HAVE YOU BEEN CRUSHED... ???
WE CAN OVERCOME THIS PROBLEM.
THIS PROBLEM IS NOTHING TO GOD...
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
DESTRUCTION: The act or process of damaging something so badly that it can no longer exists
or can not be repaired. To utterly destroy. Ruin.
Understand a lesson: Technically, by the definition DESTRUCTION CAN NOT HAVE AN S,
TO BE PLURUAL. One you are destroyed, destruction --- you can not be destroyed again.
TO KNOW OUR ENEMY'S HEART AND 3 FOLD PURPOSE (steal, kill, destroy), we can
clearly understand HIS GOAL IS TO ATTEMPT TO DESTRUCT US OVER AND OVER...
It this light GOD KNOWS HOW TO DELIVER...
TEXT:
Psalm 107:20 (KJV) He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their
destructions.
Psalm 107:20 (NLT) He sent out his word and healed them, snatching them from the door
of death.
GOD CAN TURN THE DESTRUCTIVE PATH OF THE WORM TO ACCOMPLISH HIS PLAN...
OUR ENEMY USES MANY TACTICS AND STRADEGIES TO ACCOMPLISH HIS
PLAN OF DESTRUCTION... LET US IDENTIFY THE TOOLS DESTRUCTION...
OFTEN IN THE KING JAMES WE FIND THE ENEMY WARPS NATURE TO BECOME
PART OF THE DEVIL'S DESTRUCTIVE PATH.
Joel 1:4 (KJV) That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which
the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left
hath the caterpiller eaten.
Joel 2:25 (KJV) And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm,
and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
LOCUST:
Locust represents devastation. It is in the grasshopper family.
The locust has straight wings and is known for destruction.
They can jump 200 times greater than their body length.
If this were a 6 foot human, he could jump 1200 feet.
WHILE A LOCUST CAN FLY, IT CAN NOT CONTROL THE DIRECTION OF THEIR FLIGHT,
THUS THEY USUALLY WILL RIDE WITH THE WIND...
NO WALLS, NO DITCHES, NO DESERTS, NO BODY OF WATER APPEARS TO HAVE THE
ABILITY TO STOP THE THE INVASION.
CATERPILLAR: known as that which devours, consumes and destroys.
Palmer worm: a caterpillar, it tends to wander, it is known as the PILGRIM WORM.
It travels in bands. Some call it the wingless locust. It is the larva state of the migratory
locust.
CANKERWORM: Hebrew: yelek. The cankerworm is known as the licking locust.
When in mass form it seems to lick up everything that is green.
GOD'S WORD REVEALS THE DESTRUCTIVE NATURE OF THE WORM TO PLAN
DESTROY GOD'S PEOPLE... AND GOD CAN TURN THE POWER OF THE WORM'S
DESTRUCTIVE POWER TO RELEASE A REVIVAL.
Nahum 3:16 (KJV) Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the
cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
Nahum 3:16 (NLT) Your merchants have multiplied until they outnumber the stars. But like
a swarm of locusts, they strip the land and fly away.
GOD CAN TURN THE POWER OF THE WORM'S DESTRUCTIVE POWER TO RELEASE
A REVIVAL.
Joel 2:25 (KJV) And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm,
and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Joel 2:25 (NLT) The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the
hopping locusts, the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts. It was I who sent this
great destroying army against you.
Joel 2:25 (MSG) "I'll make up for the years of the locust, the great locust devastation— Locusts
savage, locusts deadly, fierce locusts, locusts of doom, That great locust invasion
I sent your way.
WHILE WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE TOOL OF THE CANKER WORM, THE PALMER WORM,
THE CATERPILLARS, THE LOCUST IN THE ENEMY'S PLAY BOOK...
HAVE YOU EVER REASONED: WHAT DOES A WORM SEE?
WHAT IS A WORM'S POINT OF VIEW?
DOES A WORM LOVE TO GO FISHING?
DOES A WORM KNOW A LOT OF DIRT ON OTHER WORMS?
THE REAL LESSON OF THE WORM IS HOW LOW FORMS OF LIFE CAN BE.
WE CAN ENLARGE THE POWER OF THE GRASSHOPPER SPIRIT...
THE GRASSHOPPER SPIRIT IS THAT OF BEING TRAPPED AND LOOSE ALL HOPE.
THUS WE WILL HINDER GOD'S PURPOSE.
Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants:
and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
WE CAN SEE HOW BIG OUR PROBLEMS ARE AND HOW WEAK & LITTLE WE REALLY
ARE... WE CAN BE SELF DEFEATING AND ACCEPT DEFEAT AS THE NORM...
God's anointing, our God has a plan to deliver us...
God’s call to the ANOINTING ZONE.
It is not always by the computer, cell phone, telegraph, telephone, snail
mail, or email, BUT KNEE MAIL --- some times it is by TELL THE THRONE!
We should be sensitive to God's spirit that this trial, this valley of despair is the call to the
anointing. We must quit focusing on the problems and the worms... will hinder the plan of God.
Isaiah 41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the
Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
These worms tend to KEEP US IN THE DIRT...
We can not accept the destructive power as our norm...
COME ON MY FRIEND --- QUIT FOCUSING IN THE DOOM AND GLOOM...
SEARCH YOUR HEART --- HOW WILL WE STOP THE DAMAGE?
Your attitude and perspective and how our point of view can effect the church,
our family, as well as the individual.
Will we ENLARGE THE GRASSHOPPER SPIRIT.
METAMORPHISIS, In the cycle of life, we must give permission...
Psalm 68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee
before him.
WE DO NOT HAVE STAY IN THE DESTRUCTIVE MODE ---
I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CHANGE THE CIRCUMSTANCES...
BUT I CAN CHANGE MY ATTITUDE AND ALLOOW THE RESTORATION...
Matthew 6:33 Seek first the Kingdom of God, and all these THINGS
shall be added.
Will we go to do battle over trivial pursue of THINGS.
This might be the plan of the palmerworm and the canker worm...
Seems, we can never see above the dirt?
I know many people that WILL NOT ARISE and they release the destructive forces.
DO WE GIVE POWER AND CREDENTANCE TO DESTRUCTIVE FORSES?
DO WE BREED AND ENLARGE OUR OWN WORMS BY NOT HEEDING TO THE PLAN
OF GOD?
GOD GAVE CLEAR DIRECTIONS AS HE PROVIDED FOOD FOR HIS PEOPLE.
THE FOOD WOULD BE CALLED MANNA, OR AS SOME CALLED IT: ANGEL FOOD...
One was to gather one omer of manna per house hold individual a day.
Exodus 16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it
until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
GOD PROMISES TO RESTORE ALL THAT THE CANKERWORM, PALMER WORM,
OR ANY DESTRUCTIVE POWER AS STEPPING STONE TO VICTORY.
2 Peter 2:9 (KJV) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to
reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
2 Peter 2:9 (NLT) So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials,
even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.
It is easy in life to develop the mental and spiritual attitude of forever focusing on
PROBLEMS and CONFLICTS, thus seeing all THAT THE PALMERWORM,
CANKERWORM, AND THE LOCUST HAVE DESTROYED...
The Bible records that all of God’s greatest workers focusing on problems and
conflicts. THEN GOD--- God MUST get His people to focus beyond the DAMAGE of
problems and conflicts to ever accomplish His Will.
CONCLUSION: HEAR WHAT GOD HAS TAUGHT US...
Come let us stand on the promise:---
Joel 2:25 (KJV) And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm,
and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
GOD WANTS TO RESTORE ALL THAT WE HAVE LOST...
GOD SAYS: I WILL REPAY AND GIVE BACK ALL THAT HAS BEEN TAKEN...
GOD SAYS: I AM GOING TO MAKE UP WHAT THE ENEMY HAS TRIED TO DESTROY
AND STEAL FROM YOU....
YOU CAN GET UP IF YOU WANT TO...? DO YOU WANT TO...?
GOD HAS A PLAN--- HE DESIRES TO RESTORE AND GIVE BACK TO THOSE THAT
HAVE BEEN CRUSHED...
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
