Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from the Prestonwood Baptist Church Choir singing Thou O Lord ... powerfully singing of how God can - and will - lift us up when we’re down and protect us with our shield of faith in Him.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Psalm 3:3 [NKJV] ... 3 But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory and the One who lifts up my head.
... David’s shield of faith in a time of peril.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Psalm 3 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… David, when being pursued by his son, Absalom, still had faith that his God would protect him.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK …
... No matter what we encounter, we must trust in our God.
Reference Passage : … John 16:33 [NKJV] ... 33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
... Jesus, to His disciples (and to you and me), shows why we can - and should - have faith in Him when we’re attacked by the world … because He has overcome the world.
Reference Passage : … 1Corinthians 10:13 [NKJV] ... 3 No temptation [or also translated “test, trial, trouble, or tribulation”] has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
... God, thru Paul, assures us that our faithful God will be there to protect us and lead us no matter what we face.
Reference Passage : … Ephesians 6:16 [NKJV] ... 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
... Our faith in God is our shield against the threats and attacks of our spiritual enemies.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Arthur Jackson, uses a story of a friend who had to hold onto her faith in a series of trials. … The ODB author wrote: Our church experienced an agonizing loss when Paul, our gifted worship minister, died at the age of thirty-one in a boating accident. Paul and his wife, DuRhonda, were no strangers to pain; they had buried several children who hadn’t made it to term. Now there would be another grave near the small graves of these little ones. The life-crushing crisis this family experienced hit those who loved them like a knockout blow to the head.
Perhaps, like David when he penned and sang the highlight passage in Psalm 3, some readers here are in the midst of spiritual warfare, being attacked by severe challenges of life, as was the mother in the ODB story above. Perhaps it’s just outright spiritual warfare where the attacks of our enemies are being felt. Well, in such times, we need to take up our shield of faith, as did King David when he was being pursued under threat of death by his son, Absalom.
And in the midst of such threats or loss of security, David held up his shield of faith, penning Psalm 3, especially verse 3, holding up his faith as also did the Apostle Paul from prison and threat of death when he wrote about the full armor of God and taking up the shield of faith (see Eph. 6:16).
And maybe there are readers with me today who need to set aside our personal fears (see Prov. 3:5-6) and trust that God will protect us and lead us into victory. We need to have faith that our God has overcome our enemies [see John 16:33], who would come after us to bring us down. Yes, our God is our shield of faith in times of trouble (see photo and 1Cor 10:13).
But do we believe it; … and then, will we use it today?!
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for providing us with Your shield of faith.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me to hold up Your shield of faith to quell the attacks from our enemies. … Amen
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