Psalm 32:7 ‘Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance’
DAILY READING; John 19:16-42; 2 Chronicles 30; Psalm 86
On Friday October 21, 2016, ISIS suicide bombers and gunmen launched a surprise pre-dawn attack on the Iraqi town of Kirkuk. When these ISIS fighters invaded the region, they rushed into some surrounding buildings, including the Dominican nunnery and homes, which housed some Christian students.
About 30 girls found themselves trapped inside the building. They faced imminent danger because the terrorists were heavily armed with explosive belts and guns.
Though the Iraqi security authorities launched an immediate rescue operation and were able to rescue majority of these girls, yet seven of them remained trapped within the building. To make matters worse, the authorities discovered that the ISIS terrorists had occupied a room just opposite where the young girls were hiding. Things became even more tense, when at one point, these terrorists went into the same room where the girls were hidden, to say their prayers. However, they eventually left the room without spotting these girls.
It was indeed incredible how these girls were in the same room with the blood thirsty ISIS fighters and yet, miraculously God protected and shielded them.
These students remained hidden under the beds for 18 hours without any noise or movement, occasionally sending out messages from their phones, requesting for prayers. Miraculously, security forces were eventually able to sneak into the room and rescue each of those seven girls, without alerting the terrorists in the opposite room.
In the end, these ISIS terrorists blew themselves up inside the school compound. However, the school authorities were thankful to God that despite the terror attack, not one single student or teacher became a victim.
Psalm 32:7 says ‘Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.’
Indeed God knows how to hide His Children from the enemy. It would seem natural that these girls in the same room with ISIS terrorists, should have been easily spotted. But it was not so because God shielded them.
In times of trouble God hides us in the secret of His tabernacle.
When Athaliah sought to kill all the royal seed, Jehoiada the priest took the king’s son Joash, who was then a child and hid him in The Lord’s House. He remained hidden there for six years and Athaliah was coming and going and never knew Joash was hidden quite close by [2 kings 11].
Indeed God knows how to hide His children from evil. What is ravaging and destroying others will be unable to touch those preserved by God.
At the time of the flood, God hid Noah and his family in the ark of safety so that they were not destroyed.
And likewise, today, God will shield and protect us from every flood of evil in this end time. Even if you find yourself in the same room with terror, God’s Presence will shield you from harm. A thousand may fall by your side and ten thousand by your right hand, yet it will not come near you.
Indeed God is our hiding place. He is our refuge, our fortress and our strong tower. His Presence is the ark of safety that will keep us protected from evil.. And this is why we must continually abide in His Word and maintain His Presence through being joyful and praise-full. As we dwell in the secret place of the Most High, surely, we shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. And surrounded by God’s Presence, we will be hidden from all harm.
PRAYER: Lord I am grateful for Your continual faithfulness in my life. I thank You for hiding me and my family in the secret place of Your presence. Indeed by Your grace no evil shall befall us and no plague can come near us in Jesus Name.
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The battle you are faced with today is a good warfare because God has already foreordained victorious end for you. WORDBITE 222