John 1:5 ‘And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.’

DAILY READING – Romans 1:16-32; 1 Samuel 9:1-10:16; Psalm 55

In 2016, a 72-year-old grandmother was rescued after days of being lost in the Arizona desert. Experts said technically her chances of getting out alive were “statistically abnormal”, because the wilderness covers an extensive 1,214,000,000 hectares and is the largest of the six national forests in Arizona. And the area did not have mobile phone coverage.
The woman named Ann Rodgers was on her way to visit her grandchildren in Phoenix with her pet dog when her car ran out of power and gas reserves. She’d noticed a gas station sign earlier but when she turned off the main road to locate it, she quickly became lost. Now out of mobile phone coverage, she and her small dog left the vehicle and climbed several ridgelines, hunting for a cell signal to call for help.
She waited until sun up the next morning hoping a truck or car, anybody, anything would go by. But nothing and no one came. After two days, she abandoned her vehicle and headed for a stream she had seen from one of the ridges.
For the next nine days, Rodgers and her dog survived by eating desert plants and drinking pond water while waiting for rescue. Rodgers had read a book on the edible plants of the forest, which informed her choices of plants to eat..
At night, when the temperatures dipped below freezing, she built a fire and made a shelter from the cold.
When Rodgers had been missing for three days, a multi-agency search began after someone finally noticed her car on a remote stretch of road. Even with two separate helicopter searches and multiple ground searches, they found no trace of her during those first few days. A breakthrough only occurred after nine days, when a Game and Fish officer found her dog wandering in the canyon.
Soon rescuers saw Rodgers waving next to a signal fire.. Detectives from the sheriff’s office were finally able to find and rescue her after spotting the signal fire.
The Arizona desert can be a hard place for those who go astray, but this 72-year-old grandmother had survived in good health because of applying certain survival tactics.
She had especially survived the nights in the forest by maintaining a bushfire that kept away the wild beasts. In the daytime she gathered enough wood to keep the campfire burning all night long.

We need to keep our spiritual fire burning brightly to keep our environment sanctified.
The use of fire to keep wild beasts away during the night is a basic survival tip for campers. Likewise for us to survive and be victorious in a world of darkness we need to keep our fire burning..
Just as a campfire keeps campers protected and safe, fervent spiritual fire burning in our lives keeps us protected.
When we pray and fill ourselves with the light of God’s Word, we keep away the forces of darkness from us.
This is an important spiritual principle we must note because we live in a world where darkness seeks to prevail.

1 John 5;19 tells us that the whole world lies in wickedness.

Psalm 74:20 says the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

Ephesians 6:12 says ‘For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.’

These scriptures clearly depict the spiritual state of the world. Man is under siege by the hosts of darkness and the only hope of survival is the light of the Gospel. The shinning of the light of The Word is what shatters every darkness. Anytime light comes in, darkness must bow out. This is why in this season of fasting and praying we must ensure we seek Light from God’s Word so as to overcome every form of spiritual.darkness in our environment.
The entrance of the Word gives light. This is the light that shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it. Just as campers keep the fire burning at night to keep away the evil beasts, we must keep ourselves lighted by fervent prayers and deep study of the Word so as to keep away every evil and live victoriously as sons of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation..

PRAYER: Father, please help me to keep the fire burning fervently on my prayer Altar and to walk in the light of Your Word, so as to always live in power and dominion
in Jesus Name.

QUOTE :
God’s word is God’s ‘prescription’ for every area of your life, let God’s word fix that situation in your life. WORDBITE 222.

Shalom!

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