GENEVIEVE

GENEVIEVE by Pastor Jeff Daly

Psalm 108: 12-13 says: "Give us help from trouble, For the help of man is useless. Through God we will do valiantly, for it is He who shall tread down our enemies."

In his remarks responding to the Islamic terrorism, President Hollande declared "an act of war without mercy" and said the attacks had been organized from abroad with internal help by Islamic State "barbarians."

Barbarians threatened Paris 1,554 years ago. In 461 A.D. Attila the Hun and his horde of barbarians were approaching Paris, which was basically defenseless. In prayer, one woman of God, Genevieve, prayed to the Lord and received His wisdom through the Holy Spirit. The Lord gave her His strategy to stop the barbarians using spiritual warfare.

In humility, with faith in the Lord, she began a prayer vigil, a prayer marathon, inviting others to join her. God responded supernaturally to "tread down enemies" (Psalm 108:13). Attila's Huns were diverted. Paris was saved. Today Genevieve is venerated as the patron saint of Paris every January 2.

The Holy Spirit of Yeshua is the same yesterday, today and forever. We have forgotten to call upon Him. Our national leaders repeatedly fail to consult His Wisdom found in His Holy Word. As in every other nation on the planet, it's time for the once Godly roots found in France to be replenished through prayer, fasting and repentance.

His hearing from heaven, forgiving sin and healing the land can only occur when you and I, His people called by His Name, humble ourselves and pray and seek His face and turn from, really repent, from our human ways that fall short of His Way.

Thanks to Yeshua's Blood on the Cross and His resurrection we believers are a royal priesthood in His eyes. In His love, He calls us to be zealous to repent, to follow His path of purity, to be holy as He is holy. Then He can heal our lands, defeating all enemies.

In putting forward the prayer marathon as a spiritual weapon to trigger God's action to tread down enemies it's possible that Genevieve drew upon the experience of Jehoshaphat over 1,300 year earlier in Jerusalem.

You know the story from 2 Chronicles 20:6-17, when the enemies of Judah, the Moabites and the Ammonites, gathered near Jerusalem. Fighting off fear Jehoshaphat "set himself to seek the Lord." Like Genevieve 1,300 years later, he then received the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

The Lord told him to proclaim a fast and call a sacred assembly. In his prayer the king--- in contrast to secular leaders of our nations today---- then called upon the Lord, in full dependence upon Him.

Whether it's a prayer marathon, weeks of fasting, 24/7 worship, calling a sacred assembly, days of repentance: obedience to the Lord's wisdom in spiritual warfare will always lead to His victory over evil.

His ways are higher than our ways. He's waiting to go to battle on our behalf. In many nations the spirit of death and the anti-Christ spirit have gained ground recently. France opened herself spiritually to this terrorist attack by recent policies opposing Israel; France will need to support Israel -- not oppose that nation which is the Apple of His eye.

Thank God there are "Genevieves" in every nation, including many reading this article. May many "Genevieves" come forward not just in France but in every other nation on this planet to listen to the Lord's wisdom and apply it to take on and to defeat the enemy's strategies, thereby rendering him powerless against God's people.

In Yeshua's Holy Name, we will give Him all the glory for His victory. Amen.

 

Submitted by:

 Pastor Jeff Daly, President

National Day of Repentance