"To Be Covered"

"Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me." (Psalms 143:9)

  There is just nothing that can compare to the power you feel when you know that God is not only on your side, but that He is also protecting and watching over you. Call me whatever you want, because it really does not matter what man says, my God says that He loves me, and His lovingkindness is all I really want to hear; everything else is just chatter! I remember back in the late 80's going to a man's retreat where the teaching was about the battle belonging to the Lord. The main teaching of the weekend was based upon David's stand up against Goliath, and how he was not afraid because it really wasn't his battle, but it was God who would defeat the giant; he was only a servant. It takes a little faith to believe in a very big God, because our faith is not in what we can do, but is in what He can do. Jesus had something He said to His disciples, on several occasions, He would say, "O ye of little faith." I am not really of the opinion that it was a putdown, as much as it was an observation or more about Him saying, "If you only knew." The closing Scripture from yesterday was more about what God does, not about what happened to Jacob. Jacob was changed that night: physically, he was made weaker, but it was his faith that was made stronger, because now he had been given purpose and direction. What is your calling? What is it that God is calling you to do? Jacob was given a new name, one that not only had purpose, but it came with protection; no longer was he just aimlessly moving around without a plan or direction, he was now a man that was governed by God. A man that God called, a prince, and not just a prince, but a prince that has power with God and with men. What gave him that power was God, an eternal and everlasting power that compares with nothing else! If David needed a little faith, it was more than enough to just put his little bit of faith in his very big God; a God that not only could defeat that giant, but if He chose to, could have instantly wiped out the entire Philistine army, in a single blow. The kind of deliver that we see here is that of being snatched or taken up; much as if you were no longer subject to any harm from the enemy or from whatever was coming against you. If you were to see this in the light of David's stand against Goliath, it was the moment that his heart was pricked when he first heard Goliath speaking out against God. In that moment, is when he realized that the battle was God's and not his own; he was only a servant, a little servant in the hand of a very big God...

"Now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding. God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind. So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God's inner sanctuary. Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek." (Hebrews 6:16-20) NLT