Luke 10:19 ‘’Behold I give unto you power to thread upon serpent and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, nothing shall by any means hurt you.’

DAILY READING; John 20:19-31; 2 Chronicles 32; Psalm 88

Harmon Schmelzenbach was a pioneer Nazarene missionary to Africa, in the 19th century. He established Churches in Swaziland, Mozambique and South Africa.
From his youth he had felt divinely called to be a missionary to Africa. So great was the urgency of the call in Harmon’s soul that he would not wait to finish college. He asked the president of the Bible College to ordain him, so that he might go forth to answer his divine call.
Thereafter, he embarked on a long missionary work in Africa. While serving there, he experienced many miraculous deliverances and escapes that came in answer to prayer.
One remarkable story was how he was delivered from the grasp of a snake. One day Harmon had a trip to make through the veld, which was a region of wild uncultivated grassland in southern Africa. Kneeling down, he consecrated his life anew to God and asked for divine protection. Getting on his horse, he started through the veld. At a certain spot he felt a peculiar sense of imminent danger. A voice whispered, “Duck.” Harmon ducked his head. When he had ridden by the point, he stopped and looked back. What he saw was a huge snake lying on a limb just above where he had ducked his head to pass. He realized that, as he rode by, the snake had reached out to grasp him, and the warning Voice that said, “Duck,” had saved his life.
Though the snake wanted to grip and kill him, yet through divine mercy he was delivered from that evil trap.
Stories of his adventures in Africa are contained in his book, ‘The biography of Haromon F. Schmelzenbach’.

We live in a world where the enemy goes about looking for whom to devour. Psalms 10:8 says ‘he sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent.”
But it is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.”[Lamentations 3:22]
This verse does not just say ‘mercy’, it says “mercies”. This means that again and again, God shows up to show us mercy and deliver us from the snares of the fowler. His mercies are new and available to us every morning. Every day we wake up, we wake up to His mercy.
He never sleeps nor slumbers as He watches over us with compassion. Mercy is simply God’s compassion in action. With every breath we take, every move we make, God continually gives His angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways. Certainly, God is rich in mercy.

Ephesians 2:4-10 says ‘But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Because of God’s mercy, He sent His Son to earth to be our ultimate blood sacrifice. In the old Testament, God showed the Israelites a type of His mercy when He instructed Moses to build the mercy seat, on which the high priest would sprinkle the blood of a goat or lamb for sacrifice on the annual Day of Atonement (Lev. 16:15).
The sprinkling of animal blood was an essential part of asking for mercy, forgiveness and cleansing of sins.
But in the New Testament, God showed us ultimate mercy when the Blood of Jesus was shed as an eternal sacrifice that continually invokes the tender mercies of God towards us.
Today, the crimson flow of the precious Blood of the lamb continually cries ‘mercy’ over us and ensures our rescue from every demonic trap.
Jesus died on the Cross to save us from the many snares and traps set on earth to destroy the souls of men.
All that He suffered on Calvary was to ensure that we do not become victims but rather live as victors, triumphing over the works of darkness.
Through His death, Christ has brought us under the covenant of divine exemption. He has given us the power to crush and march over the forces of wickedness and conquer every power of the enemy.

In Luke 10:19, Jesus says ‘’Behold I give unto you power to thread upon serpent and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, nothing shall by any means hurt you.’

Truly, we are overcomers by the Blood of the lamb.
As we commit to living a life of fervent prayers and prompt obedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit, we will always escape every trap and ambush.
Indeed as we diligently obey God’s Word and bless Him at all times, we will abide under the shadow of the Almighty, where no weapon formed against us shall ever prosper and no plague can come near our dwelling place.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for Your seal of divine protection upon me and my family. Surely, by the power in the Blood of Jesus, no evil shall befall us and no plague can come near us in Jesus Name.
QUOTE;
To get into the next level of your life, God will always give a specific instruction. – WORDBITE 222.