4)
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me:
my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5)
I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine
iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD;
and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6)
For this shall every one that is godly pray
unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely
in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
7)
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt
compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8)
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the
way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
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order to receive deliverance, we must acknowledge first that we are in trouble.
This is the first step to getting help.
David
understood this fact, In that he was able to obtain deliverance, he expressed
appreciation to His Deliverer. The entire purpose of David’s songs was to give
praise to God. The suggestion to the reader is that one can get “deliverance
help” by offering praise to God.
Undeniably,
the Enemy works hard at getting us to focus on “self.” He does this to keep us
from focusing on and praising God—for he knows that there lies
our deliverance. To distract us he gets us to focus on who has “done us wrong”
and why they shouldn’t have. Just think of our state if we would focus on the
fact that we have been delivered from sin!
Generally,
we are bound by our manner of thinking. When we begin to look at our individual
situation and begin to accept things personal, we get further into oppression
with every new occurrence in our lives. The only proven remedy to this problem
is to learn to give selfless praise to God.
As the
people of God, we must acknowledge deliverance and we must acknowledge the fact
that through the Lord’s death, we have been granted deliverance from all things
for all time. Nothing that we are willing to turn over to the Lord is to be
reckoned a problem. We must always remember that the “way out” so fervently
sought, is praise to God.
Encouraging
ourselves in praising God is not meant to suggest that objectionable” things
will not occur—for they will. However, the reality of all those situations is
that we have already been delivered from them.
All of the
praising that we are asked to do is not just for the benefit of a jealous God.
After all, it is born out in scripture that no one can give God praise
continually and something not happen in his life.
We would be
greatly helped by being willing to accept that there is someone greater than
our every problem. When we agree to and practice praising the Lord, then and
only then will He be first and foremost on our minds.
The
deliverance that He has effected for us covers all
situations and circumstances. In that we belong to Him, we must be a testimony
to the rest of the world that “Because I am already delivered, I will not go
back to bondage.” We must learn to sing the “songs of deliverance”—the praises
given to us by the God who loves us; the God who does not expect us to waste
time on trying to “handle” that which is already completed, but rather, He
expects us to occupy ourselves with winning souls to Himself.
We are given
all answers to all things that we might be prepared to glorify God. But, you
see, when we choose not to glorify Him, we end up in bondage to whatever draws
our attention away. Bondage, then, is a product of our own free will.
Today, man
is looking for deliverance everywhere but through Jesus. He is where deliverance
lies. Praising Him like one “means it” and not just out of habit is what will
actuate deliverance in the life of the saint. Isn’t it a little ridiculous
to be “weighed down” by that which is not even supposed to be a factor in
our lives?