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Psalm 34

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Tuesday 28th February 2017

Today’s exhortation – delivered from all!

No matter what trouble you are in, whether self inflicted or not, one thing can be certain, God will deliver you from ‘ALL your troubles.’ ALL MEANS ALL! He may not do it the way we expect, but He most certainly will deliver us! The bible says, The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; He delivers them from all their troubles. (‭Psalm‬ ‭34‬:‭17‬). This psalm was written by someone who was qualified to make that statement. David who wrote this went through a lot of troubles in his life. Some were self inflicted and some weren’t, but God delivered him from all of them. For instance he took another man’s wife, impregnated her and killed the husband in order to cover his shame.

Subsequently, his family fell apart, some of kids wanted to kill him, one son forcefully took his sister’s virginity and brothers killed brothers. These troubles were his own doing. In other troubles, people sought to kill him because they were jealous of him. Nevertheless, God delivered him from ALL HIS TROUBLES! We may think, well that was David, but the verse says it’s for the righteous! Who’s righteous? “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans‬ ‭10:9-10‬. Amen

Francis Hans-Jorie

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Monday 13th February 2017

Today’s exhortation – God cares about you

There is a story about a black woman who experienced God’s deliverance many years ago in the days of slavery. Her 16-year old daughter was about to be sold on the auction block. The mother bowed her head and prayed, “Dear Lord God, if You were in trouble as I am in trouble, and I could help You as easy as You could help me, I would do it!” It happens that a U.S. Senator was present. The senator’s son was with him, and when the boy saw them pulling this girl away from her mother, and he saw their tears, he ran to his father and said “daddy, loan me $10!” The senator gave him $10 and the boy ran to the auction block.

Before anybody else could start bidding, he said, “I will bid $10.” (Ordinarily, $200 would have been a low opening bid, but everybody was so thrilled at what he was doing that nobody else would bid.) The boy bought the girl for $10. Taking the bill of sale, he marched right over and handed the girl back to her mother. Hallelujah! Are you in such a place right now? Is your back against the wall with no way out and no one to turn to? Call to The Lord. The bible says, “The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.” (Psalm ‭34‬:‭17‬). “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favour and honour; no good thing does He withhold from those whose walk is blameless.” (Psalm‬ ‭84:11‬). Amen

Francis Hans-Jorie

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Friday 20th January 2017

Today’s exhortation – healing from pain

Everyone is dealing with pain and some of this pain is deep rooted. Pain from grief, rejection, broken-heart, betrayal, sadness, etc all leave wounds in us that run deep. What’s also true is that we all wear masks to hide our pain. Some may do so by being angry, rude, withdrawn and jokes, but they are all masks. The good news is that The Lord can and wants to heal us but it’s not a quick fix. So, He brings the pain to the surface a little bit at a time as we wouldn’t be able to bear it if He brought it all up at once. The Lord said to His disciples, ““I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth.” John‬ ‭16:12-13‬. The Comforter who is also The Spirit, heals and guides us into truth like –

Nothing shall separate us from the love of God in Jesus (Romans 8:38). And nothing means nothing – not even murder, theft, alcoholism, drugs, abortion, adultery, etc “There’s therefore now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1) “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” (Psalm‬ ‭34:18‬); “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” (Psalm‬ ‭147:3‬). Amen

Francis Hans-Jorie

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Tuesday 15th November 2016

Today’s exhortation – that’s life

One of the things that Joseph’s story has confirmed to me is that “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all.” (‭‭Psalms‬ ‭34:19‬). And also, “the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him…”” (II Chronicles‬ ‭16:9‬). Being a Christian doesn’t make life any easier and we’ll find that most days are a challenge. We’ll have to fight of temptations daily and we’ll suffer betrayals, injustices, loneliness etc all because we choose to be faithful and loyal to God. It’s perfectly normal that people will dislike us for no reason or try to undermine us, it shouldn’t take us by surprise at all.

Anyone marked by the blood of Jesus is game for the devil to attack. He comes at us from all angles. In our marriages, health, work, relationships, children etc, but God allows it because He uses it to mature us for our promotion. We also learn from Joseph that we should trust God and let things take their course. So what if they lie about us or undermine us? God will fight our battles for us, we don’t need to prove anything to anyone. In due season, God will show Himself strong on our behalf. Let’s just keep our eyes on Jesus and in spite of all the storms, we will walk on water. Amen

Francis Hans-Jorie