Good Monday morning! Below is an excerpt from my latest online QT post. This is what I believe God may have said to me from Acts 28:1-10. Hope it encourages you!

“Paul was safe from the storm, safe from the snake, safe for the sick, and safe for the sail. God brings us into safety for a purpose. Paul’s greater purpose was to appear before Caesar. That’s why he was safe from the storm and snake. But Paul was a minister of the gospel. The ministry of serving me and others was his life. I also brought him into a safe place so he could minister unhindered to the people on that island. It’s important to note that there is no mention of Paul wanting or praying for safety for himself. The safety I brought to him was for the sake of my glory and the good of others. How many times have you prayed to be kept safe, Dwayne? Nothing wrong with asking for safety, mind you. However, the more important and telling question is your motive for asking for it. Is it merely self-centered or is it for my glory and others’ good? This isn’t your typical Sunday School theology. This isn’t for shallow children; this kind of mind and heart-set requires mature and selfless faith and humility. It requires dying to yourself, denying yourself each day, and taking up your cross to follow me. It requires your full surrender to my will above your own. I never promised you safety in the places I will lead you. I only promised I would never leave nor forsake you. My command to you and to my followers is to go, even to the uttermost parts of the earth. And as you obey me and boldly go where I lead you, know this: Nothing can harm you or touch you unless it first go through me. You are in Christ, who is in me, God, the Father. There is no safer, more fulfilling place to be than in the center of my will and in the palm of my mighty hand.”