FAITH - BACKFIRE

Ephesians 6:13 (The Message) Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet.

Satan never learns that his schemes keep backfiring on him with deadly consequences. For him.

Joseph, sold into slavery by his brothers, eventually becomes the second most powerful man in Egypt. He eventually forgave his brothers for their treachery. The devil's plan backfired!
“But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.” (Gen 50:20 NKJV)

In the book of Esther, Haman sought to annihilate the Jews. He built gallows  to hang his enemy Mordecai. However, in an extraordinary turn of events he was hung on his own gallows. The devil's plan backfired.

God gives the enemy just enough rope so he can hang himself on it.

The Red Sea Crossing – Exodus 14

 When Moses led the children of Israel out to freedom, suddenly they were met with an impossible situation.  “…bewildered by the land, the wilderness has closed them in”. The sea in front of them and the desert surrounding them and the chariots of Egypt thundering down on them from the rear. They were trapped! But then God, 'split the sea, so we could walk right through it!' The plan of the devil backfired. No matter how impossible your situation seems, the devils purpose will be upended and it will backfire!

Whenever we start to get free, the enemy’s noose tightens. The Israelites were terrified because the Egyptians were menacingly closing in. It was obvious the Egyptians would trap them and they’d be killed in the wilderness.

But Moses urged them to believe: “Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today.” (v13) With Jesus in our life, we have the same covenant with the God almighty.

There is a time to pray, and there is a time to act. “The Lord said to Moses, ‘Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of the Lord to go forward.’” (v15 ESV)
The Israelites reached the shoreline of the Red Sea. Even though the enemy was so close, God wasn’t in a hurry. He took the night to divide the sea. (v21)
The Israelites stepped onto the now dry land. Their miracle was happening. But the enemy kept chased them all the way into the divided sea. (v22-23) Even in the middle of our miracle, we will still feel the enemy pursuing us.

Then the wheels of the Egyptians chariots fall off. They were stuck. Moses stretched his rod over the sea and it collapsed, drowning the Egyptians.
Jesus came to set us free. He has defeated all our enemies already. Choose to step forward, knowing the enemy’s ways will backfire. You will win!

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