Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | September 1, 2020 | LESSONS FROM PSALMS | Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. – Psalms 62:8

Dearly beloved, all glory and honor to our gracious, glorious, holy and eternal loving Father in heaven and our most compassionate Redeemer and Lord, for seeing us all through the first eight months of this year and even to outlive the deadly COVID 19 PANDEMIC, with members of our family. If our Lord tarries , He shall see us all through this year safe and sound in Jesus name.

In the name of Jesus, our Lord, I welcome you and your family into the ninth month, your own month of all round divine lifting. It shall be so in Jesus name.

As you step into this ninth month and beyond resolve determindly to have absolute faith in God alone to address your light afflictions till Christ comes.

LESSONS FROM PSALMS | Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. – Psalms 62:8

Interestingly, the Bible refer to your present travails and challenges as light afflictions and common temptation. See them.

2Co 4:16 — 2Co 4:18 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

The reason for this is because you have a trustworthy, dependable and unfailing God with invincible power always willing to help you address these light afflictions. See what the scriptures says about Him.

Psa 22:4 — Psa 22:5 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

Isa 26:3 — Isa 26:4 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

Isaiah 50:10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light?let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

LESSONS FROM PSALMS | Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. – Psalms 62:8

Beloved brethren see how saints in Bible days, trusted in Him alone and were not disappointed.

1. The church trusted the Lord and prayed to Him alone and the good Lord set Peter free, before Herod could kill him.

Act 12:1 — Act 12:11 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him. And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

2. The Lord did not abandoned the three Hebrews in the furnace of fire. He was there with them and delivered them.

Dan 3:24 — Dan 3:30 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire. And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them. Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.

LESSONS FROM PSALMS | Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. – Psalms 62:8

3. The Lord was with Daniel in the den of lions and brought Him out again safe and sound.

Dan 6:19 — Dan 6:23 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt. Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.

Remember the proviso, if in deed you are trusting God alone, you will not be running up and down, leaning on the arms of flesh, but you will continue to pray to Him alone, like the church in Jerusalem did, till Peter was delivered.

Psalms 62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Go henceforth and do likewise.

LESSONS FROM PSALMS | Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. – Psalms 62:8

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