Shake It Off~

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Blessings Household of Faith! To YHWH be all the Glory!


Acts chapter 27-28 gives an account of the Apostle Paul being held a prisoner on a ship bound for Rome. All at once a storm began to rage. After several frightening days and nights, the ship ran aground on the island of Melita, and the sailors and the prisoners jumped overboard and swam to shore. While they were resting on the beach, Paul gathered sticks for the fire. As he tossed them into the flames, suddenly a poisonous snake, flushed out by the heat, sprang up and attached itself to his hand! 

Notice that Paul had just made it through one life-threatening trial, and another one came along right behind it! He escaped the storm, but the snake was waiting for him! Has that ever happened to you? It has to me! But Paul didn’t panic. He didn’t feel sorry for himself and wonder why so many trials were coming his way. Instead, he shook off that poisonous snake into the fire!

"And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god" Acts 28:4-6 

No matter what kind of struggle you may be dealing with, I believe the Lord is saying to you, “Don’t let your circumstances hold you down. Don’t panic! Shake it off!” The Bible says that after Paul shook off that snake, everyone was watching to see what would happen to him. But the poison did him no harm! Whatever problem might be trying to cling to you today, shake it off, in the mighty name of Yeshua!




"and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all"
Min Tracie~

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