Psalm 23: 4 ‘Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.’

DAILY READING;     James 5; Jeremiah 29-30; Psalm 133

Immaculée Ilibagiza, was a university  student , home on holiday, when the Rwandan genocide started. Her family being Tutsi, her father immediately told her to run to a local pastor’s house for protection from the rampaging Hutu militia. The pastor sheltered Immaculée and seven other women in a hidden 3 x 4 foot bathroom. As the genocide raged in the country, Immaculée began to read the Bible. And the more she read the Bible, the more her faith in God grew.

After 91 days of hiding in the bathroom, she finally came out, to find her family had been slaughtered and the entire country in total mayhem with dead bodies littering the roads. As Immaculée and 50 other Tutsi refugees were being conducted to safety by French soldiers, they suddenly ran into about a thousand Hutu killers, wielding bloody machetes. To Immaculee’s dismay, the French soldiers abandoned them right in the midst of these killers and ran away. But though it seemed the end had come, Immaculée held on to her faith in God’s promise of divine protection.

At that moment, one of the killers marched towards her with his machete, his eyes red with anger, and started to push her down. But faith rose up within her and she rebuked him saying ‘ Go away, evil!’. Immediately she spoke, she saw him begin to lose strength and then dropped his machete and walked away. Immaculee then led the small group of Tutsis, right through the crowd of Hutu killers. Although they circled her like sharks who had smelled blood, not one of them touched her or the other Tutsis.  Her faith in God was so strong that she knew He would never allow any of their machete to touch her. She eventually got to safety and was among the few Tutsis who survived that horrific genocide.

Her story is captured in the book ‘Left to Tell; Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust’. Her book has become a New York Times Best Seller, translated into over seventeen languages and made into a movie.

Psalm 23: 4 says ‘Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.’

It sounds incredible that an unarmed young school girl, could stare down over a thousand machete wielding bloodthirsty killers, but that is what the power of faith can do.  No force from hell can stop faith from having its way. Indeed when God stretches forth His hand to deliver, no one can turn it back (Isaiah 14:27].

When God gives  you a word of promise, circumstances cannot change it. God says what He means and He means what He says. No matter how the sea roars, it cannot stop God’s Word from coming to pass.

Anytime, Jesus asks you to walk on the water, He already knows about the wind, storm and billows. So just keep your gaze on Jesus and ignore the roaring of the storm. And as you walk in faith, He will never allow you to sink.

Indeed if we are going to walk in faith, then we cannot be moved by sight. Walking in faith means that you are so focused on what God has said that there is no room for fear. It means that though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, you shall fear no evil. It means that though a thousand fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, it will not come near you. Because when God sends you, He also leads you. He doesn’t leave you to go alone, He walks you through the valley. He goes ahead of you to make the crooked paths straight, He breaks the gates of brass and cuts the bars of iron asunder for you. And truly, when God is with you, nothing and no one can ever be against you.

Are you holding on to God’s promise today? Then be assured that God is able to do what He has said He will do. God is not man that He should lie, neither the son of man that He should repent, whatever His mouth has said, His hand is able to perform for you. Just believe and refuse to give in to fear. It doesn’t matter how impossible that situation, God is going to amaze you with His miracles. Just stand strong and keep speaking words of faith into that situation. Keep praising God for the manifestation. And surely God’s Word concerning you will never fall to the ground, every of His promises to you will surely be fulfilled in their season.

PRAYER: Lord, please help me to continually fill my heart with your Word, so as to stand strong in faith. And no matter how contrary situations may seem today,  I praise You, because surely Your Word is coming to pass in my life in Jesus Name.

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God’s promises in Christ in your life may appear delayed, but never forget that delays are not denials. WORDBITE 222