Clay Cantrell (13 June 2013)
"A Miracle"


Readers -  The last six weeks I've seen many of what I consider number miracles. 

That's what I'm calling this, God at work. 

My chronic pain right now is as bad as its been in years due to a recent injury  My pain levels are very high, and my meds are not sufficient. Of course, as all chronic pain sufferers know, the struggle is not just with the pain, but with extreme fear, worry and depression which is always threatening to swallow you. I've been in a terrible battle for days now. 

All day yesterday, and at the pain doctor today, The Lord's Spirit kept repeating the famous verse from Psalm 23 to my soul:

Psalm 23:4
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

This has been a blessing to me, naturally, and even in the Dr's office I repeated it, and the entire Psalm to myself to try and calm down. 

Moving on ...

I've been working for a week on the time period that Israel was down in Egypt, which was 430 years according to -

Exodus 12:41
"And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt."

and

Galatians 3:17
"And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect."

I've thought for years this was 430 year period was extremely important, probably tied to the Rapture, at least as a type. 

In fact, God thought it was so important that He used HIS OWN Strong's number for that time period, which is another example of the way He interchanges His number systems. 

Strong's Hebrew 430 = Elohim

As in
Genesis 1:1
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

I call the 430 years a "closed circle" because the Lord has them leave "the self same day" - counting from the day of their arrival in Egypt. 

From above -
Psalm 23:4 is Bible verse 14,240

There is only one verse that has a total verse gematria value of 14,240:

Galatians 3:17
"And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

I call that a miracle. 

The Lord knows where and how His children are and never leaves them or forsakes them. 

Jesus is Lord.