The devotional below was authored by Sammie Haynes Sr. Sammie (Football 1980) is the Plant Superintendent at E.R. Carpenter Temple, Texas, and he is currently the Senior Pastor at Church of the Living God in McGregor. He is a graduate of Liberty University with a Bachelor of Science in Religion with a minor in Christian Counseling.

Sammie resides in Temple, Texas, with his wife Ciera. The couple has three children (Sammie Jr., Ka’Shira & Zachary), and ten grandchildren. Learn more about Sammie and Church of the Living God at www.churchlivinggod.org.

Today we are faced with an enemy that cannot be seen with the naked eye. COVID-19 is the thief that Jesus once said in John 10:10 that comes to steal, kill and destroy, but Jesus also said in the same passage that He came so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. So, if you are asking where the Lord is in this matter, Jesus has never left us, nor has He forsaken us. He has proven it time and time again through the Word of God. In the third chapter of Daniel, He is the fourth man that stood with the three Hebrew boys that were thrown in the fiery furnace when King Nebuchadnezzar wanted them to deny their faith. He is the one who stood with King David when he stood before the giant Goliath. Romans 8:38-39 states, “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

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