The Sword Of Deliverance Part 1

Close your eyes now and pray this prayer; “Let the sword of fire pursue my oppressors into the Red sea.” Let us proceed a little with our small bible study.

Deuteronomy 32:39-42: ‘See now that I, even I am he and there is no God with me. I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven and say, I live forever. If I whet my glittering sword and mine hand take hold on judgement; I will render vengeance to mine enemies and will reward them that hate me. I will make mine arrows drink with blood and my sword shall devour flesh and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.”

What is it that this passage is telling us? God has His own sword. Whose functions are:-.

1. To render vengeance to His enemies,

2. To reward those that hate him and

3. To devour the flesh of the enemy.

Take notice that we have seen two types of sword now - the flaming sword, in the garden of Eden and the glittering sword mentioned in the passage above. Keep this in your spirit as you pray this prayer point very aggressively - Let the sword of Jehovah render vengeance to my enemies in the name of Jesus. Don’t forget, our topic is The sword of deliverance.

In Joshua 5, we read another interesting passage from vs 13 “And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked and behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand; and Joshua went unto him and said unto him, art thou for us or for our adversaries? And he say, Nay; but as Captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and did worship and said unto him, what saith my Lord unto his servant?" So we have the sword of the Captain of the host of the Lord drawn out; it’s the sword of victory. Are you ready to use this sword? Then pray again like this. “The Lord of Host, draw your sword against my adversaries in the name of Jesus.’

In Jer.47:6 we see this empty appeal to the sword of the Lord. “O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? Put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest and be still”. “And what was the answer? Verse 7 says “How can it be quiet, seeing that the Lord hath given it a charge against Ashkelon and against the seashore? there hath he appointed it.” God had given the sword an instruction. When the Lord appoints His sword, none can stop it and the sword of the Lord will not keep quiet until it has destroyed the adversary. It doesn’t matter what kind of appeal is made to it like the empty appeal seen in verse 6 above. . “The sword of the Lord will not keep quiet until it has destroyed my adversaries.’ in the name of Jesus. Please do not be surprised about the tone of these prayers the enemy, satan, is far from being gentle and it is a time wasting exercise being gentle with him the only language he understands is force. If roasting the devil is not sufficient to make him release his captives, then bomb him - the important thing is to be free.