God always has a fantastic way of escape
Last-moment escapes are God’s specialty.
Just as it seems the character is about to be destroyed, God intervenes. Through angels, the elements, or circumstances, He makes a “way of escape.”
You may feel like circumstances are closing in on you. In your finances, your health, your home, your job, the odds are growing slimmer every day.
His eye is upon you.
Remember these “rules of escape” when it seems all hope is lost:
God can send His angel.
Peter was asleep on the last night before his execution. Suddenly, an angel appeared and told him to get dressed. His chains fell off, the guards slept soundly, the doors all opened…and Peter was free!
Paul was in a two-week storm with no hope of rescue. During the night, an angel appeared and told him that he and all of the other 276 passengers aboard the ship would be divinely rescued…with no loss of life.
2. God can send a “rumor”
David was circling a mountain in the desert, hiding from Saul. They were on opposite sides of the mountain, and Saul was closing in.
Suddenly, a messenger appeared. He told Saul that the Philistines had attacked the nation.
Saul had to abandon his pursuit of David at that moment and hurriedly return to his troops to fight the Philistines.
The timing was incredible. David called that mountain the “Rock of Escape.”
3. God can change the laws of nature.
Moses and Israel were pinned up against the Red Sea. Pharaoh and the most powerful army in the world were within sight, bearing down on them to enslave them again.
Suddenly, with one stretch of a rod, the wind began to blow and opened a huge path through the sea. All night, Israel fled through the water as Egypt was held back by a pillar of fire.
God has His ways.
4. God can hide you.
Jesus was being shoved toward a cliff in His hometown of Nazareth. They were intensely angry at His sermon that day!
Just before He was pushed to His death, He “passed through their midst and went away” (Luke 4:30).
Twice in the book of John, Jesus “hid himself” in Jerusalem when they had been sent to arrest Him.
Could it be that He was invisible or the people were blinded as He made his escape?
5. God can help you through temptation.
“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the WAY OF ESCAPE, that you may be able to endure it.” (1 Cor. 10: 13)
Don’t say, “I can’t stop doing it.” God will help you to say “NO” to temptation!
He will show you how to AVOID the temptation that Satan meant to destroy you with.
Let Him help you.
Be looking for His “way of escape.”
You WILL make it through!