Tag: deliverance

Get Me Out of Here!

On By Judy GlasserIn SeptemberLeave a comment

I really enjoy reading this chronological Bible – it reads more like the continuous  historical story is was rather than skipping back and forth over hundreds of years.

Right after the recounting of Job’s suffering and restoration, this Bible inserts Psalms which were written by Israelites who were exiled and in captivity.  These psalms are full of ‘whys’ and ‘get us out of here’ along with confessions of the sins that brought them to this place.

How often do we experience this same thing?   We make bad decisions, we make wrong choices, we do what we want to do instead of what God wants us to do and our actions take us to a place in our lives that we don’t like.  This is not where we want to be.  We don’t want to stay here.  Why am I here, God?  Get me out of here!

Just like the Israelites, we need to confess our disobedience and turn back to God.  We need to stop the rebelling and let God help us start moving in the right direction.  It won’t happen overnight….but it will happen.  God has promised that he will work it all out for those who love him.  But we need to listen and obey – that’s our part.

When we really trust God, our hearts can be full of praise – in any situation.  We see that with the Israelites as praise to God sometimes broke through all of the questioning and complaining – like this part of Psalm 44.Sept 18 2014 questions and Complaints

Let’s join them in praising our Father God today!

You are our King and God who has given us victory from generation to generation!

You give us strength to push back our enemies!

Because of your power in our lives, we can trample the darkness all around us.

We don’t put our trust in our own strength or in our own wisdom – they will not bring us victory.

Only you, dear Father, can win the battles for us.

Only you can beat out the forces that we fight each day – both seen and unseen.

We want to boast about you all day long!  To everyone!

We will praise your name forever!

We love you, dear God!

He Will Deliver Us

On By Judy GlasserIn SeptemberLeave a comment

“God will deliver us” Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego told King Nebuchadnezzar when they refused to worship the King’s gods or the gold image the King has set up.

They were confident that God was going to take care of them.  First, they said God will save them from what the King wants to do to them – throw them in the fiery furnace.

And then they said, “But even if he does not”, they still refused to worship anything but God.Sept 5 2014 Because we trust him

Even if he does not – because sometimes God’s deliverance of us is to take us out of this world.

We struggle with death because our perspective is so different from God’s.

When the people we love die, we feel grief and separation.  We sometimes wonder how God could let this happen.  When great Christians and missionaries die, we sometimes wonder why God ‘let’ this happen, they were accomplishing such great things for God!

God’s perspective is very different.  When those who love him die here on earth, they are alive with him in heaven – forever.  He ‘delivers’ them from the pain and brokenness of this life into a perfect life with him.  They receive the prize.  It’s not something he ‘lets’ happen, it is all done according to his will.

A year after my mother went to heaven, I got 12 blood clots that went to my lungs and 5 doctors confirmed that this should have killed me.  But it didn’t.  God told me right away in the emergency room that I wasn’t going to die from this – he had already taken care of it.

As a result of this experience, I got a very up close and personal new understanding of God’s omnipotence.  All of the scientific facts said that I should have died.  But God said ‘No’ and it didn’t happen.

God’s total and complete omnipotence gives me peace about my mother’s death, my own death when it happens and all death.  Death happens when God says and not before.  God ‘delivered’ my mother at his designated time.  And that was the right time for her.  I wouldn’t want anything other than God’s best for her.

He will ‘deliver ‘ me at the right time for me.  It’s already determined.  He has already decided and it will happen.  Until then, I need to fulfill the purpose he has given me.  It’s the reason why I’m still here.

Amen!

Hallelujah!