I Keep Him So He Can Keep Me

I Keep Him So He Can Keep Me"

He is ever present with me;

at all times He goes before me.

I will not live in fear or abandon my calling

because He stands at my right hand. The Voice Bible

Psalms 16:8

How many of you know that life is full of ups and downs, one day theres, joy and the next day theres grief, we all live with the choice of life and death when it comes to speaking over our lives. The ideal life for all of us would be a life lived without sickness and disease a life filled with only good times. But that’s just not reality.

It’s a fact that the bad times and even bad situations can make us want to be moved, sometimes it shakes us to our core but if you know like I know ......to give up or to give in is really not an option. I know that at times it can seem easier just to give in or to give up but it’s not.

My question this morning is? How do we keep holding on when we feel like giving up? How do we find the strength to persevere, to go on? All of us have dealt with these questions.

A lot of people are dealing with hopelessness right now but no matter how hopeless, painful, unpleasant, or discouraging your circumstances are, you need to know that God has a purpose for them. He has a purpose for you in the midst of them. And that purpose does not involve giving up. It does not involve abandoning your faith. The struggle you are going through has meaning and purpose, because God is sovereign and He does everything for a reason. He doesn’t make mistakes. As a matter of fact God isn’t surprised by what is happening to you right now. Let me put this another way. You are where you are right now because that’s where God wants you right now. Your circumstances are part of His plan for your life. This is not an accident. It’s not an unhappy coincidence. It’s not bad luck. It’s not bad karma. It’s the result of God working in your life to accomplish His good purposes.

When the times get hard (and they do get hard), I know it’s just temporary. It’s like when the rain comes, it can rain a lot or it can rain for days, but sooner or later the rain will stop and the sun will shine again. When the storm comes and winds get strong, it’s just a matter of time before the winds blow out and all is calm and fine again.

When something comes along that threatens to move me or shake me, I enact my Bulldog Faith bite and hold firmly to the Word of God, knowing that He will take care of everything.

If you just let God lead, and follow His lead, in all that you do, then you can be rest assured that you won’t be shaken and you won’t be moved. The things of this world won’t affect you.

This is what David is telling us here in this text. He says, I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Let me tell you this: GOD WILL NOT BE IN ANY TRUE SENSE BEFORE OUR FACE UNLESS WE SET HIM THERE

This is why its important that God’s people should above all else pursue and cherish a more intimate relationship with the Lord.

His continual presence in our lives will strengthen us, guide us, protect us, bring us joy, and most of all resurrect us.

There is a spiritual inertia i.e. the state of not moving or acting, or an unwillingness to do so, to not be overcome, and a tendency to perverse. I was reading this quote the other day that was talking about a compass it said , "The bar of steel does not point naturally to the pole, but anywhere." It must be acted on from without, must have magnetic virtue imparted to it.

Persistency is needed if you want to reach your destination.

Like a compass, when David said I have set the Lord "always" before me. It was not enough that once or twice God was in his line of vision or visually in his sight, no David said, I kept Him there. A compass needle would be to a sailor of no more account than a knitting needle, if only by some shock it were made to point northwards. It is the fact of it always pointing there that gives it its value. And it is this fact of persistence which gives value to David's saying. When a man has shut himself up to one thing as the source and strength of his happiness he will find out a great deal about that one thing.