OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL. DATE : Saturday 2 November 2013 THEME : IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM Memory Verse: Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. 2 Samuel 21:1 Read:1 Corinthians 9:24-27 24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : ZECHARIAH 1 - 3 Message King Jehoshaphat was a man who loved and obeyed God. He had a good rating before God. All was well and everything was going on well with him. Then all of a sudden, three powerful kings gathered together and said he and his people would be their next target for breakfast. Like any of us, he was hit by an arrow of fear but he handled the situation so well that he got victory (2 Chronicles 20:1-4). We ought to learn one or two lessons from him. The first thing to note in obtaining sound victory is to identify the problem. There is need to know exactly what you are up against and what led to it. It is commonly said that a problem well known is already half solved. This is true. If you are walking on a street and there are gunshots, a good number of people will not pause to determine where the gun shots are coming from: they will just start to run even if they are heading from safety into the danger zone. King Jehoshaphat clearly identified his problem. He knew the kings were coming to invade Judah. He knew the kings and also why they were coming. When you receive an attack, do you go to God
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