THE AMAZING PRESENCE OF GOD - Part 1

WEDNESDAY, 1ST NOVEMBER, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC: THE AMAZING PRESENCE OF GOD - Part 1

MEMORIZE: " When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.” Isaiah 43:2.

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 124:1-5.

"If it had not been the LORD who was on our side," Let Israel now say- 2 "If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, When men rose up against us, 3 Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us; 4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our soul; 5 Then the swollen waters Would have gone over our soul."

EXPOSITION:

You are welcome to the month of November, 2023. Today, we want to examine the word of God in Psalm 124. In this Scripture, the people of God are called upon to praise God for their deliverance, and are to take notice of the malice of men, by which they were reduced to the very brink of ruin. Israel says that there was but a step between them and death: the more desperate the disease appears to have been, the more does the skill of the Physician appear in the cure.

Let us look deeper into the Scripture to examine the situation they found themselves.

WHERE DID THE THREATENING DANGER CAME FROM? 

Men rose up against us, creatures of our own kind, and yet bent upon our ruin. Man is a wolf to man. No marvel that the red dragon, the roaring lion, should seek to swallow us up; but that men should thirst after the blood of men, Absalom after the blood of his own father, that a woman should be drunk with the blood of saints, is what we may wonder at with great admiration. From men we may expect humanity, yet there are those whose tender mercies are cruel. But what was the matter with these men?  Why their wrath was kindled against us (Ps 124:3); something or other they were angry at, and then no less would serve than the destruction of those they had conceived a displeasure against. Wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous. Their wrath was kindled as fire ready to consume us. They were proud; and the wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. They were daring in their attempt; they rose up against us, rose in rebellion, with a resolution to swallow us up alive. 

 

HOW FAR IT WENT, AND HOW FATAL IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IF IT HAD GONE A LITTLE FURTHER?

 "We should have been devoured as a lamb by a lion, not only slain, but swallowed up, so that there would have been no relics of us remaining, swallowed up with so much haste, ere we were aware, that we should have gone down alive to the pit. We should have been deluged as the low grounds by a land-flood or the sands by a high spring-tide." 

This similitude he dwells upon, with the ascents which bespeak this a song of degrees, or risings, like the rest. The waters had overwhelmed us. What of us? Why the stream had gone over our souls, our lives, our comforts, all that is dear to us.  What waters?  Why the proud waters. God suffers the enemies of his people sometimes to prevail very far against them, that his own power may appear the more illustrious in their deliverance. 

PRAYER POINT:  Appreciate God for His love and presence with us in the evil days.

ii. Pray that God’s presence will not depart from you when enemies rise up against you like a flood or whirlwind in Jesus name.

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