12/04/2026
🏡ULTIMATE CARE DAILY DEVOTIONAL (UCDD); A DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF HAMMER WORD BIBLE CHURCH, ABAK, NIGERIA.🏴 SUNDAY, 12TH APRIL, 2026. VOLUME 5🏴
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THEME: 🇬🇬 THE VALLEY OF ACHOR
“And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in,
for my people that have sought me”
TEXT: ✅ISAIAH 65: 10
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MESSAGE🔥
“Achor” means “troubling,” and the phrase that contains it (“the Valley of Achor”) means “the valley of troubling.” It occurs three times in the Bible. The first is in Joshua in connection with the story of Achan and his sin. When the people of Israel had conquered Jericho in the first wave of their invasion of the Promised Land, Achan had taken spoil of Jericho that the people had been told by God they were not to do. For this they lost the next battle at Ai. What was wrong? they asked. At last, an investigation was made and the sin of Achan was discovered and judged. Achan and his family were stoned in the Valley of Achor, which took its name from this incident (Joshua 7:26). The second time this valley is mentioned is in Isaiah, when he speaks of a day when it will become a resting place for herds (Isaiah 65:10). The third time is in Hosea, and here the place of “troubling” is to become a place of hope for God’s people. How can a place of such swift judgment be hopeful? How can the destructive troubling be changed? We cannot change it certainly. But there is one who can and who does. God sets hope before us when all seems most lost. He does it by taking our trouble on himself.
Charles Simeon wrote that; Achor was a very rich valley, so called from the circumstance of Achan being stoned there. It was the first portion of the promised land that came into the possession of the Israelites: and this was to them a door of hope. It was a ground of assurance, that they should in due time possess the whole land. It was, as it were, an earnest, whereby they were taught to expect the fulfillment of all the promises.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary says…The expression “valley of Achor” probably became proverbial for that which caused trouble, and when Isaiah (in Isaiah 65:10) refers to it, he uses it in this sense: “The valley of Achor, a place for herds to lie down in;” i.e., that which had been a source of calamity would become a source of blessing. Hosea also (in Hosea 2:15) uses the expression in the same sense: “The valley of Achor for a door of hope”; i.e., trouble would be turned into joy, despair into hope.
Can I mention it to you this moment, that as you turn to Christ, whatever causes you trouble, sorrow and shame shall rightly turn into your help, favour, honour and blessings.
I speak into your life and decree, your Valley of Achor is turned into help in Jesus mighty name, Amen. Beloved, Jesus alone can do this. Turn to him today, and remain in his warm arms forever in Jesus mighty name Amen.
REFLECTION🏴
"Can I mention it to you this moment, that as you turn to Christ, whatever causes you trouble, sorrow and shame shall rightly turn into your help, favour, honour and blessings"
PRAYERS🏴
HEAVENLY Father, I thank you for being my help and my salvation. Father, help me to enjoy your refuge forever in Jesus mighty name, Amen.
FURTHER BIBLE READING🏴: ISAIAH 65
BIBLE READING PLAN FOR THE YEAR, 2026🏴
MORNING: NUMBERS 17
EVENING: NUMBERS 18
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🇬🇬 Author: Pastor NseAbasi Harry 🇬🇬
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🏡 HAMMER WORD BIBLE CHURCH, ABAK, NIGERIA CARES 🏴
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