Wednesday, January 19, 2011

God Is For You!

God is for me.” Can you make that statement with a deep sense of certainty? He is, you know. When things are going the way you want, God is for you. When life seems to be falling apart, God is for you. When the Philistines chased David down in Gath, he wrote, “This I know, that God is for me” (Psalm 56:9). What a time to make a declaration like that!

Many of us have found ourselves in a place similar to David’s situation at times. Life is closing in . . . the enemy seems to have us cornered and there appears to be no way out. Pleasant circumstances disappear before our eyes and the world turns dark.

At times like that, we may be tempted to cry out, “Why is God against me?” Not David. He assured himself with the truth, “God is for me.” He didn’t say, “This I feel, that God is for me.” There are many times in life that we don’t feel like God is for us. No, he said, “This I know, that God is for me.

Will you affirm this truth in your own life? God really is for you. Nothing can ever change His mind or heart toward you. If you are His child, His lovingkindness toward you will last forever. (Read Psalm 136 sometime!)

Circumstances may be suffocating you at times, but God is for you! Negative feelings may seem to be strangling you, but God is for you! Life may not make sense at a given moment, but God is for you! Trust Him. When you feel like you’re drowning in an ocean of problems, cling to your Heavenly Father. He will prove Himself strong in your life by assuring you of His love.

Your circumstances may or may not turn out like you want, but He will hold you in His loving and sovereign arms and gently whisper His love to you again and again. Sit in quietness for a moment and listen to his loving voice assure you of that fact until, like the Psalmist, you may say, “This is know, God is for me!”

5 comments:

  1. Romans Eight says, "If God be for you, who CAN be against you." "They shall be as this Philistine," David declared. If we would learn contentment and how we be loved in God's embrace we'd be invincible like the Shepherd boy David (without Saul's armor - the flesh way,) and circumstances wouldn't get in the way of growing praise for God even when things go our way and when they do not. Praise is the answer to help us trust and obey and to live in the Spirit! Nothing simplistic just a faithful God our shelter, high tower, deliverer, our very present help in time of need.. Dave

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  2. Hi Steve,
    Thanks for your words of encouragements,I appreciate that!
    Peter

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  3. God can't help us when we're full of ourselves. Spiritually meditating on God and what Jesus did on the cross, we can fight the Lord's battles. For God is FOR us, & let us not get in His way so He can accomplish!

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  4. And one other thing, perfection of love casts out fear! And if God be For us, who can stop us or what can stand against?!

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  5. Anonymous7:00 PM

    What I find hard is when I'm facing troubles due to my own sin. I find it hard to believe God is for me then.

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