Exodus 12:13

And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

DAILY READING    1 Corinthians 7:25-40; 1 Kings 21; Amos 5

On Christmas Day 2009, passengers aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam were miraculously saved from disaster. A plan to bomb the plane failed when the devise refused to detonate.

On that day, a young Nigerian man who has come to be known as the ‘Underwear Bomber’ boarded the flight going from Amsterdam to Detroit. Almost 300 people were on that flight. On board, he went into the toilet and spent about 20 minutes, there. Unknown to the people on the plane, the young man was a suicide bomber. He had put in his pocket, an explosive device which consisted of a six-inch packet which was sewn into his underwear, containing the explosive powder: PETN, which when mixed with the high explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP) became a plastic explosive. This was what he had gone to mix when he went into the toilet. When he was done, he came out, returned to his seat and covered himself with a blanket. Soon after, there was a popping noise as he detonated the bomb. But instead of the plane exploding, it was his trouser that caught fire. Though he had successfully mixed the bomb ingredients, but due to some unforeseen fault, the device had failed to detonate. Fellow passengers jumped on him and subdued him as flight attendants used fire extinguishers to douse the flame. By this time the fire had burnt off his trouser and left him naked and quite wounded with severe burns on his legs. When the plane landed at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, he was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers and turned over to the FBI.  The passengers on the flight that Christmas day were grateful to God for His awesome deliverance. Indeed, they would have been dead but for the mercy of God. Later during court proceedings, the ‘underwear bomber’ still could not understand why his bomb had failed to detonate.

Indeed there are times when the enemy thinks he has perfectly worked out his plans for destruction, he has everything ready and set to go, but then God suddenly shows up and causes those plans to suffer a technical failure.

In the book of Exodus, Pharaoh’s plans suffered a technical failure. Pharaoh had perfected a long term plan to keep the Israelites in perpetual slavery. He had put them into forced labor battalions under the supervision of harsh taskmasters. He had plans laid out for the building of supply cities, Pithom and Rameses. Thus, the children of Israel had to build monuments, erect buildings, construct roads, work in the quarries, and hew stones or make bricks and tiles. Pharaoh also hoped to end the numerical increase of the Jewish population, and stop their progress and multiplication, by decreeing that all newly born Jewish male children should be thrown into the Nile River. Indeed, he planned to keep the Jews in perpetual bondage, oppression and stagnation. Pharaoh thought he had it all worked out, but then God showed up and everything changed.

On the night of the Passover, Pharoah’s plans suffered a technical failure. When the banner of the blood was raised, all his expert counsel and laid out plans came tumbling down. And because he had no plan B to counter the weapon of the blood, he had no other option than to surrender and let go of the Children of Israel. The same way today, by the reason of the blood, all the plans of the enemy against you will suffer a complete technical failure. Indeed because of the mark of the blood upon our lives, we are exempted from all evil.

Exodus 12:13 says,  ‘And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you…’

Indeed, every gang-up against you is destined for technical failure. It doesn’t matter how perfect the plan, it doesn’t matter the high level of the conspiracy, it doesn’t matter how thick the plot or how strong the gang-up, by reason of the blood, you are walking out free from every demonic trap in Jesus’ name.

PRAYER

Lord, I thank You for the power that is in the blood of Jesus.  By Your grace, I am rescued from every plan of the wicked. Truly, by the power in the blood of Jesus, everyone that gathers against me must fall for my sake in Jesus’ name.

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God knows how to work everything together in your life for your own good.