A Recipe For A Blessing

One of the greatest values of the Book of Psalms is in it we have godly men stating their experiences, and giving us an account of things that have happened to them in their spiritual life and warfare.

In fact, throughout history, the Book of Psalms has been a book of great value for God’s people. Again and again it provides us with the kind of comfort and teaching that we need and is essential to our lives.

What we find from the beginning to the end of the Bible is the account of God’s dealing with His people. He is the same God in the Old Testament, as in the New; and these Old Testament saints were citizens of the kingdom of God even as we are today. We are citizens of a kingdom which already contains such people as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

To regard the experiences of these people as being exactly the same as our own, and the fact that they lived in the old dispensation, really makes no difference. We are no different today than people who lived in the time of the Old Testament. If any of you are tempted to feel like there is a difference, I would invite you to examine, inspect, survey, and study the Book of Psalms; and you just might find yourselves saying that you have experienced some of the same problems of this Psalmists, because obviously this Psalmist have had some family issues, because remember when he said, "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up? He must have had some days that the enemies tried to discourage him because he said. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, (and a hart is a male red deer) so he says As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. He must have been through some tough times because he said, The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want.

When we read the Psalms and the statements made in them, and I think you will agree that these men were children of God, and that there were some days that they had some trials and some tribulations.

However, the book of Psalms along with the book of Proverbs is considered to be a recipe for life. Here in our text today we find one of the greatest recipes for life.

There are biblical principles other than those of faith and healing that we as Christians need to hear. We all know that Faith is the Substance of things Hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. We all know that. And we are familiar with healing. For the bible says that by his stripes we are healed.

Certainly, we need to know about faith and healing because the Bible says, the just shall live by faith and healing belongs to us in Christ Jesus.

But there is a whole lot more to living for God and serving him than getting our needs met. For God is not some slave of ours where he moves at our command. But we are his people and the sheep of his pasture and we are to do his will not that of our own.

However, God does want to meet our needs. That is His will. Phil 4:19 says "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." But it is also God’s will that we practice the principles of faith.

And it’s in our text that we find our recipe.

One of the greatest secrets we can learn in life is the secret of making a total commitment to God’s Word and learning to completely commit each problem in life to the Lord in faith. Actually, there can be no faith without commitment. The kind of faith that perseveres is the faith that stays committed to God’s Holy written Word.

To commit means to stay the course. In other words, if we commit something to the Lord, that means we completely obligate ourselves to the end, and with the greatest confidence that it’s going to be taken care of.

If your car was broken and needed repairing and you took to the mechanic to have it fixed, you would be committing it to the mechanic’s care. If he said to you, "I can fix it; your car will be ready next week, you would return the next week, expecting it to be fixed. You wouldn’t spend the entire week worrying about the details involved in repairing your car. And you wouldn’t call the repairman the next day and ask "Do you still have my car, and is if fixed yet? No, you would have confidence in the mechanic’s ability to fix your car.