Psalm 124:7-8 ‘Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth..’

DAILY READING; – John 15:1-16:4; 2 Chronicles 23; Psalm 80

In the last few days, hostilities have gradually been escalating between Israel and Hamas.
In 2014 there was a similar hostile conflict known as ‘Operation Protective Edge’. This was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers by Hamas. This seven-week conflict was one of the deadliest conflicts between the Palestinians and Israel in decades. However, from this war came amazing stories of God’s deliverance.
One of these was the story of a miracle that the Israeli media dubbed the “Double Miracle In Gaza”.

During the fighting, a unit of Israeli soldiers were sent to look for the secret tunnels used by Hamas to sneak into Israel across a blockade. As these soldiers were moving, a Hamas fighter took shots at one of the Israeli soldiers, hitting him in his cache of grenades. Under normal conditions, the grenades should have exploded killing the soldier and anyone around him.
However, miraculously, one of the grenades stopped the bullet that should have killed this soldier. This grenade didn’t explode, rather the bullet lodged inside it and remained there. The media called it a double miracle because this soldier escaped being killed by either the bullet or the grenade.
This inexplicable miracle indeed baffled many people. However, it was only another sign of God’s amazing grace and divine protection upon His people.

The grace of God is one of the vital mysteries of life. Our survival does not depend on our strength, hard work or smartness, rather it is the grace of God that makes the huge difference.
If we are to depend on our five physical senses to survive on earth, we would be grossly limited. Sometimes we may not even be aware of the evil plots against us, yet God always causes our soul to escape as a bird out of the snare of the fowler. Somehow He will orchestrate our feet out of the trouble, lift us out of the miry clay and set us upon a solid rock.

Indeed we can never know the full details of God’s deliverance in our lives; how He
saves us from hidden battles and the secret insurrection of the wicked.
Sometimes, unknowingly we have even walked into the lions’ dens and yet God closed the mouths of the lions and brought us out without a scratch.
We are all products of God’s amazing grace. This is why we must constantly acknowledge, appreciate and celebrate His faithfulness, goodness and mercies in our lives. To take God for granted is to be grounded but to praise Him is to be raised.

Grace is the divine help of God that shows up when we are at our wit’s end. It is the tangible and undeniable hand of God that turns us into a wonder among men.

Today, it doesn’t matter how tightly the enemy may seem to have woven his nets or dug his pit, God will surely cause you to escape. It may seem right now as if there is no way out of that looming financial crisis, health challenge or family problems, but trust God to show up for you, indeed His grace will be sufficient for you.
Especially, in this season, we need the grace of God more than ever before. With what is going on in the world right now, and the increasing state of uncertainties, we need the grace of God to keep showing up for us.
And one way we can multiply God’s grace in our lives is through knowledge. Therefore let us continually fill our hearts with God’s Word so that His grace will keep increasing upon our lives.

PRAYER, Father I thank You for Your saving grace that is at work in my life. I know that even right now You are making a way for me. Thank You Lord for enabling me to diligently study Your Word so that Your grace will be multiplied upon my life in Jesus Name.

QUOTE;
It’s never over in your life until you win God is still in control of your life. WORDBITE 222