Because he has set his love upon Me,
therefore I will deliver him; I will set
him on high, because he knows and
understands My name.
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him.
I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him
and honor him.
With long life will I satisfy him and and show him
My salvation.
(Psalm 91.14-16).
HALLELUJAH! WE PRAISE YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Put on God’s whole armor, that you may be able successfully
to stand up against the strategies and deceits of the devil.
For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood, but against the
despotisms, against the powers, against the spirits who are the
world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces
of wickedness in the supernatural sphere.
Therefore put on God’s complete armor, that you may be able to
resist and stand your ground on the evil day of danger and having
done all that the crisis demands, to stand firmly in your place.
Stand therefore having tightened the belt of truth around your loins
and having put on the breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude
and right standing with God,
and having shod your feet in preparation to face the enemy with the
firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by
the good news of the Gospel of peace.
Lift up over all the covering shield of saving faith, upon which you can
quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked one.
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields,
which is the Word of God.
Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and entreaty. To that end
keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceeding
in behalf of all the saints who are God’s consecrated people.
(Ephesians 6.11-18).
AMEN!
Men and women all around the world especially in our time
are searching for the ultimate answer. This is the secret meaning of
life and has eluded philosophers and scholars in times past.
In their constant search for significance and in their quest for
answers they are calling upon the Lord Jesus without realizing.
They need to know His salvation and experience healing and
wholeness in His hands.
The answer about man and God is manifested in
Christ Jesus. He is the Master of the universe, the
Resurrection and the Life. In our trouble, search, sadness,
loneliness and hurt He has the answer and the solution in
the riches of divine salvation and healing. By trusting Him
we receive His right standing, salvation and as we call on Him
we find peace, love,satisfaction and eternal joy!
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
RICH GIFT
There is one body and one Spirit, just as there is also
one hope that belongs to the calling you received.
There is one Lord, one faith one baptism, One God
the Father of us all, Who is above all, Sovereign over
all, pervading all and living in us all.
Yet grace (God’s unmerited favor) was given to each
of us individually (not indiscriminately, but in different
ways) in proportion to the measure of Christ’s rich and
bounteous gift. Therefore it is said, When He ascended on
high, He led captivity captive (He led a train of vanquished
foes) and he bestowed gifts on men.(Ephesians 4.4-8).
POINTS FOR PRAISE AND MEDITATION
1) There is one Lord, one Spirit, one body, one faith, one
baptism, one God and Father of us all who is above all,
pervading all and living in us all. HALLELUJAH!
2) Each believer has specifically been blessed with grace,
which is God’s unmerited favor according to the measure
of Christ’s rich gift. The measure is unlimited as we saw in
Ephesians 1.19.
3) The rich gift of Christ is described and predicted by the psalmist
who alludes to God’s Kingdom rule in prophetic and spiritual
ways which cover the past, present and future. This has to do
with each individual Christian and the Church, because this is
the holy place where the Lord dwells.
Here is Psalm 68.13-20):
“Though you (the slackers) may lie among the sheepfolds (in slothful ease,
yet for Israel) the wings of a dove are covered with silver, its pinions
excessively green with gold (trophies recovered from the enemy).
When the Almighty scattered kings in the land, it was as when it snows
on Zalmon (a wooded hill near Shechem).
Is Mount Bashan the high mountain of summits, Mount Bashan the
mount of God? Why do you look with grudging and with envy, you
many-peaked mountains, at the mountain which God has desired for
His dwelling place? Yes, the Lord will dwell in it forever.
The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon
thousands. The Lord is among them as He was in Sinai, in the
Holy Place.
YOU HAVE ASCENDED ON HIGH. YOU HAVE LED AWAY CAPTIVE
A TRAIN OF VANQUISHED FOES. YOU HAVE RECEIVED GIFTS OF
MEN, YES of the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell there
with them.
Blessed be the Lord, who bears our burdens and carries us day by day,
the God Who is our salvation! Selah (pause and calmly think of that)!
God is to us a God of deliverances and salvation and to God the Lord
belongs escape from death (setting us free).
4) Here in this psalm the Lord Who bears our burdens, whose
burden is easy and burden is light Jesus the Christ is the One
Who delivers and sets us free from sin and death, our God Who is
our salvation. The very name Jesus literally means (God Who IS
Salvation).
5) St. Paul in a turn of the phrase states that Jesus Christ led
captivity captive and bestowed gifts to humanity. This is different from
the context of the psalm where a train of captives were being led and the
Lord received gifts of men.
When the Lord led captivity captive He destroyed the power the
devil which kept mankind captive to the fear of death. This is
explained here by the author of Hebrews:
” Since, therefore His children share in flesh and blood, He himself
in asimilar manner partook of the same nature, that by going through
death He might bring to nought and make of no effect him who had the
power of death, that is the devil-
And also that He might deliver and completely set free all those who
through the haunting fear of death were held in bondage throughout
the course of their lives. “(Hebrews 2. 14& 15).
In the psalm He receives gifts. In Ephesians St. Paul is saying that
the Lord gives each believer individual spiritual gifts.
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
HOW GREAT AND AWESOME
O Give thanks to the Lord,
for He is good, for His mercy
and lovingkindness endure
forever!
Let Israel now say that His
mercy and lovingkindness
endure forever.
(Psalm 118.1&2).
The Lord is my Strength and
my Song, and He has become
my salvation.
The voice of rejoicing and
salvation is in the dwellings
of the righteous, the right
hand of the Lord does valiantly
and achieves strength!
(Psalm 118.14&15).
I will confess, praise and give
thanks to You, for You have
heard and answered me,
and You have become my
Salvation and Deliverer!
The stone which the builders
rejected has become the chief
cornerstone.
This is the Lord and His doing,
it is marvelous in our eyes.
(Psalm118.21-23).
HALLELUfor He is good and His mercy endures foreverJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS!
CALLED TO PRAISE
For He foreordained us, planned in love
for us to be adopted and revealed as His
own children through Jesus Christ, in
accordance with the purpose of His will,
because it pleased Him and was His kind
intent.
So that we might be to the praise and the
commendation of His glorious grace and favor
which He so freely showered on us
in the Beloved.
( Ephesians 1. 5 and 6).
POINTS FOR MEDITATION
Please meditate on these facts:
1) God revealed His love by preordaining
you to be His child through Jesus Christ.
2) His purpose for His plan is for us to be
to the praise of His grace.
3) His grace has been freely poured out
in the Beloved ( Jesus Christ our Lord
and Savior.
4) The extremely deep significance of God’s
plan of redemption and adoption.
AMEN!