THE CHOSEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL...THEME: THROW DOWN YOUR FATHER’S ALTAR
THE CHOSEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL... DATE: SATURDAY DECEMBER 17TH, 2016. TEXT: Exodus 34:13, Judges 6:25-26 THEME: THROW DOWN YOUR FATHER’S ALTAR MESSAGE: “And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.” (Judges 6:13) Many people are victims of their father’s altars. Those before Gideon whom God had rescued from their bondage in Egypt forsook Him and served other gods prompting God to hand them over to their enemies. They were seriously tormented and they cried out unto God. Gideon had wandered why things were they way he saw them and the angel told him to throw down his fathers’ altars. They were not entitled to God’s blessing, prosperity and protection while those altars were still standing. So, the angel instructed him that the...