The Dwelling place, part two Psalm 91

. The Dwelling place of Psalm 91 In the previous blog I mentioned the benefits; deliverance from the enemies traps, vs. 3 snares and pestilence, divine protection vs. 4, refuge is found under His wings …His truth shall be our shield and buckler…a small shield. The weapons come from God. I received an e-mail that talked about some ladies in a Bible Study group in N.S., a request for prayer for some ladies whose lives were a mess. It said “we are at war” This surely is a warfare and Jesus has provided us with weapons only they are not carnal weapons, they are spiritual”.
You can’t fight the enemy without the truth. We have the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. If you are sitting at His feet and listening to His Words, then you will know how to use the sword, not carnally like Peter did and cut off the guys ear.Verse 5 says, “You shall not be afraid”…not be afraid of what? …..terror by night, arrows in the day time, pestilence that walks in darkness, destruction at noon time…that pretty well covers a 24/7 don’t you think? THIS IS A WAR ZONE! You can have a peace in your heart when in a war zone…if you are dwelling in the secret place of the most high God. Our warfare is a spiritual one and must be fought there. Not with flesh and blood….but on our knees. There will be casualties; a thousand may very well fall at your side. How many who once were on fire for God have fallen , turned back, become discouraged, maybe we were partly to blame because we didn’t visit them when we should have….in the hospital or the nursing home, even in their own place. Have you ever felt the prompting of the Spirit telling you to go and pray for someone who is sick perhaps and you failed to do it? For whatever reason? Maybe to invest some time in a young person's life? I am afraid that I am guilty of this sin….A thousand may fall at your side..not talking about an enemy here….talking about somebody who is on your side.
Ten thousand at your right hand….but you will be alright because you are dwelling in the secret place of the most high God. And because you have made Him your dwelling place, no plague will come near you. Where is thus dwelling place and how do you find it? In the computer age, you would do a search…..well it’s the same with the spiritual, only instead of typing in a question and clicking on search, you get on your knees and you storm heaven. You don’t hear much about storming heaven these days, do you? “Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the Most High YOUR DWELLING PLACE, NO EVIL SHALL BEFALL YOU. What a promise!...and no plague can come near the place of your dwelling. There are some questions that we all no doubt have, questions regarding these promises, maybe even some doubts
How come if I am dwelling in the secret place, I am having all this Trouble?
Perhaps contrary to what we think, that being our works are so important, we need just to turn aside from our works and just sit at Jesus feet like Mary did. Perhaps when we get together and
We may even be in the church setting instead of talking about the church and what we are doing there we should be talking about Jesus and what He has done for us. The church at Ephesus had once been found out to be a church dwelling in the secret place of the most high but by the time that Jesus visited them in Revelation CH 2….THEY HAD LEFT THEIRFIRST LOVE …..THE SECRET PLACE OF ThE MOST HIGH GOD. It means an intimate relationship to dwell in the secret place of the most high God. To abide under the shadow of thy wings. That should be our chief aim, should it not? To be covered like young chicks are under the mother hen’s feathers.
The promises of God are manifold …..to those who dwell and continue to dwell in the secret place of the Most High God!!!
A little while back, I asked the question where is the dwelling place of the Most High God? Some would say in heaven and they would be correct, Others would say within the human heart and that would be correct also. By the way when the Bibie refers to the heart of man, it is not referring to a muscle but it is referring to the innermost part of our being, that part that reasons and thinks and makes decisions, that part that never dies…the soul, you cannot see it but it is a part of you that will never die! And God dwells there, as a matter of fact He dwells everywhere. And He dwells in the Christian, that one who has been born again by the Spirit of GOD.. And there is a secret place within the heart and soul of man where God can and will meet man. He will meet the hungry heart, those who seek Him with their whole being.
Judy and I were in Alaska staying in a lodge near Denali
Park , it was September of last year. We walked into one of the foyers of the main building and some people were gathered around a concert grand piano singing, “in the sweet bye and bye, we shall meet on that beautiful shore.” The VERSE goes thusly…”There’s a land that is fairer than day, and by faith we can see it afar, And the Father waits over the way,To prepare us a dwelling place there.” We were invited to join in with this group of fellow Christian brothers and sisters who just happened to be people of another racial origin, oriental, probably American by citizenship and birth, it matters not but I was reminded of that scripture in the book of Revelation chapter
7 verse 9,”After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number of all nations, tribes, peoples and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, verse 10/ and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”These are the tribulation saints but my point is in that part that tells us that there will be peoples from every nation and every tribe and every language in heaven and that means that we have brothers and sisters in every corner of the globe and while we sang a few words of that old hymn together that day in Alaska, I felt that we were dwelling together in that secret place of the most high God. May these words encourage you today to seek the Lord and find the secret place He has prepared for you…Randall