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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
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