I am dwelling in the secret place of the Most High; I am abiding under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, YOU are my refuge and my fortress: my God, in YOU will I trust.
Surely YOU shall deliver me from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
YOU shall cover me with YOUR feathers, and under YOUR wings shall I trust: YOUR truth shall be my shield and buckler.
I shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrows that fly by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasted at noonday.
A thousand shall fall at my side, and ten thousand at my right hand; but it shall not come near me.
Only with my eyes shall I behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Because I have made YOU, JEHOVAH, who is my refuge, even the Most High, my habitation;
There shall no evil befall me, neither shall any plague come near my dwelling.
For YOU shall give YOUR angels charge over me, to keep me in all my ways.
They shall bear me up in their hands, lest I dash my foot against a stone.
I shall tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shall I trample under feet.
Because I have set my love upon YOU, therefore YOU will deliver me: YOU will set me on high, because I have known YOUR name JEHOVAH.
I will call upon YOU, and YOU will answer me: YOU will be with me in trouble; YOU will deliver me, and honour me.
With long life will YOU satisfy me, and show me YOUR salvation.
This is the self-declaration version of Psalm 91, which a friend of mine taught his only daughter to be reciting on daily basis.
On this particular day, this girl of about eleven (11) years, who had just gained admission into a secondary school, was about going to school when she turned to her mum and said “Mum, please anoint me.”
Her mother did not argue with her but immediately took the anointing oil and anoint her saying
“I anoint you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. No evil whatsoever shall come near you. Let the fire of the Holy Ghost be burning in your life. Divine favour is your portion. My sweet daughter, go in peace and come back home with peace of the Most High God”
“Amen. Bye-bye, mum!”
The girl carried her school bag and went out to school. She boarded a taxi to her school which is nearby. Fortunately, she saw three of her fellow students already in the taxi and joined as the fourth person.
Immediately she settled down in the taxi with her fellow students, they just dozed off. When they woke up, they found themselves near an old ancient building in a bush. Then, a brutish old man with charms on his neck came out and looked at the children and shouted
“Are you crazy? Where did you get all these useless children? These are of no use to us. See the fire burning on their head. How will I go near them to use them? Better return these useless cargoes to where you carry them from.”
And the old man angrily turned back and went inside.
The taxi driver had no choice except to return these children to a nearby express-road. It was the people who saw the school children with their school uniforms that started wandering why the students should be wandering along the road so far away from their school, especially during the school hours. They alerted the Police who took them in and carried them to their school. That was how these children got delivered from the lions’ dens because they dwell in the secret place of the Most High.
Men of the dark world are ever-ready to snatch whatever you have from you if you are not spiritually smarter than them. It is a real war between Jehovah and satan.
Romans 8:31 says
• What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Romans 11:13 says
• For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
2 Corinthians 2:11 says
• Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Ephesians 6:11-13 says
• 11: Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• 12: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
• 13: Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Galatians 6:17 says
From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
One day, I was at a bus stop about to enter a taxi to another place in my home-town in Nigeria when I saw a woman being abused by a taxi driver. I interjected in order to arbitrate by appeasing the two fighting sides.
The taxi driver was so annoyed that he just jumped into his taxi and drove off. Then, I asked the woman, who was carrying a baby, the real bone of contention which she narrated to me as follow.
Woman: I called the taxi to take me to …… (sorry, I couldn’t remember the location again). When the taxi stopped, I saw three strange-looking men already inside it and I declined to enter it. That was when the taxi driver came down and started raining abusive language on me.
Me: But you should not have qualified that taxi as a kidnapping vehicle just because three (3) men are already passengers in it. And, why are you so afraid? Do you know them before this incident? (I was somehow curious).
Woman: " I’ve had the experience of being kidnapped before. That was last year while I was just happily married. It was only God that saved me through His divine power and wisdom. I was going to buy foodstuff things from the village markets: that was what I used to sell on retail basis.
"I entered this bus going to Lagos very early in the morning from the normal loading point. I planned to drop at Ifo. After some minutes when the bus had started moving, I just discovered that I was dozing off; I thought maybe it’s because of the early morning waking up to travel.
"The next thing when I woke up suddenly with the other passengers was that we were in a very big compound. We saw big trees all round the fence showing us that we were in a very deep forest. We saw guards there with guns and some big cars coming in and going out. On the extreme side, we saw a shrine where decaying human remnants were being feasted on by a school of flies. It was then that we realized that we were in a den of ritual killers.
“We were herded to a corner where we were being watched. But by divine intervention, I noticed that some people were flocking to a particular place, especially those big men and women with big cars. I cleverly sneaked behind some vehicles and managed to mingle with those august visitors.
"Then, I quickly went inside the house and the first man I saw at the gate looked at me. Before he can talk, I told him quickly that I want to purchase the middle finger of a man. He told me it’s Forty Thousand naira (N40,000).
"I quickly opened my inner hidden pocket where I kept the Seventy Thousand Naira (N70,000) I intend to use in buying my foodstuff merchandise and gave him the money. He went inside and came back with the item. He them packed it inside a small container.
“By the time I went out, I saw the driver of our vehicle looking up and down, I knew that he was searching for me, I quickly dodged back inside the building, went to the man who sold me the middle finger and explained to him that I need to get back before 12 noon that day for the middle finger to be effective for the ritual I am going to use it for and the man I came with is still busy, how can he help me to get back quickly.
"The man said I must pay Twenty Thousand Naira (N20,000) for him to take me out. I quickly paid him.
“The next thing was that the man took me through the back gate and we entered into a thick forest and we trekked for almost ten minutes after which we came to a vehicle, we entered the vehicle and he drove it for about fifteen minutes through the thick forest.
"What I noticed was that the road was well-graded but un-tarred. We suddenly found ourselves in an express road. He dropped me and turned back without any pleasantry. After some time, I managed to find a vehicle who took me out of the scene. When I asked them about the name of the spot where I was picked fro, I was just told it’s Shagamu Expressway but they couldn’t tell me the exact location because they themselves don’t know it.
"However, the most important thing was that I made it back to home.
"When I got home, everybody was searching for me; my Church Pastor was praying with my family members: my husband, my brothers and sisters, even my father and mother including my parents-in-law were there when I entered my home.
"For the first 20 to 30 minutes, I couldn't say anything. Anytime I tried to talk, I would just burst out crying. After some time, I was able to narrate my ordeal in the lions' den..
“When I narrated what really happened to me, my Pastor said it is divine wisdom through divine intervention. So, Sir, do you blame me for not entering the taxi with those evil-looking men?”
Me: I don’t blame you at all! (I quickly answered) it is only those who are dwelling in the secret place of the Most High and abide under the protection of the Almighty Jehovah that get delivered from the lions’ den. I give God all the glory for your life.
COMMENT:
This world is a very wicked world. Right from the days of creation, man has been inhuman to his fellow men and this started with Cain who killed his blood brother.
You can only escape through divine intervention because you cannot change the rules: sharks must eat other fish; lions, tigers and wolves must eat other animals, satanic men must sacrifice human blood to their dark lord, the devil. You can only beat them if and only if you are filled with the Power of the Spirit of Most High God i.e. the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ says
Matthew 12:29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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