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Get Out Of The Way...
Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Feb 16, 2018 (message contributor)
Summary: God caused them to self destruct, to melt like wax in the fire! God was the greatest weapon on that day, God is our greatest weapon everyday!
Psalms 68:1-3 NKJ
Let God arise,
Let His enemies be scattered;
Let those also who hate Him flee before Him.
2 As smoke is driven away,
So drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad;
Let them rejoice before God;
Yes, let them rejoice exceedingly.
Is their anyone here this morning, feeling like you been fighting the same battle for to long? You've done all you know, fought to the point of exhaustion and you're just tired of fighting back?? Let me ask your question, why are you the one doing the fighting?
How many of you grew up with brothers and sisters?? Anyone ever a have a knockdown dragout in the backseat of your parents car, for lack of better reason...because it was taking to long to reach your destination!
This passage in Psalms, describes the children of Israel having a similar experience, taking to long to reach their destination. God knows, they had been through a lot.
They had been held captive in slavery, freedom had come, only then to begin a journey in the desert for forty years, which in real time should have only taken two weeks. They had walked up hill both ways to school their whole entire life with no one else’s help, or so they thought!
But by this time, we read through the authors words. That they had come to realization, all their efforts had been wasted energy! They had come to the realization, that they needed to fight back in a different way!
They had come to learn a valuable lesson, and sooner rather than later all gods children arrive at the same epiphany.
When they stood still and let God do the fighting for them, the battle was so much easier! And for that, they were thankful!
But let the righteous be glad;
Let them rejoice before God;
Yes, let them rejoice exceedingly.
In the day and age that we live, in the entitlement society mind set, where everyone thinks everyone else owes them and wants everyone else to do things for them. Why don’t we have the same expectations, from God?
Do you think God is only willing to fight for us, when we’re to tired to fight? No, God would have me tell you, He is willing from the first moment our dependency relies on His miracle working power, all the way through to our last!
When we are willing to rest in God’s ability, we allow Him to fight through us, rather than around us. Which means, when we trust God and rest in God’s ability we’re still fighting, only we’re more focused on His never ending capabilities than our weak, limited own ability!
The MSG says it like this;
Up with God! Down with his enemies!
Adversaries, run for the hills!
Gone like a puff of smoke, like a blob of wax in the fire—
one look at God and the wicked vanish.
When the righteous see God in action
they’ll laugh, they’ll sing,
they’ll laugh and sing for joy.
Sing hymns to God; all heaven, sing out;
clear the way for the coming of Cloud-Rider.
Enjoy God, cheer when you see him!
There is nothing that god can’t do, everything is possible for him who believes, in the God of the impossibilities. Amen? Amen!
Why do we say amen with one breathe and got to keep fighting under our breathe, with the next? What ought to follow amen is, Let God arise and Let His enemies be scattered!
TBS. When the righteous see God in action, they’ll laugh, they’ll sing, they’ll laugh and sing for joy. Why is that?
Is it, because they think they’ve got the upper hand? If God is leading the charge and doing the fighting, I would say with confidence, you know they do!!
Only It’s called FAITH!
Why? Because they know with God, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!! The greatest weapon that we have in the war against not only the enemy, but with everything we will ever face, is God himself!
Our confidence comes from God’s indispensable gift to us of faith!
From the measure of faith He has given to us, to believe He will not only start, but is always willing to complete what He says He will do!!
God is the ONLY ONE, there is no other, who makes all things POSSIBLE!
And the longer a person takes to make that realization, the longer their fighting a long drawled out, needless battle, with the worst possible odds of winning.
In our relationship with God, every other word out of our mouths ought to be THANK YOU AND GLORY TO GOD! Far too many always want to say when the dust has cleared from the battle, look what I have done.
