REPORT THE MATTER NOW

"LORD, turn your ears to me and hear (me). LORD, open your eyes and look (at this letter). Listen to the words of Sennacherib. He sent them to laugh in a bad way at the God who really is alive" (2 Kings 19:16, Easy English Version). 

During the reign of Hezekiah, Sennacherib the king of Assyria came to fight with the kingdom of Judah. The military challenge that Assyria represented was too great for Judah to confront. In his helplessness, Hezekiah reported the matter to God and the outcome was fantastic. Today, I want to encourage you to report to God whatever is ailing you, irrespective of the intensity and gravity of the challenge. 

Friends, I want you to know that there is no ailment known to man whose cure is not known to God. There is no affliction or plague in the human space that is too great for the Ancient of Days to neutralise. There is no crisis facing our world that will not bow before the Lord our God. And there is no problem confronting the sons of Adam that can stand before the Son of God. Indeed, it was for this purpose that the Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8). All the demons terrorising people tremble before the Most High. 

So what is it that is making life unbearable for you? What siege has the enemy laid against you to hook you up in one spot? You have every right as a child of God to report the situation to your heavenly Father, and I tell you, He will take care of it. Who is he that is seeking your life or threatening your peace? Who are the ones trying to frustrate the life out of you? Report them to the King of kings and LORD of lords. By the time God is through with them, they would be sorry they ever attempted to stand in your way. 

Child of God, your life is not meant to be trifled with by Satan or any of his agents. Whoever fights against you has called the almighty God to a contest. That is why God says, "I will contend with him that contendeth with you" (Isaiah 49:25). If there is anyone anywhere, fashioning an evil agenda against you, may thunder from heaven strike them down. If there is any damaging petition written against you or any evil letter to scare you, may such letters catch fire in Jesus Christ's name. 

But there is a caveat. Those who would report others to God must themselves live in such a way that others would not need to report them to God. In other words, your own obedience has to be complete before you ask God to punish another fellow's disobedience towards you (2 Corinthians 10:6). You cannot in all good conscience ask the Lord to punish evildoers when your own hands are filled with evil works. We must learn from Hezekiah, of whom it was written that he walked uprightly before God with a perfect heart and did that which was good in His sight (Isaiah 38:3).