Psalm 68:20 NASB

God is to us a God of deliverances...

I love this statement.  It's a grand declaration.  It's a great assurance.  As He is with us, so He wants to be to all people.  As we work in a world with many injustices and bondages, we have this redeeming message:  "Our God is to us a God of deliverances!"  As we have known that deliverance of God, whether from sin's bondage, Satan's wiles, or the weight of certain circumstances, we are a testimony of this great truth.  We need to carry this witness to the ends of the earth!  The Psalmist, captured by this truth, writes, "Lift up a song for Him who rides through the deserts, whose name is the LORD, and exult before Him," (68:4).  As I travel to various places around this world, I find people in desert experiences, with seemingly no hope.  I'm so thankful that our workers don't come into these situations with empty palaver about God, but they bring a message of the God who moves for them.

•  a father of the fatherless (v.5a)
• a judge for the widows (v.5b)
• a home for the lonely (v.6a)
• a hope for the prisoner (v.6b)
• a provider for the poor (v.10b)
• a deliverer from death (v.20b)
• a scatterer of people who delight in war (v.30)

"O God, You are awesome... The God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to the people.  Blessed be God!" (68:35).