Bow and Arrow

Bow And Arrow

"The Lord thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered His voice.

  He sent out arrows and scattered them; Lightning bolts, and He vanquished them.

  Then the channels of the sea were seen, The foundations of the world were uncovered, 

At the rebuke of the Lord, At the blast of the breath of His nostrils. 

2 Samuel 22:14-16 

Your bow was made quite ready; Oaths were sworn over Your arrows.

 Selah You divided the earth with rivers. The mountains saw You and trembled;

 The overflowing of the water passed by. 

The deep uttered its voice, And lifted its hands on high. 

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation;

 At the light of Your arrows they went, At the shining of Your glittering spear. 

Habakkuk 3:9-11 

The voice and words of GOD go forth with power 

like arrows from a bow.

They create, sustain and control all of nature.

He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow. 

He has caused the arrows of His quiver To pierce my loins. 

Lamentations 3:12-13 

The LORD JESUS took the wrath of GOD 

on our behalf

so we could receive GOD'S mercy.

 O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, 

Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure! 

For Your arrows pierce me deeply,

 And Your hand presses me down. 

Psalm 38:1-2 

GOD'S word brings deep conviction of sin

like the piercings of an arrow.

For look! The wicked bend their bow, They make ready their arrow on the string, 

That they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart. 

Psalm 11:2 

 "And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies. 

They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. 

For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me," says the Lord. 

Jeremiah 9:3 

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor 

Is like a club, a sword, and a sharp arrow. 

Proverbs 25:18 

The devil uses the wicked to speak words like arrows 

that are lies, evil and harmful to the righteous.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, 

Nor of the arrow that flies by day, 

Psalm 91:5 

Dwelling in the secret place of the Almighty GOD,

we are protected from the arrows of the enemy.

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward.

  Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one's youth.

  Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;

 They shall not be ashamed, 

But shall speak with their enemies in the gate. 

Psalm 127:3-5 

A fruitful Christian life is protection

against the arrows of the enemy.

Godly descendants are like arrows

shot against the accusations of the enemy.

 "Beware of false prophets,

 who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

You will know them by their fruits. 

Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:15-16 

• The fruit of one's personal life is the manifestation of

the fruit of the spirit.

• The fruit of one's family life is the evidence 

of godliness in the home.

• The fruit of one's ministry 

is the increase of the word of GOD in the lives of people

and increase in the number of such disciples.

Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. 

Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said,

 "O my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!" 

  And Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and some arrows." 

So he took himself a bow and some arrows. 

  Then he said to the king of Israel, "Put your hand on the bow." So he put his hand on it,

and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands. 

  And he said, "Open the east window"; and he opened it.

Then Elisha said, "Shoot"; and he shot. 

And he said, "The arrow of the Lord's deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria;

 for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them." 

  Then he said, "Take the arrows"; so he took them. 

And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground"; so he struck three times, and stopped. 

  And the man of God was angry with him, and said, "You should have struck five or six times; 

then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it! 

But now you will strike Syria only three times." ...

...And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz recaptured from the hand of Ben-Hadad, the son of Hazael, 

the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. 

Three times Joash defeated him and recaptured the cities of Israel. 

2 Kings 13:14-19, 25 

The shooting of the arrows and striking them at the word of GOD'S servant

was symbolic of striking the enemy.

The word of GOD is the arrow that brings down 

the stronghold of the devil.

When our Church core prayer group was praying for my husband and myself

 before our mission trip abroad, I had the impression of a bow and arrow in the hand of an archer. 

GOD is the Archer. Robin and I were the arrow going out into the nations.

The intercessors are the bow.

The arrow cannot go with force and power without the bow.

 It is the bow that gives the arrow the impetus to go forth with power.

The bow and the arrow are in the hand of the Archer - 

to shoot as and when He desires in the direction He needs the arrow to go.

Let us therefore learn the word,

meditate on the word and 

live the word of GOD.

Let us also teach the word of GOD

to our natural and spiritual descendants.

Let us pray the word of GOD.

Let us declare and proclaim the word of GOD.

Let us spread the truth of GOD'S word far and wide

using all means of social media.

The truth will counteract the arrows of lies of the devil

that is being shot into the minds of people.

Let us press on,

persist and

persevere

until the end

by submitting to the 

WORD OF GOD!!

GOD BLESS YOU!