Rest Assured: Finding Peace in God Each Day

SATURDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2025

TEXT: Zechariah 12:1-9

1: A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares:

2: “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.

3: On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.

4: On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the Lord. “I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations.

5: Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God.’

6: “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.

7: “The Lord will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem’s inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah.

8: On that day the Lord will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord going before them.

9: On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.

(New International Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: GOD WILL ALWAYS PROTECT YOU

Because we live in times where many people doubt the ability of God to protect them, they have turned to other sources for help and protection.

Some Christians have returned to their traditional ways of life while others have gone to babalawos, mallams and the like to get needed protection due to the parlous security situation of our nation (Nigeria).

God gave this oracle to Prophet Zechariah for His people with a strong assurance of His ability to protect them from every form of invasion. He listed the punishments for nations that come against Jerusalem and the things that He will do for His own people (Judah).

This should encourage us to trust in Him as we live on this side of eternity.

QUESTION: Where do you go to seek protection when everything seems to be going out of hand?

PRAYER: Forgive me, O Lord, for running to other places searching for protection when You are always there to protect me. Grant me the grace to trust in You, no matter the problems confronting me, in Jesus’ name. Amen.