Shake if off! Part 3!

Do the hits keep coming this week? Are you tired from the storms in life? 

From the scriptures we know that God is always with us. For example, in Psalms 145: 18-19 states, “The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.”

In Acts 27, Paul survived a huge storm with hurricane winds and then a shipwreck. In Acts 28, Paul made it safely on shore. When they all made it shore, Paul gathered some brush and built a fire. “Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “The man must be a murderer; for those he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.”But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.” 

Paul shook the snake off! Friends, I could only imagine what others were thinking when Paul shook the snake off. They could have thought that he would surely die now. It didn’t really matter because God had other plans! 

Friends the enemy will attack our thinking and our plans. The fear that the enemy brings will try to attach itself to you, but God is saying today, “shake it off.” 

2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.” 

When you draw closer to God, the enemy will throw everything against you. Do not fear, God is with you! 

Have a blessed weekend! 

Kam XOXO