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Devotional-God's Protective Presence · The Father's Business Podcast

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: The Father's Business was founded by Sylvia Gunter to encourage people to a deeper relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this devotional.
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  Speaker 1: If you had certainty and security that you could not be defeated, how would you live your life differently?
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  Speaker 1: Psalm 91 describes biblical confidence and poise.
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  Speaker 1: In some Bibles it's subtitled the security of the one who trusts in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: The heart of it is the protective place of abiding safely in God as we run to our covenant position of settling down under His defense, allowing Him to fight our battles for us.
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  Speaker 1: Psalm 91 begins with relationship.
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  Speaker 1: God speaks of who he is.
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  Speaker 1: He is the Most High, he is the Almighty, he is our refuge and fortress.
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  Speaker 1: After establishing who God is, the psalmist describes the work of the enemy.
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  Speaker 1: Spiritual warfare is not about fighting in our own strength.
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  Speaker 1: It's about experiencing all the majesty and supremacy of God, who assures us that he is committed to defending us.
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  Speaker 1: Our part is to rest and trust in who he is.
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  Speaker 1: The psalm ends by returning to relationship.
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  Speaker 1: God's commitment is based on his deep, covenant, love relationship with us, which the psalm affirms and celebrates in the closing verses.
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  Speaker 1: We can confidently claim his rest, refuge, protection, safety covering faithfulness, freedom from fear, angelic watchers, deliverance and salvation based on our relationship with Him.
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  Speaker 1: I have stood on Psalm 91 many times defensively to plead God's shield of protection and offensively to push back the adversary.
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  Speaker 1: For myself and for others, it is particularly powerful when prayed out loud.
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  Speaker 1: God's covenant promises in Psalm 91 are dear to his heart.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to close today's devotional by reading Psalm 91.
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  Speaker 1: Take it deep into your heart, spirit and life experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Your circumstances may leave you feeling defeated.
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  Speaker 1: Take heart that God is the Almighty One and is doing more than you can see.
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  Speaker 1: You can live with confidence that you are on the winning side, regardless of what your circumstances try to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Pray with me, most high God, my El Shaddai.
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  Speaker 1: Teach me to be biblically fearless, based on my covenant, love, relationship with you.
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  Speaker 1: Just invite your spirit, soul and body to hear and receive the words of Psalm 91.
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  Speaker 1: He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty, I will say of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: He is my refuge and fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
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  Speaker 1: Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence.
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  Speaker 1: He will cover you with feathers and under his wing you will find refuge.
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  Speaker 1: His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart, you will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.
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  Speaker 1: A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
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  Speaker 1: You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.
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  Speaker 1: If you make the most high your dwelling even the Lord, who is your refuge, then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent, for he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
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  Speaker 1: They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
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  Speaker 1: You will tread upon the lion and the cobra.
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  Speaker 1: You will trample the great lion and the serpent.
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  Speaker 1: Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him.
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  Speaker 1: I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
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  Speaker 1: He will call upon me and I will answer him.
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  Speaker 1: I will be with him in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: I will deliver him and honor him With long life.
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  Speaker 1: I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.
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  Speaker 1: For more devotional thoughts on Psalm 91, please refer to Prayer Essentials for Living in His Presence, volume 1 and Volume 2.
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  Speaker 1: Both can be found on our website, wwwthefathersbusinesscom.