Luke 21:36 ‘Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.’

DAILY READING’; John 17; 2 Chronicles 25; Psalm 82

On January 23, 1943, about 900 newly recruited soldiers boarded a ship in New York that was to take them to an Army base in Greenland.
This was during World war 2 and many dangers lay ahead of them on this journey. The greatest danger, was the ever-present threat of attack from the enemy forces.

At that time, German submarines had been sinking almost a hundred Allied ships every month.
One particular point had seen such heavy attack from the Germans that it came to be known as “Torpedo Junction”.

As the ship carrying these young American soldiers embarked on its journey through the frigid Atlantic ocean, it had to sail through this “Torpedo Junction”.

After 10 days at sea and few miles from its destination, the ship prepared to pass through the dangerous ‘Torpedo junction’,.
That night, the ship’s captain instructed the soldiers to sleep in their clothes and life jackets just in case.
However, it was hot and sweaty in the closely packed and cramped quarters. Many of the soldiers, confident that the next day would dawn without incident, decided to ignore the captain’s warnings and slept in their underwear. The life jackets were also hot and bulky, so many men set them aside as an unnecessary inconvenience.
However, unknown to them as the day dawned, a German submarine captain was monitoring the slowly passing American ship. Suddenly the early morning hours was shattered by the flash of a blinding explosion and the roar of massive destruction. The German torpedo hit the ship dead-on, instantly killing 100 men in the hull of the ship.
As the ship began to sink rapidly from the explosion, piles of clothing and life jackets were tossed about in the darkness where no one could find them. Without life jackets many of the men couldn’t survive as the ship sank within 27 minutes of the attack.
Of the 920 men on board, only 230 survived the icy waters.

Indeed to survive in life’s battles, we must always live ready, whether it is convenient or not. Preparation is key to survival and victory.

Indeed we must deliberately and consistently store up spiritual strength against the day of battle through a life of fervent prayers and diligent Word study.

The security of our destiny is to always ensure we remain spiritually alert and awake. The more spiritually active we are the more victorious we will be in life’s battles, the devil knows this and that is why he tries to hinder believers from maintaining a consistent spiritual life.

We must indeed always be spiritually sensitive, so as not to be caught unawares.
While it is good to serve in the Church,
involvement in Church activities is no substitute for spiritual exercises. We must diligently invest time daily in our personal spiritual preparation.

Our winning in battles in these last perilous days will be determined by how well we have prepared spiritually.
Today, in the world we are living in unusual times and there is just a little window of time left. It is a window of grace and we must not squander it. We have to seize this window of opportunity to spiritually prepare and be ready for what is coming ahead as end-time events unfold.

Jesus said in Luke 21: 36 that we should pray always so as to be accounted worthy to escape the things coming on the earth.

The 5 foolish virgins had every opportunity to get oil, while they could, but they squandered the time of grace.
As believers in these last days, we need to get oil in our lamps while we still can. We need to begin to seek God’s face while there is still time.
Grace has been made available for the race before us.

Through the Blood of Jesus we have been given the power to overcome.
However, to see the manifestation of this power, we must begin to invest time in prayers, study of the Word, worship and fellowship with the Spirit.
As we remain always spiritually vigilant and alert, we shall be able to escape the plots of the enemy and live victorious in these final days.

PRAYER: Lord, please grant me the grace to begin to live ready while there is still time. Please help me to make the needed spiritual investments in fervent prayers and study of Your Word so that I can constantly overcome and live victorious in these end-times in Jesus Name.

QUOTE:
True success is not verifiable in the fact that a man has never fallen before but in the fact that he did not only fall but also got up. WORDBITE 222