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people waited for him to trying to take Paul our by
swell up or suddenly drop placing poison inside him.
dead. But when they had An attempt to kill him from
waited a long time and saw the inside out.
that he wasn’t harmed, they Just like Paul, when the
changed their minds and enemy comes with attacks
decided he was a god.” designed to get inside your
Can you image how Paul head and poison your
must have felt? If it were me, thoughts, you must choose to
I probably would have been shake it off. Let it go.
saying; “really Lord, I Notice that Paul did not
survive the storm and shake it off into the crowd
shipwreck and now you let where it could bite and
me get bit by a poisonous poison someone else. No, He
snake. What’s up with that.” shook it off into the fire
But not Paul. He made a where it was burnt and
conscious choice to shake it destroyed.
off and by faith believe it
would not harm him. If Paul were alive today,
we could say he did not
He had a promise from choose to shake it off to social
God and wasn’t about to give media, or his family or
it away to a snake. friends on the phone. He
If you realize what the chose to shake it off where it
enemy was trying to do here, could do no one harm, o
you may find he tries the I have a strange
same thing with us. He failed suspicion that there are
to take Paul out in the storm. people reading this that have
He failed to take Paul out in experienced hurts in their
a shipwreck, so now he is lifetime which maybe still