What a sad state, when God cannot find anyone to do His bidding! “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” (Ezekiel 22:30 KJV). Our feeble hands are insufficient to stop the enemy! What are we to do? “And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore His arm brought salvation unto Him; and His righteousness, it sustained Him” (Isaiah 59:16). Do everything consistent with righteousness, but seek deliverance only from God. He alone can deliver! “So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him” (59:19). Strong crying to Yahweh alone will fix our situation. If He instructs us to get up and get busy, then we must act. But, our activity alone does not presently seem to be the key. “It is time for Thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void Thy law” (Psalm 119:126).  Where do we not need healing, deliverance from demonic opposition, diminishing of the opposition to our doing the right thing? Paul complained of a “thorn in the flesh” (2Corinthians 12:7), to which he referred as a “messenger [Greek, aggelos, angel, i.e., evil angel or demon] of Satan to buffet [literally, torment] me” (12:7). Do we have more opposition than we realize? Then, we need all the more deliverance only God can provide! Father, it is not an unrighteous thing for us to cry out for deliverance. May we repent, trust, and obey, as we should. But, may that only clear the way for You to act. “O our God, wilt Thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon Thee” (2Chronicles 20:12). In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen and amen.

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