The Bible reveals that there is an agenda for every season. The are patterns in the Bible for every year, month, week and day. These patterns give light for the seasons and also guide us to watch and pray.
BIBLICAL PATTERNS FOR THE 32ND WEEK
- Week 32 is fourth day of creation week (Genesis 1:14-19). The 32nd is the fourth in the fifth seven (29-35). God made guiding luminaries on the fourth day of creation. This is a week to triumph over darkness through the guiding lights of God. It is also a week to live as one of God’s luminaries. .
- Week 32 is a book-of-Jonah week. In Jonah, the 32nd book of the Bible, the prophet was sent to go and cry against Nineveh for her sins. He failed the obedience test and ran from the presence of God; but ran into disaster. He repented in the belly of fish and prayed to God. The fish that swallowed him vomited him and he went to Nineveh and preached as God had commanded him. The 32nd season is a season of submission to divine direction and guidance. It is not a time to do your own thing.
- Week 32 is a Deuteronomy 16-20 week. The fourth five chapters of the fifth book of the Bible is applicable to the fourth week in the fifth seven weeks of the year (July 16-September 2).
- Week 32 is a 32nd-chapters-of-the-Bible week. Every 32bd chapter of the Bible is applicable to this week.
BIBLE-READING SUGGESTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Going through the 32nd week of the year (August 6 – 12 in a clear year or August 5-11 in a leap year) is like taking a prophetic journey through the 32nd book of the Bible (Jonah) and 32nd chapters of the Bible. So, the Book of Jonah and the 32nd chapters of the Bible are great guiding lights for the week. Jonah is a four-chapter book.
You may want to read the suggested passages as follows but be at liberty to follow the leading of the Spirit:
1. August 6: Jonah 1:1-9; Exod. 32
2. August 7: Jonah 1:10-17; Ge
ugust 8: Jonah 2: 1-9; Psalm
ust 9: Jonah 2:10 – 3:4; Job 32;
August 10: Jonah 3. 5-10; Num. 32;
August 11: Jonah 4: 1-5; 2 Chron. 32; Isaiah 32;
August 12: Jonah 4:6-11; Jer. 32; Ezek. 32
BIBLE VERSES FOR THE WEEK
Psalm 32: 8: I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.
Jeremiah 32:27: “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?
THE AGENDA FOR THE WEEK
- 1. In the 32nd season, men are tempted to do things that drive them back into stuff they are running from. The 32nd season is a season of tests often leading to questionable actions.
Aaron and Jonah did not act wisely in turning against God in Exodus 32 and in the 32nd book of the Bible respectively. The boasting of Sennacherib in Second Chronicles 32 was stupid and costly. He lost his army, his throne, and his life.
Adolf Hitler declared the Second World War in the season of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. He lost both the war and his life. He and his allies were ill-advised. In the 32nd week of 2019, multi-millionaire, Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in a New York Prison cell.
- 2. The 32nd week is a season of mercy, divine intervention, and second chance. Moses interceded for Israel in Exodus 32 after Aaron made the golden calf. God gave Hezekiah second chance in Second Chronicles 32 by extending his life. God gave Jonah a second chance in the 32nd book of the Bible. Nineveh also received mercy and second chance. The 32nd season is the intercessors season. It is a time to plead for mercy as Moses did in Exodus 32.
The Rwanda genocide happened in the 32bd year of Rwanda and within the 32nd seven years of the United States; when Bill Clinton was President. Regrettably, Clinton and the United States could not save Rwanda from the genocide but today, Bill Clinton and Americans are having a second chance to rebuild lives in Rwanda. Bill Clinton also faced impeachment in the Monica Lewinsky scandal but was given a second chance. The House of Representatives favored impeachment but the Senate did not have the majority to ratify it. Clinton was acquitted. Second chance!
- The 32nd season is for making timely submission to God. Jonah’s delayed and forced compliance was costly. As soon as he got out the belly of the fish that swallowed him, he went right away into Nineveh and preached. He had learned his lessons. Nineveh’s timely submission to God turned the hand of judgment.
- The 32nd season is a high-sensitivity season. Aaron’s step to make a golden calf for Israel was hasty and the result of insensitivity. It was all because of Moses’ delay. The people pressurized him to error. The 32nd season is a time to be heaven-led; not circumstance-led, people-led, or emotion-led. Delay must not drive you to haste in the 32nd week. Moses broke the two tables of the law out of anger in Exodus 32. Beware of hasty actions in the 32nd season. In 1992, the 32nd year of Nigeria’s independence, there were riots, strikes, arrests, detentions, and deaths surrounding transition to civilian rule, ethnic/religious clashes, and economic issues, under President Ibrahim Babangida. In that year, there was anger in the air; and Nigeria and Nigerians were badly hurt by lack of sensitivity.
- The 32nd season is a new beginning. It is the beginning of a new beginning. God changed ‘Jacob’ to ‘Israel’ in Genesis 32. Elihu began his speech in Job 32. In the 32nd book of the Bible, Nineveh had a new beginning. The tribes of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh received their inheritance in this chapter. It was a new beginning for them. The 32nd President of the United States was a new beginning in many ways.
- 3. The 32nd week is a season to triumph through prayer. Fearful things may happen in this season but faith in God always triumphs. In Genesis 32, Jacob prayed to be delivered from Esau and for a change of story. In Genesis 32:11, he said “Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children”. In Genesis 32:26 he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me”. God changed His name from Jacob to Israel. Identity gives access. Moses prayed in Exodus 32. He told God, “If you will not forgive them, blot me out of your book which you have written”. Hezekiah prayed to be delivered from Sennacherib and from death in Second Chronicles 32. God answered Him. Jonah prayed from the belly of a fish in the 32nd book of the Bible. God commanded the fish to vomit him. As you pray this week, God will hear you!
- 4. The 32nd season is a season to be in the presence of God. Although we should always be in the presence of God, some seasons make it mandatory. In Genesis 32, Jacob was alone with God when his name was changed to Israel. Moses was on the mountain with with God in Exodus 32. In Second Chronicles 32, Hezekiah was in the presence of God crying against Sennacherib; and for deliverance from death. In Jeremiah 32, the prophet was in the presence of God praying to understand why God would ask him to buy property in a city the Babylonians would overrun. There, the Lord told him He would give Judah and Benjamin a second chance. In the 32nd book of the Bible, Jonah had problems because he ran from where he should have been in the presence of God. This week, live your life in the presence of the Lord.
- This is a time to receive and follow divine direction. Psalm 32:8-9 says, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. [9] Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you”. Moses went to the mountain in Exodus 32 to receive the tablets of the Law. Jeremiah received instruction from God in Jeremiah 32. Jonah received the word of the Lord in the 32nd book of the Bible. Be ready to receive and follow divine instructions this week.
PRAYER POINTS FOR THE WEEK
1. In the 32nd chapter of Exodus, Aaron was deceived to make a Golden Calf to replace the God of Israel. Israel was plagued for that. In the 32nd book of the Bible, Jonah ran from God’s call and ran into trouble. Pray against rebellion and wrong decisions that could throw you, your family, ministry, church, business, organization or nation into trouble this week. Bind the spirits of error setting traps in different places for God’s people this week.
2. In the 32nd book of the Bible, God commanded the fish to vomit Jonah after he had repented and prayed. Pray this week that the fish that has swallowed some rebellious messengers of God and nations will vomit them. Pray for freedom from abductors and hijackers of the destinies of nations.
3. In Genesis 32, Jacob encountered God and was changed before meeting his brother Esau. He prayed for a change of story. God answered him. God also answered Hezekiah in Second Chronicles 32. In the same spirit of Genesis 32 and Second Chronicles 32, let us cry earnestly to God for a change of story in the nations. Pray that God will deliver nations from strong adversaries and forces as He delivered Hezekiah from Sennacherib and disease.
4. Pray that darkness and death will not invade or overtake families, communities, cities and nations this week.
Have a happy 32nd week of the year.
