With Songs of Deliverance

In this day and age, trouble seems to befall young and old alike. Trouble seems to surround on every side. You can read the headlines or watch news on T.V. and hear of failing businesses, and a failing economy. At church or work you can hear of someone's failing health, failing ministry, or failing marriage. Yet in all this, our God has promised to deliver us out of all the overwhelming problems that plague the world today!

Psalm 32:7 "You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me about with songs of deliverance."

If we truly desire God to be the God of our trouble, then He must be the God of our hearts. God will honor those who honor Him. God will move across a continent of believer's for the one on bent knee who is shedding tears for the goodness of God and not because of the trouble he has gotten himself into by wrong choices. God Himself will move heaven and earth to get to the one who speaks out of his trouble to praise the One true God!

In recent days, I was asked to gather prayer people together to pray for the Pastors of our church. It was in accordance with these pastors themselves that I go forward with it and seek those who would willingly go above and beyond to pray. One young man, who will at this time remain nameless, but God knows who he is, replied by text. What a refreshing answer, what a zest of life he added in his response. Not only did he agree to what the email said of praying for our pastors, but was willing to add the emphasis that was placed in the email that I had sent for them to pray.

When someone is going through tribulation and one continual trial after another trial, as those we are sent to pray for,  then it has to be addressed. If we are praying, and the answer has not come, then we must join forces as a team, and like this young man, say, " yes, Lord, to all that is mentioned" , "I will do it!"

I saw the Lord heal this young man who had shingles on his face and over the eye area months ago. The Lord healed him and the Lord has continued to answer he and his wife's prayers as they continue to seek the face of God!

In what I have been witness to in the last several hours, is that I have seen someone who loves God is willing to go even further for God.
In the second part of verse 7, it speaks that it is the Lord who surrounds us with songs of deliverance.

Are we singing songs of deliverance?

I believe that those who stand strong for the Lord will rally together for the cause and not because they have to please man. When God gives a mandate for prayer, then we as believer's should be willing to rally as a team and do it!

If our focus is on the trouble, then the emotional havoc will be dominating our lives. If we meditate on the warfare  instead of the victory, then faith is not working! The focus in that situation is on the enemy and not the Comforter who was sent for our benefit. That young man was a wonderful doorway into the presence of God and his expectancy came in his righteousness and joy. In few words, he declared his joy to do what the Lord asked him to do!

Now is the time to focus on the God of trouble. With God in our hearts, our focus will be on pleasing Him and not looking at what the enemy may be throwing at us today. Whatever you and I focus on today determines our freedom or our stumbling block.
There should be a song in our heart much like David wrote about. Stand in faith, sing and rejoice for God is our deliverer.  So if trouble shows up, and danger is imminent, keep your thought life on the Word of truth. Be determined to say No to defeat and despair! Climb out of the hole you dug, shake off the dust, smooth your hair and continue your walk with the Lord.
Declare today:

" Lord, You are my hiding place, it is You Who preserves me from trouble and today as You send your angelic forces, I sing for joy for My Deliverer has come to rescue me from trouble! These are my songs of deliverance!

Father, today You have rallied your prayer warriors. You have called us to pray for those who have continual trial after trial and no relief. We stand believing that YOU are the deliverer from trouble. For those who need our prayers, may we rise up in power of the Holy Ghost, to see Your glory in the lives of those we called to pray for and see the manifestation of answered prayer. Like this young man today, may we be the "open door" to God's presence and speak with zest the power of the Word of truth.
Father, in Jesus' name, "You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me about with songs of deliverance."
We thank You for the lives that are changed today. We expect the weary to rise in rest and peace of God. We expect the sorrowful to be made glad. We expect the broken-hearts to be mended and made whole. You are the God Who hears and answers..........may our response be like this young man today...........may we always be open to Your direction and Your correction and stand surrounded by songs of deliverance. Amen.

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Courageous from the Inside Out.........September 11, 2014

Proverbs 30:2-5...Surely I am more stupid than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. 4 Who has ascended into heaven or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son's name, if you know? 5 Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. (NKJV)

Today, being courageous is doing what is right according to what our Father God states in His Word and not according to the world's standards.
We are aware of the Mental Knowledge. As good as it may be, is still inadequate and is capable of producing pride!
In 1 Corinthians 8:1-3...Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. 2 And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him. (NKJV)

Courage is being able to stand in the face of an enemy (a report of sickness, disease;  any person who sets out to harm another person;  presenting conflict to the body of believer's or elsewhere: ie, on the job site, in ministry, within a family situation that causes bodily hurt, and occurring at the least likely moment)

We have been given our five senses, but they make poor masters in the event of decision making! Basing our decisions on our senses is folly. Without true knowledge we fall victim to our senses and relying on them is detrimental to our lives. Making a decision based on the fear factor, we are likely to run into the confusion arena where darkness takes over. Instead of running to the Father of light with His knowledge, His wisdom, we choose to blanket ourselves in the darkness of confusion and as the fear multiplies, and terror grips our souls, we look for the "way out of the circumstance". When we do not rely on the Word of God, we become the driver (of our situation) to act out on the fear based emotions we are experiencing. This acting out is based on false evidence.
Our trust is to be in God. We are to have knowledge of the Holy One.

It is pretty simple to apply God's Word. In  Proverbs 23:12 ...apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to words of knowledge. (NKJV)
It is paramount to apply our hearts to instruction. Just like learning to swim, takes some time, and water swallowing at times, so does learning to read, understand, to practice what we have read, & meditated on in scripture.
I am in awe when people say, "you do not have to read the Bible everyday"! Wow, I certainly do! And if I am not reading it, then I have the CD on with scriptures either on healing or from the New Testament playing. I also keep praise and worship to God going in the center of the house as well!
I surely want the Lord to know that He is welcome in this home! I want Him to always know I desire His wisdom and His way of doing beyond any natural thing I could every choose to do.
In Proverbs 2:10-14...it says that wisdom enters our heart, and knowledge is pleasant to our soul, 11 discretion will preserve us; understanding will keep us. 12 to deliver us from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, 13 from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 who rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the perversity of the wicked; (NKJV)

Again, it appears simple for us to stay in the light of God and His knowledge.  As we stay in His Word and learning His wisdom, then we will not fall into the fear factor of relying on the five senses and of clothing ourselves in darkness!  It is imperative to have the light of God's truth shining in on the thing or the man who set out to harm us! We definitely do not want to be the driver, who forcefully drives further into darkness and confusion and try to make a "right decision" based of the senses that bring folly.
It is the Word of God that will keep you and me, preserve you and me, and will deliver us from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things. We are to adhere to God's teachings, and stay in the light, understanding God's ways and thoughts are life to us. As we do this daily, our hearts are growing in courage to make the "right decisions" in the moment we need them most. When or if the enemy appears, we have the courage in our hearts to defeat him with the light and truth of God's Word.

Today, I set out to be faithful to teach others of God and His knowledge. In 2 Timothy 2:22-26 we are told to flee youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 23 but avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife; 24 and a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.  (NKJV)
You will know those who call on the name of the Lord out of a pure heart. YOU will also recognize those who do not. No, we are not to quarrel or argue, but in humility those who are to be corrected should be corrected. Look at the life of Jesus, and how many people that He corrected. I can think of the priests in the temple when Jesus turned over the tables of the money changers. I also think of Jesus correcting Peter. People must remember what love looks like and it is more than me telling you, "oh, I love you!" You can ask our daughter, that a lot of love came through correcting her and I am certain, our daughter loves her daughter and does correct and will correct her consistently when it is needed. It takes a pure heart filled with the love of God to pursue being humble, avoiding ignorant disputes, avoiding strife, but to correct when necessary.
Then it appears that our hearts are to be filled to the maximum with the love of God and His Word!
Pay attention at the next meeting or leadership time together, and watch those who operate out of the pure heart, who are willing to yield! Then watch for those who take the floor and run with loose lips. Pay attention, to those who want your attention and have to have their say, and then watch those who are humble in the sight of God, who will remain silent till time to speak. Truly, correction is love and is needed, not only in the homes, but in the communities, in business, and in government!

In a recent study I got on Peace, I like what John Paul Jackson wrote in WAGE PEACE! He said that peace is like authority. It is not a spiritual gift that we were born with, but it is something we experience and carry with us. (Is something we grow in, my words)
So the more we KNOW God, and pursue HIM in righteous, & peace, the more we speak, the more authority we carry the STRONG peace through the darkness, to seek light and the truth of God's Word.
 I have learned peace to be a violent word. In the Greek, it means to obtain by quietness by removing what seeks to distract and destroy. This peace is not the simple compliant and serene peace, BUT IS AN aggressive taking out or forceful removal of that which needs to be removed. Peace is not a passive word. When seeking God and His peace, love, faith and righteousness, I am setting my boundaries. So when I say peace in my life, I  am saying what Jesus spoke in the Gospels. When He spoke "peace be with you", He was stating a command that all chaos, darkness, anything of the enemy had to be removed.

The instruction God has given is there so we can place it in our hearts.It is through this instruction that we learn how to co-operate with God and His way of doing things. As we continue studying and meditating on the Word of God, we grow wise in things of God and His kingdom. We become those living wisely and who practice it regularly.
Today, let's take His wise counsel, fill our hearts with knowledge and wisdom of the Holy One, so if and when the enemy tries to darken the doorway of our hearts, we will tell him to take a hike. Today, I believe us to make no provision for the flesh, but I do expect we will walk properly as we see the day approaching of the Lord's return.

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