DELIVERED FROM DESTRUCTION

Psalm 107:20

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

Here in Psalm 107:20 God very specifically tells us that we have been delivered (past tense) from destruction and made whole.  He tells us how He did it.  He sent His Word.  We can look at that in two ways.  He sent His Word, Jesus, Who is called the Word.  He is the living Word.  He sent His Word, the living, breathing Bible which is made alive by the Holy Spirit.  I believe in my heart that both meanings are applied here.

The word healed in this passage means cure, make whole.  The word destruction is pitfall.  God is saying to us that we have been delivered from every pitfall, every destruction that satan would send our way.  We have already been delivered before we even encounter it.  What a way to live!  Living in the deliverance mode!

If you look up the word destruction or destroy in the dictionary you find that it means to lay waste, to ruin, to bring to naught, to annihilate, to kill, to take away, to cause to cease, to put to an end.  In other words God has already delivered you and me from anything that would lay waste and put an end to our lives, our dreams, our finances, our health, our families, our marriages.  Whatever it is that is formed against you as a weapon has already been destroyed before it is even wielded against you.  Wow!  That is good news!

Then in the same chapter in Psalm 107:2, Amplified Bible  we read this:

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary.

You are I have been redeemed from everything that would destroy us.  That word redeemed means delivered, set free from whatever is holding us back, whatever prison we are in.

What are we supposed to do about that redemption?  Say so.  Say:  I have been redeemed, delivered from destruction.  I have been redeemed from any plan the devil would send against me.  I am redeemed from sickness and disease, poverty, lack, failure, depression, evil addictions and bondages.  I’m the redeemed of the Lord and I say so!  I have been delivered from destruction.  I have been delivered from the hand (the power, the strength) of the enemy (one opposed to me who has enmity against me, that is, the devil).

I’M THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD AND I SAY SO!  GOD SENT HIS WORD AND MADE ME WHOLE AND I HAVE BEEN DELIVERED FROM DESTRUCTION!

HOLY-SPIRIT DIRECTED

Based on Galatians 5:16,18, 22-25, Amplified Bible, let’s make a good confession for our day.

I am born again.

Therefore, I have the Holy Spirit living in me, with all His fruit or the forces of His Spirit residing in my spirit.

I walk and live habitually controlled by and guided by the Holy Spirit.

Then I will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of my flesh, my human nature without God.

I am guarded, led by the Holy Spirit.

I belong to Christ Jesus, the Messiah, and have crucified the flesh, my godless human nature, with its passions and appetites and desires.

I live by the Holy Spirit and walk by the Spirit.

By the power of the Holy Spirit I have my life in God; I go forward walking in line, my conduct controlled by the Spirit.

Now, take a moment, take a deep breath, and think about Jesus.  He will put all things into perspective for us.  Stop, consider Him, give your day to Him and He will help you to do all things well and in a peaceful state.

I AM HOLY SPIRIT DIRECTED TODAY!

IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE

I am sure that many of you are familiar with the scripture in John 14:2 where Jesus told us that in His Father’s house are many mansions.  If it were not so, He would have told us otherwise.  He has gone and prepared a place for us.  He said that He would come again and receive us to Himself, that where He is, there we may be also.

In Hebrews 3:6 we read that Christ is faithful over His own Father’s house as a Son and Master of it.  It is we who are now members of that house, if we hold our joyful and exultant confidence and sense of triumph in our hope in Christ.

As I looked at these two verses yesterday, which are very much connected, God showed me something about Father’s house and mansions.

House here is the Greek word oikia which means residence, abode and by implication, family.  It is from the Greek word oikos which means dwelling.

Mansion is mone which comes from meno which means a staying, that is, residence, abode, mansion; to stay in a given place, state, relation or expectancy.

What we see here is that Jesus was telling us:  Where My Father lives, there are many residences for us as His family.  We will dwell in them with Him in the place that He has prepared for us.  Jesus has promised us that He will come again and receive us to Himself.  Where He is, we may be also.

We are the Father’s house also.  God dwells in us and we dwell in Him.  Where He is, we are as His children.  Our little brain finds it hard to wrap around this truth.  We are with Him right now in heaven.  He is with us right now on earth.  We are together.  This is why we can hold our joy and confidence and triumph firm to the end.  Our hope is in Christ, the Anointed One and His anointing, His power, His ability.  He is our hope.  He is our dwelling place.

WE ARE IN OUR FATHER’S HOUSE RIGHT NOW BY VIRTUE OF BEING IN CHRIST JESUS!