Day 6 Let’s Be People Who Stand In The Gap
Ezekiel 22:30 30 “I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one.
A hedge is a protective wall. It keeps out invaders. It keeps out the enemy and protects the people from others. Satan could not touch Job because God had a hedge around him. A hedge of protection. When the hedge is down, it allows for Satanic activity.
Eccles. 10:8 Whoever digs a pit may fall into it; whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
Isaiah 5:5 Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard:I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed;I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
Psalm 80:12 Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
But when we fast and pray, the hedges are going back up (around our nation, our families and our churches). There are things that we can do that raise the hedges.
There is a shocking lack of prayer and fasting to raise the hedges. We need people who will stand in the gap and be a hedge builder to keep Satan away from our families, our communities, our countries and our world.
Determine to be a hedge builder. Stand in the gap and name your family members, your church members, your community, and your leaders in your state and nation that there will be a hedge of protection around them.
Intercede for those away from God because they have no hedge and are are exposed to Satanic activity.
We need that kind of fasting and prayer. We need to throw our bodies through fasting and prayer to fill the holes, fill in the gap, to stand in the gap, to build hedges, God will heal that land.
Psalm 106:23 So he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them
If Moses had not been a hedge builder, what they had done would have brought destruction.
30X in the OT it says God repented. He didn’t change his character, but he changed his actions based upon the actions of people.
So today, let’s pray, fast and let’s be hedge builders.
*teaching by * Pastor Jentezen Franklin
