1Samuel 7

This morning I was meditating from 1 Samuel 7 and I was taught by the Lord about 4 significant locations mentioned there

1)KIRIATH JEARIM(v1).If we see the background of this chapter we can see the great judgement God sent on the Israelites…On Eli and his household…The ark of the covenant was captured…The Lord inflicted so much on the Philistines that they decided to send the ark back to Israel..they sent it via Beth samesh where 70 people were slain for PEEPING INTO THE ARK…Imagine this….Just for looking into the ark,70 people were slain…Child of God we hear a lot about God of Grace but lets not forget that He is also a God of Judgement..His character is Holiness……WITHOUT SANCTIFICATION NO ONE SHALL SEE GOD.

The people of Kiriath jearim ended the judgement streak of God by placing the ark on a HILL(shows prominence) and they CONSECRATED Eleazar to take care of the ark…They gave the ark of God its great importance,……DO WE GIVE THE PRESENCE OF GOD DUE PROMINENCE??They valued that….

2)MIZPAH(v 5):The second location is Mizpah where we see a great CONFESSION of sins happening.God used Samuel to ask the people of Isarel to throw away unholy devotions….We see that whole Israel had a revival…THIS PLACE TALKS ABOUT OUR PRAYER LIFE!!

Child of God do we have a mizpah in our life??Do we confess our sins and like samuel did INTERECEDE for people….when the enemy heard that the people of God coming together,they gathered themselves and tried to attack the people of God…CONFESSION AND INTERCESSION WILL PUT THE ENEMY INTO CONFUSION!!

When the ENEMY comes to Plunder you…God our GOD will thunder from heaven and we shall destroy the enemy against us…

3)EBEN-EZER(v 12):Samuel put a stone between Mizpan and Shen and named it EBEN-EZER which means THUS FAR THE LORD HAS HELPED US…..Eben-EZER talks necessarily about our THANKSGIVING..How much we owe to God….If we see ourselves none us are really worth of all the blessings God has given us..we are so unworthy..but we don’t thank Him..Its not only the Praise life we have with God..its how we regard one another,…..its how we respect the people and servants of God.EBENEZER…..let spend some time in thanking God…….

4)RAMAH(v 17)….We read that Samuel used to take a circuit a journey acroos all territories of Israel and solve the problems of the people there…but He always used to return to RAMAH where he stayed and there He built an altar……We need to come back to the place where we started….You might be reading this mail from different geographic locations but we need to come back to the STARTING POINT..the foot of the Cross….Rededicating our life and will to the almighty God…..Focussing on Him..seeing His broken body…seeing His precious blood ..o what kind of love is this….lets come back to the starting POINT!!!!


May the Good God bless you for taking time to read His word…lets pray

Father we come back to the starting point..the foot of the cross..did ever such love and sorrow meet or thorns compose so rich a crown….Thou has blessed us father and we are thankful for that..for the guardians we have,for the intellect and jobs you have showered on us because of thy grace..Father remind us to give importance to sanctification,throwing out all that hinders our walk with thee….help us to be serious about Confession and intercession….many blessings of many are dependent on our talking with thee….Father revive us Lord..Forgive our lack of zeal Jesus..we have spoke unwanted things,seen unholy things ,have yielded our bodies to the evil patterns of this world..Forgive us Lord./forgive us….wash us Jesus..wash us….Thank you for thy love ..thank you for thy grace

/..thank you fro thy peace………………………….We love you so much….



For we pray in the precious name of Jesus Christ our Lord



Amen