"But God is my helper." Psalm 54:4
Go look up the phrase “but God” in your Bible? You’ll see some interesting situations where God acted for believers. Yes, where He intervened on behalf of his people.. and listen, that should encourage you and me.
“But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive." Gen. 50:20 #emph.mine
"But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, For He shall receive me. Selah" Ps. 49:15
Against those who fight against his kids, God will fight. Your knee-mail goes up, your SOS comes before Him and then He battles for you against your enemies that daily battle against you.
Remember how evil puffed up Haman tried to kill the Jews and Queen Esther? He tired but it backfired on him unto prediction. Yay!
"But God is the Judge: He puts down one, And exalts another." Ps. 75:7
He'll send out his armies, and surround you with those strong angels.
"But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; Suddenly they shall be wounded." Ps. 64:7
"The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters; But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away, And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind." Is. 17:13
Go look again at Noah in the Bible. He built and built and built, but God came through for his him and his family.
Can you hear what he might have imagined? Rain, here on earth really? Ask when he'd seen it rain or flood before.
But.. "Then the Lord said to Noah, 'Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate; and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth. For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.' And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him." Genesis 7:1-5
A little bit of obedience to God brings in a whole lot of blessing. Noah and his family were saved pre-wrath on earth. Reminds me. The soon coming Rapture will pre-wrath on earth rescue believers up as well. God says you were not appointed unto wrath, believer! You are appointed unto life -- abundant and eternal life!
Man, I just wonder if Noah at any point along the way started to lose hope in the waiting. Or when he and his family bobbed up and down and around on the sea in that ark with all those animals after flood waters rose up -- he was out there watching it all for awhile.
Genesis 8:1 tells us, “But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede” (nlt).
Floods come in this life, but God can rescue. Build your life on the Rock. Waters abating -- that's a good thing for us survivors. The Bible says...
"And God remembered and thought kindly of Noah and every living thing and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters receded." (Genesis 8:1 amp)
Now think about Joseph's story. He and His brothers had this sibling incident, and it wasn't caused by Joe at all. His bros sold him off into Egyptian slavery and then thought he'd died. But God...was with him. Yep, the Lord preserved Joseph and promoted him. God elevated Joseph to number two in the Land that was like a superpower back in the day.. to a position of great power in which Joe was in charge of all their food supply.
China can basically send out their plague, but God can protect or heal people.
Then the earthly famine started affecting things out where his mean brothers lived. They had to appear before Joe one day, begging him for food.
Remember how Joseph responded to his brothers? “You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people” (Genesis 50:20 nlt).
Got some trials, temptations or challenges today? The nation of Israel faced the Red Sea—an insurmountable obstacle—with the Egyptian army in hot pursuit. But God intervened. And what looked like a hopeless situation became a time of glorious deliverance.
The Bible tells us, “But the people of Israel had walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground, as the water stood up like a wall on both sides” (Exodus 14:29 nlt).
God is our ultimate Solution here, not Left, Right or Middle kinda politics. Jesus can change hard and deceived hearts--let's share the Gospel in the power of His Holy Spirit.
In this life here many are lives get burned, hurt, crushed or broken, but God can mend them and fully restore. These days BLM and Antifa sure like to burn people and their business down.
So SO sorry.. perhaps that's happened to you? But God can give us beauty for ashes. He can makes what's wrong right. See Romans 8:28-29.
The lives of Noah, Joseph, and the Israelites remind us that “with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26 nkjv).
Maybe, like them, you’ve come under attack lately and need God to send out his armies and fight for you. Perhaps you are in a place where the only way out is God. You can be sure of this: God is bigger than your problem. And God will always have the last word.
“‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me,’ declares the Lord.” Isaiah 54:17Life can get pretty rough, but God helps me. You O Lord are a shield about me, the lifter of my head. Not down, disillusioned or depressed here cuz of You, Lord. Hallelujah, you're my Helper, the lifter of my head.No attack fashioned against us can prosper. We sing glory and honor.. power and strength to the Lord! Why?
Cuz He goes before you, He's your rearguard -- the battle belongs to the Lord! Fish4souls.org
Do you have a bad disease that is fighting against your body? Perhaps it's cancer? Jesus is still able to heal your body, and he will heal you either here, there or in the air. Here or in heaven you will be healed, believer. Enter His rest. Ask. Trust. Expect.
"For indeed he was sick almost unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow." Phl 2:27
Are you in a tough job situation right now where you've done really good work and a lame worldly boss is threatening you, and wants to start a process to write you up and get you out the door? But God.. can still intervene. The enemy of your soul hate Jesus and hate you cuz He lives on the inside of you. So pray, fight on your knees. Souls are at stake.
“Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” Mrk. 2:7
I don't wanna gather, gather, gather. Get all I can, can all I get and then sit on the can and kick the can. I don't wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul. Do you?
"But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?'" Lk. 12:20
"But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us.." Eph. 2:4
"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Rom 5:8
It didn't look good for us, but God! In my place, in your place.. Jesus went to the cross for you and me ..to pay for our sins.
"But God raised Him from the dead." Acts 13:30
But God will forgive and raise you to life as well... if you turn and trust in his Son. Come to...come back to Jesus today.
"No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it." 1 Cor. 10:13
This world can be tough on believers, but God can help you grow. You can mature in Christ. God can use you to plant good seeds, to witness and to win others to Christ.
I want to walk faithful, I want to help others see Jesus. I want to bear fruit that abides. I can't, but God can.. through me. Through you too. Go tell.
