Hi family!

Have you ever commanded THE HAND OF GOD on your adversary? Did you know that is what God wants to do? Let us take a look at Acts 11:21. It says, “And THE HAND OF THE LORD was with them: and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord.

When you see the phrase, “THE HAND OF THE LORD”, it speaks of God’s power expressed in either judgment or in blessings.

The early Church was under heavy persecution, but THE HAND OF THE LORD was with them and as a result, a great number believed and turned to the Lord. This was an expression of judgment against their adversaries, but a manifestation of blessing to God’s people.

Let us take a look at another example from Acts 13:6-11. It says, Afterward they traveled from town to town across the entire island until finally they reached Paphos, where they met a Jewish sorcerer, a false prophet named Bar-Jesus. He had attached himself to the governor, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. The governor invited Barnabas and Saul to visit him, for he wanted to hear the word of God. But Elymas, the sorcerer (as his name means in Greek), interfered and urged the governor to pay no attention to what Barnabas and Saul said. He was trying to keep the governor from believing.
Saul, also known as Paul, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he looked the sorcerer in the eye. Then he said, “You son of the devil, full of every sort of deceit and fraud, and enemy of all that is good! Will you never stop perverting the true ways of the Lord? Watch now, for the Lord has laid his hand of punishment upon you, and you will be struck blind. You will not see the sunlight for some time.” Instantly mist and darkness came over the man’s eyes, and he began groping around begging for someone to take his hand and lead him.

So you can clearly see that when THE HAND OF THE LORD came on the apostles, His blessing was manifest. When it came on the enemy of righteousness, His judgment was manifest. Bar-Jesus was full of deceit and fraud, the enemy of all that is good. He considered himself to be a prophet, but Paul denounced him and called him an enemy of righteousness. This man twisted and perverted God’s Word until Paul, by the direction of the Holy Spirit said, “THE HAND OF THE LORD is upon thee.”

I have never prayed that against an adversary, have you? Notice that when THE HAND OF THE LORD came on satan’s vessel, it silenced and defeated him.

I believe it would be accurate to say that the Church is letting their adversary get away with too much. We are not making him pay for what he is putting us through.

Isaiah 66:6 says, “He is the Lord Who renders recompense or pronounces a verdict on his enemies.

In Exodus 3:19-22, the Lord said that once the demonstration of His stretched-out hand took place, Pharaoh would not only let them go, but Israel would go in overflow.

When you have been in bondage all your life and someone says you can go, you might be satisfied with that. But that is not God’s best. God’s best is recompense. God said that not only would He deliver Israel from bondage, but He would make their adversary pay the wages due them. And not only that, their adversary would pay the wages due their ancestors for over 400 years. Now that’s what I call recompense.

When THE HAND OF GOD was on Pharaoh, it brought judgment. When HIS HAND was on His people, it brought not just blessing but overflow.

Moses told the people in Exodus 13:3 (AMPC) to “earnestly remember…that by STRENGTH OF HAND the Lord brought you out from this place”.

Genesis 18:14 says, “Is anything too hard for the LORD?” And Numbers 11:23 says, “Is THE LORD’S HAND waxed short?” He wanted Moses to remember that nothing is impossible when THE HAND OF THE LORD is in manifestation.

Psalm 78:42 says, “They remembered not HIS HAND, nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy.” One of the ways Israel limited God in their lives was they forgot the power of the demonstrated HAND OF THE LORD.

Isaiah 45:11 says, “Concerning the WORK OF MY HANDS, command ye Me!”

The word “command” means to appoint, to assign, or to commission. God is asking us to release Him to command, appoint, or assign to do something. He is saying when you appoint Him to do something on your behalf, the manifestation of power by THE HAND OF GOD will bring blessing on you and judgment on your adversary.

I encourage you to not just pray for deliverance when the enemy has attacked you but to commission God to bring judgment on the enemy by declaring, “Now Father, stretch forth YOUR HAND against him. I appoint You to punish and penalize him for what he has put me through and I ask that You force him to compensate me for the damages caused”. If we will exercise this principle of commanding THE WORK OF GOD’S HAND, God will not only cause our adversary to cease in his attacks against us, but we will collect for the damages he has caused! It is called retribution or payback for the evil that has been done. Isaiah 66:6 says, “A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to His enemies.”

When God’s vengeance is carried out against our adversary, the devil, we will have perfect recompense as a result. As the Scripture says in Deuteronomy 28:7, “They shall come out against thee one way and flee before thee seven ways.” That is God’s kind of vengeance. We will not get back what we think we should get back. We will get back what God thinks we should get back – overflow!

Hallelujah! I say this every day and do not let the enemy get away with anything!

I pray you were strengthened and encouraged!

All my love,
Lisa Gordon

Gordon Ministries and Jesus City Church