Category: Miracles in the Darkness

Israel found themselves in the time of the Judges oppressed by the Midianites. The Midianites were described as a multitude as thick as locust with so many camels that they could not be counted. Israel, under Gideon’s leadership, had only 300 men armed with trumpets and torches. In the natural, Israel was greatly outnumbered and vastly inadequately armed.

Read the story: Judges 7:9-25

Gideon – Judges 7:9
“During the night the Lord said to Gideon, Get up, go down against the camp of Midian, because I am going to give it into your hands” God was working in the darkness. (Judges 7:22) When the three hundred trumpets sounded and the Israelite solders broke the jars containing their torches, the Lord caused the men in the Midianite camp to become confused and to turn on each other with their swords and slaughter each other. The remainder fled with Israel in pursuit until their leaders were capture and their heads brought to Gideon.

No matter how outnumbered and inadequately armed you might feel in your darkness, with God you are in the majority because He is more than enough for your victory!

Activity:
Draw a picture of a trumpet and a torch. Place it on your refrigerator where you can see it every day to remind yourself that in your darkness what God has given you is more than enough even though in the natural it looks as if your are outnumbered and inadequately armed. God is greater than your darkness.

The joy and excitement of leaving Egypt was abruptly interrupted when Israel found themselves trapped with the Red Sea in front of them and the Egyptian army hotly pursuing them from behind. There seemed to be no way of escape.

Read the story: Exodus 14:5-30

Israel fleeing the slavery of Egypt. – Exodus 14:21
“Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The nation of Israel crossed the Red Sea at night. At day break, verse 27 says, Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea went back to its place drowning the Egyptian army. In the midst of their darkness God told them to do three things: (14:13 & 14)

1.“Do not be afraid” Don’t listen to Satan’s lies.
2.“Stand firm” Keep their focus on God’s faithfulness.
3.“Be still” Act in faith rather than reacting in fear.

The promise was, “the Lord will fight for you” and “the Egyptians you see today you will never see again.” Circumstances were dark and confusing but God had day break in store for them!

Activity:
Make three lists: 1) List Satan’s lies which you need to take captive (II Cor. 10:5). 2) List scriptural promises upon which you are standing. 3) List actions of faith that God desires you to take in the midst of your darkness.

About 500 years after the flood the sins of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were so vile and grievous to the Lord that He destroyed them with fire. The night before God rained fire and brimstone down upon the cities, God rescued Lot and his family from the coming destruction.

Read the story: Genesis 19:1-29

Lot fleeing the corruption of Sodom – Gen. 19:23
“By the time Lot reached Zoar (the place to which God allowed him to flee for safety), the sun had risen over the land. Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah…” In the darkness of night, God led Lot and his family to safety before judgment fell upon the city. When the darkness of judgment threatens your community, focus on Jesus, the light, He is committed to show you the way through the darkness to His victory and grace.
God warned them not to look back (19:17), but for whatever reason Lot’s wife lost her focus and in looking back became a pillar of salt. (19:26) Dark times have a tendency to cause us to look back to better days instead of looking forward in faith to God’s miraculous provision.

Activity:
Place a salt shaker in a conspicuous place to help you remember to not allow your heart and thinking to dwell on past comforts. Rather, keep moving forward in obedience to God’s directives in faith knowing that He is protecting you and providing all that you need for life and godliness. (II Peter 1:3 & 4) Spend some time thanking God for where He is taking you.

In Noah’s day, sin had become so rampant throughout the earth that “every inclination of the thoughts of men’s hearts were only evil continually,” And the Lord was grieved that He had made humanity and His heart was filled with pain.

Read the Story: Genesis 6:5-22

Noah – Gen 7:12
“Rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.”

God provided safety for Noah and his family in the midst of devastating and unrelenting destruction all around them. While the darkness and flooding rains raged on for forty days and nights destroying everything on earth, Noah, his family, and all the animals were safe inside the Ark with everything they needed to sustain them for the duration of the flood.
Psalm 46:1 declares, “God is our refuge and strength; an ever present help in trouble.” When a darkness floods over our circumstances and it seems that everything will be destroyed, Jesus is our Ark of Safety enabling us to ride above the storms. As our Ark, He is steadfast, secure and unsinkable! God established a covenant with Noah and his descendents that never again would there be a flood that would destroy the earth and He set a rainbow in the clouds as a reminder of that promise. (Gen. 9:13)

Activity:
On a piece of paper draw a rainbow and beneath the rainbow list your present circumstances that seem threatening to you. God’s promise is that they will not destroy you as you rest in Jesus your Ark of safety.

Throughout history God’s people have experienced uncertain times when they wondered where God was and how they could survive the circumstances they were facing. They went through famines, pestilences, devastating wars, persecutions and the oppressions of hostile nations. And because of the darkness of their circumstance they often couldn’t see how God was working. But some of God’s greatest work is done in the dark.

Each day we will look at a dark time in scripture and observe how God was working in the midst of the darkness providing life, blessings, miraculous provision and protection for His people.

Read the Story: Genesis 1:1-31

Creation – Gen 1:2
“Now the earth was formless and empty; darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.”

Out of chaos and emptiness God created our magnificent solar system. He simply spoke, and it was so. When God speaks everything jumps into proper response; worlds form, life comes into existence, nature obeys, nothing can resist the power of what He speaks.
God is still speaking today, He is at work in every aspect of our lives even those areas that seem disjointed and purposeless. When He speaks the power of His Word causes light to dispels our darkness, and He fills us with life and His creative victory.

Activity:
Tonight, go outside and gaze at the stars and ponder the magnificence of God our creator and the awesomeness of His power that enabled Him to speak it all into existence and to sustain it all by the power of His word. And then listen as He speaks His creative Words to you and the circumstance of your need. Keep a journal of what you feel He is speaking and allow Him to confirm it in the Bible, His eternal word.