If you return...

I Samuel 7:3 NKJV

Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then  put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord , and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

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† Shalom †......! Day #270. Do you know that even when we have been born again, serving God, yet we still have thise "foreign gods" in us, around us? Let us pray. Father, remove all those "foreign gods" in us and around us. Remove every stumbling block that's hindering us to come to You Lord. In Jesus name we ask and pray, amen!

During this time the prophet Samuel laboured to revive true religion. The few words used are very expressive; and this was one of the most effectual revivals of religion which ever took place in Israel.

Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel—A great national reformation was effected through the influence of Samuel. Disgusted with their foreign servitude, and panting for the restoration of liberty and independence, they were open to salutary impressions; and convinced of their errors, they renounced idolatry. The re-establishment of the faith of their fathers was inaugurated at a great public meeting, held at Mizpeh in Judah, and hallowed by the observance of impressive religious solemnities. The drawing water, and pouring it out before the Lord, seems to have been a symbolical act by which, in the people's name, Samuel testified their sense of national corruption, their need of that moral purification of which water is the emblem, and their sincere desire to pour out their hearts in repentance before God.

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