Here at Zion we believe that we have great unity. Yet today I hear how many of us are fighting spiritual battles alone. In fact I have heard in the past few weeks of many battles we have been experiencing as a church with little to no reinforcement from brothers and sisters in Christ. I find it disturbing how many of us are fighting alone. Rather than calling out for help we are choosing to drown in droplets of despair. I want each of you to know that I love you and you are all in my prayers this week! I just want to let you know when you are pinned down and there is no apparent help in sight lift up your head!
“I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord will keep you from all evil;
he will keep your life.
8 The Lord will keep
your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and for evermore.” Ps 121
I want you to realize that our God is alive! He is available to help you in your need! He is victorious, and we are on the winning side!
So in your moment of deepest need cry out to Jesus! He is there to rescue. In your moments of doubt, weakness, and despair call on the Name that is above all the other names! Because He will calm your thoughts with a single word. However, we were made for community. When you call on Him you don’t have to fight alone. Call on those who are fighting and striving with “one mind for the faith of the gospel” (Phil 1:27) and together we will raise up the standard the power of His blood. Our enemy can only flee when we stand together in Jesus name!
I want to encourage you my brother and my sister. God sees you! God hears you! God is coming to you! He hasn’t forgotten or forsaken you. Let us now call out to God in unity. We will see His presence fall into our disheartening situations that were once insurmountable, but now are filled with tranquil grace. Maybe in your situation you are like the song written by a great man I once met:
“Just don’t know where, where to begin
When earthly kings surrender to this world of sin.
To walk the walk, talk the talk, truth is
Heaven on earth is one stairway
That can’t be bought.
The price is paid, we believe that our God reigns,
The true believers stand on every word You say,
The true believers made alive in Christ today,
This is how we survive and where we mean to stay.
The true believers.
You’ve had enough, all you can take
When your river of tears
Runs into an ocean of heartbreak.
He’ll be your moon when your sun goes down,
Fire for you if ice is all that’s on your ground.
When your music has died,
And silence is the sound,
The true believers stand on every word You say,
The true believers made alive in Christ today,
This is how we survive and where we mean to stay.
The true believers.
So if you need to call on a friend,
He’s there for you right until the very end,
His love is alive forever and amen.
The true believers stand on every word You say,
The true believers made alive in Christ today,
This is how we survive and where we mean to stay.
The true believers.” -Phil Keaggy “True Believers” 1995
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