Dear Bros in Christ,

Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
Brothers in Christ, this weekly encouragement is sent and meant to be an encouragement to all and to build up and edify in the Lord Jesus Christ. Oikodome
means "Builder". The Lord has put this on my heart to send out a monthly Iron Man Oikodome {oy-kod-om-ay'} to build up and encourage the men who love
and follow Jesus Christ in their walk with Him.
Hebrews 3:13 "But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness."
PRAYER REQUESTS: If you have any prayer requests please send them and I will send them out to the bros for prayer, if privacy is needed I will send in a
discreet way.

IRON MAN OIKODOME BOX TOP 142

Then the Angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: "I led you
up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers; and I
said, 'I will never break My covenant with you. And you shall make no covenant
with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars. But you have
not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?
"Therefore I also said, 'I will not drive them out before you; but they shall be
[thorns] in your side, and their gods shall be a snare to you.' " [JUDGES 2:1-3
NKJV]
TRAP
Bros Israel did not obey the commandments of God. God led them up from Egypt and He had
instructed them to tear down the altars of their enemies and fully expected them to drive out
the Canaanites. In fact they were promised that if they didnt drive them out they would be
thorns in their sides. So they even went as far as marrying their enemys daughters and gave
their daughters to marry their sons and they even served their false gods. So God left them in
their own sin or trap they had constructed so to speak. He said He would not drive them out
before them and left them as a severe reminder. They had become entrapped with their own
snare because of disobedience they had a wound that would not heal as a sliver that is
embedded in their skin that festers causing contamination, pain and suffering. They got
pricked by a thorn they created and that thorn stayed, they married into that thorn and tied it
into their bloodline to give it life and it gave them great pain and turmoil. The Israelites fell
into great sin of idolatry and worship of their false gods. This was the snare that Israel created
and had become entrapped. The trap was set and sprung by their sinful disobedience so they
found themselves laying wounded unable to get out of the their own trap...
Israel had brought a lot of needless suffering onto themselves, the Lord allowed the possessing
of the land to go unfinished trying to correct rebellious Israel to change course.
It seems as though when we do things our way we miss out on Gods best for us. Looks as
though Israel was willing to settle for less than Gods best for them and they paid the price and
got caught in their own trap because they were supposed to drive out the inhabitants of the
land.
Bros the message I get here for my life is to tear down or take down or not allow any altars or
false worship wherever God sends me or I find myself. He wants to give me His best and He
does require me to tear down and not to allow any altars to remain and be a snare to me. If I
allow false idols-altars to exist in my life wherever He takes me then I can become ensnared in
a trap and end up with a thorn. So I need to tear them down before they tear me down, amen!
Agape,

Daniel Wright
ironmanoikodome.org
Proverbs 27:17
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