DAILY DEVOTION
TEXT: Psalm 144:5
Bow thy heavens, o lord and come down: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.

DEFINITION
To touch means to bring a part of the body (especially the hand) in contact with something. It can also mean to apply a slight or gentle force to something.

CONTEXT
David wrote this psalm. It is a song to the Lord who preserves and prospers His servant. David pleaded out of an intimate knowledge of what God can do. He asked that God should touch the mountains, and they would smoke. In other words, they would burn away.
Note the verse 1 of the psalm says that God is He who teaches us how to fight battle. Verse 5 under consideration introduces us to one of God’s unique ways dealing with mountains. He touches them, and they burn to ashes.

RELEVANCE
The following situations can be confronted with the touch of the Lord, amongst others.
1. When unexplainable obstacles block your progress. If you try, and it appears obvious that the opposition is stronger that what you lone can cope with, ask for the touch of the Lord upon that mountain. It shall surely be consumed.
2. When a family is faced with mountains of barrenness, sickness, or poverty. In other words, when there appears to be the manifestation of vertical or horizontal family curses in a family (see my book, Vertical and Horizontal Family Curses for details), the touch of the Lord is useful to consume that ancient mountain of affliction.
3. The touch of the Lord is also a useful tool for ministering healing to the sick.

PRAYER POINTS
1. Every stronghold hindering my progress, I scatter you with the touch of the Lord in Jesus’ name.
2. Every obstacle blocking my progress, I remove with the touch of God in Jesus’ name.
3. I come directly against barrenness in my life and ministry with the touch of the Lord in Jesus’ name.
4. You evil manipulator in my life, be destroyed by the touch of God in Jesus’ name.
5. Every strange eye viewing my progress, I pluck you out by the finger of the Lard in Jesus’ name.
6. By the touch of the Lord. I destroy the effect and purpose of the spirit of impossibility in the name of Jesus.
7. Every household wickedness tormenting my life, I come against with the touch of the Lord in Jesus’ name.
8. O Lord! By you touch; I enter into my breakthrough in Jesus’ name.
9. By the touch of the Lord, I confront unfriendly friends in Jesus’ name.
10. Evil fetter and chain holding me down and preventing my progress academically, spiritually, financially, materially and in all areas of my life, be broken by the touch the Lord in Jesus’ name.