Mensa Otabil - God Reigns Over All
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Welcome to day number 32 of our 40 days of power. If you join us, we’ve been praying and fasting for 32 days. We have a few more days to go. First Kings chapter 18, verses 38-39. Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, «The Lord, He is God. The Lord, He is God.» What a remarkable declaration. The Lord, He is God. And this is something that happened in the history of Israel. The king Ahab, Israel went into apostasy, and they started worshiping Baal, one of the gods of the nations around them. Ahab had married a woman named Jezebel. Jezebel was from Sidon, and this was a political marriage to try to unite Israel with its neighbors. But Jezebel came into Israel with her god Baal. She influenced her husband Ahab, the king of Israel, to start worshiping Baal. And pretty soon, she began influencing all the prominent people, the important people, to worship Baal. Then they started persecuting the priests and the prophets, sometimes killing them and locking them up.
So the worship of Baal had become the predominant worship in Israel. It is in the midst of that that God raised a prophet named Elijah. Elijah’s ministry was confrontational. He had to go out there and confront this worship of a false god in Israel. So Elijah called the prophets of Baal, about 450 of them, to a place called Mount Carmel to decide which God Israel should worship. They prepared an offering, a sacrifice, and said that the God who answers by fire is the God that they will worship. The prophets of Baal prayed the whole day. Nothing happened. The sacrifice was there, raw meat. Elijah prayed, and there was fire. When the people saw the God who answers by fire, they bowed and said, «The Lord, He is God.»
What happened on Mount Carmel will happen again because the Bible says one of these days at the mention of Jesus, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord. They bowed on Mount Carmel, and they will bow in life. So I don’t know what force has lifted itself against you, but the Lord, He is God. And so over the earth, we proclaim, the Lord, He is God. Over nature and all the forces of nature, the trees, the plants, the mountains, the rivers, the seas, the oceans, we proclaim the Lord, He is God. Over every king, over every ruler, and power in any form, political, financial, academic, scientific, we proclaim the Lord, He is God. And over every god, over every idol, over spiritual powers and principalities, and forces of evil running through the earth and trying to harass your life, we proclaim today, the Lord, He is God. And God has given us authority to make that proclamation.
Today, we declare that the Lord is God. In every situation of your life, in everything you are going through, in every condition that is trying to turn your life wrong, we declare the Lord, He is God. And at the mention of the name of Jesus, knees bow of things in heaven and things on the earth and things under the earth. So that is our confidence and that is our proclamation today as we honor the Lord for who He is. We have prayed. We have trusted Him. And we proclaim boldly, the Lord, He is God.
Let us pray. Say with me, «Heavenly Father, there is none like You. There is none besides You. We bow to You and declare Your power over all things in Jesus' name. Amen and amen.