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LET LOT LEAVE (Gen. 13:14-18) by PASTOR R.O.Ogunkunle

LET LOT LEAVE (Gen. 13:14-18) 
The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, "Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you."  So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord. 
Lot in the literal sense means “conceal, veil or covering.” It follows therefore that when you have a ‘Lot’ with you or in your company, your glory may not shine because there is a covering already. It was Abram that God called to leave his people for another place and not Lot. For sympathy or love for family member, he decided to allow Lot to follow him. Little by little Lot was covering the glory of God in his life. It got so bad at a time that there was war between the herdsmen of both of them that they needed to part so as to avoid clash. In the mind of any right thinking person, Lot should have respected the age and contribution of his uncle Abram and allow him to choose first and then he, i.e. would take whatever was left. We saw in this chapter that he was the one who chose the better part of the land open to them. Lot was already competing with Abram almost in everything. He started covering the glory and the right of the man God had called into the ministry. He wanted to be more successful than the one who took care of him. Lot was just an extra luggage that the Lord had not commanded Abram to carry. 
Let us consider some of the reasons why you, the Christian must not continue with Mr. Lot. 
It was wealth and excitement that attracted him to city life. And not just any city, of course. No, he was foolish enough to choose the most depraved place around. Greed did not allow him to reason well. 
If he had stayed with his uncle, he would not have caused the death of his wife. They would not have been engrossed in the depravity of the people of the land. 
There was a time he was captured as a slave and his uncle Abram rose against his captor and got him released, if he was in his right sense he would not have gone back to that sinful town but the next day he was on his way back there. Abram had proved to him that he was capable of protecting him and his belonging but he would not learn. 
When the city he was was destroyed, he was rescued by the angels of God, in his appreciation to God for being saved; he got drunk that he committed incest, a terrible sin before God. He slept with his own daughters and in the process they produced nations that were not loved by God. 
We did not read that Lot built an altar to the Lord as we often read about Abram his uncle. 
There are several things that stand for ‘Lot’ in the life of many Christians today. It could be secret sin, it could be money, it could be one tradition or culture, it could be souvenir, it could be position and to some it could be sinful objects gotten diabolically. 
Please take note of these spiritual lessons from Lot; 
Never "move your tents to a place near Sodom" (13:12-13). That is, don't seek the company of ungodly people (Ps 1). 
When you are delivered from Sodom (14:16), don't return! 
Spiritual compromise can injure your own soul (2 Peter 2:8), invite the contempt of nonbelievers (19:9), and even bring immorality (19:30-38) and death to your own family and friends (19:14, 26). He who has an ear let him hear. Remain blessed in the Lord. 
PRAYER POINTS FOR THE WEEK 
Monday: - Father, let everything that stands for Lot in my life leave me now IJN 
Tuesday: - Every spirit covering the glory of God in my life, leave now IJN 
Wednesday: - Every work of the devil collecting money from me, leave now IJN 
Thursday: - I command all agents of darkness assigned to debar my blessings to leave now IJN 
Friday: - Lord, let every agent of darkness assigned to monitor the growth of Seed of Life leave now IJN 
Saturday: - God of all nations, please let violence leave Nigeria now IJN 

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