Psalm 83 begins with a cry: “O God, do not remain silent.” Asaph sees enemies surrounding God’s people and from where he is standing, God seems silent. Yet by the end of the Psalm, Asaph is declaring that the Lord alone is the Most High over all the earth.
There are men today who are somewhere between verse 1 and verse 18. Life has become difficult. Their marriage may still be falling apart or the diagnosis from the doctor may not have changed. The financial pressure may still be there and they have prayed, waited and hoped, but God seems very silent. They are struggling to believe that God is still there.
In this episode, we pray that they will not give up in the middle. We ask God to remind them that when they cannot see Him working, He has not abandoned them. We pray that they will run to Him and trust that no enemy, circumstance or power is greater than God.
Sometimes God removes what we desperately want Him to remove. Sometimes He gives us the strength to walk through it. Whatever the outcome, our prayer is that in the middle of the problem, these men will rediscover who God is and come to their verse 18, knowing that He alone is the Most High over all the earth.
SCRIPTURES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
– Psalm 83:1-18
– 1 Chronicles 16:4-7
– Psalm 121:3-4
– Philippians 2:9-11
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