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June 27th 2026

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SATURDAY

Don’t forget what Amalek did to you on the road after you left Egypt, how he attacked you when you were tired, barely able to put one foot in front of another, mercilessly cut off your stragglers, and had no regard for God. When God, your God, gives you rest from all the enemies that surround you in the inheritance-land God, your God, is giving you to possess, you are to wipe the name of Amalek from off the Earth. Don’t forget! —Deuteronomy 25:17-19 (MSG)

There are seasons in our journey when freedom feels close—when God has opened a door, broken a chain, or poured fresh water into dry places. Israel knew that feeling. They had walked out of Egypt with their heads high. They had crossed the Red Sea with liberation at their backs. They were finally becoming a free people. But “then came Amalek.”
Amalek represents every force—internal or external—that rises up to push God’s people back into bondage. Sometimes Amalek is us—the internalized lies we’ve absorbed from systems that told us we were less than. Sometimes Amalek is the world—structures that prey on the weary, the marginalized, the ones “lagging behind.” Sometimes Amalek is the spiritual resistance that always appears when liberation is near.
Amalek seldom confronts us head on. Amalek creeps in when we are tired, overworked, discouraged, or drifting. It whispers that freedom is too hard, that justice is too costly, that holiness is too demanding. It tries to convince us that bondage is easier than becoming who God created us to be.
But the story does not end with Amalek’s attack. It ends with God’s people standing together. Moses lifts his hands. Aaron and Hur hold them up. Joshua fights on the ground. The community refuses to let one person carry the weight alone.
This is liberation: God working through a people who refuse to abandon one another. Victory comes through empowerment, prayerful resistance and alignment with God. When these three stand together, Amalek falls. Not because the battle is easy, but because God is faithful.
Today, as we face our own Amalek—personal, communal, or systemic—we lift our hands, we hold each other up, and we trust the God who leads us.

PRAYER: Lord, when Amalek rises against us—through weariness, injustice, or internal struggle—lift us by Your power. Make us a community that holds one another up. Fill us with courage, prayer, and holiness rooted in justice. Lead us toward the freedom You have promised. In the name of Jesus, our Liberator. AMEN!

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