Daily Devotional
Arrows Of Endless Troubles
Text: Deuteronomy 32:23
“I will heap mischief upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.”
Message
Arrow is weapon consisting of a thin, straight stick with a sharp point, designed to be shot from a bow. Speaking from a conventional military sense, only bows and crossbows can be made into endless ammunition weapons firearms and other projectile weapons cannot. Each time an endless ammunition weapon is shot, a single non-magical arrow or bolt is spontaneously created by the magic, so the weapon’s wielder never needs to load the weapon with ammunition.
Trouble, difficulty or problems, It is in one word to agitate mentally or spiritually. Endless is having or seeming to have no end or limit. So, arrow of endless troubles is whatever difficulty or problems that agitates you mentally or spiritually, worry, disturb, to put to exertion or inconvenience as to produce physical disorder in or to afflict you without having or seeming to have no end or limit.
An arrow of endless trouble in your life can be that sin, trespass, unrighteousness, disobedience, bad character, futile outcome, failure at the edge of breakthroughs, near misses, illnesses, diseases, enchantment, curse, spell, breakdown, limitations, go slows, unexplained losses, wrong investment, oppositions to your staff of bread, affliction, oppression’s, burdens, working hard and eating like an ant etc.
On the authority of Deuteronomy 32 the arrow of endless troubles is solely an exclusive preserve of God upon the disobedient, backsliders and sinners as a just judgment and punishment. Even at that Gods mercies annuls it as His anger is not for ever. Sadly Satan and his hosts have perverted the cause of even permitted ‘godly’ arrows which is part of the process to ones testimonies to further afflict, oppress and famish people to no end.
From Deuteronomy 32 we see that arrows of endless troubles becomes unavoidable when we His children have become not His children, due to corruption and our blemish as a perverse, crooked, foolish and unwise generation. Arrows of unending trouble comes into operation when a Jacob leaves the place of His inheritance who “.. found him in a desert land and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled … He instructed …and, kept him as the apple of His eye as an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings, and there was no foreign god with him. Yet “He made him ride in the heights of the earth, that he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock; Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs; and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; and drank wine, the blood of the grapes. “But Jeshurun grew fat, grew thick, (and) obese!”
Then he forsook God who made him, and scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation, provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations and sacrifices to demons, not to God; to gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals; that their fathers did not fear.
The arrows of endless troubles comes to be when “Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God who fathered you.”Be sure that the Lord saw it, He spurned them, because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters. And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith. They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God. Also, arrows of endless trouble come to be when we moved God to anger by our foolish idols thereby provoking ourselves to jealousy by those who are not a nation.
God will move one to anger by a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in God’s anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell. It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains. Deuteronomy 32:23 says God will heap disasters on them and will spend His arrows on them.
The consequences, “They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction. God will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within, for the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
But of the arrow of troubles says they Lord, ” I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces, i will make the memory of them to cease from among men, had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand, Lest they should say, “Our hand is high; And it is not the Lord who has done all this.”’ “For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them.
Deuteronomy 32:29 “Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had surrendered them? For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.
Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of cobras. ‘Is this not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up among My treasures? Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them.’ “For the Lord will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, and there is no one remaining, bond or free. He will say: ‘Where are their gods, The rock in which they sought refuge? Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge.
‘Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand. For I raise My hand to heaven, And say, “As I live forever, If I whet My glittering sword, And My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My enemies, And repay those who hate Me. I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the heads of the leaders of the enemy. “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people.”
My beloved as in Deuteronomy 32:46-47, Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe all the words of the law of God. For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.”
Prayers
I DECREE AND DECLARE BY THE POWER IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS, ARROWS OF ENDLESS TROUBLES FIRED AGAINST YOU TO BACKFIRE IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS