🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
“I will call on God, and the Lord will rescue me.
Morning, noon, and night I cry out in my distress, and the Lord hears my voice. He ransoms me and keeps me safe from the battle waged against me.” -Psalm 55:16-18
🌿BELIEVE TRUTH 🌿
Saturday morning. Library morning with our kids. Today, we ran into one of the librarians who I’ve prayed with in the past. The last time we prayed together was the week of the one year anniversary of her son’s attempted suicide.
Today, I asked how her son was doing. Apparently, he had just attended a seminar given by a former pastor, now turned atheist. The atheist’s goal: to convince his audience to “unfollow” God.
Her son is a 28-year old engineer working in Alaska. He grew up in the church, but has struggled as an adult with faith in his heavenly Father.
We prayed over her son in the library. A few minutes later, she hurriedly came back and showed me her cell phone. A rare text message from her son immediately after we prayed. How our prayers reach God!
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This is our God. Great is your love poured out for us.
I will call on God. He will rescue me.
In the New American Standard Bible, the word “Father” appears 735 times in the Old Testament and 396 times in the New Testament.
When we call on God. He knows the steep precipices and rocky crags we’ve been experiencing. He knows the tricky terrains and terrifying trials we’ve been enduring. God the Father doesn’t leave His children behind. He is coming for us when we are in need. He is coming for our loved ones when they are lost.
God is the ultimate finder. He will find and rescue. He has a team of the Heavenly Hosts who are expertly equipped at seeking and searching. Their specialty is to do the Father’s will, go to unreachable spaces, and gather home, those far from home, in the remote and removed places.
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Morning, noon, night, I cry out in my distress, and the Lord hears my voice.
When the waves rise above us.
When the desert sand scorches under us.
When the mountains seem too high beyond us.
When the morning light doesn’t come for us.
When the noon sun burns its anger against us.
When the night sky appears too dark around us.
We cry out in our distress and duress. He takes what we can’t endure and what we don’t have. God sees our panic. He listens to our pleas. He positions Himself to respond.
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He ransoms me and keeps me safe from the battle waged against me.
God the Father sent His Son to take our place on the cross. From our enemy’s strongholds, He ransoms our life by giving up His Son’s life. He shields and shelters. He secures and saves. On this side of heaven, He delivers us from warfare we could never fight and face on our own.
This is our God. Great is your love poured out for us.
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Call out to God in your pain and amidst overwhelming pressure, stress and distress, crisis and complication.
Morning, noon, and evening. Spring, summer, fall, winter. In all times and all seasons of life.
God hears to help.
God responds to ransom.
God retrieves to resuscitate.
God is ready to rescue.
No force against you can overcome when the Real Truth is fighting for you and is with you.
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