PSALM 91
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This morning we will be going over Psalm:91
This is a prayer I prayed over my family for years.
I had a Pastor tell me about it when I was a young Christian and it got me through some times when I was afraid. My kids were young and life was life and I wanted a hedge of protection around us. I would make the I into we and the my to our.
I still think its a good idea
I think if you want to learn how to pray go to Psalms. If you need to know what to pray go to Psalms
Some might say that's ridiculous you don't have to pray a certain way and I would say go to Psalms and you will find out your right
You may also find out you are not praying enough. You are not praying about as many things as you should
Prayer simply put is communion with God or Communicating with God
He is your Creator. He knows every hair on your head there is nothing He doesn't already know so there is nothing you can hide from Him. There is nothing you can not bring to Him in prayer
That is the thing Psalms shows you. pray often and about everything
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
If you are thankful praise God ,if you are sick pray ,if your family is sick. If you need to know WHY cry out to God. That is what the psalms teach us. Communicate with God.
We are living in a hard time right now. This might be the hardest most frightening time you have ever been through. I'm older than many of you and younger than some and this is the strangest time I've been through. Especially the attach on Christians and Christian values and our children but it isn't new. In the first century Christians were being crucified for there beliefs , In Nazi Germany they were taking children from there parents to bring them around to there way of thinking. In Nigeria last year 4998 Christians were killed for their faith 13 a day but there are still Christians in Nigeria that are pushing in to God. Hungry for the word. Nd still people persecuting them.
Are you wondering when I’m going to get to the 91 Psalm yet
One thing I think I missed all the times I quoted this Psalm over my family was to also listen to the message in it. Listen to what God was telling me. Trust in Him. give my all to Him.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.”
He who dwells . He who remains. We are not talking about salvation we are talking about staying on the vine. We are talking a bought pushing into God and letting Him be the Lord of your life
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
If you want the Peace God has offered you. Dwell with Him don't let it be a vacation spot in times of trouble.
You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence
From the plots of man;
You shall keep them secretly in a pavilion
From the strife of tongues.
This doesn't mean stay locked away. This means, He is our Protection there is nothing this world can do. you are His eternally.
There is so much craziness now days a bought faith. if you had enough faith you would be healed if you have enough faith you would be rich. I'm going to tell you a little secret.
None of us has it. You know how much faith you need. You need to have enough to know who God is you have to have enough to know He is in control. You have to have enough faith to talk to Him when you are struggling to give it to Him.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
You have to have enough faith to give it to the MOST HIGH. The creator of it all.
Abide in His shadow stay under His protection
For You have been a strength to the poor,
A strength to the needy in his distress,
A refuge from the storm,
A shade from the heat;
For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
If you notice here there are poor people needy people, storms . Attacks from ungodly people.All of this comes our way regardless of who we are, but He will be your strength. He is the Great I Am
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.”
just listen to the Psalmist here. He is crying out in prayer
He is my refuge My God in Him I will trust
I don't thick the Psalmist is only talking to God here .He is also reassuring Himself. I will say of the Lord
I cry out to the Lord with my voice;
With my voice to the Lord I make my supplication.
I pour out my complaint before Him;
I declare before Him my trouble.
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
Then You knew my path.
In the way in which I walk
They have secretly set a snare for me.
Look on my right hand and see,
For there is no one who acknowledges me;
Refuge has failed me;
No one cares for my soul.
I cried out to You, O Lord:
I said, “You are my refuge,
My portion in the land of the living.
Attend to my cry,
For I am brought very low;
Deliver me from my persecutors,
For they are stronger than I.
Bring my soul out of prison,
That I may praise Your name;
The righteous shall surround me,
For You shall deal bountifully with me.”
in times of trouble cry out to God. You might not be strong but He is
That is our peace. That is our strength
Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler
And from the perilous pestilence.
He shall cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you shall take refuge;
His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
Surely, He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler. I want you to notice the YOU here . Who will He deliver? You, me , anyone who abides in Him. Is it always how we want it? Is it always when we want it. No
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
He will save you from the fowlers snare. He will keep you from Satan evil schemes. Light defeats darkness and truth will conquer over lies, but you have to stay in the light. You have to know the Truth. What is the truth? The word. Who is the word? Jesus. How do we know that ? Because Jesus said it.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
He will protect you from diseases. Does that mean no Christian gets diseases ? No . But He is in control of the disease. Its not easy to understand why some get sick and some don’t. Its not easy to understand why some die young and some live to be old. We don’t have to understand it. We can cry out to God and ask WHY. We just have to know that His ways are higher than are ways. We have to Know He is God.
Stay under Gods wings . Let His arms protect you . Stay in His embrace. Let His word .Let His truth be your refuge from this lost and dying world. He loves you. This world loves its self. Let Him be your shield . Let Him be the walls around you to keep you safe
Show Your marvelous lovingkindness by Your right hand,
O You who save those who trust in You
From those who rise up against them.
Keep me as the apple of Your eye;
Hide me under the shadow of Your wings,
From the wicked who oppress me,
From my deadly enemies who surround me.
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.
This is something I have not mastered yet. Maybe many of you haven't either, but I can tell you this. Its much easier for me to trust now then it once was. I would like to say the minute I got saved I just had peace in every situation.
To get even as far as I am now took time. I had to learn the word. Not that I am a scholar are anything. Not even close but I came out of the gate wanting to learn the word. I couldn't get enough. I loved to come to church and fellowship,and worship. It still took me years to grow in the Lord. What I wasn't doing. I wasn't submitting my life to God. I was not letting God be the Lord of my life. I wanted a little bit of God and a little from the world. What I wound up with was more world than God and I wasn't getting the peace He wanted for me. I wanted to be master and I mastered nothing
“Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace;
Thereby good will come to you.
Receive, please, instruction from His mouth,
And lay up His words in your heart.
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up;
You will remove iniquity far from your tents.
This world offers nothing but temporary satisfaction. Fleeting happiness. Not Joy. Not peace
A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.
Only with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked.
Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
We have came to a time where that kind of talk is not to be talked about. Don’t bring up hell. Its unloving. So you think you are better than me ? God will send me to hell and you to heaven? Yes!
This is the truth of the matter. The world might tell you different, but its a lie.
The truth is love
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
That is the Truth. The only way to accomplish Gods great Commission is the Truth
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
The truth is loving
Are we special ? Are we the special ones? No. We are all sinners saved by grace, but there is a penalty for sin. Jesus paid for everyone's sin on the cross but
you still have to except that gift and there is a penalty you will pay if you don't except Jesus as your savior.
If you have not done that yet. Don’t wait. In the twinkling of an eye It could be to late
Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways.
In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
In the beginning of the Palm the Palmist spoke of those who abide in these promises are under the protection of God . Now he switches to because you have made the Lord the Most high God your dwelling place . You are under His protection.
No evil will befall you . No plague will come near you.
We know these things still happen to Christians. What is this guy talking a bought.
You don't have to fear it. Your trust is in the Most High God. Nothing has dominion over you. Not even
death.
And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
He will give His angels charge over us. This is a command. This is the angels. Created beings . God created them for this task.
I'm not trying to be confrontational. If you get comfort from a guardian angel stuff.
Your loved one is in Heaven with a heavenly body but they are not angels. Angels were created angels and they are fighting spiritual battles all around us.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
If you remember in Matt chapter 4 Satan tried to deceive Jesus by miss representing this scripture.
Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written:
‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’
and,
‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”
Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”
This was not a lishens to be foolish. This is protection from the lies of the enemy.
Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.
I love that the angels came and ministered to Jesus and comforted Him
the lion and the serpent made me think of two scriptures
My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.”
And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
God is in control
“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known 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 I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.”
Now the Palmist is speaking as God to man
because you are dwelling with the most High God. He will deliver you He will set you on high
And those who know Your name will put their trust in You;
For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.
because you know His name . because you trust Him you can receive His promises
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
You can have piece. It is not impossible to have joy in this world. If your eye is on God.
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 I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.”
promises from all mighty God
long life , His salvation.
If you put your faith in Him. You have eternal life. It starts the moment you ask Him in to your life.
The fact that Matt past hurts. There will be a hole in many lives because of it but we all know Matt knew God . Matt excepted his salvation through Jesus and has now recieved the prize.
Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.