Lord Help Me

“Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy”
--Psalm 109:26

Sometimes “Lord help me” is all we can say when our backs are against the wall. It’s a simple phrase, but it’s a desperate cry, it’s a plea for help.

Perhaps we ourselves or someone we may know is struggling to make ends meet: the mortgage cannot be paid. Maybe we are trying to put pieces back together in a broken relationship: our spouse or significant other will not communicate with us. Maybe we are desperately searching for answers as to why we’ve lost a loved one: our brother, our husband, our son, our friend was shot and killed. Or perhaps we are like clowns, displaying faces of painted joy, living with utter turmoil, frustration, and stress on the inside: we don’t like who we are and we don’t know how to tell anyone the truth. These situations are our cries. They are our cries of pain, hurt, suffering, anxiety, desperation, confusion, and bewilderment. So what do we do with these tears? Whose shoulder do we cry upon?

We turn to God. We look up and we remember His saving mercy and His everlasting grace. Sure we like to think that we got it all together even when we don’t have it together. In those moments, we find ourselves afraid to be honest, afraid to tell the truth about our failures, and afraid to allow our true emotions show. Why? Pride. Pride tells us: you can do it, you don’t need any help, don’t tell him/her—s/he’ll just make fun of you, and you got this. But that’s a lie. God puts people in our lives to help us, to ease the burdens of this life, which is why His word declares that, “it is not good that man should be alone.”

The truth is: we need God. He is the thread to the very fabric of our lives, and if He is not sewn tightly into our spirits, we will find ourselves unraveling at the seams. Even when we cannot talk to our parents, spouses, siblings, or friends, we can talk to God. We can surrender ourselves and ask Him to help. We don’t have to continue pursuing dreams, goals, and visions without His direction for that goal, dream, or vision. No, we can come to Him, we can repent for not acknowledging Him as the absolute head of every area of our lives, and we can receive His mercy, grace, and love.

God’s love is able to cover a multitude of sin and furthermore His love is able to conquer all! There isn’t a sin He cannot forgive nor is there a problem He cannot solve. We must only believe it to receive it! So when things become overwhelming and when life begins to get stressful call on Him, don’t be too proud to ask God: He will deliver, rescue, and save according to His mercy!

Lord Help Me

“Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy”
--Psalm 109:26

Sometimes “Lord help me” is all we can say when our backs are against the wall. It’s a simple phrase, but it’s a desperate cry, it’s a plea for help.

Perhaps we ourselves or someone we may know is struggling to make ends meet: the mortgage cannot be paid. Maybe we are trying to put pieces back together in a broken relationship: our spouse or significant other will not communicate with us. Maybe we are desperately searching for answers as to why we’ve lost a loved one: our brother, our husband, our son, our friend was shot and killed. Or perhaps we are like clowns, displaying faces of painted joy, living with utter turmoil, frustration, and stress on the inside: we don’t like who we are and we don’t know how to tell anyone the truth. These situations are our cries. They are our cries of pain, hurt, suffering, anxiety, desperation, confusion, and bewilderment. So what do we do with these tears? Whose shoulder do we cry upon?

We turn to God. We look up and we remember His saving mercy and His everlasting grace. Sure we like to think that we got it all together even when we don’t have it together. In those moments, we find ourselves afraid to be honest, afraid to tell the truth about our failures, and afraid to allow our true emotions show. Why? Pride. Pride tells us: you can do it, you don’t need any help, don’t tell him/her—s/he’ll just make fun of you, and you got this. But that’s a lie. God puts people in our lives to help us, to ease the burdens of this life, which is why His word declares that, “it is not good that man should be alone.”

The truth is: we need God. He is the thread to the very fabric of our lives, and if He is not sewn tightly into our spirits, we will find ourselves unraveling at the seams. Even when we cannot talk to our parents, spouses, siblings, or friends, we can talk to God. We can surrender ourselves and ask Him to help. We don’t have to continue pursuing dreams, goals, and visions without His direction for that goal, dream, or vision. No, we can come to Him, we can repent for not acknowledging Him as the absolute head of every area of our lives, and we can receive His mercy, grace, and love.

God’s love is able to cover a multitude of sin and furthermore His love is able to conquer all! There isn’t a sin He cannot forgive nor is there a problem He cannot solve. We must only believe it to receive it! So when things become overwhelming and when life begins to get stressful call on Him, don’t be too proud to ask God: He will deliver, rescue, and save according to His mercy!

Lord Help Me

“Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy”
--Psalm 109:26

Sometimes “Lord help me” is all we can say when our backs are against the wall. It’s a simple phrase, but it’s a desperate cry, it’s a plea for help.

Perhaps we ourselves or someone we may know is struggling to make ends meet: the mortgage cannot be paid. Maybe we are trying to put pieces back together in a broken relationship: our spouse or significant other will not communicate with us. Maybe we are desperately searching for answers as to why we’ve lost a loved one: our brother, our husband, our son, our friend was shot and killed. Or perhaps we are like clowns, displaying faces of painted joy, living with utter turmoil, frustration, and stress on the inside: we don’t like who we are and we don’t know how to tell anyone the truth. These situations are our cries. They are our cries of pain, hurt, suffering, anxiety, desperation, confusion, and bewilderment. So what do we do with these tears? Whose shoulder do we cry upon?

We turn to God. We look up and we remember His saving mercy and His everlasting grace. Sure we like to think that we got it all together even when we don’t have it together. In those moments, we find ourselves afraid to be honest, afraid to tell the truth about our failures, and afraid to allow our true emotions show. Why? Pride. Pride tells us: you can do it, you don’t need any help, don’t tell him/her—s/he’ll just make fun of you, and you got this. But that’s a lie. God puts people in our lives to help us, to ease the burdens of this life, which is why His word declares that, “it is not good that man should be alone.”

The truth is: we need God. He is the thread to the very fabric of our lives, and if He is not sewn tightly into our spirits, we will find ourselves unraveling at the seams. Even when we cannot talk to our parents, spouses, siblings, or friends, we can talk to God. We can surrender ourselves and ask Him to help. We don’t have to continue pursuing dreams, goals, and visions without His direction for that goal, dream, or vision. No, we can come to Him, we can repent for not acknowledging Him as the absolute head of every area of our lives, and we can receive His mercy, grace, and love.

God’s love is able to cover a multitude of sin and furthermore His love is able to conquer all! There isn’t a sin He cannot forgive nor is there a problem He cannot solve. We must only believe it to receive it! So when things become overwhelming and when life begins to get stressful call on Him, don’t be too proud to ask God: He will deliver, rescue, and save according to His mercy!

Name Drop His Name

That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
—Philippians 2:10

Have you ever witnessed someone who likes to “name drop?” Well a “name dropper” is typically someone who knows someone deemed to be of great significance. For example Oprah’s best friend Gayle, may be afforded certain privileges just because she mentioned her name; a rising corporate financier may not be too bad off if he happens to mention the fact that he knows Bill Gates; and a patient in a ward may just get the best medical care if he or she happens to the know the president of the hospital. Why? Well the old idiom rings true far more than we perhaps may like: it’s not what you know or even what you need, but it’s who you know.

So what about us? What about the average Jack or Jill? How do we get ahead in life? Who do we call? What name do we “drop”? Well when any of us come to know and accept our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, we have the privilege and the right to call on the name of Jesus! That’s right when we “drop” the name of Jesus into our spirit, He moves on our behalf. He goes to the Father, our own personal CEO, and He works with the Holy Spirit, our own personal agent, who ministers to us and through us each and every day. When we even mention the name of Jesus, every situation, every person, every place, and every authority must bow to His feet. That means there isn’t a job that wouldn’t be granted to us, even if we don’t know the CEO; there isn’t a door that wouldn’t open to us, even if we don’t have the financial backing; and there isn’t a person who wouldn’t cooperate with us, even if they don’t understand why. Why? Because when Jesus is living within us, He can work without us. Huh?

Yes, when Jesus is truly on board, we put self to the side so that He can operate how He wants and when He wants. He isn’t constricted to our timeframe, He doesn’t have to do it our way, He isn’t boxed into this one job, and He is not limited by our finite minds. At the very name of Jesus every problem, situation, obstacle, deviation, plan, purpose, or goal must come under His subjection. God must be at the forefront of all of our life’s endeavors and He must be the central axiom to the plan; without Him, it all falls apart!

So when we find ourselves in a bind or when we feel like we don’t have what it takes to accomplish this or that, drop the name, that’s above every name and watch doors open that were predestined with our name on it! So long as it is in the will of God, it will be done through God! Let us drop the spirit of Christ into our souls so that He can drop His blessings into our lives!

In Pain Only His Word Remains

Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away.
--Matthew 24:35

Ken’s marriage ended. James lost his mother. Sandra lost her job. Betty lost her home. In each of these instances someone felt the pain of losing someone or something they held dear to them in a moment’s notice. There was no time to prepare for the fire that took Betty’s home, the budget cut that took Sandra’s job, the accident that claimed James’ mother’s life, or the surprising affair that ended Ken’s marriage. As such these individuals are left in this world to deal and cope with the pain and bewilderment associated with their loss. How do they do that?

They trust in God, the Father. When Jesus Christ came to this earth, He came to show us the way. He showed us how to live in God, how to obey His word, and how to make His word come alive. More importantly Christ wanted us to know that the only thing certain in this world is the word of God. How so? Well He made sure that He reminded us that all that we see, feel, touch, hear, and smell would eventually pass away, except for one thing and that is the word of God. Those who trust in it will never be put to shame and will never come up short, simply because God’s word will remain everlasting. In fact God Himself, honors His word above His own name! And He is sure to remind us that His word will never return void, but it will set out what it accomplished to do! That’s a guarantee we can count on.

In uncertain times God wants us to lean on Him for direction, guidance, answers, and support. He wants to become that spouse we lost, the financial support we need, the shelter we can live beneath, and the rock we can lean on. Sometimes it’s easy to get wrapped up into people or things. When we do it’s sometimes hard to let those things or people go when the time has come, but if we would only lift our heads up, we will see that we are not alone and that God is right there to carry us on His wings of safety.

When our world seems to have been turned upside down, we must remember God’s Holy Spirit is right there to comfort us. It’s not easy losing someone we love or something we depended upon, but if we trust in God, He will ease the pain and He will turn our weeping into joy, and our midnight into day. God is an ever present help in a time of trouble, let us holdfast to His words like never before, for everything else will pass away but His word shall remain and when all hope seems to be lost: it’ not. It is found in His solid word where there is peace, joy, love, hope, prosperity and restoration!

Just Wait On God

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;

they shall mount up with wings as eagles;

they shall run, and not be weary;

and they shall walk, and not faint.

--Isaiah 40:31

Webster’s dictionary defines the word wait as the following: “to stay in place in expectation of,” “to serve,” “to look forward to expectantly, and “to be ready and available.” Some of us may be tired today, maybe even a little worn out and down; some of us may be a little anxious today, maybe even a little frustrated or fretful; some of us may be a little impatient today, maybe even a little worried or doubtful; and some of us may be filled with the joy of expectancy this morning, and maybe even a little excited to see God move in our various situations—and that’s great, but in any place we find ourselves today, God is saying one thing: WAIT.

Waiting on God is like waiting in traffic, we can only see the cars immediately in front, back or to the sides of us, but we cannot see what lies ahead. In moments like this all we can think of is reaching our destination without delay. We don’t like the stop and go, we just want to get there. Yet, somehow traffic is inevitable. At some point in life we all run into it. In some respects God operates in the same manner. He slows us down when we are in a hurry to get to a certain destination. Sure we may know our destination and have a plan as to how to even get there, but along the way, God paces us so that we get there at the appointed arrival time.

Perhaps we are stuck in a situation right now where there are no clear cut answers or seemingly way out, but if we put our trust in Him, He will move the obstacles and eventually He will bring us to our point of destination, purpose, and promise. His word promises that when we wait we soar, when we wait we run, when we wait we walk, and we never lose faith, we never lose strength, we never grow weary, and we certainly don’t faint! We reap all that He promises and even so much more. Moreover when we wait on God, we gain faith, hope, and the blessed assurance to make it through. Just remember that waiting on God gives us the wings that will cause us to soar high in Him!

Let Him Have It

“Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
let every man be swift to hear,
slow to speak, slow to wrath”
--James 1:19

“I’m about to let him/her have it!” This phrase has become common amongst many of us when we feel disgruntled towards someone or when we feel someone has harmed us in some way or another and we have to tell them about themselves. We especially feel this way when those little things begin to get under our skin like when some someone moves something from its rightful place and we can’t seem to find it or when someone else doesn’t pick up behind themselves or when someone doesn’t seem to get the picture that it’s time to go home. In these instances we want to tell that person about themselves. But do we need to? Do we have to let that person or persons know when their words have pierced us or when their actions have offended us? In hindsight we all think, “I sure do.” But in reality God doesn’t want us to, at least not in the way we want.

Well what does God want? In His word, God is very clear that we must be willing to listen to what is being said. If we think about it we can hear verbally or through someone’s actions. Maybe there’s a lot on someone’s mind so they forgot to put that inanimate object back into position, maybe someone actually enjoys your company and doesn’t want to leave because inside they are desperately crying out for help, or maybe just maybe God has placed you in that person’s life to help pick up the pieces. If we think like this we will be slow to speak and we will not be so ready to give an answer for everything we deem wrong. In fact we will allow God to speak for us and through us, we will be more attention to His voice and command! This will prevent words said in anger or in the heat of the moment. In essence we will be slow to wrath.

When we are slow to wrath we are careful about what we say and do. As a result we can hear God’s voice and give Him what’s due: praise, glory, and honor! Yes instead of letting others “have it” we can use those moments to let God have it! In other words we can let God have our ears to hear Him, our hearts to receive Him, our mouths to bless Him, and our minds to think on Him!

So next time we think we should let someone “have it,” let us pause and allow God to speak and move so that He can have total control over our lives and in our lives! When God steps in everything is done in love, peace, and in order—nobody has to get hurt. So let God have it, it results in victory every time!