God is Our Protector (Zechariah 2:5)
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Zechariah 2:5 and I will be to her a wall of fire all around declares the Lord and I will be the glory in her midst what a picture this is God talking about how he is going to bless his people in Jerusalem the verse right before this says Jerusalem shall be inhabited as Villages without walls because of the multitude of people and livestock in it just a picture of God's blessing and then in verse five God says I will be to her to Jerusalem to my people in Jerusalem a wall of fire all around and I will be the glory in her missed God says God saying to his people I am your protector
I am your provider I am watching out for you I'm setting a wall of fire around you and my glory will be among you obviously there was direct application of this word to God's people in Zechariah Chapter 2 at the same time as we talked about these are promises that we see for all of God's people in the New Testament under the New Covenant under Jesus his glory to Welling & us our body's a temple of the Holy Spirit and he has promised as our father as our King as our savior as our deliver to be our protector so picture the imagery around you today and live in light of this reality God is a wall of fire all around you I missed all kind
spiritual warfare I just think about different challenges and my own life and family and Church in the world and they had numerous conversations recently just about the spiritual forces of evil in the Heavenly Realms spiritual warfare at work all around me all around you and to know that our God is a wall of fire around us and His glory is in ice first John greater is he who is in you feel that's right now greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world so God help us to live in light of this reality we praise you for this reality we praise you for being a wall of fire around your people we praise you as our protector is our protector against sin and Temptation our protector against all the spiritual forces of evil that work for our destruction that work to pull us away from you in the life that you created
what's the live we praise you as our protector and we pray for your protection today we pray that your wall of fire around us would guard us start our hearts and Minds in Christ Jesus guide us and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Eva and may we live all day long with you our glory and our mitts realizing we are the Temple of your Holy Spirit and God is we pray this as your people think about and Zechariah Chapter 2 10 and 11 a few verses after this talks about how you will come and dwell in the midst of your people and many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day and shall be my people got to bring it about we pray and bring your glory into the midst of the hot Sandy's people of Indonesia four million of them very few followers of Jesus in Akshay khatri pray for this Muslim people group for the auctioneers of Indonesia to hear the good news of your grace your love that you are there delivers
save your protector Jesus and we pray that you would cause the Cypher 3 made in church has to be multiplied to my knowledge and use of Indonesia caused people to go with the gospel their Indonesian Christian and Christians from all over the world to spread the gospel to the archon he's that your glory might be in their midst and you might be a wall of fire all around a Chinese brothers and sisters sons and daughters in your kingdom we pray all of this in light of your word and Zechariah Chapter 2 in Jesus name amen