Prepare: What do you do when it looks like God is on the side of the enemy?
Read: Psalm 44:1-26
The nation was facing a crisis, and it seemed that God had forsaken his people and was helping the enemy. Israel was a scattered people, shamed and scorned.
You remember what God did: This does not mean living in the past but learning from the past. Your situation maybe painful, but God has not changed. He is still the God of miracles.
You trust in Him: If you trust your own resources, you will fail. Sometimes God allows defeat just to remind you that you must trust Him and Him alone.
You remain faithful to Him, come what may: Like the average person who is cast down and finds it hard to get his prayers answered, the psalmist accuses God wrongfully and maintains innocence for himself. Here the psalmist brags about his own faithfulness to God and his clean living, Remember Satan's lie about Job?Is ours a "commercial faith"? Are you faithful to God only because He does good things for you? God tests your faith to see if it is sincere.
The psalmist had the boldness and rashness to ask God to awake and arise to help him, after he had accused God of dealing with him unjustly. Oswald Chambers said, that "when a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself. "
Respond: Trust Him even though you may not fully understand what He is doing.
Read: Psalm 44:1-26
The nation was facing a crisis, and it seemed that God had forsaken his people and was helping the enemy. Israel was a scattered people, shamed and scorned.
You remember what God did: This does not mean living in the past but learning from the past. Your situation maybe painful, but God has not changed. He is still the God of miracles.
You trust in Him: If you trust your own resources, you will fail. Sometimes God allows defeat just to remind you that you must trust Him and Him alone.
You remain faithful to Him, come what may: Like the average person who is cast down and finds it hard to get his prayers answered, the psalmist accuses God wrongfully and maintains innocence for himself. Here the psalmist brags about his own faithfulness to God and his clean living, Remember Satan's lie about Job?Is ours a "commercial faith"? Are you faithful to God only because He does good things for you? God tests your faith to see if it is sincere.
The psalmist had the boldness and rashness to ask God to awake and arise to help him, after he had accused God of dealing with him unjustly. Oswald Chambers said, that "when a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself. "
Respond: Trust Him even though you may not fully understand what He is doing.
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