Shake it off!
When God is with you, it doesn't matter what the enemy throws at you. God will provide a way out and will cause your enemies to bless you.
Your enemies will watch you, but they can only watch because God will sustain you in your adverse situation.
Paul shook off a snake into the fire and no harm came to him.
May we put our trust in God and know that He will be with us always. Even when poisonous snakes bite us, we will not be destroyed.
These poisonous vipers can be sickness meant to destroy you or a family member, lack of finances, different challenges in different areas.
Shake it off into the fire which represents the presence of God, for our God is a consuming fire.
“And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. 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. 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 28:1-6 KJV
Before his conversion, Paul obtained a special licence from the high priests to kill the believers. He was zealous to destroy Christianity, but when Yeshua arrested him, the same zeal was transformed to be the zeal for the Lord Acts 9:1-6
He was focused on the assignment ahead of him and allowed nothing to shift his focus. He rejoiced in tribulations and freely shared his sufferings with the saints to encourage them, as clearly outlined in the Scripture below.
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. 2 Corinthians 6:4-10 KJV
Be encouraged, we serve a faithful God who always cares for us and watches over us. He neither sleeps nor slumbers Psalm 121:4.
Shake it off!
