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God’s Hand Is On the Thermostat of Your Life Episode 117
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Well, hey there!
Welcome to episode #117 of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show, where it's all about knowing and believing God's promises. Because that's where the life-change really takes place!
When you know in your knower that every single one of God's promises is true, you'll never want to go back to a life of doubt and wondering.
This week on the show we are looking at a couple of verses from Psalm 27, which was written by David.
Verses 1 through 3 read like this in the New Living Translation:
1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—
so why should I be afraid?
The Lord is my fortress, protecting me from danger,
so why should I tremble?
2 When evil people come to devour me,
when my enemies and foes attack me,
they will stumble and fall.
3 Though a mighty army surrounds me,
my heart will not be afraid.
Even if I am attacked,
I will remain confident.
Verse 1 is a kind of call to not be afraid - no matter what.
He is our light. He is our salvation. He is our fortress. He will never stop protecting us from danger.
He will enable us to see clearly as He leads us. As our salvation, he rescues, delivers and protects us.
Nobody and nothing get to you outside of the Savior's permission. We see ample of evidence in the first few chapters of the book of Job. The enemy wanted to do far more to Job than he actually did, but was not allowed to because God stayed his hand. When God says, "This far and no farther," even our enemy Satan listens and obeys.
God has His hand on the thermostat of your life, and it will never get hotter than His hand allows.
When you forget this, you give the enemy access that God does not want him to have in your life. Doubting, or even simply failing to remember or call to mind what god has promised in His Word is just a hairs breath away from giving in to fear.
Fear screams loudly and gives the enemy a seat at our table. Once he sits down with us, he does what he always does: lies and lies and lies some more.
But knowing our God decides what does and does not happen to us, well, that takes away the devil's seat at the table of our life. It pulls back the chair and sees him to the door.
It keeps his fear mongering at bay and reduces it to dust.
Jesus sets a table for us in the presence of our enemies, it says in Psalm 23.
But it doesn't say our enemies are dining with us. So let's not accept anything less than our Savior giving us rest and peace in the midst of our enemies and our hard situations.
When your enemy comes to attack they will stumble and fall, it says in verse 2.
Let this remind you that God sees what is happening, and God cares.
Rest assured that God's got His hand on the thermostat and His eye on your circumstances, and He is always, always good.
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