🥰 Shalom everyone in Blurt!
Praise Jesus Christ for His great mercy in extending the days of our lives!
I am greatly encouraged by the stories of people who have faced trials in their lives, and who in those trials lost themselves for Jesus Christ and as a result found much more in Him. Many such testimonies can be found in the pages of Scripture.
Today God has turned my eyes to the book of Acts 16:22. It is about Paul and Silas, through whom Jesus Christ, by His mighty power, had delivered a servant girl possessed with the spirit of divination, who had thus brought income to her masters, but now the income was lost. The people were greatly outraged and for this Paul and Silas were stripped, beaten with sticks many times, imprisoned, their feet shackled in stocks, and had guards placed over them.
Although many of us don't know what it is like to endure all of the above, we all know the feeling of helplessness. A strong despondency begins to scourge our souls at such times. But Paul and Silas sang to God. I am sure they were not trying to earn God's favour by singing, and they were probably ready to die. They just kept doing what they had always done because God hadn't changed. It was a prison evangelism, Paul and Silas prayed and sang to God, and all the prisoners listened to them.
What a tremendous deliverance took place in that prison! Jesus Christ shook the earth and all the doors were opened and everyone's bonds were loosened. I see this as not only a physical deliverance of the prisoners, but also a spiritual deliverance of all present in this horrible place that no one dreams of being in. Even the guard who almost killed himself in fear and his whole family were saved through the preached word. God healed the wounds of Paul and Silas by the hands of the guard, and those who had insulted them asked for forgiveness. How powerful this is!
Jesus Christ willingly suffered for the sins of the whole world. He did what no other mightiest, wisest, meekest man in the world could do. He promised that if I cross the waters, He will be with me; if I cross the rivers, they will not drown me; if I walk through the fire, I will not be burned and the flames will not scald me.
As you may have realised by now the new illustration focuses on Isaiah 43:2 and I have called it «God's promise to be with me always and everywhere».
May everyone who reads this post find His perfect peace and trust in God, because all will be well! JESUS LORD! YES AND AMEN!
The illustration was created in Ibis Paint X and edited in Canva.
Amen. Very beautiful.
Thank you so much! May God bless you abundantly and may His presence become tangible to you. May God's Word that God the Holy Spirit speaks personally to your heart become flesh in your life. And most of all, may His peace fill your heart, the full calm.