiathar’s ancestors, Solomon removed him from being a priest and sent him on forced retirement to his home town on Anathoth.
The story was told of a slave woman who was maltreated during her pregnancy by the freeborn women of the household. After she was delivered of her child, these women lied to her that she must not eat food seasoned with salt for a certain period of time. Although she sensed it was a gang-up to further maltreat her, she agreed not to eat salted food for the stipulated period. She however pronounced a curse that from that time forward, every woman newly delivered of a child in that household would also not eat salted food for a stipulated amount of time, otherwise such a woman would lose her child. The freeborn woman took her words lightly, thinking it was a joke. Some of them were delivered of their children and went ahead to eat meals with salt, only for their children to die the following day. From then on, no woman who married into that household could not eat salt after having children until a certain amount of time passed. They automatically became victims of a foundational problem. However, when one of such women became born again, the power of the Blood of Jesus Christ destroyed the yoke of this curse and she was able to eat salted food after delivering their children without and evil consequences.
This is what Jesus Christ can do for whoever believes in His Name.
If you will believe today, you will no longer be a victim of foundational problems,
Application: Apply Colossians 2:14 to break the hold of every foundational problem in your household.
Author: Bishop Enoch. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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