OUR
GREAT DELIVERER
BREAD
1 Then
Hannah prayed and said: “My heart rejoices in the Lord; in the Lord
my horn is lifted high. My mouth boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your
deliverance. 2 There
is no one holy like the Lord;
there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.” 1 Samuel 2:1-2 (NIV)
8 From
the Lord comes deliverance. May
your blessing be on your people. Selah Psalms 3:8 (NIV)
39 “See
now that I myself am He! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring
to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.” Deuteronomy 32:39 (NIV)
1 I love
you, O Lord, my strength. 2 The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my
rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my
stronghold. 3 I call
to the Lord, who is worthy of
praise, and I am saved from my enemies. Psalms
18:1-3 (NIV)
12 For he
will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help. Psalms 72:12 (NIV)
14 “Because
he loves me,” says the Lord, “I
will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. 15 He will call upon me, and I
will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor
him. 16 With
long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation.” Psalms 91:14-16 (NIV)
170 May my
supplication come before you; deliver me according to your promise. Psalms 119:170 (NIV)
9 “This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your
kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give
us today our daily bread. 12 Forgive us our debts, as we
also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’” Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV)
8 We do
not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the
province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to
endure, so that we despaired even of life. 9 Indeed, in our hearts we felt
the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves
but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he
will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver
us. 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 (NIV)
15 He who
forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do. 16 No king is saved by the size
of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. 17 A horse is a vain hope for
deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save. 18 But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those
whose hope is in his unfailing love, 19 to deliver them from death and keep them alive in
famine. 20 We
wait in hope for the Lord; he is
our help and our shield. 21 In him
our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. 22 May your unfailing love rest
upon us, O Lord, even as we put
our hope in you. Psalms 33:15-22 (NIV)
BUTTER
“The
Lord is in the business of delivering His people in His own way, in His own
time and for His own glory.” Robert
J. Morgan
“The
very essence of Christ’s deliverance is the substitution of Himself for us –
His life for ours!” Horatius
Bonar
“See God in everything, and God will calm and color all that thou
doest see! It may be that the
circumstances of our sorrows will not be removed, their condition will remain
unchanged; but if Christ, as Lord and Master of our life, is brought into our
grief and gloom, ‘He will compass us about with songs of deliverance.’ To see HIM, and to be sure that His wisdom
cannot err, His power cannot fail, His love can never change; to know that even
His direst dealings with us are for our deepest spiritual gain, is to be able
to say, in the midst of bereavement, sorrow, pain, and loss, ‘The Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.’ Nothing else but seeing God in everything
will make us loving and patient with those who annoy and trouble us. They will be to us then only instruments for
accomplishing His tender and wise purposes toward us, and we shall even find
ourselves at last inwardly thanking them for the blessing they bring us. Nothing else will completely put an end to
all murmuring or rebelling thoughts.” Hannah
W. Smith
“Forgetfulness is the fuel for idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:23). Spiritual amnesia often leads to faithlessness. This is the most important lesson for us in Deuteronomy 4. God's concern is that his people might ‘forget the things’ that they had seen and that the memory of their gracious deliverance might ‘depart’ from their hearts (Deuteronomy 4:9). Thus we read here of the critical importance of remembrance, of calling to mind again and again the history of God's dealing with us and His faithfulness at every turn.” Sam Storms
“The truth and beauty of the gospel expose
our idol-myths as feeble substitutes and garish counterfeits. And the power of
the gospel enables us to break free from their enslaving and destructive grasp.
Indeed, as our deliverer and liberator, Jesus is freeing us for the great
adventure of living as characters in and carriers of God’s archetypal Story of
all stories. It’s like being taking from starring in your own self-produced, 8
mm black and white home movies to playing one of the hobbits in the grand
production of The Return of the King.” Scotty Smith
“He is near to the broken, He is close to
the weary of heart. In His Name is a
refuge, Safety for the weak and discarded.
There is help for the hopeless, For the wounded in need. In the presence of Jesus, There is power
unleashed. Call upon the Name of the
Lord, He’s our Defender, our Deliverer.
A Shelter in the midst of the storm, Jesus, our Savior, He is King over
all the earth. I will sing of my
Redeemer, Testify to the touch of His hand, Lifted me from disaster, Set my
feet on a solid rock to stand. God is
our Refuge, our Strength and Salvation, A Mighty Fortress is the Lord
Almighty. There is no equal, no power
beside Him. Forever our Champion is the Lord
our God. Our Savior, He is King over all
the earth.” Lyrics to Defender
HEART SAVOR
- · God delivers me from sin and for salvation. He places my feet on a solid rock to stand. He causes me to stand because He is faithful and able to cause me to stand.
- · I am to constantly remember His works of deliverance and faithfulness as I am so prone to forgetfulness and forgetfulness often turns to waywardness.
- · There is no equal, no power beside Him. He’s forever my Champion, the Lord Almighty.
