1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour”.

DAILY READING Luke 1:1-25; Ezekiel 33; Isaiah 57

When the 9/11 terrorist attack in America, was traced back to Osama Bin Laden, the CIA and FBI placed him on their most-wanted list and he became a High Value Target [HVT].
But though the U.S. government put out a total of $27 million reward for any information that could lead to his arrest, no one seemed to know where he could be found.

Osama Bin Laden refused to use a cell phone, go on the Internet or use any gadget that could give away his location. .
For 11 years, there was a massive global search for this one man.

Usually the Al-Qaeda terrorist network operated and communicated through people known as “couriers”.
The CIA became interested in one such “courier” who lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
They carefully watched him and tapped his phone calls for some years, but he never said anything incriminating or suspicious. But one day in 2010, while in a phone conversation with an old friend, he made a careless statement that linked him to Osama Bin Laden. This made the CIA to intensify their surveillance on him.
Through heat-seeking cameras, the CIA noticed that in the tight security compound where this “courrier” lived, there was a tall man who never left the compound. This man only came out at night times to walk around in exercise inside the compound.
The CIA finally identified this “mystery man” as Osama Bin Laden.
On the night of May 2, 2011, the best and most dangerous of America’s special forces, SEAL Team 6, swooped down on the compound with four helicopters and Osama Bin Laden was killed in the raid.

It is interesting that one careless statement was what led to the capture of the world’s most wanted man.

We can learn a spiritual lesson from this story.
When you are a High Value Target, you can’t afford mistakes or slip ups. They can be very costly.
Samson was a High Value Target. The Philistines wanted to capture him by all means because of the power and anointing upon his life. For a long time, they carefully stalked, studied and watched him.
When Samson fell in love with Delilah, he didn’t realize he had fallen into a carefully set trap.
Though he refused many times to divulge the source of his strength, one day while his head was laid on Delilah’s laps he made the vital mistake of revealing his secret. This led to Delilah giving him the expensive haircut that eventually cost his life.

Every anointed believer is considered a High Value Target by hell. Constantly the enemy stalks, studies and watches such a believer’s every move.
In Psalm 10, the Bible gives us a picture of how the enemy stalks the righteous.

Psalm 10:8-10 says ‘He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages….he lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor:.. he croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.’

The truth is that as a believer, you are constantly being monitored spiritually. Therefore you can’t afford to live carelessly.
No matter how long you may have been living uprightly, you can’t afford to relax for one day or go on a ‘spiritual holiday’. And if ever there was a time to live carefully, it is in these last days. Because the enemy knows his time is short, he is pulling out his greatest temptations to lure many destinies to destruction.
In fact, he will pay any price to ensure that especially those who are anointed are derailed from their purpose and high calling.
At such a time, our only guarantee of safety is to walk carefully in the light of God’s Word. The Word of God is a lamp unto our feet and light unto our path.
There is so much deception in these last days that anyone who does not carefully follow the light of the Word, will become an easy target of the enemy who is prowling about looking for whom to devour. . [1 Peter 5:8].

But by God’s grace and mercies we will never be victims. Through the covering of the Blood of Jesus we will be shielded from every evil monitoring.
Today we receive the grace to hide ourselves deeper in God’s Presence, through study of the Word, fervent prayers, and passionate worship. As we become more sensitive to the Holy Spirit and promptly obey His divine instructions, we will certainly be delivered from every destruction and guided to our glorious destiny.

PRAYER: Lord, please guide me always by Your Spirit, so that I can escape every trap of the enemy and walk in the path You have ordained for me until I eventually arrive at my glorious destiny in Jesus Name.

QUOTE
In the middle of the enemy’s worst, God still proves Himself to be merciful. WORDBITE 222