BE STILL

"Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth" (Psalms 46:10).

Many have been put into serious problems just because they will not keep their tongue in its right place. I once read of a physician who could no longer endure his talkative patient. After a while, he came up with an idea, telling his fair patient to put out her tongue as though he was going to examine the chattering instrument. Then the doctor continued writing out the prescription without even as much as glancing at the woman. When he had finished, he turned to her and said: “There, that will do, take it to the pharmacy”. “But, doctor,” protested the lady, “you never even looked at my tongue”. And the doctor replied: “It wasn’t necessary. I just wanted you to keep quiet while I wrote the prescription”.

Sometimes, we also need to keep quiet so as to allow God sort out the issues of our lives. The quietness I am talking about goes beyond refraining from making speeches. I am talking of a calmness of the total being - mind and body. That, I believe is what God is demanding from us when He ordered, "Be still, and know that I am God". God is saying, "I work best for you, in you and through you when you are quiet and calm". I believe that it will be of a great benefit to your whole life if in the next couple of days, you would make time to spend some real quiet moments before the Lord.

DIVINE INTERVENTION, EVERYBODY SHALL SAY AMEN

"Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses" (Psalms 107:28).

Divine intervention always leads to divine lifting. God cannot intervene in a man's situation and leave the man the way He met him. If you have called on God to intervene in your situation, get ready for a definite improvement because when God steps into any matter, He does so with His transforming power.

The children of Israel were once in bondage in the land of Egypt. As slaves, they were severely oppressed and afflicted. Their earnest cry to God provoked heaven's intervention. That intervention did not leave the Hebrews in Egypt. Rather, it lifted them out of bondage into the land of liberty - the Promised Land.

NOW IS THE TIME, YOUR HELPER IS RELEASED

"And he said, if the LORD does not help you, from where shall I help you?" (2 kings 6:27, Modern King James Version).

The Bible says that "none shall be alone in his appointed times" (Isaiah 14:31). The picture projected here is that of a military situation in which no soldier fights alone or is isolated in battle. God’s program is that no one should stand alone in their moments of adversity. God never intends that any man should fight life's battles all alone. Indeed, according to the Preacher, "woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he does not have another to help him" (Ecclesiastes 4:10). The issue of having helpers is crucial in life.