Century Intervention

"This has been a remarkable year. With every phoneAbraham and Sarah etc.
call to a senate office, every door knocked on a rainy"Then the LORD said to Cain, "where is your brother
day, every event held in a town centre, you've helpedAbel?" I don't know he replied. Am I my brother's
to push this country forward." - Barack Obamakeepers?" The LORD said "what have you done?
"Early this year, millions of you chose to keep workingListen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the
together and create organizing for America, to build onground...." Genesis 4:9-10
the momentum of the Obama campaign, take on the"Now Noah was a righteous man, blameless among
defenders of the status quo, and make changethe people of his time, and he walked with God. Now
happen." - Mitch Stewart - Director organizing forthe earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of
Americaviolence. God saw how corrupt the earth has become,
Barack H. Obama is the first African American to befor all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
elected on 4th November, 2008 and sworn in as theSo God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all
44th president of United States of America on 20thpeople, for earth is filled with violence because of
January, 2009. The whole world looked on as hethem. I am surely going to destroy both them and the
made his campaign against Hillary Clinton and thenearth. So make yourself an ark of cypress..." Genesis
against John McCain in 2008, everybody wondered if6:9 - 14a
he would actually win but people especially black"Now Sarah was barren; she had no children" Genesis
American urged each other to support him to win the11:30 "Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he
election and set history straight.had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had
'Yes we can' is now a slogan everybody claims andpromised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to
use to boost their own individual ego; and yes, historyAbraham in his old age, at the very time God had
was set straight but other than the maximum supportpromised him" Genesis 21:1-2
of people and the millions of dollars spent on theIntervention is when someone gets involved in a
campaign, there was a set of people who did thesituation in order to improve or help the situation. God is
majority of the work and these were the children ofthe same God yesterday, today and forever. He is still
God who stood in the gap praying to God to interveneintervening on behalf of people either He avenges you
in the situation as shown in the picture below. I wasof your adversary as in the case of Abel or He
amazed when I received this picture not because ofchoose to single you out to save you like Noah, or
the people or the likability of Obama but the sincerityintervene in a hopeless situation like Sarah and
of heart of people who were desperate for history toAbraham or you don't even deserve anything good
change and the final intervention of God in thebecause of your behaviour or attitude to other people
campaign.like Jacob. He is still alive and can, will intervene in your
There was also a man in the bible named Jacob.affairs and fight the physical, spiritual, mental or moral
Jacob, as portrayed in the bible in Genesis 25: 27battles of your life, IF you will turn to him like Abraham
preferred to stay at home with his mother and wasinterceded for Sarah to have a child, and you can live
only favoured by his mother, unlike his brother Esaua righteous, holy, blameless life like Noah or maybe you
who was a skilful hunter and a man of open fieldsthink you don't even deserve anything good, you can
favoured by Isaac their father. Esau was especiallystill turn your life affairs to God like Jacob who kept
favoured by their father because of the wild game heworshiping God even in his ignorant times.
brought home, this would make us assume that JacobEverybody needs an intervention in any area of their
was lazy and as bible scholars interpreted, Jacob waslives. Children of God intervened in the affairs of
a deceiver and a thief. He deceived his brother EsauObama throughout his campaign of change by praying
with stew in order to get the birthright even thoughto God to intervene for him and bring his dreams to
Esau had his own issues, Jacob lived up to his namebecome a president alive just like the people in the
and then proceeded to deceive their father Isaac tobible. Do you have challenges ahead this week? Are
get Esau's blessing. Bible scholars have interpreted thatyou still struggling with something small or big? Do you
Jacob got what he sowed when he was deceived bylook forward to this week in apprehension of what the
Laban, I believe it was a simple intervention of Godweek has in store for you? Do you long for a change,
that got him through in the end.a better future, a better tomorrow? Do you long for an
Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream atachievement? Whatever it is your heart longs for or
night and said to him, "Be careful not to say anything toyou find your hands doing, turn it to God this week and
Jacob, either good or bad" Genesis 31:24ask him to intervene in your affairs, in your life this
After many years of serving Laban, Jacob ran awayweek and HE will because HE is still the same
from his father in law without completing his agreedyesterday, today and tomorrow. He still wrought
contract time as revealed in the book of Genesis 29 -miracles and wonders and still intervenes on behalf of
30. Jacob lived up to his name again here but the bibleHIS own.
revealed to us that despite his constant cheating, GodPrayer: Father LORD intervene in my affairs this week
still intervened on his behalf as revealed in the aboveand the rest of the month, intervene in my life, and
scripture; but why did God do that? He did not evenintervene in my situations in Jesus name I pray. Amen
deserve it in the first place. God intervened in theHave a wonderful week!
affairs of many people in the bible; Abel, Noah,Shalom!