Hedge of Protection
by Ptr. Roger Inso, Senior Pastor of JCMI
Scriptural Reference: Job 1:10; Psalm 91:1-16; Psalm 34:7
Date: July 12, 2009

INTRODUCTION:

Did you know that one of the most valued and sought after saltwater aquarium fish were baby sharks? This is because if you place a baby shark in a small (100 gallon) aquarium it will stay small, usually less than a foot long. The same shark in the ocean may be 12 feet long!

I love this fact because in life we have all created our own aquarium, most call it our box. Our box is also our Comfort Zone with which we view the world. Everything outside of our box is the things that we fear and avoid. If everything inside our box is our comfort zone, then everything outside of the box of our world would be our Uncomfortable Zone.

New Living Translation, the verse says:

You have always put a protection around him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper in everything he does.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we lift up to you and pray a hedge of protection around my husband/wife. We thank you, Father, that you are a wall of fire around us and that you set Your angels around, in Jesus name.

I bind the power of negative words from others, and I bind and render useless all prayers not inspired by the Holy Spirit; whether psychic, soul force, witchcraft or counterfeit tongues that have been prayed against me.

I am God's child. I resist the devil. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. I put on the whole armor of God. I take authority over this day, in Jesus name. Let it be prosperous for me, let me walk in your love, Lord. The Holy Spirit leads and guides me today, I discern between the righteousness and the wicked.

I take authority over Satan and all his demons, and those people who are influenced by them. I declare Satan is under my feet and remain there all day. I am the righteous of God in Christ Jesus.

I am God's property. Satan you are bound from my family, my mind, my body, my home and my finances.

The story of Job begins with a description of a man who owns greater riches and has ten children, but all of that was about to change, because of a conversation that took place in heaven, between God and Satan that we find in Job.

I want to focus on the statement Satan made in verse 10th Satan observed God had built a hedge of protection around job. Based upon that observation, I want to talk about being “surrounded by God hedge of protection”

I want us to notice a couple of things about this divine hedge of protection

First we are constantly under His surveillance. God hedge of protection around His children is part of God’s promise and can only be removed by God’s permission.

There is a hedge around every believer, and Satan can not touch you unless God permits it and if God permits it, it will be for His purpose and His purpose alone.

Psalmist says in 91:1-16 His faithfulness will be your shield and your rampart—if you make the most high your dwelling –even the Lord who is refuge –then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent. For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways, Amen.

God’s hedge is not a hedge of stones, or a hedge of plants, or hedge made by men it’s a hedge of angels.