1 Samuel 14:6  KJV

For there is no restraint to The Lord to save by many or by few.

DAILY READING Acts 28:17-31; 1 Samuel 6-7; Psalm 53

Amazing testimonies in Israel have continually proven that God is the defender of His people. A documentary film titled ‘against all odds’ recounts the various miracles that took place in Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. One of the stories is about what happened when an Israeli tank commander found himself and his men in the middle of a mine field. This group of Israeli soldiers in the Golan heights were carefully making their way to a nearby village on a cloudless October night. But suddenly, the soldiers discovered that they had unknowingly walked into a minefield with explosives buried in the ground all around them. Realizing that they were in grave danger, they halted their movements. They couldn’t keep walking because any wrong step could have triggered any of the explosives, and ultimately lead to their death.

As they contemplated on a solution, their options seemed grossly limited. The only thing left to do was to carefully poke the ground before them with their bayonet, ensure there is no explosive, before putting down their foot to take a step. These would be a very laborious, painstaking and time consuming process, but there were no other options left. As the soldiers began to poke around with their bayonets, one of them offered a prayer to God asking for His help. As he prayed, suddenly a strange unprecedented wind began to blow. This wind was so strong that it blew away 18 inches of topsoil from the minefield, revealing the hiding places of thousands of mines. With the landmines fully exposed, and visible, it became very easy for the soldiers to navigate their way through the dangerous field without stepping on any of the mines. As soon as the mines were exposed, the wind ceased. And so the men unharmed, walked out of the field to a moonlit night. This of course to them was an amazing miracle. The men knew without doubt  that God in His mercy had intervened to deliver them from possible death. What they had just witnessed beat their imagination, it was an option they never foresaw, or even thought could be possible.  Yet again God had proven Himself the faithful in the defense of His people.

Often times when we find ourselves facing challenges, we tend to limit God in the way He can deliver us. In considering the available human alternatives we oftentimes rule out the divine option.

God however, is not limited to save by few or many. He can use options we never even considered. He can suddenly turn around what the enemy meant for evil to be for our good. This is why when you have prayed all you can, and done all you can do, you just stand. Stand? Yes, stand and see the salvation of The Lord.

When the children of Israel were out of options and had their back against the wall, God told them to stand and see His salvation.

This is why you need faith, because by faith you stand. When the storm is blowing strongest, it is faith that will keep you unbending in the face of the fierce winds. Don’t give up, don’t give in, don’t bow. Like the three Hebrew boys, tell Nebuchadnezzar that you will never bow to his image.

Don’t limit God’s means and ways of deliverance. Even when it seems you have been thrown into the fire, still know that with God nothing shall be impossible. Keep declaring in faith, keep proclaiming that your God is able. Faith moves God. The faith of the three boys was a clarion call in Heaven that made God to come down as the fourth man in the fire. Faith honors God and God honors faith.    

Each time the enemy tries to get you into a fix, when he thinks he has locked all doors of escape, remember there is a God in Heaven that rules in the affairs of men. The Bible says that He sits in Heaven and laughs. When there is no way, Jesus says ‘I am the way’, He makes a way where there seems to be no way. Certainly, for Paul and Silas locked up in jail, it seemed as if there was no way out, but God did the incredible, an option they never considered! God caused an earthquake that broke the prison chains. When Peter was locked up in prison to be killed the following day, guarded by soldiers and seemingly no way to escape, an angel came right into the prison and brought him out. God is a God of miracles who can break open prison doors and break you out of any captivity. Nothing can limit God.  He can use anything and anyone to bring deliverance to you.

No matter what the situation may be or the options you think are available to you, do not limit God to your options. If He can rescue the three boys from fire, divide the red sea, shut up the mouth of lions, cause earthquakes and raise the dead, then be assured that He is not at all limited in organizing a rescue for you. What He is asking is for you to keep trusting Him. Faith is the link that keeps you connected to Heaven for a rescue operation, don’t break that link. As long as you can believe God, anything and everything is possible. To him that believes nothing shall be impossible. 

PRAYER: Lord, please help me to make your Word top priority in my life, so that I can always walk by faith, and not limit you in my thinking, because with You nothing is impossible.  

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Nothing liberates like truth, the truth you know and act upon will set you free.- – WORDBITE 222.

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