Building a HEDGE of Protection
TEXT JOB 1:6-12
Here in this passage of scripture, Job was a righteous man and was
doing quite well in life. Indeed, when God can call your name to the devil for
an example of a man God approves you know he had to be quite a fellow. Of
course, that ticked the devil off and he accused the Lord of buying him.
He said God hedged him in from all the trials and tribulations of
life, so no wonder Job loved God. Tear down that hedge and see what happens,
said the devil.
It would be nice to think God builds a hedge of protection around
everyone, but the truth is He is looking for people who have surrendered their
lives to Him to become His servant.
Do you want to have a divine hedge in your life? Then your goal
should be to become a servant of God.
When you hear the word “hedge,” what you think of? Most people
think of a hedge made of plants. You may have a set of hedge clippers somewhere
in your garage that you use to trim plants.
But the word “hedge” in the Bible describes something more
substantial than a bush. The Hebrew word really means “wall.” A hedge was a
defensive wall often built around a city.
The bottom part might be comprised of stones or hard packed dirt,
and there might be thorny plants on the top of it.
BUILDING THE HEDGE AROUND THE HOUSES, Church Houses, Personal
House your home, And your body the House.
Church= Spiritual/ Houses =
Emotional / Body= Sickness
“The Spirit
clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow
deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.”
1 Timothy 4:1 NIV
Who are this false teachers ? Man & Women that as been seduced
By the minister of offense, minister of bitterness,
minister of rejection
Causing the faithful to abandon
their Faith .
“Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits
to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out
into the world.”
1 John 4:1 NIV
I. THE POWER OF PRAYER
A.
I cannot
imagine my life without prayer. I know when I pray there is something powerful
that begins to happen in the heavens. Jesus said to pray, thy kingdom come and
thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Whatever is in Heaven, God
desires for us to have it here on this earth with us now. There is no sickness
in Heaven, pray thy will be done to heal us on earth.
B.
God is not broke in heaven, we should have
what they have in heaven, supply every need according to his riches in Christ
Jesus. If you want the Hedge around you, you will have to pray it around your
life and believe God it is SO.
“Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the
shadow of the Almighty.”
Psalms 91:1 NIV
“He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will
find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.”
Psalms 91:4 NIV
C.
If God said
that we are able to move mountains through praying, don't you believe that you
can pray a hedge or wall of protection around you and your children. Come on
church, prayer is what is going to make a difference in the times we are
living.
D.
There is a
call of prayer being given, STOP FEARING THE UNSEEN and Start Believing for the
Unseen that God is able to bring to those who will BELIEVE.
“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble
themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I
will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV
You can pray for a hedge of protection around those you love.
Parents and grandparents you should pray for a hedge of protection around your
children and grandchildren. Husbands and wives, you can pray for God to put a
hedge around your mate so they will stay faithful to you.
Hosea’s wife, Gomer, was an adulteress. When she wandered away
from her husband God put up a hedge to keep her from being unfaithful.
Hos 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,
and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Hos 2:7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not
overtake them; and she shall seek them but shall not find them: then shall she
say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me
than now.
II. SPEAKING THE WORD OF GOD
A.
Everyone one
of us needs God’s hedge of protection. God’s hedge of protection around His
servants is part of God’s promise. This hedge can only be removed by God’s
permission.
B.
The Word of
God is the promises of God in which we are to speak and believe. So as we are
reading, speaking the Word of God, the power of God's Word is building our
faith in believing for the hedge of God's protection.
Mat 17:20 And Jesus said to them, "Because of your unbelief.
For truly I say to you, if you have faith as a tiny mustard seed, you shall say
to this mountain, 'Remove from here,' and it shall remove; and nothing shall be
impossible to you.
Rom 4:17 (Exactly as it is written: "I have made you a father
of many nations.") before God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the
dead, and calls the things that are not as though they are;
Rom 4:18 And who against hope believed in hope, in order that he
might become a father of many nations, according to that which was spoken,
"So shall your seed be."
C.
Let's just
look at what Jesus did whenever Satan came after Him in the wilderness to tempt
Him while He was fasting and praying for forty days in the wilderness.
D.
He spoke the
word of God and Satan did not bother or get to Him. The reason is He went in
the wilderness with the power of the Spirit and He came out of the wilderness
with the power of the Spirit of God, because He spoke the Word of truth in
which Satan could not press beyond.
Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Mat 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it
is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
III. PLEADING THE BLOOD OF JESUS
A. I believe that America’s hedges are being torn down due to our sin and turning from God and at this late stage in timeline of man there may not be any return or redemption for the country.
Individually, all we can do is come before Him and to be sure that we are in a place in our relationship that He does not have to take down our hedge and allow Satan to destroy to get us to return to Him.
Worse yet, we want to be sure that He does not have to turn our
body over to Satan allowing him to take our life though our soul will be saved.
Sometimes God looks and expects to find some of us to be used as a protective
hedge and He can’t find any.
C. We must as the Church today began to Plead the Blood of Jesus, because His blood is still that shield of protection around us. It was in the Old Testament with the Children of Israel in Egypt that God was trying to deliver them, and Pharaoh would not let them go.
So the Lord brought His
plagues upon them and it came to destroying or bringing death to every house of
the first born son and animal would die if they did not have the blood over the
door post of the house.
Exo 12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and
will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and
against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
Exo 12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the
houses where ye are and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the
plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
