FIRE PROOF & CARED FOR
23rd Aug 2023
I woke this morning with Isaiah 43:1-2 filling my mind. “Don’t be afraid, I’ve redeemed you. I’ve called you by name. You’re mine. When you’re in over your head, I’ll be there with you. When you’re in rough waters, you will not go down. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.” From The Message and NIV.
I also read the intro to Mark’s gospel in The Message. Here is an extract, “God is here right now, actively seeking to help us in the way we most need help…. that in the most practical of all matters - God is passionate to save us.”
An American business man was travelling to Europe, and his mother called him the night before his flight and said she wanted to pray with him in person. He went to her home and she committed him into the Lord’s hands proclaiming Isaiah 43:1-2 over him. His plane was waiting to take off in Tenerife when a terrible air disaster happened. Another aircraft crash landed on top of the plane on the runway, both instantly caught fire.
This man described seeing everything burning and melting around him, but the scripture his mother had read over him was filling his whole being; he got out of his seat, walked through the fire, onto the wing and escaped with a small cut on his arm. This worst ever air disaster claimed 583 lives with only 61 survivors. I have never forgotten hearing him speak and being grateful for God’s care and the power of his mother’s perception and prayer. He committed the rest of his life to telling what happened and believing that he would see hundreds of people saved as a result of his testimony, and he did!
Our Father God is longing to care for you, to help and guide you by His Spirit; to take you through life with it’s ups and downs, to love you, give you wisdom and to re-assure you of His Almighty presence, to always be with you and give you peace.
“Don’t be afraid.”
by Joyce Sibthorpe
