STONE OF HELP

Ebenezer means Stone of Help. It is the memorial stone set up by Samuel to commemorate the divine assistance to Israel in their great battle against the Philistines, whom they totally routed (1 Samuel 7:7-12) at Aphek, in the neighborhood of Mizpeh, in Benjamin, near the western entrance of the pass of Beth-horon. On this very battle-field, twenty years before, the Philistines routed the Israelites, “and slew of the army in the field about four thousand men” (1 Samuel 4:1-2) and at (1 Samuel 5:1) it is called “Eben-ezer” by anticipation). In this extremity the Israelites fetched the ark out of Shiloh and carried it into their camp. The Philistines a second time immediately attacked them, and smote them with a very great slaughter, “for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. And the ark of God was taken” (1 Samuel 4:10). And now in the same place the Philistines are vanquished, and Samuel erects the memorial stone. The spot where the stone was erected was somewhere “between Mizpeh and Shen.”
(Easton’s Bible Dictionary)

Brothers and sisters, it’s time to raise our Ebenezer’s.

“With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” Jesus