God is my Defense

Saturday 16th November 2019
The Word of Life Daily Devotional
God is my Defense
Memory verse: - Psalms 59:17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defense, and the God of my mercy.
Bible Reading: - Psalms 59
Messages
I heard the story of a man that was prosperous in his business who used most of his wealth to build a mansion and secured the compound with a lot of security gadgets coupled with hefty bodyguards withersoever he goes. The fence of his house was impenetrably for burglars; but the thieves decided to visit him one day and all they did was to wait patiently for him outside his house. They have studied him and knew when he usually comes in and when goes out. They overpowered the bodyguards and cart away most of his earnings. It then dawns on him that God is our best security. Jericho was a fortified city with a strong and thick wall, but the wall crumbled before Israelites when they compassed it with shout of Halleluiah as commanded by God. The wall they relied upon failed them and the city was captured by people of God.
 Though we must be security conscious, yet we need to realize that if the Lord does not keep the city the guards watch in vain. If the Lord does not keep us then we cannot be kept from the enemies of our soul.
David in our text today was a man of God; the man after God’s own heart; the man chosen by God himself, the anointed of the Lord and a valiant warrior; yet he did not put his trust in the arms of the flesh or in his military strategies; he put his trust in God – the unconquerable one; the mighty one. This attitude of David’s trust in God was all over the pages of the scriptures.
For God to keep us, we must be ready to be kept by yielding our lives to him whole – heartedly, we must make Christ the author and finisher of our faith and become peculiar to God, then our lives shall be hidden with Christ in God like Caleb and Joshua was preserved unto the promise land.
Right attitude of calling upon God in season and out of season shows that we know him and believe that he [God] is our defender. He [GOD] is a sun and shield; he will give grace and glory, nothing good shall he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Therefore, in adversity or tribulation look unto him prayerfully and he shall deliver you. He said call upon me [GOD] I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that thou know not of. He also said in another part of the scriptures that “call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you and thou shall glorify me.
Henceforth, make God your defender, defense, guard and shield; drop your faith in the arms of the flesh for in Christ Jesus we are more than a conqueror.
Confession of the Day
God is my defense, my buckler, my shield and I am wholly saved in him.
Prayer Points

I steadfastly look upon thee Oh God, deliver me from workers of iniquity and bloody men. Let me live for you and as such fulfil my destiny right before the enemies of mine soul

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