GOD WILL PROTECT YOU FROM ALL THE MALIGNANT INFLUENCES OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE

MONDAY, 19TH  DECEMBER, 2022.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Topic: GOD WILL PROTECT YOU FROM ALL THE MALIGNANT INFLUENCES OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES

MEMORIZE: “The sun shall not strike you by day, Nor the moon by night.” Psalm 121:6.

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 121:3-8.

"The sun shall not strike you by day, Nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore."

EXPOSITION:

The sun shall not smite thee with his heat by day nor the moon with her cold and moisture by night. The sun and moon are great blessings to mankind, and yet (such a sad change has sin made in the creation) even the sun and moon, though worshipped by a great part of mankind, are often instruments of hurt and distemper to human bodies; God by them often smites us; but his favour shall interpose so that they shall not damage his people. He will keep them night and day (Isa 27:3), as he kept Israel in the wilderness by a pillar of cloud by day, which screened them from the heat of the sun, and of fire by night, which probably diffused a genial warmth over the whole camp, that they might not be prejudiced by the cold and damp of the night, their father Jacob having complained (Ge 31:40) that by day the drought consumed him and the frost by night. It may be understood figuratively: "Thou shalt not be hurt either by the open assaults of thy enemies, which are as visible as the scorching beams of the sun, or by their secret treacherous attempts, which are like the insensible insinuations of the cold by night." 

His protection will make you safe in every respect. "The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil, the evil of sin and the evil of trouble. He shall prevent the evil thou fearest, and shall sanctify, remove, or lighten, the evil thou feelest. He will keep thee from doing evil (2Co 13:7), and so far from suffering evil that whatever affliction happens to thee there shall be no evil in it. Even that which kills shall not hurt." 

  

PRAYER POINTS:

Lord Jesus, according to your word, protect me from the evil of sin and trouble of the world in Jesus name.

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DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  1 Peter 1-5.