May is the month of Ebenezer (surplus)

It is surely a month of the overturn. May is the month of Ebenezer. It will mark the beginning of God’s unlimited provision in your life. You will surely not lack.The struggles and challenges you have hard over the years will be no more. It is the month to get right it with God. Obey the word f God including tithing. Am reminded of  the good that comes out after cleansing our selves before God. ‘And Samuel spoke unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only’ 1Samuel 7:3-4

Meditation verse of the month is ‘’May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing to You, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer?” Psalm 19:14 NLT

Ebenezer means a stone of help. This was the memorial stone set up by Samuel to commemorate the divine assistance to Israel in their great battle against the Philistines, whom they totally routed (1 Sam. 7:7-12) at Aphek, in the neighbourhood of Mizpeh, in Benjamin, near the western entrance of the pass of Beth-horon. It was the place that the Israelites set down camp when they were warring with the Philistines, who were camped at Aphek. They commenced to fighting and the Israelites lost 4,000. So then the Israelites decided they needed the big gun, and they sent to Shiloh for the old Ark of the Covent to pump up the troops. Pump them up it did. The Israelites hooped and hollered. The Philistines got scared, but decided they would rather fight than become slaves. But despite the Isralites enthusiasm, and the Philistines fear, the Philistines really gave them a whomping this time, killing 30,000 Israelites and taking the Ark of the Covenant for themselves.

In 1 Samuel 4:1-11 and 5:1, the Ebenezer is strangely identified with a particular site, about four miles south of Gilgal, where the Israelites were twice defeated by the Philistines and the Ark of the Covenant was stolen. These battles took place, however, before the site was actually named Ebenezer.Likewise, the two battles mentioned in 1 Samuel 4 and 5 took place at Ebenezer, but some time before it was so-named.The site wasn’t named Ebenezer until after the Israelites finally defeated the Philistines, and took back the Ark of the Covenant. To commemorate the victorious battle, Samuel set up a marker-stone, named it "Stone of Help," and thereby the site became identified with the stone and with the place where God’s miraculous help aided them in their victory over the Philistines. The stone, standing up-right, was called "Ebenezer," and the site naturally took on that name as well.