Psalms 91 for true believers during shaking and birth pains

[Worship Warriors]

1 hour ago, Jostler said:

i think there's another 'indicator' in that passage too, other than the ones you highlighted:

 

If you are dwelling in the secret place,  the implication is that you have set your love on him and that you know his name. 

It all about the kind of lifestyle you had in the past. Have you build up an history of prayer  in God and study of scripture like Daniel did.   Those who know their God will be strong and do exploit when trouble comes. A crash course now is not going to deliver you out of the lions den.

I am amazed how the churches are asking people to open up their homes to listen to their online sermon and collect the thithes and offering. But when it comes to having an all night prayer meeting in a home with other believers, they tell you to go online and join an online prayer meeting for 1 hr or go and pray in your house yourself for 1 hr.

They have removed prayer out of the church all together.  But the traditional church service yet continues in  the home meeting. 

 

 

 

Edited March 23, 2020 by Worship Warriors

[Jostler]

He is going to restore prayer to His House.  We can bet on it.  It's happening.   This little season of hiding in our rooms (Isaiah 26) is not something that concerns me, it is only a season, and when it passes what we know as "church" will be gone, and it isn't coming back.  What HE knows as HIS church, is about to get very, very busy....it's an amazing, exciting time to be alive.

That "inner room" experience is necessary, and we do well to use the time wisely.  Some will begin to realize past apathy will be deadly in the future and will reach for Him, in prayer and in the Word.  Some will reach for entertainment to wile away the hours and boredom.  Netflix isn't going to help us in coming days, but knowing Him more intimately will.  Choose life.

There is going to be a lot of mercy and grace available to those who repent and realize they have not lived His life, but their own.   There is time left yet for restoration, but none left to waste. 

The choices we are making now, day by day, are going to determine whether we survive, thrive or end up going home early....race unfinished, rewards lost...forever.  It's a very  serious, sobering time.

Edited March 23, 2020 by Jostler

[Worship Warriors]

7 minutes ago, Jostler said:

He is going to restore prayer to His House.  We can bet on it.  It's happening.   This little season of hiding in our rooms (Isaiah 26) is not something that concerns me, it is only a season, and when it passes what we know as "church" will be gone, and it isn't coming back.  What HE knows as His church, is about to get very, very busy....it's an amazing, exciting time to be alive.

Amen. It's what I am longing for. The Lord gave me a vision of it when I was a young Christian and I have always wanted to be part of what I saw. I saw the church moving forward as an awesome  army filled with his glory and his power, unmovable UNSHAKABLE  , the gates of hell could not prevail against it.

[Neighbor]

^{Psalm 91: 9&10 KJV9} Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

¹⁰ There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

 

From exposition of the Word of God from Rev. Charles Spurgeon  comes this assessment of verse 9 & 10:

Verses 9-10. Before expounding these verses I cannot refrain from recording a personal incident illustrating their power to soothe the heart, when they are applied by the Holy Spirit. In the year 1854, when I had scarcely been in London twelve months, the neighbourhood in which I laboured was visited by Asiatic cholera, and my congregation suffered from its inroads. Family after family summoned me to the bedside of the smitten, and almost every day I was called to visit the grave. I gave myself up with youthful ardour to the visitation of the sick, and was sent for from all corners of the district by persons of all ranks and religions. I became weary in body and sick at heart. My friends seemed falling one by one, and I felt or fancied that I was sickening like those around me. A little more work and weeping would have laid me low among the rest; I felt that my burden was heavier than I could bear, and I was ready to sink under it. As God would have it, I was returning mournfully home from a funeral, when my curiosity led me to read a paper which was wafered up in a shoemaker's window in the Dover Road. It did not look like a trade announcement, nor was it, for it bore in a good bold handwriting these words:

Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. The effect upon my heart was immediate. Faith appropriated the passage as her own. I felt secure, refreshed, girt with immortality. I went on with my visitation of the dying in a calm and peaceful spirit; I felt no fear of evil, and I suffered no harm. The providence which moved the tradesman to place those verses in his window I gratefully acknowledge, and in the remembrance of its marvellous power I adore the Lord my God. The psalmist in these verses assures the man who dwells in God that he shall be secure. Though faith claims no merit of its own, yet the Lord rewards it wherever he sees it. He who makes God his refuge shall find him a refuge; he who dwells in God shall find his dwelling protected. We must make the Lord our habitation by choosing him for our trust and rest, and then we shall receive immunity from harm; no evil shall touch us personally, and no stroke of judgment shall assail our household. The dwellinghere intended by the original was only a tent, yet the frail covering would prove to be a sufficient shelter from harm of all sorts. It matters little whether our abode be a gypsy's hut or a monarch's palace if the soul has made the Most High its habitation. Get into God and you dwell in all good, and ill is banished far away. It is not because we are perfect or highly esteemed among men that we can hope for shelter in the day of evil, but because our refuge is the Eternal God, and our faith has learned to hide beneath his sheltering wing.

"For this no ill thy cause shall daunt,
No scourge thy tabernacle haunt."

It is impossible that any ill should happen to the man who is beloved of the Lord; the most crushing calamities can only shorten his journey and hasten him to his reward. Ill to him is no ill, but only good in a mysterious form. Losses enrich him, sickness is his medicine, reproach is his honour, death is his gain. No evil in the strict sense of the word can happen to him, for everything is overruled for good. Happy is he who is in such a case. He is secure where others are in peril, he lives where others die.

 See http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/treasury/ps091.htm for exposition  by Rev. Spurgeon  on the entirety  of Psalm 91

[Neighbor]

2 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

It is impossible that any ill should happen to the man who is beloved of the Lord; the most crushing calamities can only shorten his journey and hasten him to his reward. Ill to him is no ill, but only good in a mysterious form. Losses enrich him, sickness is his medicine, reproach is his honour, death is his gain. No evil in the strict sense of the word can happen to him, for everything is overruled for good. Happy is he who is in such a case. He is secure where others are in peril, he lives where others die.

 

Actually  Neighbor merely quotes what Rev. Spurgeon noted as exposition of God's psalm 91, bringing understanding to the word, much as Philip brought clarity to the word for the benefit of the Ethiopian seeking understanding of God's word.

[Neighbor]

Philippians 3 King James Version (KJV)

3 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

² Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

³ For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

⁴ Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

⁵ Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

⁶ Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

⁷ But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

⁸ Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

⁹ And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

¹⁰ That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

¹¹ If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

¹² Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

¹⁶ Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

¹⁷ Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

¹⁸ (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

¹⁹ Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

²⁰ For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

²¹ Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

 

[Desopixi Seilynam]

Another one, that also answers the discussion here;

"No weapon formed against you shall prosper.... this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me says the Lord." Isaiah 54:17.

Dear ones,  the fear being hyped is a weapon formed against us. No weapon formed shall prevail against the servants of the Lord. 

How can we be sure that we are servants of the Lord? By serving Him. How do we serve Him? By loving Him. What does He want us to do to show our love?

Listen to and obey Him; John 14:15-23, Matthew 7:12-28, 1 John 2:3-4, 2 John 1:9-10, 1 Corinthians 16:22 + John 14:21, 2 Corinthians 5:15, Galatians 5:14-24, 1 Tim 6:3-14, 2 Tim 2:19.

[Jayne]

I have have trouble getting on Worthy all morning.

I do not believe that God promised Christians to never get sick, never have problems, or never go through trying times.

Psalm 91 contains the scripture that the devil cited to Jesus to trick him.  He told Jesus to get up on top of the Temple and to jump off.  He said that God promised not to let even his foot be harmed because the angels would catch him.

The devil abused that scripture.  How many missionaries have died violently?  How many great and godly people have gotten sick with horrible illness and died?  Countless.

The purpose and intent of psalm 91 is to teach that those who are TRULY living and dwelling with God - for real - not for pretense, even to themselves - don't have to fear troubles because they are his.  Even if a Christian who TRULY dwells with God catches the corona virus or any dread disease and even dies - what harm did they REALLY come to?  They are now at home with God.

Paul explains it better than me in Romans 8.  And Paul and the author of Psalm 91 do not contradict each other.  

 "As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us" 

[vic66]

10 hours ago, Jostler said:

so what is the missed point?  how is believing in what He has said somehow abusing the Scriptures?

AMEN

[vic66]

On 3/23/2020 at 11:06 AM, Worship Warriors said:

If you are dwelling in the secret place,  the implication is that you have set your love on him and that you know his name. 

It all about the kind of lifestyle you had in the past. Have you build up an history of prayer  in God and study of scripture like Daniel did.   Those who know their God will be strong and do exploit when trouble comes. A crash course now is not going to deliver you out of the lions den.

I am amazed how the churches are asking people to open up their homes to listen to their online sermon and collect the thithes and offering. But when it comes to having an all night prayer meeting in a home with other believers, they tell you to go online and join an online prayer meeting for 1 hr or go and pray in your house yourself for 1 hr.

They have removed prayer out of the church all together.  But the traditional church service yet continues in  the home meeting. 

 

 

 

Praise the Lord your standing up for the truth of real cooperate prayer meeting