Barrier Breakers
” The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit. “ (Psalms 34:16-18) When the relatives of John and Elizabeth expressed their concerns internally concerning the baby John the Baptist, saying ‘What kind of child will this be? ’, they were merely confirming his divine purpose as a forerunner of Jesus Christ. They had witnessed how his conception had led to spirit baptism upon Elizabeth; his delivery and christening ceremony had led to the opening up of the tongue of Zachariah; and the release of the Holy Ghost upon Zachariah to prophesy the plan of God. Previously, there had been the barriers of spiritual darkness, and the absence of the presence of God in the land for over 400 years. Even in our contemporary days, our society is often clouded...