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A Good Hiding Place
Contributed by Phil Dyar on Jul 24, 2004 (message contributor)
Summary: IN THIS LIFE WE ALL NEED A HIDING PLACE FROM WORRY, SATAN, AND THE STORMS OF LIFE.
PSLAMS (32:7)TEXT.
THOU ART MY HIDING PLACE :THOU SHALT PRESERVE ME FROM TROUBLE :THOU SHALT COMPASS ME ABOUT WITH SONGS OF DELIVERANCE.
INT.MANY OF THE WRITERS OF THE PSALMS REFERRED TO GOD AS A SHELTER ,,,A REFUGE AND A HIDING PLACE.
(PSLAMS 17:8) KEEP ME AS THE APPLE OF THE EYE HIDE ME UNDER THE SHADOW OF THY WINGS.
(PSLAMS 27:5) FOR IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE HE SHALL HIDE ME IN HIS PRAVILON.
(PSALMS 91:1) HE THAT DWELLETH IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY.
(PSALMS 119:114) THOU ART MY HIDING PLACE AND MY SHIELD I HOPE IN THY WORD.
(PSALMS 143:9) DELIVER ME O LORD FROM MINE ENEMIES,I FLEE UNTO THEE TO HIDE ME.
DAVID WAS TAUGHT BY HIS PARENTS THAT GOD WAS A HIDING PLACE HE FOUND STENGHT IN GOD WHEN HE FACED GOLIATH THE PHILISTINE GAINT.WHEN HE HAD TO FLEE FROM THE JEALOUS RAGE OF SAUL. ALSO WHEN DAVID LEAD THE ARMIES OF ISREAL INTO BATTLE HE KNEW THE LORD WAS A GOOD HIDING PLACE,
I AM REMINDED OF CORRIE TEN BOOM HER BOOK THE HIDING PLACE THE GERMANS DISCOVERD HER HIDING PLACE AND SHE WAS LOCKED UP ,,BEAT UP AND MISTREATED , HOWEVER SHE FOUND GOD TO BE HER HIDING PLACE AND REFUGE.
1.ALL OF US NEED A HIDING PLACE.
DAVIDS LIFE DEMONSTRATED A DEFINITE NEED FOR A HIDING PLACE HE WAS STONG, RICH, A MAN AFTER GOD’ HE HAD HIS GOOD TIMES AND HE HAD BAD TIMES.
HE HAD HIS TIMES OF LAUGHING AND CRYING DAVID NEEDED A HIDING PLACE .LIFE BRINGS WITH IT SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS, TRUMPHS AND TROUBLES GOD IS A GOOD HIDING PLACE ,,, A SAFE HIDING PLACE .. SURE HIDING PLACE.
ALL OF US NEED A HIDING PLACE.
2. ALL OF US CAN BENEFIT FROM A HIDING PLACE.
GOING TO GOD FOR A HIDING PLACE WILL BRING BENEFITS TO OUR LIFES.
A.(WE ENJOY THE BLESSED PRESENCE OF GOD)
THE SONG SAYS STANDING SOME WHERE IN THE SHADOWS YOU WILL FIND JESUS,JESUS SAID LO I AM WITH YOU ALWAY HE SAID I WILL NEVER LEAVE THEE NOR FORSAKE YOU.
B(WE ENJOY THE BLESSED PROTECTION OF GOD).
PS 46:1 GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND STRENGHT A VERY PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE .
THE 3 HEBREW BOYS FOUND GOD TO BE A GOOD HIDING PLACE.
DANIEL FOUND OUT THAT GOD WAS A GOOD HIDING PLACE.
MOSES AT THE RED SEA FOUND GOD TO BE GOOD HIDING PLACE.
C WE ENJOY THE BLESSED PEACE OF GOD.
JOHN 14:27 PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU :NOT AS THE WORLD GIVETH ,GIVE I UNTO YOU LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED NEITHER LET IT BE AFRAID,
IN CLOSING,
HEs MY HIDING PLACE AND HE CAN BE YOURS TODAY.