Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.

“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,

“‘From the lips of children and infants

you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”

And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night. Mathew 21:12-17

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Pray For One Another

Have you ever wondered why God created us social beings? Why didn't He just leave Adam alone? Why put us in races, families, regions etc.? Why do I need you and how come you cannot do without me?

I Need You To Survive (Hezekiah Walter)

I need you

You need me

We are all a part of Gods body

Stand with me

Agree with me

We are all a part of God’s army

It is His will that every need be supplied

You are important to me

I need you to survive.

I pray for you

You pray for me

I love you

I need you to survive

I won't harm you

With words from my mouth

I love you

I need you to survive

These are the words of a song that sums up all the argument for our interdependence on one another. Truth is none of us can do it or go it all alone. We need each other, and the sooner we realise this fact, the easier our life journeys will become.

Picture this: your area of need is a walkover by some other person around you. How easy do you think it will be for that brother or sister to believe God for you in that area? I think very easy. If you listened to them talk about that area, you will know that believing is not an issue. They almost will sound like they do not need faith or at least not much as you are imagining. They already walk in the reality of what you are dreaming about.

God promised that if two or more of us agreed as touching anything, it would be done by the Father. How cool is that? Why won't we embrace this grace? Why will we allow ourselves to be cheated out of our inheritance in Christ? Beloved, look around you, God has blessed you with folk. Just imagine if on an hourly basis someone is mentioning your name before the Father. And you are doing your bit for many around you. We will all live joyful stress-free lives.

“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” (Matthew 18:19-20)

Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. (James 5:16)

As you worship God today, please remember to pray for someone else and know this, whatsoever a man does that he shall reap also. Sow prayers and you will reap prayers. Be someone's answer, and someone will be your answer. Lift a burden off a brother's shoulders and watch help arise for you from God's throne. Look out for others today, and you will be protected. Enjoy God's presence. Remember to pray for one another.

P.S. when you are alone, multiplication is not possible. When there are two or more, then we can be talking increase. The progress you make on your own cannot be compared to when you employ or engage more people in the drive or quest.

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Go In This Thy Might…A Look 
At Gideon's Life.

The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, “The LORD is with you, mighty warrior.” (Judges 6:11-12)

When a people or an individual is under judgement, many things become inconvenient.

He felt the burden, lived the hardship, the people’s travail was heavy.

Gideon felt very inadequate, the troubles of the land were many, and what could he, one solitary man from the backwoods of nowhere do in the face of such oppression?

God knowing that He had the heart of a deliverer chose Gideon as the man of the hour. You wonder how I know; Gideon knew their history, understood that God was awesome in the lives of His people and knew that for them to be going through such hard times could only mean one thing. God had turned His back on them.

He knew it was not a God problem. It was a sin issue.

The Angel startled him called him mighty despite his low self-esteem. What matters is how God chooses to define us not how we see ourselves or how man describes us.

When we empty ourselves, we make room for God to fill us and then pour us out to our world.

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?

And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man (Judges 6:12-16)

God reassured Gideon a couple of times until he gathered enough strength to do Gods bidding.

God gave Gideon a winning strategy and the enemy is defeated.

And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:

And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. (Judges 6:25-26)

We must deal with sin and all its paraphernalia around us, embrace God, and the desired change would come. Read the rest of the story in Judges 6 and 7

As for us, we must continuously ensure that our world is not engulfed in sin. We must take a stand for God, and we would see the change that we desire in our time.

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The hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

I said, “Sovereign LORD, you alone know. ”

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD. ’”

So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.

Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD. ’ (Ezekiel 37:1-14)

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Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.

“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’

“And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.

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For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well. Psalm 139:13-14

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.1Peter 2:9

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Mary Magdalene made it! So can you.

Pushed to Favour

Hi, my name is Leah; I am my father’s oldest daughter. They describe me by my eyes; tender, pleasant, delicate, lovely are few of the words used by many to label them. At first, it did not bother me, after all, I came first, and certain privileges come with the position. I enjoyed my father’s undivided attention until my baby sister came. She was stunningly beautiful, pitched side-by-side I did not stand a chance. Life now demanded that I prove myself. Beyond my eyes, I had to have something else. My circumstances made me insecure, always needing to prove that I exist and I matter. I have a lovely heart, and I love my God, I mean the God of my fathers; the idols of the land did not interest me.

My sister and I got on reasonably ok; there were only us two after all until this guy showed up. Rachael had gone to water the flocks this fateful afternoon; she returned with news of some cousin from far away land. The guy was handsome, some dude. He already struck a relationship with my sister, and they looked good together. It's just that somewhere in my heart I find that I am also attracted to him. Time passed, and we gather that Dad had struck some kind of deal with him. He had expressed interest in Rachel and Dad had asked the dowry to be seven years of shepherding. They did not consult me, so I had no say, just some secret desires.

When will my chance come? This guy did not hide the fact that he was in love with my sister, and I could not bear the fact that I liked him. When dad informed me he was going to switch me for my sister, I welcomed the idea. I mean I had been secretly hoping that by some miracle, this guy would be mine and here was my chance. So I grabbed it with all I had.

The night came, and I was packaged and sent off to him. That night was sweet, but the morning was bitter. He woke up and there I was. I saw his disappointment. I was not the desired, and my heart broke in many pieces. He could not divorce me because he already had me, so he was stuck. I knew he did not like the situation at all. He chose to serve another seven years so he could have my sister, the love of his heart. I confess I did not like the feeling of being the unwanted one, so I set out to woo him, I resolved to make him see that my beauty was inner and I was God's answer to his quest.

When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless. Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.” (Genesis 29:31-32)

Rachael was still preferred even though she could not bear children. I got pregnant immediately I weaned Reuben. I hoped, at that point, Jacob would look my way in the day. He only showed any affection when he wanted sex. That did not feel good at all, but what could I do, at least he showed something even though it was only in the dark. When Simeon showed up, he was reason to believe that someone had mentioned to God that I was hated. God hears the heart, you know! Then I had my third son, still at the attention-seeking stage. I believed by now; he would be joined to me; I had three sons after all.

I hoped in vain. Levi's arrival did not do the trick. I went again, by that time, I was already getting tired of throwing myself at him, so I chose to look up to God. I decided to praise. Judah arrived, and I had another object of my attention. God was now going to be my stay. I would face God; I got myself to believe He must have a plan in his heart for me. Indeed God had, but I was too consumed with chasing shadows to notice. Even though I was the unloved one, I was still the envy of my little sister; she was barren. She resorted to competition and decided to give her maid to our husband. I chose to do the same, you see, I did not want to lose grounds. Now we were producing children through maids so that we could each secure our positions.

...

Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. “You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,” they said, “because you are the son of another woman.” So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a gang of scoundrels gathered around him and followed him.

Some time later, when the Ammonites were fighting against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob. “Come,” they said, “be our commander, so we can fight the Ammonites.”

Jephthah said to them, “Didn’t you hate me and drive me from my father’s house? Why do you come to me now, when you’re in trouble?”

The elders of Gilead said to him, “Nevertheless, we are turning to you now; come with us to fight the Ammonites, and you will be head over all of us who live in Gilead.”

Jephthah answered, “Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me—will I really be your head?”

The elders of Gilead replied, “The LORD is our witness; we will certainly do as you say.” So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And he repeated all his words before the LORD in Mizpah. Judges 11:1-10ff

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Then Samuel asked, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied. “But he’s out in the fields watching the sheep and goats.” “Send for him at once,” Samuel said. “We will not sit down to eat until he arrives.” So Jesse sent for him. He was dark and handsome, with beautiful eyes. And the Lord said, “This is the one; anoint him.” So as David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the flask of olive oil he had brought and anointed David with the oil. And the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.

1 Samuel 16:11‭-‬13 NLT