God Never Fails To Deliver

God will never fail to deliver His child. Eighty year old Daniel understood this after being tossed in a den full of hungry lions. By morning the king full of remorse for his decision runs to the pit. Daniel's response, "My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty." (Daniel 6:22).

God will silence the roar of the lion in your life that threatens to devour your home, your family, your peace or anything else that is good and wonderful. The devil only destroys, kills and devours like a lion.

One of the attitudes the Lord is working out of my heart is one that says, "Even the best has been taken from me." This attitude emerges ever so often when in a season of relief and enjoyment something goes wrong and I find myself in a pit of despair or confused to what went wrong. Why was this taken from me? What do I do wrong? I hear the roar of the lion saying, "You are going down. Everything you have I'll eat and spit out!" There is a lion that is only familiar to you that looks at you with hungry eyes, staring you down, ready to pounce.

But at the mention of Jesus name, the Lord will shut the mouth of the lion. Paul writes to young Timothy, "But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion's mouth." (2 Timothy 4:17).

How does the Lord shut the lion's mouth? How does He deliver us from being devoured?

He sends a bigger lion! The Lion of Judah. Revelations 5:5 says, "Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals." (NIV). And in Hosea 11:10, "They will follow the LORD; he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west."

Call to the Lion of Judah, beloved. With a single roar, the noise and tumult of the Enemy is silenced.