May 15, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms
Ps. 91
• If a child doubts parental protection, they will begin to feel like an orphan.
• If we live in a state of low grade fear, we begin to take on a spirit of an orphan.
• When we have gone through bad things in our lives, we can sometimes begin to expect bad things to happen to us. Although this is faith, it isn't faith in God.
• When we live in fear, we lose more than just faith. Fear is a direct attack on Divine order, identity and when we are hurting and expecting bad things, we are no longer effective in our mission to share hope to our world.
• The temptation that Satan brought against Jesus was to juxtapose what is seen versus and what is said in God's Word. The test is always in what we will choose. We should always choose the Word of promise instead of the evidence of flesh.
• Our secret place is not an actual place, but is the Lord Himself. We find our protection in Jesus the Messiah. Our dwelling can be the victory that was purchased for us by the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Protection is best understood in eternal terms, not temporal terms. The greatest protection is that wherever we are, whether alive or dead, hell cannot put its hands on us. To live is Christ and to die is gain.
• It isn't just our hearts that crave the protection of God, it is God Himself craving to protect us!
