Our Deliverer

GOD’S COMMITMENT TO DELIVER HIS PEOPLE “PSALMS 34”

Beloved, this week, I would love us to focus on God’s deliverance for his people. Psalms 34 shows us God’s commitment to deliver his people. Despite our selfish and independent decisions which make us land in trouble, still when you go back to God genuinely his commitment is always there to deliver us.

King David tells us in Psalms 34 how he sought the Lord, how the Lord heard him and delivered him from all his fears, failures and troubles.

He goes on to tell us that when the righteous cry, the Lord always hears them and delivers them out of all their troubles.  There are moments when you cannot even pray audibly, when you are surrounded by enemies and you don’t want them to hear what you are saying, Meaning that sometimes we may cry loud within our hearts without audible voices but the Lord hears both the audible cries and the silent cries and brings deliverance to us.

Sometimes we can be overcome by terrible circumstances and we cannot even speak out, we can be overwhelmed with situations beyond our ability and we don’t know even how to pray. But our hearts are crying out to God saying, “God Deliver me from this situation.”

Acts 27: 18-20
“And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; and the next day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.”

Apostle Paul tells us also how much God can deliver. I don’t know whether you have been or you are being overwhelmed by your circumstances or surrounded by different waves of floods and you don’t even know what to say and how you got where you are now.

King David wrote Psalms 34 after seeing God’s great deliverance. David was captured by the philistines and he was in a situation so over whelming asking himself, how he has come in such a situation.

1Sam. 21:12-15 KJV says
“…..and David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of A’chish the king of Gath. And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard. Then said A’chish unto his servants, lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me? Have I need of mad men, which ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?

With many questions in his heart, I believe David was crying so loud in his heart to the Lord for help but without an audible voice that the enemy could hear his prayer. On the outside, you could only see actions of frustrations, to the point of acting insane.

You may be in the same situation now and you don’t know what to do, but deep in your heart, there’s a loud cry even though it is not audible. I want to assure you of God’s faithfulness, He alone can hear that deep cry in your heart and He will surely deliver you from all your fears, frustrations and troubles.

I would love to encourage you to read and meditate on Psalms 34 throughout this week. God is our great Deliverer.

Steven Sebyala