Psalm 63:1-11

The Psalmist is reminding his readers that life’s wilderness is real regardless of one’s personal status in life and those who will handle it best are those that have unquestionable regimen, unmeasurable resources, and unshakable resolve.

In the Desert Vital to Survival is Your Unquestionable Regimen

O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. —Psalm 63:1

One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple. —Psalm 27:4

Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually! —Psalm 105:4

Your survival in the desert storm and the easiness of overcoming it will completely depend on the kind of life’s regimen you already developed in your life in times of calm and peace.  It is catastrophic for one to learn how to be strong when strength is a must needed commodity in the midst of storm.

In the Desert Vital to Survival is Your Unmeasurable Resources

My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth offers praises with joyful lips. —Psalm 63:5

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us” . . . Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! —John 14:8,9

for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy. —Psalm 63:7

The greatest of all resources one needed most in the desert storm is that one who have attitude altering power, ever present, available, and all sufficient.   The fact is even our outward circumstance never changes, our changed attitude toward circumstances verified by our past experiences is enough to make a sizeable difference.

In the Desert Vital to Survival is Your Unshakable Resolved

My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me. —Psalm 63:8

But you have upheld me because of my integrity and set me in your presence forever. —Psalm 41:12

Indecisiveness in the desert storm is absolutely disastrous.   Unaskable resolve to trust in God in the midst of storm eliminates anxiety, intensifies dependence, and fortifies praise.  When we cling to God and God clings to us, there is a double embrace; holding at each other makes us firmly upheld.

Jeremiah 29:10-14

The God’s chosen people is on Holy Captivity; under divine training through sufferings, trials, and disciplines purposely not to put them under calamity but rather summons them to saintly maturity with their future perfection, happiness, and glory in view.

God’s Captivity is not a Calamity

                ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. —Jeremiah 29:11 [NASB]

                Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.—Psalm 40:5 [BSB]

                For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. —Isaiah 55:8 [KJV]

God’s purpose in captivity is not to bring calamity, rather, brings about the restoration of peace, prosperity, and the future welfare of as a chosen people.

God’s Captivity Summons Saintly Maturity

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.  ‘You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. —Jeremiah 29:12-13

                Call to me and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. —Jeremiah 33:3 [ESV]

                So, I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes. —Daniel 9:3 [NASB]

‘I will be found by you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’—Jeremiah 29:12-14

God’s captivity summons the chosen people’s elevated sole desire to love Him; bringing back unto them the spirit of prayerfulness, truthfulness of the heart, and heartfelt desire to find Him; restoring them back into a prosperous nation.

Psalm 46:10

[ In perilous times, the Psalmist admonished the people to make ultimate decisions that are reliable and trustworthy to which they should: run for shelter and trust for guidance.]

Run to the Ultimate Safest Shelter

God is the Safest Shield in Trouble

God is our refuge and strength,  A very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea.  Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride.—Psalm 46:1-3

Only in God we find ultimate strength and protection.  His help in times of trouble is totally available and trustworthy.  Being sheltered in God’s protection, we have nothing to fear even though the earth in state chaos tries to overwhelm us.  God is our sufficiency, defense, and strength in all emergencies.  His very presence in us is closer than the trouble itself.

Trust the Ultimate Smartest Mind

God is the Perfect Guide in Times of Turmoil

Come, behold the works of the LORD, Who has wrought desolations in the earth.  9He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariots with fire. 10“Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” 11The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our stronghold.—Psalm 46:8-11

God came to fix our brokenness.  He’s the smartest person who knows the best way in this journey and the perfect guide toward our destiny.  Let’s stop opposing Him, rather, let ‘s humbly acknowledged His irresistible authority and trust His righteousness justice.  Like prophets, apostles, and martyrs; let us learn to meditate on His Word of truth, patiently grow in graces and virtues, and mesmerize His blessings and ever presence.  In good time and bad times God remains the same untouched in His Throne.

Conclusion

God is watching over our soul in this journey of life. No storm can endanger our safety if we trust Him. But shipwreck of life is sure to those who take control of their life in time of trouble.  It is catastrophic to lose faith in the captain of life during the storms.   If we obey His words, “Be still, and know that I am God,” we ‘ll have peace and confidence in this journey of life.

1 Peter 1:3-5

Unequalled Praises to the God and Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,—1 Peter 1:3

The Father’s Abundant Mercy

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.—Titus 3:5

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,—2 Cor. 1:3

“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless His holy name.”—Psalm 103:1

Jesus’ Resurrection of Jesus from the Dead

For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,—Hebrews 2:11

By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.—Hebrews 10:10

Unparalleled Commitment to the Living Hope through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time—1 Peter 1:4-5

Hope of the Heavenly Inheritance.

Hope of Perfect Victory

He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.—1 Cor. 1:8

”his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.—1 Cor. 3:13

John 4:21-24

Worship’s in the Holy Place

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.—John 4:21

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.—John 14:23

• The holy place is where the holy dwells. 
• Unless worshippers give God spiritual thing, they give Him nothing.

Worship’s through the Agency of the Spirit

“But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. —John 4:23

• Genuine worship is impossible without dependence to God, the Spirit’s empowerment, and inspiration.

“But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.—John 16:13

Worship’s in the Spirit

“God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”—John 4:24

• Worships are privileges of those who were born of the Spirit.

for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,—Phil. 3:3

That is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.—John 14:17

• Worshippers who make God the center worship are worshiper whom God seek.