April 29

This is from yesterdays reading.

Deuteronomy 21:9 (NIV)
9 So you will purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

This verse is amidst the instruction of the Lord for the town to remove its guilt for someone who had been killed but the killer is not known. There is a divine principle here that we have missed and need to get. Territory (places) can be taken over by an evil dominion. When things like this happen it produces guilt on a whole town! God said that if you want to remove the guilt then a sacrifice has to be made. Understand this is a spiritual principle of the spirit realm. When evil invades a place and perpetrates evil upon the people in the place, and nobody removes the guilt of that act, then evil has a right to operate in that place. If we will open our eyes, we see this all around us in parts of town and even certain cities. As I have said, it isn’t because African Americans moved into a certain section or Hispanics or any other race that it is crime ravaged– that is ridiculous and prejudice – it is because an evil realm moved in because nobody, (white, black or anyone else) took the dominion back! We lived our lives and maybe thought – oh, how tragic. It is like the story of the abandon junk car, when it is down the street we complain about it, when it is front of our neighbors house we really don’t like it, when it is front of our house we are mad about it, when it is on our front lawn we do something about it. We cannot operate like that anymore!

How do you take back that territory for God? Sacrifice! We not only pray and take it back by our authority, but we invite God to dwell there. We do that by worshipping the King! The Psalmist wrote, “you are enthroned on the praises of Your people.” We have the opportunity through worship to bring the reigning presence of God to that territory. Where God is King, no other can be.