God is faithful and merciful. He protects those who place their trust in Him alone. The world may try to swallow you up but do not fear…God can handle it!! Satan only wants to kill, steal and destroy our trust and faith but he will always fail. Jesus has already won the battle for our souls.
God "can do anything and no plan of [His] can be thwarted" (Job 42:2, CSB).
God does not leave us alone in life but Holy Spirit dwells in us who believe. He is our counselor and will guide us into all things that pertain to righteousness and eternal life in Christ.
Psalm 57:1-3
1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me!
For my soul trusts in You;
And in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge,
Until these calamities have passed by.
2 I will cry out to God Most High,
To God who performs all things for me.
3 He shall send from heaven and save me;
He reproaches the one who would swallow me up.
The New King James Version
1 John 5:14-15 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
Our life is in Jesus. He now rest at the right hand of the Father and in Him we have peace with God. The Jew first and then all others share eternal life through the promises given to Abraham that all nations would be blessed in him. He believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness.Our confidence is in Jesus and He hears our prayers.
Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How beautiful are those who preach the gospel of peace in Christ knowing that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God made flesh. Jesus and His salvation in the Cross the gift of God to all mankind was hidden until it was revealed to Paul on the road to Damascus.
Romas 3:24-26 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
We are justified freely by His grace, not by works, but by faith in His shed blood so that no one can boast. So that He is the justifier of those who believe by faith alone.
1 Corinthians 15:1-8 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.
By the Gospel of Grace we are saved in the work of the Cross. After His resurrection Jesus was seen risen by more than 500 people who at the time of Paul’s writings were still living.
1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
We need to lay hold of our faith in eternal life in Christ. He promises that if we seek Him we will find Him. If we ask for the truth it will be given. If we knock the door will be open to the truth of salvation, the gift of a loving Father for all of His creation who accept Jesus as His gift to humanity.
John 14:15-18 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
God does not leave us to go it alone in this life but Holy Spirit dwells in those who believe. He is our counselor and will guide us into all things that pertain to eternal life in Christ. Carla
Be gracious to me, O God is a common plea in lament psalms. The Hebrew verb used here, chanan, refers to extending grace or compassion. The psalmist wants to take shelter in God’s protection and wait for the destruction to pass over like a storm.
The Hebrew phrase used here, elohim elyon, emphasizes God’s supremacy over the entire earth. It fits with the psalmist’s emphasis that God’s glory be praised throughout the entire earth. Given the psalmist’s desire that God shame his enemies, this phrase should be understood as a call for God to act on his behalf.
The psalmist expresses confidence that God will ultimately shame his enemies. Faithlife Study Bible
The structure of the poem is as follows: (1) a call for mercy in the midst of calamities; (2) a confession of trust in the midst of trouble; (3) a determination to praise God in the midst of the people.
The opening cry be merciful to me is similar to many in the lament psalms, but here it is followed immediately by a confession of trust in the Lord. The picture of hiding under the wings of a mother bird is a familiar theme in the Psalms. Here the psalmist vows that he will pray only to his God, for God alone can deliver him from trouble. The Hebrew word for performs is translated “will perfect” the point is that God acts on behalf of His servant. The NKJV Study Bible
Psalm 138:8
The LORD will perfect that which concerns me;
Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever;
Do not forsake the works of Your hands.
Ruth 2:12
The LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.”
Psalm 40:11
Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O LORD;
Let Your lovingkindness and
Your truth continually preserve me.
God is the great giver, the great provider, the fount of every blessing. Absolutely generous, utterly dependable. The resounding and recurring message of Scripture is clear: God owns it all, and God shares it all. Max Lucado
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