GOD's Purpose!

The three American friends on the 15:17 train to Paris that stopped a terrorist attack were the servants of GOD not just for that moment but at that moment they fulfilled what GOD called them to do.

What I believe does not take away from the bravery of overcoming the situational fear and acting to prevent the death of others; all the persons that resisted and attacked the terrorist and thwarted his plans of a mass murder in the name of his god risked their own lives for themselves and others.

What I believe GOD showed me this morning is that the unknown goal of the terrorist was the murder of someone on that train that GOD was protecting for His own purpose. The terrorist did not even know that, he was just the tool of the devil but GOD had a plan to protect that person (GOD did not reveal to me who it was or why). Those who acted against the terrorist did not know GOD’s ultimate plan, but they knew their purpose at that moment.

Having seen their testimonies on a couple of shows and watched the movie I believe Spencer Stone, the one American who had been through so much in training and preparation was beginning to understand before the event that GOD had prepared him for this moment. He did not get to fulfill his desire to be in the Air Force Pararescue due to a lack of depth perception but all his training came into play at one time for GOD’s purpose.

There were three other men that confronted and helped subdue the terrorist during this attack and all of them whether they understood at the time or not were used by GOD and everyone on the train survived.

This is how the devil works: the devil deceives and destroys a person until they will do without question or regard and with the desire to die in the process the evil he wants done without even knowing the devil’s real reason or underlying purpose.

I have noticed how often after a terrorist attack is thwarted that the terrorist just starts talking to authorities and telling them everything; I believe that is because while under the power of the devil to accomplish the attack once the attack is prevented the devil abandons them as a useless tool no longer good for anything.

This is how GOD works: He forms us in our mother’s womb, calls and gifts us for His Kingdom purposes. He pursues us through our life calling us out of the darkness of the world into the Light of His eternal Kingdom. He uses life’s difficulties and issues to form us into the person He wants us to be, he prepares us to use the gifts He has given us and prepares us to accomplish the call He placed on our life. When things happen along the way that detour our life and keep us from doing His will He still loves us and pursues us and works in our life to get us back on His track for our life. When that one great event happens He does not set us on a shelf but He still has other purposes for us to accomplish for His Kingdom in the earth. If we in this process realize who GOD is and that He has an eternal plan of salvation for us and we become a believer in Jesus then our call will never end (Yes I believe GOD uses people who do not ever come to the full realization of His plan of eternal salvation but have found the call and gifts He gave them and He is able to use them for the purpose of His Kingdom in the earth).

Just a couple of weeks after the terrorist attack Spencer was stabbed in a bar fight, in his home town, more seriously than he had been injured during the terrorist attack. Spencer was in a place where he should not have been as a Christian and this shows that the devil does not forget those whom GOD uses to defeat him. I believe GOD protected Spencer this time just to poke a finger in the devils eye and remind him that GOD loves and keeps those who serve Him.

Remember if you are not serving GOD you are serving the devil!