Today"s "Grace Inspirations" by Joseph Prince has a very good message of God's protection, provision and safety!
FROM ‘DELIVERANCE’ TO ‘NO EVIL SHALL TOUCH YOU’
Job 5:19 He shall deliver you in six troubles, yes, in seven
no evil shall touch you.
God will deliver you from all your troubles (see Psalm
34:19, 2 Timothy 4:18). But deliverance is actually not the best that God has
for you because it implies that you are in trouble. God’s best for you is the
place where no trouble or evil can touch you. And with His help, you will come
to that place because the Bible says, “He shall deliver you in six troubles,
yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.”
This does not mean that God will only deliver you six times.
It just means that as you keep believing God’s promises of protection, after
some time, you will come to a place where no evil will touch you! So when
trouble comes, God does not want you to be discouraged. He wants you to know
that it is only the devil trying to steal His Word from your heart. The devil
is afraid of leaving God’s Word in your heart for even one second because he
knows that it will lead you to a place where no evil will touch you. That is
why he comes immediately to steal God’s Word from your heart.
He will do so by telling you, “Look, your child is sick.
Where is God now?” You must not respond by saying, “Well, I guess it does not
work. Maybe God’s promises of deliverance are not for my family.”
No, you must continue to stand on God’s promises. Say, “The
previous flu my child had did not stay. God promises me deliverance and He did
deliver my child then. So I will live life believing His promises of
deliverance because His Word is true. And I will come to a place where no evil
can touch me and my family!”
Beloved, even if in the next moment you happen to stub your
toe against something hard, don’t be discouraged and wonder why God did not
protect your toe. The devil had meant to cause greater harm to you, but thank
God that he could not because God is watching over you. And keep standing on
His promises until you come to the place where no evil will touch you!
He is speaking here if getting to the place where we are so full of faith in God and His Word, and who WE are IN HIM, that when evil shows his ugly head, we resist him and speak the Word in his face! God confirms His Word (Mark 16:20)! I like these two verses and I think that they give a more accurate view of this than even the above verses in Job does! Proverbs 12:21 No [actual] evil, misfortune, or calamity shall come upon the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil, misfortune, and calamity.
Proverbs 19:23 The reverent, worshipful fear of the Lord leads to life, and he who has it rests satisfied; he cannot be visited with [actual] evil.
No ACTUAL evil shall come upon us! The enemy will keep trying to poke us with symptoms, lies, fears, tricks, strategies and schemes to TRY to get us off our faith declaration. RESIST him! He has NO power whatsoever over the believer except the power that we give him IF we believe His lies against God's Word! So, let's keep submitting to GOD and resisting the devil. He WILL flee from us as thought in terror when we DARE to believe God and His Word! Allow God to put on His GLORY show so that others may see HIM! AMEN! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "BEHOLD":
Shalom in Him!
