Wednesday, February 5, 2014
God Battles For Us
When we are fighting the enemy of our lives, the dark spiritual forces that exist today, we can know that God will fight for us. God is in the process of restoring all things. He will, in His time, create a rightness in this earth. During that process, we can call to God for our well being.
Psalms 119:153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
The psalmist is calling out to God for deliverance from affliction, stating that he is one that always remembers the law. As believers we have the law written in our hearts, which is the new covenant. As a result we could call out to God in the same way, saying in a different way the same ending, that we are His. The Hebrew for plead my cause could also be “grapple (wrestle) with my enemy”. The write is acting as if He and God are a tag team, and he just tagged God to go in and fight the enemy. Two things. Yes, we are in a tag team with God. Second, when we tag God and He jumps in the ring, game over! God beats down all evil every time. Then the word “quicken” means to bring alive. Literally we gain life – wholeness – by tagging God and asking Him to fight for us. When we view this entire section of Psalms 119 in this way, it becomes an amazing battle cry to God to fight for us, and to deliver us fro our enemies.
Psalms 119:RESH.
153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
156 Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy judgments.
157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness.
160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Today, let’s call out to God and tag Him to jump in the ring. He will deliver us and give us life!
Prayer
Father, we praise and exalt You. Thank You for being our deliverer. We remember Your new covenant, the law written in our heart through repentance and belief in Your Son, Jesus (Yeshua). We ask that You forgive us when we get that messed up. We ask today that You give us life. We ask today that You destroy our enemies and their works in our lives. Please give us our deliverance, our healing, and our provision for today that all men may know that you alone are God. In Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name. Amen.