Journey of the Sons
of God to the Promised Land
Today’s Focus:
Spirit of Amalek – Overcoming Amalek
Scripture: Numbers
1:2,3
Greetings Sons of
God:
The spirit of
Amalek comes in constant opposition to Spiritual Israel, the House of God. It seeks to try to stop you from coming into
the knowledge of your inheritance as a son of God. Remember Amalek’s grandfather Esau, saw his
birthright as insignificant and sold it for earthly gratification and
provision. When the sons of God do not
realize their spiritual inheritance they will not see the significance of their
inheritance and will settle for earthly provision and gratification instead
coming into the understanding that they are a son of their Father’s House and
everything that the Father has, belongs to the son. Now we saw in our previous
message that Amalek was a coward nation that attacks the weak and feeble of
Israel after coming out of Egypt. So how
does God remedy this problem from this happening again. This is what He does, He numbers them!
Numbers
1:2,3: Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after
their families, by the house of their families, by the house of their fathers,
with the number of their names, every male by their polls; From twenty years
old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron
shall number them by their armies.
Remember God brought them out of Egypt and
they traveled in one big mass of people and understandably the weak and feeble
would trail in the back but it would make them susceptible to enemy attack by
the Amalekites. So what God does He
arranges the children of Israel into their 12 tribes. Now we know that this arrangement according
to Numbers 1:2 is by the households of their fathers. By arranging the children of Israel into
households and subsequently into their tribes would allow them to advance and
as long as they obeyed God they would overcome every enemy. It would be in this arrangement of Spiritual
Israel as households and subsequently the 12 tribes (James 1:1) that the
Kingdom of God would advance and if the sons of God would obey the voice of the
Lord, they will overcome every attack of the enemy. But let me take this a step further, in this
arrangement of households the weak and feeble will be protected because the
strong will bear the infirmities of the weak.
They will be truly their brother’s keeper and care for those who may be
spiritual immature and vulnerable. So in
the proper arrangement and obedience of the sons, Amalek will be defeated and
the Kingdom will advance.
In the subsequent
messages you will see the crucial importance of the arrangement of the House of
God in the advancement of the Kingdom.
In the next message we will look at the spirit of Midian.
Peace, Love and
Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
