Mgbeke Sunday Sermon:February 5, 2023
The Prayer Of David – May Every Counsel & Voice Of “Ahitophel” Against You Be Rubbished!
My beloved people, another week is upon us in this fast-moving continuum we call time, and it is a pleasure to be alive and well in it. How has your year been so far?
I saw a prayer online recently, and it immediately took me to one of my favorite accounts in the scriptures when God delivered HIS beloved David from a civil war aided and abetted by one of his most trusted advisers, Ahitophel.
See, Ahitophel had been David’s most trusted and closest advisor for years, and it is recorded that his counsel was “like the voice of God” because it never failed! However, this man had a heavy blood grudge against his supposed friend and king, David, because, unfortunately, he was the father of the faithful Uriah, whom David murdered because of Bathsheba.
By all intents and purposes, one would say that Ahitophel had the right to avenge his son’s death, and he joyfully pounced upon the seeming opportunity he saw when Absalom raised a coup against David and put the king to flight momentarily.
Now, what is my message for you today? There are people out there today who are suffering for the sins they had committed, and the enemy has “legal grounds” to torment and destroy their lives as Ahitophel had against David. However, concerning you today, hear what the Lord of Hosts says:
“Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their flesh; and they shall be drunken with their blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.” – Isaiah 49:24-26.
That same mercy that David received is available for you today, my beloved brethren, and I decree that you will not be hindered from enjoying it from this moment, in the name of Jesus Christ!
David’s heart almost failed him, and he fainted when he heard “the voice of God,” who was supposed to be his most trusted friend and ally, had teamed up against him with his rebellious son. However, he remembered his covenant with God, so he lifted his voice and said:
“And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.” – 2 Samuel 15:31.
If you read the story from this chapter, you will see how God’s enduring promises and faithfulness can never fail HIS covenanted children and how HE will always come through for you even when the enemy has “legal grounds” to hold and afflict you – according to HIS promises in Isaiah 49.
God rubbished the counsel of Ahitophel against David by ensuring that Absalom rejected it, and the vengeful older man angrily committed suicide because of that.
Today I pray for you that every enemy acts as a friend around you because they are waiting for the right time and opportunity to strike you down. May God’s wrath be released upon them this instant. May they self-implode and destroy themselves utterly with their own hands…may every conspiracy to punish, torment, and destroy you be rubbished by the mercy and grace of God today – even those you rightly deserve to suffer from – according to HIS Word and promises, in the name of Jesus Christ; Amen!
And, like Jesus told the woman caught in adultery: Go and sin no more, too…and may you remain richly blessed always.
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