1)
We have heard with our ears, O God, our
fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
2)
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy
hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the
people, and cast them out.
3)
For they got not the land in possession by
their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
4)
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances
for Jacob.
5)
Through thee will we push down our enemies:
through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
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hen
we read a command in the Word, we need to understand that it is not open for
debate or discussion. We are often quick to say that we are neither trying to
be God, nor equal to Him, yet we will quite easily voice our opinion on and
agreement or disagreement with what He require. It is proven that our
willingness to follow the dictates of God is based upon our assessment of what
relationship those dictates have to us.
The premier struggle that Man has with God and salvation is one of authority. That is, who will have it over us and how much. It seems as if once we feel we are able to think for ourselves, our life’s preoccupation becomes who will run my life and make my decisions. Actually, having this concern would be fine, if it were not for the fact that in our answer, we are always “king.” Obviously we and God cannot be :king” at the same time.
The
God that we serve never struggles with us for control or for us to submit to
Him. The one who will obey Him will know great deliverance, He who will not,
will remain bound. It’s as simple as that. No matter how hard we struggle and
how “tough” we stand, God is and always will be “in charge.”
Once
a situation is given to God and spoken to by Him it has changed—even if we have
not accepted that change. Non-acceptance of truth means that we persist in
living in what is not real while God has gone on moving in His reality.
Despite
the fact that our world presents itself as one in which our efforts really do
make a difference, in all of scripture, we find that God needs no one else to
accomplish His purpose. His plan revolves around Jesus Christ—and Him only. We
are used in the plan as helpers of Jesus Christ and one another. It is He who
“commands deliverances” that we might always be free to operate in that which
He has commended to us.
It
is a mistake to attempt to get God to “change” any situation. Of course, when
we think of “deliverance,” it is either in this sense or in the sense of
“getting out from under.” But, you see, deliverance is also “commanded” when we
are changed and the object of all allowed to come to us through God is that we
be changed first.
Many
of us need to be delivered from a preoccupation with what others think and feel
about us. What needs to be accepted in one’s spirit is that the only thing
important is what God says in our behalf and about us.
In
seeking deliverance, many err in thinking that the amount of time spent in
prayer and its frequency, is what moves God. By now, all of His people should
know that this is not so. This is about whether or not we believe Him.
Any
deliverances that have not been wrought for an
individual have simply not been accepted. What God has done, has been done
completely. There is no “lack” in anything already done or in anything to come.
In
this “modern” society, we are trying to get the Lord to accept that we trust
Him without giving Him any proof. For this, there is no excuse any “way” we
need made has already been made. There is nothing we go without,
we have whatever we are willing to accept of God.
“Acceptance”
is the key to all that we have been granted through the Lord. And once we have
accepted that we have already been delivered from all things, we will be able
to speak our deliverance into existence. Though deliverance is intangible, it
follows the same principle as the Holy Ghost, in that, though we may not know
from where He comes, we are able to feel His presence when He does come.
Also,
contrary to how we view deliverance, people are in need of being loosed from a
variety of things, including “people, attitudes and power, among others.
Instead of trying to deny and “hide” these dependencies and “weight,” we need
to acknowledge that we have a problem and then, determine to be rid of it. Here
is where the spiritual “men” are separated from the “boys,” for it takes
courage to confess a situation, forsake it ad accept deliverance. The question
is “Do you have what it takes?”
Or
reality is that we have power to command “it” to be so—whatever “it” may be. If
you are tired of being cast down, tired of being broke, then
exercise the power within you to change it. You were not saved to be cast down,
unhappy or broke. We were saved for joy—our joy and the joy that Jesus gained
in despising the shame of the Cross.
Overcoming
bondage is as easy as changing one’s mind. The change
that must take place must be from a mind operating on its own to a mind directed
by the Holy Spirit. Such a mind will think of Jesus first in all situations and
such a mind will be empowered through the “Lord, (to) command deliverances.” n