2013-10-07T08:11:04-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/god%27s+protection/ http://faithgateway.com/jeremiah-i-will-rescue-you/ 2013-10-07T08:11:04-05:00 “Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the Lord. — Jeremiah 1:8 God says: I make no promise to protect you from suffering in this world. I do promise the power to believe in My goodness when bad things happen, the power to hope with confidence […] http://faithgateway.com/el-roi-god-who-sees-me/ 2013-10-04T14:47:09-05:00 She [Hagar] gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi [the “well of the Living One who sees me”]. — Genesis 16:13–14 (NIV) In the ancient […] http://faithgateway.com/are-you-under-attack-god-is-with-you/ 2013-10-04T14:43:43-05:00 Editor’s Note: Today’s devotional is excerpted from Anything: the Prayer that Unlocked My God and My Soul by Jennie Allen. Caught in this familiar haze of worldly happiness and empty pursuits, Jennie Allen and her husband Zac prayed a courageous prayer of abandonment that took them on an adventure God had written for them. “God, we will do anything. Anything,” they […] http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2022:22-24&version=NIV 2009-09-04T12:17:20-05:00 God specifically places the downtrodden of society--widows and orphans, among others--under his protection. Offenses committed against them are a sure way to trigger God's anger.