Tug Of War... Who Will Hold The Rope?

TUG OF WAR! BLESS ME, I WILL HANG ON UNTIL…

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

WHO WILL BE FAITHFUL TO HOLD THE ROPE? WE ARE IN A TERRIBLE WAR… THE BATTLES WILL BE MORE AND MORE HEATED. WE MUST GET SERIOUS AND HAVE TO BE DEDICATED… WE ARE IN A TUG OF WAR!

The farm animals gathered around the barn. The discussion was about breakfast. The pig and chicken were in a heated discussion. What shall we eat? The chicken suggested EGGS and BACON. The eggs would take a DEDICATION...

BACON WOULD REQUIRE AN ABSOLUTE TOTAL COMMITMENT OF THE PIG. Many will give a little and do little. 80% of people do nothing at church. The church is built on the 20% that are dedicated.

Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Harassment, oppression, hostility, ill treatment, persistent annoyance and persecution are coming. WE ARE IN A TUG OF WAR FOR FAMILIES, OUR CHURCHES AND OUR SOULS.

THE ROPE, WE ARE IN A TERRIBLE TIME OF A TUG OF WAR…? CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT TIME IT IS? WHAT IS TIME TO GOD? IT IS ALWAYS TOO SOON TO QUIT… GRAB THE ROPE --- BE ONE TO STAND IN THE GAP… TUG OF WAR!

THIS SPIRITUAL TUG OF WAR IS ABOUT INTERCESSION AND STANDING IN THE GAP. Many homes have no fathers? Mothers are so consumed in the TV, the computer and the cell phones. Electronics have made friends of complete strangers. They have also made strangers of family members.

Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

KAIROS: the appointed time in the purpose of God. The time when God says it is enough and God begins to move.

Isaiah 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

TIME IS A PRECIOUS GIFT THAT WE TEND TO PROCRASTINATE AND WASTE. Are you pulling the rope?

JACOB IS IN A TUG OF WAR FOR HIS FAMILY AND HIS LIFE. JACOB STARTS THE JOURNEY TO GO HOME: HE IS A HOPELESS MAN. BUT GOD HOLDS THE ROPE FOR A HOPELESS MAN --- IN A VERY DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY. ESAU PROMISES NEXT TIME I SEE YOU AFTER DAD’S DEATH, I PROMISE TO KILL YOU. GREAT FEAR, MUCH WORRY, SLEEPLESS NIGHTS… ANGER?

ANGER IS PUNISHMENT WHERE WE ALLOW OTHERS TO LIVE RENT FREE IN OUR BRAIN.

Jacob is so in a panic attack he divides his family into two groups. Surely Esau will not kill everyone. As Jacob divides the camp… HE TRAVELS A DISTANCE TO PRAY AND FIND GOD’S HEART.

Genesis 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

THERE IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM: YOUR BABY MAY HAVE A CALL, BUT THE ORDERS OF THE PHAROAH SAYS: KILL THE PROMISE. MOMMY AND DADDY HANG ON TO THE TUG OF WAR ROPE! MOMMA MADE A BASKET AS HER PART IN THE ETERNAL TUG OF WAR. PONDER --- WERE THERE ANY TEARS IN THE BASKET? AMRAM AND JOCEBED… HOLD THE ROPE --- THERE IS A WAR --- A TUG OF WAR.

Exodus 2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

THERE WAS NO HOPE. Then Amram and Jocebed could do no more they had to TRUST THE PLAN, MIRIAM IS ASSIGNED TO HOLD THE ROPE. This TUG OF WAR HAS ETERNAL RAMIFICATIONS.

EXODUS 3:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. The enemy will try to tell you HOLDING THE ROPE IS NOT IMPORTANT! Will you hold the TUG OF WAR rope for your family? Your nation!