FROM SAUL TO PAUL

TODAY’S PROPHETIC NUMBERS

August 17, 2024 – 08/17/2024
8 – New Beginnings
17 – Overcoming Victory

FROM SAUL TO PAUL

Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank. – Acts 9:8-9 NKJV

You want to know how Paul dealt with all the conflict, persecution, peril, and outright hell he had to endure as an apostle of the early church? He got small. It wasn’t about him. It was about Jesus. Paul learned to not think higher of himself than he actually was. This kind of soul invasion was so successful in the life of Paul, that he actually “finished his course” (2 Timothy 4:7).

Yes, bad things happen. However, that is no reason to be fearful. Yes, trouble is out there, but that’s no reason to let your heart jump into your throat and change your agenda.

Brother Paul says in Colossians 1:23 that we need to be careful not to be moved away from the hope of the Gospel. It’s one of those 1-2-3 scriptures and 1-2-3 is all about progression. That means hope is something you need to progress in. Do you know you can be a Christian, you can love God, and become unstable and dislodged from hope? All you have to do is let your mind go unchecked when something bad happens. You will have trouble “sure as sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7).

Declaration: My life is lived in confident hope in King Jesus who loves and guides me. The dark deeds happening around me will not keep me from knowing the Light of hope that is mine through my Savior.

From My Book: Soul Invasion