Discovering YOU Magazine September 2023 Issue | Page 41

SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH

open to our cry” (v. 15). “He delivers us out of the trouble of life issues” (v. 17) … He delivers us “out of them all” (v. 19).

B.Use Your time positioning yourself where you cannot miss God. Get in a position to dream, imagine, and speak your faith with the expectation of His intervention. Rather than running from issues in life, run to the one PSA. 34 says “can deliver us from all our troubles”! Surrender your ways to the Lord! Remove what’s been keeping you from Jesus! Value God’s Word by committing yourself to quality time reading it. Fill your heart with God’s promises. Anchor your life in God through daily prayer. Be faithful to God’s House using your talents to serve others and give to God’s work. By this…you can gain power to know WHY GOD LET IT HAPPEN and walk with His help into the enemy’s camp to take back things that rightfully belong to you! Pray this prayer…

“Father God, I invite you into my life and circumstances. Forgive me for the times I have sinned, doing things my way. I want to make you first in my life from this day on. My heart cries out in repentance…to claim deliverance and Holy Spirit fire! Cut out compromise in my life and break every Cycle of Defeat! Re-make me by your miracle power, so I CAN do all things through Christ who strengthens me! Help me be a person of your Word, Pray, and claim miracles in my home …in Jesus’ Name. Amen.”

wealthy old lady to wonder how one who had so little could be so giving to a stranger. As she was eating, she remembered Joe. So, while the waitress went to get change for her $100 bill, she scribbled a note to the waitress and slipped out the door. When the waitress came back, she noticed writing on the paper napkin that brought tears to her eyes. It said "You don’t owe me a thing; I’ve been there too. Someone helped me out, the way I’m helping you.” With tables to clear and people to serve, the waitress made it through the last 2 hours of her shift. That night when she got home from work and climbed into bed, she was thinking about the money and what the lady had written. With the baby due next month, she knew how worried her husband was, and as she crawled in next to him, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered "Everything’s gonna be all right; I Love you, Joe." Little did she realize Joe’s good deed that night would come back to her—his pregnant wife and God would have His way of overcoming fear and trouble to send them answers to “Why Did God Let This Happen, as 3rdly…

III.THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE TOWARD THE RIGHTEOUS AND HIS EAR OPEN TO THEIR CRY (Psa. 34:15-19)

A.Use Your time amid all the distractions in life to attract the favor and attention of God. Get a “deep respect for God” for it says here “the angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear God”. When you do things that attract the attention of God, you have a rescuer and indweller in you! David says here “The eyes of the Lord” are on us, "His ears