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MESSAGE TITLE:
“What If God Saved You Without You Knowing”?
SCRIPTURE TEXT:
“And God said… I also withheld thee from sinning against me.” – Genesis 20:6
DATE: March 11, 2025
BY: EFFIONG ETOK
Carrier of God’s Word
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
The greatest mercies are often the ones we never see-the sins we never fell into, the disasters we never knew were coming, the battles we never had to fight.
INTRODUCTION
Have you ever looked back on your life and wondered how close you came to losing everything? The wrong relationship, the wrong decision, the sin you almost committed-but somehow, you were stopped? What if that “somehow” was actually God’s unseen mercy?
Abimelech was a king, powerful yet unaware that he was on the brink of complete disaster. In Genesis 20:3, God appeared to him in a dream and said, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.” Without realizing it, Abimelech was moments away from divine judgment, and had God not intervened, he would have faced ruin.
He took Sarah, not knowing she was Abraham’s wife. But before he could go any further, God stepped in. He stopped Abimelech from sinning, protecting him from an offense he never even knew he was about to commit.
MAIN MESSAGE
There are sins we know we committed-and we beg for mercy. But what about the sins we almost committed, the mistakes that could have altered our destiny? How many times has God saved us without us even realizing it?
Abimelech’s story is one of divine intervention. He was ignorant of Sarah’s true identity, yet God said: “I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.” – Genesis 20:6
God blocked him from destruction.
How many of us have been spared from unknown dangers-wrong business deals, destructive relationships, financial ruin, spiritual compromise-without even knowing? How many of us were one step away from disaster, but God, in His mercy, closed the door?
Consider Joseph’s brothers. In their jealousy, they planned to kill him, but God intervened through Reuben: “And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.” – Genesis 37:21
They didn’t even realize God was restraining them.
What about us?
Have you ever been delayed on a journey or blocked from joining a particular vehicle, only to later hear that an accident happened on that same vehicle or road?
Have you ever lost an opportunity, only to realize that it would have led you into destruction?
Have you ever been confused about why something didn’t work out, only to later thank God that it didn’t?
These are God’s unseen mercies.
David understood this when he prayed: “Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me.”-Psalm 19:13
He knew that some sins are committed in ignorance, and only God can protect us from them.
Jacob also thought he was deceiving Esau, but God was working behind the scenes to bring him to his true destiny. Paul, before his conversion, thought he was serving God by persecuting Christians, but mercy found him before it was too late.
Today, reflect on your own life. The things you thought were disappointments-could they have been divine deliverances? The people who left, the deals that failed, the roads you never took-could they have been God withholding you from destruction?
REFLECTION & TAKEAWAY:
What if the closed doors in your life were actually God’s protection?
What if what you call a delay is actually divine rescue?
What if God has been saving you from things you didn’t even know were dangerous?
We serve a merciful God, not just in forgiving our sins but in stopping us from committing them in the first place.
PRAYER POINTS:
1. Father, thank You for the battles I never had to fight, the sins I never fell into, and the dangers I never knew existed. Let Your unseen mercy continue to preserve me, in Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen!
2. Lord, any path I am walking that is leading to destruction, block it! Any decision I am about to make that will ruin me, stop me! Restrain me by Your mercy, in Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen!
3. Father, give me spiritual sensitivity to recognize when You are protecting me. Let me not cry over closed doors that You shut to save me. Open my eyes to see Your mercy at work in my life, in Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen!
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