• Christian Author's Unique Testimony On Psalm 91

  Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 26, 2025 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Psalms 91:1-16

  Tags:  Fear, Protection, Resurrection, Trust, Overcome, Fortress, Eternal Life, Refuge, Cross Of Christ, Messianic Prophecies  (view more)  (view less)

  Denomination: Baptist

Christian author, William MacDonald had a unique testimony about Psalm 91. He began by saying: "Psalm 91 is my Psalm. In 1922, in the Western Hebrides, a five-year-old lad was dying of diphtheria. A mucous membrane was forming across his throat, and breathing was becoming increasingly difficult. His Christian mother turned her back so she would not see him take his last breath.

*At that very moment, there was a knock at the door. It was her brother-in-law from an adjoining village. He said, 'I've just come to tell you that you don't have to worry about the child. He is going to recover, and one day God is going to save his soul.' She was distracted and skeptical. 'Whatever makes you say that?' Then he explained he had been sitting at his fire reading Psalm 91 when God distinctly spoke to him through the last three verses. And here they are from 'The Scottish Psalms:'

14. 'Because on me he set his love,

I'll save and set him free;

Because my great name he hath known,

I will set him on high.

15. He'll call on me, I'll answer him;

I will be with him still,

In trouble to deliver him,

And honor him I will.

16. With length of days unto his mind

I will him satisfy;

I also my salvation

Will cause his eyes to see.'"

*Then Willian MacDonald wrote, "I was that boy. God delivered me from death that night. He saved my soul thirteen years later, and He has satisfied me with long life. So you will understand why I refer to Psalm 91 as my Psalm. I usually add, with tongue in cheek, that I am willing to share it with others. But it is definitely my Psalm!

*Most theologians don't agree with me at all. They say that this is a Psalm about our Savior. And of course they are right. Its primary interpretation concerns our wonderful Lord Jesus Christ. And we are going to study it from that perspective. But remember that in a lesser way, we can take part in its precious promises: 'All the rivers of Thy grace, I claim; Over every promise write my name.'"

*Christians: We can claim this Psalm as ours today, because God has promised to bless us in special ways when we draw close to Him.

-"Believer's Bible Commentary" by William MacDonald - Edited by Arthur Farstad - Thomas Nelson Publishers - Nashville - Copyright 1995 - Psalm 91 - 18 - Downloaded to e-Sword by Rick Meyers - Copyright 2021