Psalm 46:1-2 ‘God is by our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.’

DAILY READING; Luke 18:18-43; Genesis 31; Psalm 24

When Pastor Diego Galvan, left the U.S, with excitement to serve God as a missionary in Mexico, he found himself confronted by the dark and dangerous world of drug cartels.
Diego Galvan woke up on his first morning in the city of Tijuana in Mexico to find someone beheaded in the street.
This was a foreboding sign of what was to come but the fearless missionary was determined to serve God despite the surrounding dangers.
In the first house he lived, a man was killed in his yard by revenge-seekers from the drug cartels. So he decided to move. At his second house, another man involved with drug dealers was killed on Pastor Diego’s doorstep. He moved again and this time he found that his next-door neighbor was a drug lord.
When he got opportunity to preach to the wife of the drug lord, she got saved, but this infuriated her husband, who beat her up badly.
When Pastor Diego went to their house to speak to the drug lord about beating his wife and preach the Gospel to him, the man began plotting the pastor’s death. However, before he could carry out this plan, God arrested him. The words of the pastor so haunted him that he eventually sent for pastor Diego, who led him to Christ.
But members of the Cartel were unhappy about the drug lord’s transformation and sought to assassinate the pastor.
One day, a gang of hit men came to kill him and his neighbor, the converted drug lord. Pastor Diego called the Mexican police, but when the cops arrived and saw the high-ranking cartel members, they panicked and refusing to have a full-blown confrontation, they soon left.
Surrounded by men with assault rifles, pastor Diego looked on to God for deliverance. As he told the men he was a pastor and God would judge their actions, somehow the men couldn’t shoot, but rather jumped back into their vehicles and left.
Pastor Diego miraculously survived few other close shaves with the drug cartel before eventually relocating back to the U.S. In all these confrontations God remained faithful and protected him from all harm.

We can always trust the faithfulness of God. He knows how to show up when we need Him most. We are never alone in the journey of destiny because God is always our refuge and ever present help in times of trouble. Our safety and security are not in the hands of any police or government, but in God’s hands alone. And as long as He is with us, we are guaranteed divine protection from evil.

Psalm 23:4-5: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Though we may walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we will always emerge triumphant through God’s abiding Presence. As we maintain strong faith in God, He will never allow us to suffer defeat or shame.

2 Corinthians 2:14 says: ‘Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ..’

Whatever you may be facing today, be assured that God has destined you to emerge triumphant. Though it may seem as if Pharaoh and his army are bearing down on you, God has a plan to deliver you and drown that Pharaoh in the red sea for your sake. No matter how fearful the battle, God is watching over you and organizing your rescue. He will certainly see you through and give you the victory at last.
In these perilous times, the Blood of Jesus is our assurance of safety and guarantee of protection.
When we plead the Blood in the face of sickness, calamities or danger, the power contained in the Blood will always arise for our deliverance!
As we daily plead the Blood, it acts as a shield around us and our household. Certainly, through the power in the Blood of Jesus, no evil shall befall us and no plague can come near our dwelling place.

PRAYER: Father, I know that my life is hid in Christ, and Christ is hid in You, therefore I am totally protected. I thank You Father, for always delivering me from the plots and schemes of the wicked in Jesus’ Name.
QUOTE:
When you obey God’s instruction you are delivered from destruction – WORDBITE 222