Stand In The Gap Yarra

Israel Had Become Like The World

NKJV ( Eze 22:28–30.29 The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger. 30 So I sought for a manamong them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.

Gods Sovereignty- He calls the shots- He makes the rules- He Choses To Partner With Mankind

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I Sought A Man- God was searching for someone that was different from the rest of Israel. Some one who knew God was God and had a better way. Someone who knew that they desperately needed God.

‌Psalms 53:2 NKJV “God looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.”

Understand?

We Understand The State Of The World.-Stop There

Who He Is? God Will Judge - Stop There

Who You Are? Ill Take Cover Till The Rapture

You Can Turn The Hand of God

Abraham Intercedes For Sodom Gen.18

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James 5:16-18 NKJV

16 “Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.”

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Stand In The Gap- Stand up and not bow down. Make A Stand. Stand before God on behalf of people who are in need of Him.

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Make A Wall- Build a wall, block a road by building a wall

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Wall- A structure that defines boundaries and protects what's inside from the dangers on the outside.

Build A Wall of Prayer- around you and the people you are praying for.

1- Defines Boundaries- Countries Build Walls to Define Boundaries- We are different to you- We are of a different culture

2-Keeps The Enemy Outside

3-Protects What’s Inside

‌The Mind-

‌The New King James Version Ro 12:2.

‌2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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Conformed Mind- Thinks like how the world thinks. Conforms to the patterns and behaviour of the world around it. With all its fears, anxieties, greed and self centred.

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The Transformed Mind - is a mind that doesn’t conform- follow- copy or is influenced by the thinking of the world around it. It has walls built in it that have clear defined boundaries based on what Gods Word says. It conforms to the Kingdom of Heaven.

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Christians- are on a journey of transforming their mind.

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Transforming the Mind-

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The New King James Version 2 Ti 1:7. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

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Sound- Self Disciplined

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The New King James Version 2 Co 10:3–5. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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Strongholds- walls, fortresses the enemy has built

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Pulling Down Strongholds- Taking captive our thoughts

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2 Sa 10:12.

12 “Be strong, and let us show ourselves courageous for the sake of our people and for the cities of our God; and may the Lord do what is good in His sight.”

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