Say So!!

It’s amazing what a little rest will do for your perspective! Some of us have allowed ourselves to become so bogged down by the battles of this life, some of which aren’t even ours, that we can’t see the difference between good and bad. We get weary and forget that the Word tells us to “cast our cares on God and He will sustain you. He will never let the righteous fall.” (Psalm 55:22 NIV) Our vision becomes cloudy and our faith gets shaky and we take our eyes off of God. When I was lying in the bed this morning, I heard one phrase…Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! Woooooo….that resonated in my spirit, y’all! I have heard people casually throw those words around all my life but this made my spirit leap. You know when a Word kind of slaps you in the face…that’s how I felt!

Psalm 107 is a chapter that is filled with thanksgiving for deliverance! It starts out with a praise for God’s enduring mercy and then it goes straight to the point in verse 2!  “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy, and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.”  We forget that God has delivered us from the enemy! Jesus Christ died on the cross and took back the keys of death. With His resurrection, we were given the power over principalities, death, and disease! He stacked the deck on our behalf! We have already won the battle. We forget that when it seems like we are surrounded by sickness and lack, but it’s time to refocus! It’s time to stand up with your chest out and your head up and declare as the redeemed of the Lord that you have been delivered and then walk in that deliverance!

I love how this chapter is set up. Look at verses 10 -16. “Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, bound in affliction and irons—because they rebelled against the words of God, and despised the counsel of the Most High, therefore He brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses.  He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!  For He has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron in two.”  The writer talks about the trials and the hard places that we face but then he says that key phrase – then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble and He saved them out of their distresses! God is willing and able to take your dead situation and give it new life. The question is - are you willing to cry out to the Lord and let Him do the saving?

Once you have accepted Jesus Christ, you are the redeemed of the Lord! So you have authority and power! It’s time out for letting Satan turn your world upside down. You may be facing a sick or dying family member and you feel helpless and upset. Pray the Word and then speak life to them and let God do the work. Your finances might be all jacked up and you are stressed out. Remember that God is more than enough. Pray and ask God to break the backbone of every spirit of scarcity in your life and let Him do the work.  God is our Jehovah Mephalti, our deliverer! Psalm 18:2 says “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.”

I challenge you today to speak as the redeemed of the Lord, confident that He will deliver you out of your troubles.  Sometimes you have to take a day or a couple of hours, whatever it takes to be refueled by the Lord. It’s so easy to fall into a dark place and stay too long, especially when you are a person that many people depend on.  Get up and shake yourself off, look in the mirror and speak a Word of encouragement to yourself! “I am the redeemed of the Lord and He WILL deliver me out of all my troubles!”  Recognize that sometimes the delivery that God gives you is not what you planned for yourself but He has it all under control. Look into the trial and see the victory! “Whoever is wise will observe these things, And they will understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.” (Psalm 107:43, NKJV)

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! AMEN