DAY 4 The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! - Zechariah 3:1 PRAYER INTENTION Begin to pray concerning your own prayer list. Behold the Cross of the Lord! Be gone all evil powers! The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David has conquered! Alleluia! Come O Holy Spirit and illuminate us- let your glory inside us come alive, let your anointing inside us come alive, let your power inside us come alive- help us to win like we are born to do, we make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen Why did God rebuke Satan? Because Joshua was a brand plucked out of fire, the meaning of fire here is judgment, so God allowed Joshua to experience judgement for a season and the reason was because of the filthy garments he had acquired. So when we say he was plucked out of fire it meant he had completed a circle of judgement, and the devil even though he felt he had legal ground, coming into the justice system of God, once the filthy garment was removed Satan had no legal ground to hold him because he had fulfilled the requirements of justice. Listen to the spirit of God speaking through my voice to you, the reason why you passed downtown is so that the legalities around certain legitimacies that Satan secured to manipulate your life will be undone so that you can WIN like you were born to do. God allowed you to pass through a season of reproach but now- liberation, freedom has come because of God's love and what Jesus Christ did on the cross so what do you say, “the lord rebuke you, Satan” God has plucked you out of fire and the legitimacy that the kingdom of darkness is exploiting to plunder your life is also removed from your head in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, listen I am not just talking, I am speaking under the authority of Jesus Christ. Zechariah 3:2b says “even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?” Put your name there, put your families name there, put the name of your child, husband, wife, brother and sister and say even the Lord has chosen me. You my dear friend are chosen, the bible says in 1 Peter 2:9, “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” . You now see why we have the audacity to call on the Lord to Rebuke Satan; you are CHOSEN, what did I say is the answer? “The Lord rebuke you, Satan”. If you are an enterprising Christian you must not forget, the prayer phrase- “the Lord rebuke you Satan, stay away from my family, from my life, from everything I care about. Now that we have set the tone for the conference let’s talk about the book of Job briefly. I am aware that you understand to some extent the book of Job. The book of Job was written when the revelations of God were in its cradle. The way God operates is that he begins with a little stream and then as the subsequent people that receive the baton bear witness to God, the streams increase. So in the beginning before civilization solidified, the revelations of God were in its cradle and the people that gave direction to humanity at that time were called the Cardinals. The Cardinals were the custodians of philosophy and in those days it happened that there were 4 cardinals, Job happened to be one of them, the rest are Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. Each of the Cardinals were territorial Lords over the East, West, North and South regions of the earth. So when things happened that beat the imagination of people and humans wanted understanding they will go to one of the cardinals responsible for their region for clarity, explanation and understanding and he brings out his philosophy and explains the reason why those things have taken place and gives advice- He may say things like “if you want this kind of thing to stop or if you want this solution you should consider doing that” - so it was through the wisdom that this cardinals manifested that culture, society and sociology was built around. They were very significant entities in their realms- so this was how life was lived until one day one of the cardinals named Job was afflicted – Job happened to be the custodian of the east, meaning he was the one who was to bring perspective on perplexing issues facing his constituents in the eastern side of the world. Now this man who was to bring perspective was afflicted terribly beyond what any human had ever seen or experienced in that dispensation, if only he knew this phrase “The Lord Rebuke you, Satan”. Because his own very affliction was caused by Satan ooh. Job 1:6 -12 reads “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord...
