GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS GIVEN US PSALM 46 AND 146 IN WHICH HE DESCRIBED THE LORD’S JOB DESCRIPTION
- LET US READ PSALM 146 AGAIN
- NOW PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING VERSES:
- “Which executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners: The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.” PSALM 146:7-9
- THIS IS WHAT HE INTENDS TO KEEP DOING IN OUR LIVES TILL OUR UNDERSTANDING IS OPEN
- OUR UNDERSTANDING MUST BE OPEN TO KNOW WHO HE REALLY IS TO US EXODUS 3:7-9,17
- IT IMPORTANT THAT WE BE ON THE SAME PAGE WITH GOD.
- IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE BELIEVE THAT HE SEES OUR PAIN
- NOW AFFLICTIONS AND PERSECUTIONS ARE PART AND PARCEL OF CHRISTIANITY.PS 34 19:2 TIM 3:11;2 TIM 4:1-5
- THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF AFFLICTION DEUT 16:11 (POVERTY OR JOBLESSNESS)
- 1 SAMUEL 16:11 ( BARENESS OR LONELINESS)
- 2 SAMUEL 16: 11 ( INSULTS,CURSES ,BETRAYAL ALL FORMS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE)
- WAR,FAMINE ,,SICKNESSES,DISEAESES AL FORMS OF TRIBULATIONS
- BUT THE LORD WILL DELIVER US FROM THEM ALL IF WE KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THAT HE SEES THEM ALL AND CARES
- JESUS WARNS US IN THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER THAT MANY WILL BE OFFENDED BY THE AFFLICTION AND PERSECUTION THAT ARISE BECAUSE OF THE WORD .MARK 4: 17
- AND SO THEY WILL BE UNFRUITFUL
- BUT 1 THESS 3:3 SAYS NO ONE SHOULD BE MOVED BY THESE AFFLICTIONS
- YOU MUST JUST LEARN TO RESIST THE DEVIL AND WALK IN VICTORY 1 PETER 5:8-9
- YOU MUST ALWAYS BE HOPEFUL AND UNDERSTAND THAT THE LORD WILL DELIVER YOU FROM EVERY AFFLICTION
- ESPECIALLY IF YOU WILL CRY TO HIM PS 25:18;PS 119:153
- THE LORD IS MERCIFUL AND FULL OF COMPASSION FOR ALL WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM AND CALL ON HIM GEN 16:11;GEN 29:32;GEN31:42
- WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE LORD ALSO SUFFERS WHENEVER WE SUFFER ISA 63:9
- HE IS OUR REFUGE,OUR ROCK ,OUR STRONGHOLD AND OUR VERY PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE PRAISE THE LORD
- IT IMPORTANT THAT WE BELIEVE HIM AND WORSHIP HIM TILL OUR DELIVERANCE WILL MANIFEST EXODUS 4:29-31
- LET US READ 2 COR 4:8-10;14-18
- FINALLY LET US HEAR FROM APOSTLE PAUL ACTS 20:17-23