The Bible Speaks - Words of Inspiration - My Help

[00:00:00] Let us pray, bread together on our knees

[00:00:07] Let us pray, bread together on our knees

[00:00:14] When I fall on my knees with my face to the rising sun

[00:00:21] Oh Lord, never see all the knees

[00:00:27] Welcome to the Bible Speaks with Elgin Carelock

[00:00:30] The Bible Speaks is a weekly ministry of Harvest International

[00:00:33] Our prayer is that the Bible Speaks will encourage you in your study of God's word

[00:00:38] You will be able to contact Elgin at the address given at the end of this broadcast

[00:00:44] And now, here's Elgin

[00:00:46] Brothers and sisters, I welcome you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

[00:00:52] To another edition of Words of Inspiration

[00:00:57] Today I wanted to discuss the topic of my help

[00:01:03] As we grow spiritually in our relationship with God

[00:01:08] It should change from him being our help in case of emergencies and significant life changes

[00:01:16] To him being the source of all that we desire

[00:01:21] Our spiritual inspiration comes from Psalm 121

[00:01:27] Which reads, I will lift up my eyes unto the hills

[00:01:32] From whence cometh my help

[00:01:35] My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth

[00:01:40] He will not suffer thy foot to be moved

[00:01:43] He that keepeth thee will not slumber

[00:01:46] Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither sleep nor slumber

[00:01:51] The Lord is thy keeper

[00:01:54] The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand

[00:01:57] The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night

[00:02:03] The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil and he shall preserve thy soul

[00:02:10] The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and even forevermore

[00:02:20] The Lord being our help doesn't mean God's purpose is to give us everything we want

[00:02:27] Or to keep aside all of the challenges that come with life

[00:02:31] Instead, it's understanding who he is, his character, his purpose for our lives

[00:02:39] And how we bring him glory

[00:02:43] Proverbs 4 verse 7 tells us, Wisdom is the principal thing

[00:02:48] Therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding

[00:02:54] As we better understand who God is

[00:02:57] The more effective we are at building a relationship with him

[00:03:01] That allows us to gain knowledge through studying his word

[00:03:05] And understanding as we immerse ourselves in his word

[00:03:09] And finally wisdom as we understand how and when to apply what we understand as the will of God

[00:03:18] So, as we look through our scriptural inspiration

[00:03:24] The first thing it says is, I will lift up my eyes unto the hills once cometh my help

[00:03:31] In order to look up to the hills, we have to take our eyes off what has taken our attention away from God

[00:03:39] And it doesn't have to be something bad

[00:03:42] We can get a new promotion that is blessing us on new levels and our focus shift to doing whatever we can to maintain that

[00:03:51] Rather than focusing on maintaining the relationship that caused God to give us, give it to us in the first place

[00:03:59] Next, when we acknowledge that our help comes from the Creator of heaven and earth

[00:04:04] Then it's no wonder that he will not suffer our foot to be moved

[00:04:09] As we are allowing Jesus to be Lord of our lives and the Holy Spirit to guide us

[00:04:15] We are showing God that we know that he is bigger than anything we encounter

[00:04:21] No matter what it is, God made it and if God made it, it's under his control

[00:04:27] We often hear believers quote Isaiah 54 verse 17

[00:04:32] Which says, no weapon formed against you shall prosper

[00:04:37] But I want you to look at verse 16 where God is saying he created the fire that the blacksmith used to form the weapon and the blacksmith himself

[00:04:48] So the weapon formed will not prosper against you because as we know that all things work together for the good of them that love God

[00:04:57] To them who are called according to his purpose, which is read in Romans 8 verse 28

[00:05:04] So even if the weapon is formed and used on you, it will not prosper because it ultimately is part of God's plan for your life

[00:05:14] The rest of Psalm 121 is God's reassurance that he is always there and with us

[00:05:21] That he never sleeps or slumbers day or night, good times and bad

[00:05:27] He is always there even forevermore

[00:05:31] Brothers and sisters, it is this level of understanding that allows us to tap into the fullness of the help we have

[00:05:40] From Jesus interceding on our behalf to the Holy Spirit prompting our spirits toward the will of God

[00:05:47] To the Father bringing increase in our lives

[00:05:51] I thank you once again for sharing this time with me and I look forward to our discussion on tomorrow

[00:05:58] Until then, God bless

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