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Release God’s Power and Find True Help from Trouble
If we are believers in God, then we’ll certainly meet difficulties in our life that we don’t know how to handle. What can we do about them? Looking to man to help us will serve no purpose, because our real source of help comes from God alone. “Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man” (Psalm 60:11). While this primarily refers to earthly troubles, it also has to do with our salvation.
How many of us are always plotting and conspiring and trying to figure out just one more angle to make things work!
Our Trust is in Ourselves Alone
There are a multitude of troubles a lot of people are facing today that could overwhelm them. Many of us have already done all we can ourselves, but, more often than not, we put too much trust in ourselves alone. How many of us are always plotting and conspiring and trying to figure out just one more angle to make things work! Yet anything we do on our own will prove to be useless in the end and will not be of any real help from trouble.
Look to God for Help From Trouble
Instead of looking to man or ourselves, we should be looking to God. He’s the One we can call on anytime we’re in need of help. We ought to cry out to God and ask Him to work on our behalf. We should tell Him that we need to be delivered from our troubles—He won’t turn us aside. Let the Lord take over the situation completely.
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Yield Our Problems to the Lord and Trust Him
We need to simply yield all the issues of our life to the Lord and then trust Him totally with them. “…the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: He shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in Him” (Psalm 37:40). But when God is at work on our behalf, we shouldn’t quit what we were doing and simply fold our arms and watch. Since we’re now in His army, we need to take a bold stand ourselves. He has helped us in the past, so we should already be aware that He’ll be willing to give help from trouble again in the future.
Everything we manage to do well is actually done by His divine power or influence, because all power goes forth from Him.
Once we finally turn all of our life’s problems over to the Lord, and then put our total trust in Him to take care of them, how glorious it will be! If we’ll let God come to our rescue, then “through God we shall do valiantly: for He it is that shall tread down our enemies” (Psalm 60:12). Everything we manage to do well is actually done by His divine power or influence, because all power goes forth from Him.
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Call Out to the Lord, He Will Give you Help From Trouble
If you’re burdened with problems right now, there’s someone both willing and able to help you. This is your time to call out to the Lord! He can provide you with the courage and strength of purpose you need. He’ll give you help from trouble and relief during all of your anxiety. Then you’ll be able to stand back and see just how He brought you out of them.
We don’t need to drop back or be fearful for even a moment, because the kingdom is His.
We Do Not Have to be Overcome by Fear
The Lord is Almighty! We therefore have no need to be overcome by fear, or to be terrified of our enemies. The One Who’s with us is all powerful! He’ll hold us up. “I shall call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies” (Psalm 18:3). We don’t need to drop back or be fearful for even a moment, because the kingdom is His. And one day, He’ll rule over all nations, which will take place after “…the transgressors shall be destroyed together: [and] the end of the wicked shall be cut off” (Psalm 37:38). Ultimately, all honor will be given to Him.
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If we’ll just cry unto the Lord with all of our heart in our problems and troubles, He’ll bring us out. He’s our refuge, and He has our answer in every situation of genuine trouble. Once we cry unto Him, we can watch and see how He’ll bring us through. In the midst of our trouble, He’ll speak to us and tell us what to do.
Pray to the Lord Rather Than Trust in This World
Let’s ask the Lord to intervene and deliver us from all our troubles. The help of man won’t be of any benefit in the end. Therefore, instead of putting our full trust in man, let’s pray to the Lord with more confidence than we’ve ever had before! Whenever we are worried or disturbed, He’s the only One Who can provide help from trouble and bring us peace.
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February 24, 2023
“Come Unto Me”
When people come to Jesus Christ, the very first thing they will discover is a deep, beautiful peace inside. They won’t be able to tell what the reason is for it, but they do know that they feel good. They are no longer running from God or fighting Him. Instead, they begin to really understand Him. The Lord invites us into His own rest in the vastness of His love, and then He comes and dwells with us (see Hebrews 4). Jesus said, “Come unto Me…and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). He associates our lack of rest with a lack of God. It is not until we know God that we’ll ever know what true rest is.
All our resistance, fears, stubbornness and contrariness could be avoided—if we’d simply come to Him in the first place.
We need to come in the proper way, depending on God instead of ourself. But the only way we can come is helpless, weak and dependent on Him. He said, “My strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9). All our resistance, fears, stubbornness and contrariness could be avoided—if we’d simply come to Him in the first place.
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Little children thronged around Jesus, basking in the love and interest He showed to them. The disciples thought they were shielding Him when they told the parents not to bother the Lord with their children. But He told them to stop and let those little ones come to Him. He said to not forbid them, because of such is the kingdom of heaven. Then He laid His hands on the children and blessed them. Jesus was accessible to everyone, including little children. And we also need to come as a little child, be converted, and simply trust in Jesus. The only way we can become a child of God is through faith in Him.
A rich young ruler asked Jesus, “…what lack I yet?” He replied, “If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow Me” (Matthew 19:20-21). He basically meant, “If you want to be perfect, or complete, come follow Me. The rest is not as important.” We can’t have eternal life apart from following Jesus. He’ll always zero in on whatever it is in our life that keeps us from following Him. This young man’s riches were his god which kept him from following Jesus. Jesus told him “You cannot serve God and mammon, you can’t have two masters” (Mathew 6:24).
Does a false god control your life? Whatever it is, you’ve got to get rid of it and put the true God on the throne of your life.
Then Jesus said to him, “Come follow Me. Why did you call Me good? You said that because you recognize that I am God. There is only One good, and that’s God. Get rid of those false gods and follow Me, the true and living God.” Does a false god control your life? Whatever it is, you’ve got to get rid of it and put the true God on the throne of your life. You can’t choose your way—you have to come God’s way–the only way to a complete and eternal life. Apart from Him, there is no real life.
When God saves us, He does the impossible. We are not to forgot this. With man it is impossible. You can’t get a place in God’s kingdom by good works—you’ll never be good enough! That’s why Jesus had to come and save you, instead of Himself. We are not saved by His love, but by His grace—motivated by His love. Anyone who turns to Him, He will save.
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Satan tells us that our life is a wreck, that we’re a failure and God wants nothing to do with us. He’ll say, “Why bother going to God?—there’s no way He’ll open the door for you. God will plant unbelief in your heart, and if you believe it, He won’t admit you.” But it will really be because we won’t come. Yet the Lord is always waiting with affection, gladness and open arms to receive all who will come to Him. This should encourage our troubled spirit! Satan has been telling us that God is not interested in us and doesn’t want us—that we aren’t worthy. But Jesus said, “All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me; and him that comes to Me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). What a wonderful word of encouragement Jesus gives to our timid souls.
He wants us to come to Him with every problem. “Come to Me and drink. I’ll fulfill every need in your life,” says Jesus—the only One who can truly help.
On His last day, Jesus cried “…If any man thirst let him come to Me and drink” (John 7:37). This was not referring to physical or emotional thirst. Some try to hide their thirst by putting on a big front, saying, “I don’t have any problems; I’ve got it made. I don’t need any help—I can do it on my own.” But every person still has a deep down thirst for a meaningful relationship with God. When we cry out to Him to save us, faith declares, “God hears us when we cry.” He wants us to come to Him with every problem. “Come to Me and drink. I’ll fulfill every need in your life,” says Jesus—the only One who can truly help. He’ll not only quench your thirst, but will make your life become a cup overflowing. Simply cry out to Him and He’ll come to you.
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Jesus will not answer by saying: “Do this or that,” but will say just three little words—”Come unto Me.” Are you searching for meaning in life? Who would you cry out to if death was at your door? “Let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:17). Come to Him for who He is. God’s Word will give you life, if you will come to Him. Have you come to Jesus yet? Why wait any longer? Now is the time to come!
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May 8, 2021