Post by Les Brewer on Apr 22, 2023 15:55:09 GMT
*_THE LIFTING, THE SAVING AND THE SUSTAINING GRACE!!!_*
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
— Psalm 28:9
The grace of God is lifting, saving and sustaining! The blessings enclosed in God's grace is wholistic, there is grace for every aspect of needs in our lives. The Psalmist prayer was for God to save, bless, nourish and shepherd and lift His people forever. This is the nature of God's grace, the grace saves, bless, nourish, shepherd, and sustain forever. From our above text we are focusing on the lifting of grace.
God’s people need lifting up. Nature has made the people of God very heavy. There is no wings, or, if there's wings, they are like the dove of old which lay among the pots; and so we need divine grace to make us mount on wings covered with silver, and with feathers of yellow gold. By nature sparks fly upward, but the sinful souls of men fall downward.
O Lord, “lift them up forever!” David himself said, “Unto thee, O God, do I lift up my soul,” and he here feels the necessity that other men’s souls should be lifted up as well as his own. When you ask this blessing for yourself, forget not to seek it for others also. There are three ways in which God’s people require to be lifted up. They require to be elevated in *CHARACTER*. Lift them up, O Lord; do not suffer thy people to be like the world’s people! The world lieth in the wicked one; lift them out of it! The world’s people are looking after silver and gold, seeking their own pleasures, and the gratification of their lusts; but, Lord, lift thy people up above all this; keep them from being “muck-rakers,” as the man who was always scraping after gold is called! Set their hearts upon their risen Lord and the heavenly heritage!
Moreover, believers need to be prospered in *CONFLICT*. In the battle of life, if they seem to fall, O Lord, be pleased to give them the victory. If the foot of the foe be upon their necks for a moment, help them to grasp the sword of the Spirit, and eventually to win the battle. Lord, lift up thy children’s spirits in the day of conflict; let them not sit in the dust, mourning forever. Suffer not the adversary to vex them sore, and make them fret; but if they have been, like Hannah, persecuted, let them sing of the mercy of a delivering God.
We may also ask our Lord to lift them up at the last or at the rapture of the saints! Lift them up by taking them home, lift their bodies from the tomb, and raise their souls from corruption to thine eternal kingdom in glory.
May God Almighty Save us His people, and bless us His inheritance: feed us also, and lift us up for ever.
Have a wonderful and a blessed day!
God bless us all.
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
— Psalm 28:9
The grace of God is lifting, saving and sustaining! The blessings enclosed in God's grace is wholistic, there is grace for every aspect of needs in our lives. The Psalmist prayer was for God to save, bless, nourish and shepherd and lift His people forever. This is the nature of God's grace, the grace saves, bless, nourish, shepherd, and sustain forever. From our above text we are focusing on the lifting of grace.
God’s people need lifting up. Nature has made the people of God very heavy. There is no wings, or, if there's wings, they are like the dove of old which lay among the pots; and so we need divine grace to make us mount on wings covered with silver, and with feathers of yellow gold. By nature sparks fly upward, but the sinful souls of men fall downward.
O Lord, “lift them up forever!” David himself said, “Unto thee, O God, do I lift up my soul,” and he here feels the necessity that other men’s souls should be lifted up as well as his own. When you ask this blessing for yourself, forget not to seek it for others also. There are three ways in which God’s people require to be lifted up. They require to be elevated in *CHARACTER*. Lift them up, O Lord; do not suffer thy people to be like the world’s people! The world lieth in the wicked one; lift them out of it! The world’s people are looking after silver and gold, seeking their own pleasures, and the gratification of their lusts; but, Lord, lift thy people up above all this; keep them from being “muck-rakers,” as the man who was always scraping after gold is called! Set their hearts upon their risen Lord and the heavenly heritage!
Moreover, believers need to be prospered in *CONFLICT*. In the battle of life, if they seem to fall, O Lord, be pleased to give them the victory. If the foot of the foe be upon their necks for a moment, help them to grasp the sword of the Spirit, and eventually to win the battle. Lord, lift up thy children’s spirits in the day of conflict; let them not sit in the dust, mourning forever. Suffer not the adversary to vex them sore, and make them fret; but if they have been, like Hannah, persecuted, let them sing of the mercy of a delivering God.
We may also ask our Lord to lift them up at the last or at the rapture of the saints! Lift them up by taking them home, lift their bodies from the tomb, and raise their souls from corruption to thine eternal kingdom in glory.
May God Almighty Save us His people, and bless us His inheritance: feed us also, and lift us up for ever.
Have a wonderful and a blessed day!
God bless us all.
