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Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
How do you describe God when you are asked to? I know it is almost impossible to describe Him especially when put on the spot…
David gives a good description of how he related to God through his psalms and this is just one of them.
God is everything to us. Our strength upon which we rest. Our deliverer upon whom we rely. Our sure and eternal trust and our protection in whatever circumstance.
Being able to admit these points helps us to build our faith in Him.
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Isaiah 26:4 Trust in the Lord forever, for in YAH, the Lord, is everlasting strength.
Why should we trust in God and in Him alone? Because He is God and He will always be God.
He is our creator and He is our maintainer. We may break many things but God continues to try and lead us in the right direction.
We learn that strength comes from exercise and determination. We learn that strength comes after hard work.
God tries to show us strength comes from Him and that strength is everlasting. Trust. Faith.
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Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before Me.
If you knew you were in charge of a business or some other group of people, would you want them to go to someone else to ask for guidance and help?
God created us all and knows exactly how we tick. Why should we even think about going anywhere else other than back to Him to ask for help and guidance?
But so many people do go to just about anything else other than God when it comes time to seek support!
Don’t look outside. Look to the Creator!
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Isaiah 42:8 I am the Lord, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to carved images.
Thank goodness there is only one God we worship! Thank goodness we don’t have to remember hundreds of gods and what they claim to do!
God alone is all powerful and God alone is the one we need to worship with pride.
He will not share His glory with anybody else or anything else because there is simply nothing that can reach the heights He does!
Be very wary of the things we hold up as more important than God! There is nothing!
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Psalm 83:18 That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
The psalmist here finishes off his request with the reason why he is making the request – so that God may get the glory!
Do you make sure that God is the one getting the glory when you live your life? Are you making sure that what you do points back to God?
Do people see you as a servant of God rather than the person you are?
Give it to God!
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Psalm 89:8 O Lord God of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.
There is only one God and He is ruler over heaven and earth. Nothing is too big or too bad for Him.
No matter what changes we go through in our own lives, the changes God brings through are for our good and for our betterment.
Change is a good thing and has to be embraced when it is right; but bringing change into something that is not going to change will damage both the people and the surrounding society.
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Psalm 31:23 Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints! For the Lord preserves the faithful, and fully repays the proud person.
We are taught to love the Lord because of what He does for us, because He keeps us and He rewards us. Is that right?
Why should God reward us, keep us, make us happy, do all these things for us all the time? Simply because He loves us!
So our love for God should be based on His love for us, not from the rewards. Our love should echo His love.
God’s love for us goes far beyond our own imaginations so let us stretch our love and embrace Him fully today instead of half way there!
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Psalm 31:9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; My eye wastes away with grief, Yes, my soul and my body!
What sort of state is your relationship with Christ in? Are you getting up in the morning and telling God how you will trust Him?
Do you get to lunch time and call out for mercy as your day gets worse?
Do you reaffirm your trust in Him later in the day as you realise He is actually still there and still cares for you?
Will you put all of your trust into His arms and continue to trust Him like you did when you woke up this morning?
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Psalm 28:3 Do not take me away with the wicked And with the workers of iniquity, Who speak peace to their neighbours, But evil is in their hearts.
It is very easy to be pulled in by a person who can “talk the talk” or who is very persuasive; and it is hard to walk away from them because of their persistence…
It is always easier if we have someone who is willing to walk by our sides or even carry us through the difficult stages…
God wants to be that person walking by your side, carrying you when you fall, comforting you when you need it and pointing you back in the right direction when you go astray.
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John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
When Jesus said He was giving us peace to live within it was not a nice cosy cottage in the middle of nowhere but a spiritual state we would be in whilst the Holy Spirit came to live with us.
Jesus wants us to be cared for from the inside and not just physically and emotionally. God wants us to be able to experience the peace only he can give and to live with it while we live in our troubled lives.
We may still face hardships we struggle with, but we can always know God is with us and caring for us from the inside!
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Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.
Faith is believing in the unseen. Just because we cannot see God does not mean we cannot see the affect He has on everything around us.
We have this wonderful peace and Joy God gives us through our believing in Him and our faith in Christ as our Saviour.
It is the believing and trusting which leaves us with the peace and joy because our minds are convinced in Christ; not just because we have faith but because He is faithful toward us!
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Psalm 3:5 I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustained me.
How do you sleep when you are really worried about something? Do you struggle or maybe you just cannot sleep at all?
David shows us here just how comforting it is to know God; even though he was so tied up in distress and worry about his son catching and trying to kill him, he still gave it to God and was able to rest.
Give your worries to God. Don’t say so and hold them back. Don’t give them to Him in name but not for real. Give your worries to God, totally and properly!
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Psalm 4:8 I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Each time we see David complain about the things that go wrong in his life we also see him lift up God and give Him praise for looking out for him!
That always bring joy to my heart, knowing that every bad thing that comes through my life has a reason, but I have a Saviour who walks every step of those times with me.
Christ is always by our side when we get into trouble. He is always holding out His arms to protect us when we feel surrounded by death, disruption, sorrow or any other evil.
We may not feel safe, we may not be safe in this world, but we are safe in Christ’s hands!
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Psalm 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
How many times have you played with a dog or a cat and got them to do the same thing over and over again through simple commands or actions. It’s like you know what they are thinking…
Well God actually does know our thought and He could quite easily treat us like pets and get us to do the same things over and over again for His amusement… But he does not; He gives us choice.
That choice is very important because it is a showing of His love for us. A love that goes far deeper than we realise… after all, He does know what we get up to, and still He loves us!
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Psalm 19:12 Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.
None of us is perfect. We all make mistakes and many of those mistakes are sinful in their nature.
Making mistakes is quite normal! But that does not excuse us from the sin we may have committed. So we still have to bring the sin to God.
God is not forgetful, but He is willing to forgive us. We should not try to sweep our sins under the carpet but bring them openly to Him in all honesty for the forgiveness He promises us!
Allow God to forgive you. Don’t hold fast to your sins.
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Leviticus 4:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If a person sins unintentionally against any of the commandments of the Lord in anything which ought not to be done, and does any of them,
When we read through this passage in our Old Testaments we find rules and regulations and sin offerings which had to be carried out when people found out they were sinning.
In other words these people did not go out and break the law knowing what they were doing, but rather found out or realised afterward they had broken the law.
They still had to ask for forgiveness through a sacrifice. God cannot ignore the sin; just because we didn’t realise it at the time…
Be patient with God because He is patient with you!
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Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins
How many times did you try to pretend to say sorry when you were very young? How many of those times did your parents or guardians catch you out and demand a real apology?
I know I could not get things past my parents when I was young and nowadays I have learned never to want to get things past them!
God wants us to be at the stage where we never want to try and hide anything from Him either. Not just because He sees everything we do but because it makes our apology of no effect when we do!
God wants us to be honest and open with Him. Simple!
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Matthew 24:21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
God is not here to rain down all manner of punishment on us just because we are doing things wrong; but God is not going to continually pick us up from the ground when we ignore Him and His ways either!
When we live an evil life we have to put up with all sorts of evil things happening in our lives; some of it may be the consequence of what we do whilst others may be nothing to do with us.
God knows we will have to put up with severe punishment through living through our evils ways, so why blame God for things we bring upon ourselves.
Look to God for help in bringing us out of the pit, not for throwing us into it…
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Exodus 10:17 Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and entreat the Lord your God, that He may take away from me this death only.”
Do you like asking for forgiveness for something you have done wrong? How do you ask?
I know I have asked people to forgive me in the past without meaning it, and Pharaoh certainly did not mean what he was saying here!
If we want to ask God to forgive us then we had better mean what we say – God sees inside our hearts so He knows whether we mean it!
When we ask with a true heart, God will answer with a true spirit and give us what we seek.
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Colossians 3:24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
What happened to 23? It’s here today and was there yesterday. We need to aim to please God, not man.
When we do aim to please God we then get to know how pleased He is with us by what He gives us. No I’m not saying He will give you money if you work for Him – that is the earthly view and task.
When we walk with God we begin to see just how much He gives us deep within our souls. We begin to know the strength, wisdom, peace and life He bestows on us because we believe in Him.
God wants to give us our inheritance, but we need to believe it first!