DAVID ASSURES HIMSELF OF HELP FROM GOD

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE for FRIDAY, 16TH  DECEMBER, 2022.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Topic: DAVID ASSURES HIMSELF OF HELP FROM GOD

MEMORIZE: “"Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.” Psalm 12:1

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 12:1-5.

"Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak. May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things, Who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; Who is lord over us?" "For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now I will arise," says the LORD; "I will set him in the safety for which he yearns."

EXPOSITION:

We must see all our help laid up in God, in his power and goodness, his providence and grace; and from him we must expect it to come: "My help comes from the Lord; the help I desire is what he sends, and from him I expect it in his own way and time. If he do not help, no creature can help; if he do, no creature can hinder, can hurt." Psalm 121:1-2.

We must fetch in help from God, by faith in his promises, and a due regard to all his institutions: "I will lift up my eyes to the hills" (probably he meant the hills on which the temple was built, Mount Moriah, and the holy hill of Zion, where the ark of the covenant, the oracle, and the altars were); "I will have an eye to the special presence of God in his church, and with his people (his presence by promise) and not only to his common presence." 

When he was at a distance he would look towards the sanctuary; thence comes our help, from the word and prayer, from the secret of his tabernacle. “Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry to You, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.” Ps 28:2; “O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of Hermon, From the Hill Mizar.” Ps 42:6. David said, My help cometh from the Lord (so the word is, Ps 121:2), from before the Lord, or from the sight and presence of the Lord. "This (says Dr. Hammond) may refer to Christ incarnate, with whose humanity the Deity being inseparably united, God is always present with him, and, through him, with us, for whom, sitting at God's right hand, he constantly maketh intercession." Christ is called the angel of his presence, that saved his people. “In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the Angel of His Presence saved them; In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them and carried them All the days of old.” Isaiah 63:9.

We must encourage our confidence in God with this that he made heaven and earth, and he who did that can do anything. He made the world out of nothing, himself alone, by a word's speaking, in a little time, and all very good, very excellent and beautiful; and therefore, how great soever our straits and difficulties are, he has power sufficient for our succour and relief. He that made heaven and earth is sovereign Lord of all the hosts of both, and can make use of them as he pleases for the help of his people, and restrain them when he pleases from hurting his people. 

PRAYER POINTS: Lord, send me your help right now and save me from the harassment of the enemies in Jesus name.

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DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Hebrews 11-13.