So thank God for His marvelous love,
for His miracle mercy to the children He loves;
He shattered the heavy jailhouse doors,
He snapped the prison bars like matchsticks!
Psalms107:15-16 (The Message)
God is our Protector. When you review the Bible and history there are many times He rescued His people from certain extinction. I have heard many people say they do not like history, but we need to know what was, to know how to prevent it from happening again or to know the signs to watch for.
When we search for miracles in God’s Word we read about Joseph. I recall that God used Joseph’s life as a foreshadowing of His Son Jesus coming to Earth, living among mankind, performing miracles and, while fulfilling God’s purposes, forgiving those who had wronged him. How many of us can say that we have done that? As Joseph forgave his brothers, God forgives us.
As we move forward in the Scriptures, we read where God used Moses to bring out the Hebrew people from Egypt into the Promised Land after the Egyptians endured the ten plagues. After the people were let go then they were led through the desert and came up to the Red Sea, where God performed yet another miracle in parting the Red Sea. Let us not stop there, because the entire exodus from Egypt was a miracle in that no one starved, no one died (unless they angered God), no one grew thirsty, and their clothes never wore out. God protected them in miraculous ways they would never have considered.
Moving forward a few hundred years, let’s go into the New Testament and meet the disciples in the Book of Acts as written by Luke. In Acts we see where the Holy Spirit empowers each person to carry out God’s purposes. Not by using tricks, but by the Spirit of the Living God.
In today’s times, we have seen men like Billy Graham share the Word of God in a miraculous way. Through the recordings of his early messages Mr. Graham is reaching more people than ever before imagined. Television, when used correctly, is a powerful tool for the spreading of the Gospel of Christ to the nations and the world. With Mr. Graham’s outreach, it has allowed other ministries to reach out further than ever anticipated to peoples who would not have had the opportunity to hear the Gospel.
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Father, give us the tools we need to spread Your Word to the nations. Empower us to train the next generation of missionaries to take the Gospel to those still living in dark places. We look forward to serving You and we thank You for Your protection from the beginning of time…from then to the end of time. Please bless our kids and empower them to carry Your Word to the nations. In Jesus’ name, we pray, Amen.
