OUR HELP IS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD

FRIDAY, 3RD NOVEMBER, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC: OUR HELP IS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD

MEMORIZE: “Our help is in the name of the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.” Psalms 124:8

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalms 124:6-8.

“Blessed be the LORD, Who has not given us as prey to their teeth. 7 Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; The snare is broken, and we have escaped. 8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.”

EXPOSITION:

Blessed be the Lord - Psalm 124:6. God is the author of all our deliverances, and therefore he must have the glory of them. We rob him of his due if we do not return thanks to him. And we are the more obliged to praise him because we had such a narrow escape.  We were delivered, 

1. Like a lamb out of the very jaws of a beast of prey: God has not given us as a prey to their teeth, intimating that the enemies had no power over God's people but what was given them from above. God’s people could not be a prey to the teeth of their enemies unless God gave them up, and therefore they were rescued, because God would not suffer his people to be ruined. 

2. Like a bird, a little bird (the word signifies a sparrow), out of the snare of the fowler. The enemies are very subtle and spiteful; they lay snares for God's people, to bring them into sin and trouble, and to hold them there.  Sometimes they seem to have prevailed so far as to gain their point. God's people are taken in the snare, and are as unable to help themselves out as any weak and silly bird is; and then is God's time to appear for their relief, when all other friends fail; then God breaks the snare, and turns the counsel of the enemies into foolishness: The snare is broken and so we are delivered. Isaac was saved when he lay ready to be sacrificed. Jehovah-jireh--in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. 

Our hearts, and the hearts of others is hereby encouraged to trust in God in the times of dangers – “Our help is in the name of the Lord.” Ps. 124:8. David had directed us to depend upon God for help as to our personal concerns — “My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth - Psalm 121:2.  It is a comfort to all that lay the interests of God's Israel near their hearts that Israel's God is the same that made the world, and therefore will have a church in the world, and can secure that church in times of the greatest danger and distress. In him therefore let the church put her confidence, and not be put to confusion. 

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, prevent/deliver me from the snare of the enemies in Jesus name.

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ANCHOR OF LIFE is the daily devotional guide written by PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE, General Overseer, Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l. It is an extraction of God’s word designed to draw the sincere seekers closer to God on a daily basis through an insightful exposition and analysis of God’s Word. 

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