Our Daily Manna Devotional [03/05/2018]: EVEN THE ALLIGATORS SURVIVED: YOU WILL MAKE IT

Text: PSLAM 42:1-11

Early January last year (2017), a blast of winter storm weather hit a big chunk of the United States which led to a serious downfall of snow! The National Weather Service said that some cities experienced more than 8 Inches of snow with some other lakes frozen.

An energy company reported about 14,000 cases in North Carolina alone. In Virginal the National the National Guard deployed about 200 members that were positioned at fire houses with trucks to help police and fire fighters. One interesting thing however happened in the whole scenario-Alligators frozen in an icy pond at North Carolina’s Shallotte River Swamp Park survived the brutally cold temperatures!

The park’s general manager said that while the Alligators to be casualties in a video, they were very much alive and well. Alligators have small brains and don’t like SNOW-freezing temperatures, like any warm-blooded animal, but they were able to survive because they struck out their snouts (nostrils) out of the park’s frozen pond! Wonderful! Oh, I love that!

They struck out their nostrils out of the park’s frozen pond! I believe that if alligators were kept alive by God in such terrible weather conditions, no matter what you are going through now, God will keep you alive to testify in Jesus name. The animals had one thing they held on to: they knew that so long as they could breathe, they will live! So they stock out their nostrils from the freezing water.

COURAGE! In the same way, you need to keep your head above the waters (problems, situation, challenges, etc) in order to KEEP MOVING ON. In any adversity or negative battle, STICK OUT YOUR HEAD-YOUR FAITH! Stick out your NOSE (prayer life) BY FORCE and keep breathing! If Satan can DILUTE YOUR PRAYER LIFE, then he has attacked your engine room! Hear David in today’s word: “Oh my soul, why thou cast down, and why art thou disquieted with me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God” (vs. 11).

No wonder Charles Swindoll wrote: “courage is not limited to the battle field or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner test, like remaining faithful when nobody is looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you are misunderstood.” So True! Refuse to aloe depression and fear! Keep moving! Stick out your nose and your Neck! Look up to God! Walk by faith! You will make it! Amen!

PRAYER POINTS: 

1. In your own words, pray over today’s word as led now.
2. Father, by your grace, I refuse to give up in the battles of life in Jesus name.
3. I shall stick out my neck! I shall take risks and keep moving! I shall walk by FAITH and not BY SIGHT! 
4. The God that kept the Hebrew Children alive even in the burning furnace; keep me strong in every storm or battle in Jesus name!

PRAY AND ENCOURAGE THE PASTOR OF YOUR LOCAL CHURCH TODAY AND THIS MONTH!

NOTE [Source]: Our Daily Manna Daily Reading is adapted from the Our Daily Manna Devotional by Bishop Dr. Chris Kwakpovwe. All rights reserved.