Good Morning Sunshine! The LORD Is On Your Side!

Psalm 124:1-3,8 NIV ~ “If the LORD had not been on our side-let Israel say- [2] if the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us, [3] they would have swallowed us alive when their anger flared against us; [8] Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.”

Have you ever tried to convince someone to do something? Or has someone tried to convince you to do something? It looked hard, but you knew that if they tried it, it would be okay! Then they tried it, or you tried it, and it turned out good! Then as you sat down you recounted everything that happened, you saw this and that and then you remembered exactly what happened!  This Psalm is that for the Jew’s, they were recounting what happened on their journey as they traveled through all the dangers along the way, and with excitement they reflected on what they had experienced and thought about what it would have been like if the Lord had not been on their side! Oh, where would you be!

Can you think about a time and say this, “If it had not been for the Lord on my side”, that thing I that faced, that temptation that tried me, that pride that tried to rise up and get me out of character, it would have messed me up! But thanks be unto God, for you know that if it had not been for the Lord on your side, you would been swallowed up!

This If is so important! “If”, If it had not been for the LORD who was on your side! Everything depends on that IF! It spelled the difference between deliverance and disaster. But thanks be unto the Lord, because He was there, and that made all the difference and kept you from disaster! No one has had as many narrow escapes as the Jew’s did. According to the natural they should have been extinct a long time ago.  You know they went through sieges, massacres, ovens, and bombs, and they survived because the Lord was on their side! There was one miracle after another, and the same thing is available for you to.

The sad thing is that they didn’t always recognize that it was God! They thought that they were responsible for their victories, they let their pride get the best of them and they thought it was their own cleverness and power. But thank God for the remnant that realized that apart from the Lord, they would have been exterminated a long time ago if it had not been for the Lord on their side!

If it had not been for the Lord on your side, where would you be? You would be a wretch undone, Isaiah 6:5! A ship tossed out to sea and forever lost, Ephesians 4:24! But God, thanks be unto God, because He was on your side, He protected you from your enemies (which was sometimes you), He let His sun shine on you and kept you dry on rainy days, Matthew 5:45! He cradles you like His baby when you have been battered and torn, God never leaves you alone and when you kneel down to repent and pray, victory will be on your side, because God is inside of you!

Do you know how you have been so victorious? It’s not by your strength, might, power, wisdom, creativity, wealth and riches, that got you over, it was all God, Zechariah 4:6! If it had not been for the Lord on your side, where would you be? It was God that delivered you over every obstacle and overwhelming odds that was against you! Give God “All” the credit for your life, you are standing on His promises! Be thankful that God chose little old you to accomplish the most amazing things to win the largest battles. He turned every impossible into a possible, you serve a God who has no limits to what he can do, Matthew 19:26!

Today, remember that God is not only by your side, but He lives on the inside and to be on God side is always the right side!

Let’s Pray:
Thank You Father! Thank You for always being on my side, watching and guiding me.  Father, as I look back over my life and I can see Your hand with me through all the things I have faced. You have guided me through adversity and guarded me, even from my own self at times! I am so grateful that You have always look out for me. I can only imagine what trials, calamities, or disasters might have come my way, if it weren’t for the fact that You were there covering and protecting me, even from myself, Thank You! Thank You Father for Your abundance of Grace and Mercy that You pour out on my life day in and day out! If it was not for You on my side, I would have been gone a long time ago, but God! Father, help me to use everything that You have given me for Your Glory! In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen!

Blessings…
Minister Jean