“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
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He who dwells, you remember the scripture talks about abiding in Christ. If we abide in him, his words abide in us. When it talks about dwelling in the shelter of the Almighty, we're not talking about a point of theology. We're talking about a lifestyle. In other words, it's not just a verse you've memorized. It's supposed to be the developing of an ongoing lifestyle of a consciousness, an awareness of the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. Mad万aju Many people stop short of a divine encounter because they're satisfied with good theology. The word is the invitation to meet the person. This is not supposed to be just a verse I quote. That's valuable. it's supposed to be the endeavor of my heart is the discovery of the manifest presence of God upon me as a surrendered son upon me as a yielded vessel he says he who dwells in the shelter of the almighty shall abide under the shadow of his wings the shadow of the almighty the shadow is a dark place I'll never forget my grandmother, my mom's mom she was losing her eyesight and so many of us would read, I would take turns reading to her from the scripture she would memorize entire psalms and my uncle would memorize books of the Bible, they were just into that memory thing which becomes contagious after a while and I would sit down and I remember she wanted me to read to her a particular book by Corrie Ten Boom …
Human friends fail us! The strongest sinew in an arm of flesh will crack and the most faithful heart will sometimes waver—and when there is most need of our friends, we find that they fail us. But our God is eternal and Omnipotent— who has ever trusted in Him in vain? Where is the man that can say, I looked upon Him and hoped in Him—and I am ashamed of my hope? The beauty of David's looking alone to God came out in this quite calmly and quietly. He said to himself, "God will get me out of this," therefore he was not angry with Shimei. He did not want his head to be cut off or anything of the sort. "God will do it." Oh, that is the man for life, that is the man for death, that is the man for smooth waters and that is the man for storms who lives upon his God! If a man stays in that frame of mind, what can disturb him? Though the mountains were cast into the midst of the sea and the earth were moved, yet still would he in patience possess his soul and still be calm, for of such a man I may say, "His soul shall dwell at ease, his seed shall inherit the earth." At destruction and famine, he will laugh. God has given His angels charge concerning such a man to keep him in all his ways, for this is the man that dwells in the secret places of the most High and he shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty! The Lord says of him, "Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him. I will set him on high because he has known My name. He has proved it by trusting in Me and Me, alone. Therefore will I never fail him, neither shall he suffer long." "Trust you in the Lord, alone, for in the Lord Jehovah there is everlasting strength." Gather up your confidences, make them into one confidence and fix them all on Him! Lean not here and there—you will grow crooked in yourself and the staff you lean on shall turn to a spear and pierce you. Lean wholly upon God and, as He is everywhere, you shall stand upright in leaning upon Him. This shall be the uprightness of your ways that you stay yourself on the Rock of Ages. May we learn this lesson! It is a high one. May the Spirit of God teach it to us! …
"Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him. I will set him on high because he has known My name." Psalm 91:14. THAT this Psalm was written by David we see no reason to doubt. In the previous verses we have the words of the Psalmist himself. Here, however, there is a change of speaker. The promise is spoken by God, Himself, in these three closing sentences. Doubtless the words of Inspired men are very precious as a Divine testimony, but when God, Himself, directly speaks to us in His own name, what an extraordinary weight attaches to every syllable He utters! Dear child of God, you who are a believer in Jesus, can you not think that you hear your God saying, concerning you, with His own, gracious assuring voice, "Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him"? And notice that He repeats these words, "I will," four times, as if to give them the most striking emphasis! Surely this is intended to minister some comfort and refreshing to the Lord's people. I pray the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to give the Word and to apply it. …