Way of escape!
1 Corinthians 10:13” God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
God will provide a way for us to escape! This promise is so comforting and soothing in the present situation of pandemic crisis that we are in! When we go out and see the way people desperately applying sanitizers and the invisible ‘virus’ hovering around, it is pretty eerie; however, what gives us confidence and encouragement is the Word of God, say Amen. We got to follow all the rules to protect us; nevertheless, the real safety comes from the blood of Jesus! I would like to give few examples from the Bible and explain the above scripture so that you get charged and energized today, I only pray that Holy Spirit helps me to put all that is burning in me…
A) Jesus passed through: Luke 4: 30- “passing through their midst, He went His way.” Wherever you may be enmeshed in, God is able to bail you out, He will give you a way of escape, get encouraged today. Share it with people who feel there is no way out! Let me explain what happened in Luke 4, Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, while preaching some of His words infuriated the Jews, they were angry that he should compare himself, whom they knew to be the son of Joseph, with those great prophets. So they were filled with rage that they handle Him barbarically, “they got up and drove Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff.” Just for a second imagine this situation, a mob of angry people from the Synagogue drove Him out of the city like a thief, and took Jesus to the cliff of a hill, in order to throw him down the cliff. Most brutal plans, the humiliation, chaos, noise and violence is unimaginable but look what happened! Passing through their midst, He went His way! (verse 30) He smoothly passes through that humongous crowd like from a birthday part, and went His way. How could one pass through an angry crowd on the top of a hill! There were other times when the crowd planned to stone Him, ( John 10- 36-39) , in all these cases, He just passed that crisis like a wind and vanished, yes, He walked in the Spirit realm and managed the situation. He did not argue, did not get intimidated (was cool as a cucumber) just passed that hurdle effortlessly; Jesus walked in the Spirit and knew His time has not yet come, so He found a way of escape!
The world will say, ‘just leave that place when the problem starts’, but the Holy Spirit tells us when the heat becomes hotter in your life ‘ leave your flesh’ and walk in the Spirit like Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. The Holy Spirit wind mentioned in John 3:8 "The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit" will help you overcome your fear and problems. Say Amen! The ways of God are foolish to a carnally minded person!
God is faithful….He will provide the way of escape !
People would come to me for counseling regarding violent husbands who behave irrationally under the influence of alcohol, but I would first advice the wives to pray hard, fast and walk in the Spirit to begin with and not run for divorce, in most cases they end up in such problems only because of their initial disobedience in marrying the wrong people, so stay and handle the situation don’t duck the responsibility. There are 1000 false prophets who will not point out the mistakes to you or give strategy to handle in the Holy Spirit but would say’ witch craft’ is done and squarely throw the responsibility on the demons. The Bible says: Romans 8:13 “if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Hezekiah:2 King 18: 13”Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.”
So, we see the great works of King Hezekiah in Judah and the revival that he brought about in the nation, though his father Ahaz was a worst king but Hezekiah was the best. He followed the ways of David and not his father; yet, we see that his kingdom was attacked by Sennacherib, well good people are not exempted from sufferings they got to learn to go through them and come out unscathed. Amen. ( you can tweet this)
King Sennacherib not only sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah but also a large army to Jerusalem. Friend, do not be intimidated with anything that looks large, big, colossal, scary and unmanageable; God will give you a way of escape. The Lord promised Hezekiah: 2 King 18:33 "By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,"' declares the LORD.” That night the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead. Not only that King Sennacherib was killed with the sword and the promise of God that he will never return back was fulfilled. Deuteronomy 28:7”The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.” They shall not return back! That cancer, that problem will not come back to torment you any more! Time to clap hands for God!
My Testimony: I would like to share here a wonderful testimony of how God intervened in a particular problem that looked messy, knotted and unsolvable. A mistake that was made several years back, glared straight at our face and challenged us; my name had been wrongly entered in my daughter’s birth certificate – it would be a marathon message, if I have to explain the entire episode, let me stick to essential stuff. Now, nothing happened until she got out of high school, but when we were applying for her passport after she joined her Engineering college, did the ‘error’ boomerang in a big way! She had completed her schooling in a different city and now we were in Hyderabad, hence we had to travel all the way to that city and visit the corporation office to check what can be done. After several visits to the office and producing copies of bags and bags of evidences that ‘I was actually her mother’, everything came to a halt on a particular day, when we were asked by a lower level staff to pay Rs.2000/- to get things done. We firmly refused to give in to the demand and kept visiting the Corporation office. On one particular day, I traveled with my luggage straight from the railway station to the office and desperately requested the staff to help me out but they very rudely shooed me away from the place. Yes, I used the exact word, they shooed me away. Depressed, dejected and tired, I called my husband over the phone and told him, ‘let us leave it to God to solve this problem for us.’
It would be untrue if I say, I relaxed after surrendering the problem to God, I could not forgive myself for making a drastic mistake and putting my daughter into problem - without getting the mistake rectified, we could not move forward in getting her passport. One day, my family friend had gone to the Corporation Office on our behalf, to again check on the issue, suddenly an officer walked into the room and asked, ‘I have seen this gentleman come several times in the past many months to the office, what is the issue?’ You guessed right, the angel walked in! Hallelujah! He did not stop with that, he sat there rummaged the entire documents and all evidences of my birth certificate, marriage certificate etc; he finally ordered, ‘ what stops you in amending the certificate as they have given all the necessary proof, immediately issue a fresh birth certificate with the correct name of the mother.’ Within an hour we had a computerized color copy of fresh birth certificate for my daughter with my correct name mentioned on it! She had ultimately got the passport too! Glory to Jesus! Angels would help you too! Whatever may be the problems relating to Government approvals, passing of files to the officer table for sanction, need of good contractors, technical problems, the situation may look severely knotted, twisted and tangled; however, remember you serve a Mighty God who is an expert in all this. Just keep God in all your projects, let Him call the shots and be the BOSS over your affairs, then watch miracles unfold right in front of you! God bless you!God is faithful….He will provide the way of escape !
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