12/07/2025
*DAY 12 (Saturday July 12th, 2025)*
*Text: Psalm 91:3
*Theme: CLAIM YOUR VICTORY.
*Memory verse:* "Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler: the snare is broken, and we are escaped " (Psalm 124:7)
The snare is a trap. Every snare is designed to entrap. The devil sets his snare to entrap believers in Christ so that he can hold them in perpetual bo***ge and captivity. A snare consistents of enticements in the hand of the devil with which he makes people to breach the laws of God and lose favour with him. When he entraps and entangles them, he takes them as legal captives. Nevertheless, by the power in the blood of the Lamb, they are escaped as a bird out of the snares of the Fowler.
However, our consolation today is that by the reason of what Jesus Christ accomplished on the cross of Calvary, the snare is broken and our souls have escaped as bird out of the snare of the Fowler. By Jesus' death and resurrection, the power of sin and death has been breached and the doorway into God's throne of grace is open. The snare has lost it's power to continue to hold or haunt us down. So, as a believer in Christ, you need to look at the snare which the devil has set for you. Has your soul escaped?
It might surprise you that the telephone, Internet and social media have become snares of the Fowler. Po*******hy, fashion, fame, money and power have become snares of the devil and have really captured many people including professed believers. They can surf the Internet for long hours without getting tired, press their mobile phones inside the church and pick calls during sermon without their conscience pricking them. Meanwhile, they have no time for reading the Bible and meditating on the word of God or going for evangelism. In the above instance, the telephone has become a snare.
Through the phone, Internet and social media platforms, many people have become exposed to nudity, po*******hy, sexual perversion, violent scenes,etc. So, what is the snar