DIVINE ENCOUNTER

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DIVINE ENCOUNTER

 

Life is a battle. Life is full of challenges, struggles and obstacles that require perseverance, effort and spiritual or inner strength to overcome. It involves internal conflicts (good vs, bad thoughts) and external hardships (financial, relationship) for survival and growth often emphasizing resilience and faith to conquer difficulties. It is a fight for existence, success, and achieving goals. Battles occur within ourselves (positive and negative emotions and externally, (financial, family, personal issues).

 

When a child is born into the world he/she realizes that the world is a battle by crying and clinching the fists. Life demands effort and resilience to navigate its hardships and emerge victorious. A good number of people face the battle of life with hopelessness in bleakness. No end to struggles, no end to woes. The battle of life can only be won by Divine Encounter. Ranging from individuals and crowds, many people have had Divine Encounter putting an end to their sorrows and terminating the evil trends in their lives.

 

1.      Gen 8:1-5 – Divine Encounter comes when God remembers one –When God acts on His promises, bringing divine intervention, breakthrough, and restoration after a period of waiting or trial, not the He previously forgot. It signifies fulfillment of   covenants, leading to new beginning, deliverance from bondage, fulfilled prophecies and surpassing favour like Noah’s flood ending or Rachael’s barrenness being broken.

2.      Deliverance and Restoration – 2 Sam 9.

3.      Divine Intervention – Exo 3:1-8.

4.      New Beginnings – Barrenness overcome – Rachael – Gen 30:1-6, Sarah – Gen 15:9-14. Hannah (1 Sam 2:1-10)

5.      Even, the condemned had a divine encounter – Lk 23:43

6.      The written-off Zacchaeus – L19:1-9

7.      The down-trodden – Blind Bartimaeus – Mk 10:46-52.

8.      The Samaritan woman – Jn 4:17-26

9.      Condemned Woman – Jn 8:1-11.

10. Healing at the Pool – Jn 5:1-14

11. Jacob at Bathel – Gen 28:10-17

12. Paul & the Venomous Viper – Acts 28:1-6

13. A woman with the issue of blood – Mt 9; Mk 5 and Lk 8.

14. The paralytic man – Mk 2

15. The madman of Gadara – Mk 5; Mt 8

 


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