“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

Psalms 13: 6

I will sing to the Lord because He has dealt bountifully with me.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

We, the bride, the church according to the faith of our heart should unite to the laws of the Lord and for that we should be delivered from the deeds of the Philistines. 

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated that we, the bride, the church with new grace every day should renew our soul, make it holy and sharpen it and we must fight the spiritual war.

Next what we are meditating is that 1 Samuel 14: 1 - 7 Now it happened one day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armour, “Come, let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he did not tell his father. 

And Saul was sitting in the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men. 

Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh, was wearing an ephod. But the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on one side and a sharp rock on the other side. And the name of one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. 

The front of one faced northward opposite Michmash, and the other southward opposite Gibeah.

Then Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will work for us. For nothing restrains the Lord from saving by many or by few.”

So his armorbearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Go then; here I am with you, according to your heart.”

In the above-mentioned verses, now it happened one day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armour, “Come, let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he did not tell his father. And Saul was sitting in the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron. Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh, was wearing an ephod. But the people did not know that Jonathan had gone. Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on one side and a sharp rock on the other side. And the name of one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. The front of one faced northward opposite Michmash, and the other southward opposite Gibeah. Then Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will work for us. For nothing restrains the Lord from saving by many or by few.” So his armorbearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Go then; here I am with you, according to your heart.”

Then Jonathan was looking for some signs from the Lord in 1 Samuel 14: 8 – 10 Then Jonathan said, “Very well, let us cross over to these men, and we will show ourselves to them. 

If they say thus to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stand still in our place and not go up to them. 

But if they say thus, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up. For the Lord has delivered them into our hand, and this will be a sign to us.”

The above-mentioned words are the signs from God to us.

My dear people, let us submit ourselves to unite with the laws that we received from God and according to the faith in our heart we must live in our spiritual life and be delivered from the deeds of the Philistines.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly. 

- To be continued