GOD, ANSWER YOUR NAME - 2

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For THURSDAY, 16TH MARCH, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: GOD! ANSWER YOUR NAME – PART 2

MEMORIZE: “'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'” — Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV)

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 91:14-16.

"14 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. 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation."

EXPOSITION:

The name of God is Strong and Mighty. Knowing Him by His name is the starting point of having relationship with Him. In Psalm 91:14-15, God himself speaks words of comfort to the saints, declaring the mercy he had in store for them, Ps 91:14-16.  Some make this to be spoken to the angels as the reason of the charge given them concerning the saints, as if he had said, "Take care of them, for they are dear to me, and I have a tender concern for them."

TO WHOM DO THESE PROMISES BELONG; They Are Described By Three Characters:

(a) They are such as know God's name. His nature we cannot fully know; but by his name he has made himself known, and with that we must acquaint ourselves. 

(b) They are such as have set their love upon him; and those who rightly know him will love him, will place their love upon him as the only adequate object of it, will let out their love towards him with pleasure and enlargement, and will fix their love upon him with a resolution never to remove it to any rival. 

(c) They are such as call upon him, as by prayer keep up a constant correspondence with him, and in every difficult case refer themselves to him. 

2. WHAT THE PROMISES WHICH GOD MAKES TO THE SAINTS. 

 

(1.) That he will, in due time, deliver them out of trouble: I will deliver him (Ps 91:14 and again Ps 91:15), denoting a double deliverance, living and dying, a deliverance in trouble and a deliverance out of trouble. If God proportions the degree and continuance of our troubles to our strength, if he keeps us from offending him in our troubles, and makes our death our discharge, at length, from all our troubles, then this promise is fulfilled. See Ps 34:19; 2Ti 3:1; 4:18. 

 

(2.) That he will, in the mean time, be with them in trouble, Ps 91:15. If he does not immediately put a period to their afflictions, yet they shall have his gracious presence with them in their troubles; he will take notice of their sorrows, and know their souls in adversity, will visit them graciously by his word and Spirit, and converse with them, will take their part, will support and comfort them, and sanctify their afflictions to them, which will be the surest token of his presence with them in their troubles. 

(3.) That herein he will answer their prayers: He shall call upon me; I will pour upon him the spirit of prayer, and then I will answer, answer by promises Ps 85:8, answer by providence, bringing in seasonable relief, and answer by graces, strengthening them with strength in their souls Ps 138:3; thus he answered Paul with grace sufficient, 2Co 12:9. 

(4.) That he will exalt and dignify them: I will set him on high, out of the reach of trouble, above the stormy region, on a rock above the waves, Isa 33:16. They shall be enabled, by the grace of God, to look down upon the things of this world with a holy contempt and indifference, to look up to the things of the other world with a holy ambition and concern; and then they are set on high. I will honour him; those are truly honourable whom God puts honour upon by taking them into covenant and communion with himself and designing them for his kingdom and glory, Joshua 12:24. 

(5.) That they shall have a sufficiency of life in this world Psalm 91:16: With length of days will I satisfy him; that is, They shall live long enough: they shall be continued in this world till they have done the work they were sent into this world for and are ready for heaven. 

 (6.) That they shall have an eternal life in the other world.  This crowns the blessedness: I will show him my salvation, show him the Messiah (so some); good old Simeon was then satisfied with long life when he could say, My eyes have seen thy salvation,

ACTION  POINT: Call unto God today and God shall answer you in Jesus name. 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  1 Samuel 4-6.

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