Proper Alignment

Proper Alignment

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - Have your ever driven a car that constantly pulls to the left or right, if you take your hand off the steering wheel for a second it immediately pulls and before you know it you are either headed off the road or into oncoming traffic that is because your car is out of alignment.

Out of Alignment happens when the arrangement in which two or more things are not positioned in a straight line or parallel to each other. There are many times our lives and hearts and minds are out of alignment with God, His Word, and His will for our lives and we find ourselves being pulled in all kinds of directions that are contrary to the straight and narrow. We will begin to drift and unless we correct the problem we will end up in spiritual accident that could have devastating consequences.

When we are out of spiritual alignment, we may often feel a range of feelings like negativity, fatigue, loss of motivation, spiritual, mental, and physical burnout. There may even be times when we feel like God has left us or forsaken us because we are not in alignment anymore. Suddenly circumstances seem too hard to handle, the pressure of life becomes too great to endure, we fail to seek comfort from the One who has overcome the world, conquered sin, death, and has all power in His hands. We begin to look for answers in other things only to realize they are leading us down the wrong way, and we are heading for destruction.

We need to make sure that we are spiritual aligned with God who can turn all things around for our good, and make things right again.

Deuteronomy 28:1-2 is clear when it says, “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God”. This is being in alignment, being in the proper position, being right with God.

If you want all God’s blessing to come on you and overtake you then your ears need to hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left – Isaiah 30:21.

Today I want to talk on the subject Proper Alignment.

PRAYER: -

SCRIPTURE: - 2 Kings 13:14-20 “Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows. And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them. And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed. And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice. And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year”.

BACKGROUND: - Israel was being threatened on every side by enemy armies, it was like the poem “Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Cannon to the left, cannon to the right, cannon in front, the were surrounded and life suddenly became too hard to handle. Joash was a young and newly appointed King to the throne, but he knew to seek wise counsel. He goes to Elisha the prophet of God who is Israel’s connection to the Lord and spiritual leader although he was sick unto death. Surrounded by the enemy King Joash went to get some very vital and final advice from Elisha on how to get Israel into alignment with God to receive His blessing for victory.

He was asking Elisha how do we turn these problems in our life, the enemy pressing Israel on every side,