"Ben, Ben it’s your turn
The judge is calling you.”
Ben lifted his tear stained face which was buried in his hands and saw his
friend urgently shaking him
“All that I have left are my memories that too they want to take it away
from me,” Ben mumbled under his breath as he made his way to the front.
“Benjamin Job, what proof do you have this property marked by the government
to construct a highway belongs to you.”?
“I don’t. I left at the age of sixteen to fight in the king's army up in the
north.
It’s been twenty long years since I left home. I have now returned to find
everyone and everything which belonged to my family charred to the ground.
The tears streamed down his face as he spoke.
All I have left are my memories please don’t take that away from me too.” He
cried.
“Gather again after two months. Let’s wait and see what the king has to say.”
“What are you doing Ben,”? His friend asked .Seeing Ben walking around the
boundary of his land with his arms lifted in praise and worship as he walked
around the block.
I am doing what Joshua did to save my land.
Joshua 6:2-3 CJB
2 Adonai said
to Y’hoshua, “I have handed Yericho over to you, including its king and his
warriors. 3 You are to encircle the city
with all your soldiers and march around it once. Do this for six days.
Let me join you. Soon the entire community started walking behind Ben
praising the Lord as he went around his land early morning each day.
The time came to gather in front of the judge again.
The king has decided to give you double of what you owe in the uptown area
of our nation.
The land is very fertile there you can farm and live of it for the generations
to come. The judge said.
No, Ben spoke vehemently. I want the land gifted to me by my ancestors.
But it’s useless, nothing will grow no one will buy it from you.
It’s priceless to me .I will bask in the memories of the ones who have gone
before me.
The lord my god who gives life to dead bones will raise this dead land too
Haven’t you read in the scriptures? “
Ezekial 37: 12-14 CJB
12 Therefore prophesy; say to them that Adonai Elohim says,
‘My people! I will open your graves and make you get up out of your graves, and
I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13 Then you will
know that I am Adonai — when I have opened your graves and
made you get up out of your graves, my people! 14 I will put
my Spirit in you; and you will be alive. Then I will place you in your own
land; and you will know that I, Adonai, have spoken, and that I
have done it,’ says Adonai.”
"Alright, with the powers granted to me I give you back you land.” The judge
declared,
A hurrah shout was heard all over the land .The people rejoiced for Ben’s
victory.
Five years later the king took a survey that had the best grape orchard in
the country.
Guess who land was picked out.
Ben’s of course ."What’s your secret", they asked...Seeing him and his land
blooming.
"When your life, land and your destiny is in the hand of the God of Israel
You will automatically thrive even if you are “under fire “He beamed and
replied.
