TODAY’S PROPHETIC NUMBERS

September 18, 2024 – 09/18/2024
  9 – (+) Fruit Bearing (-) Judgment
18 – (+) Life More Abundantly (-) The Bondage of Sin

SAFE HAVEN

A refugee is somebody who doesn’t have a refuge, a sanctuary, or a shelter. Refugees struggle to survive because they don’t have a place of protection.

Miraculous survivor stories tend to have something in common: a place of refuge.

The Japanese businessman survived the Hiroshima blast because he was working in a bank vault. An Indonesian woman survived 5 days at sea after the tsunami carried her away from her family. She did so by clutching a palm tree in the Indian Ocean, eating the fruit and bark of the tree she held on to.

Don’t you just love a good survival story?

So does God. God knows the importance of refuge. He doesn’t offer to build you one; He offers to be your refuge.

In Psalm 57:1, David writes, Be merciful to me oh God. for my soul trusts in you: And in the shadow of your wings, I will make my refuge.

Max Lucado, in his Thomas Nelson book Facing Your Giants, says it a lot better than I could. “Make God your refuge. Not your job, your spouse, your reputation, or your retirement account. Make God your refuge.

Let him, not Saul, encircle you. Let Him be the ceiling that breaks the beating sun, the walls that stop the wind, the foundation on which you stand.”

Tom Petty says, “You don’t have to live like a refugee.” Jesus says, come to me.

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe. – Proverbs 18:10 NKJV

Declaration: I live an abundant life, free from the bondage of sin, safely in the name of the Lord.

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