Mine Ebenezer

Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.

After listening to some great preaching last night by Pastor Tony Ayers (Calvary Baptist Church) I meditated all night on how quickly we write off a church or a ministry because we believe that it has had the name Ichabod written all over it. we see in Chapter 4 that the Glory of the Lord has departed, which I do believe has happened in some ministries, and peoples Christian lives. We are all to often quick to shun or run away from these areas in which they grow desolate and die, what if everybody just stayed downtrodden and totally refused to serve God. We see that there was one who was still there in that time enduring the atrocities going on in that land, Samuel the prophet. As the Philistines couldn't handle the Glory or power of God in their presence they took two milk cows and returned it to the Israelites where it rightfully belonged. Friend, the Glory of the Lord belongs in your life if you are saved and redeemed, let no man steal that from you, and especially don't let your adversary (the devil) get a foothold. Get back in the fight, claim your Canaan, and don't fear what God may be bringing you through. It took twenty years, and three chapters before the people figured it out, that the Lord was on their side, only then can raise up up your rock and cry Mine Ebenezer, and as the prophet set his stone, you to can say "Hitherto hath the LORD helped us." If your not saved then I encourage you by the grace of God, put your foot forward and cross the Jordan wide, for it was for you that Christ died. Claim your victory in Jesus for the remission of sins and accept Him as your personal Savior if you haven't already and you to can share in Glorifying God for all that He has done and will do.