THE LORD OUR DELIVERER

Psalm 18:1-3

Before the Lord can be our Deliverer, we must first know Him as our personal Savior.

Before we can say, “I love Thee O Lord”, we must know Him or come to the realization that we need Him in our life, then we can say, “I love You, Lord”…

In order to take refuge in “The Rock”, you have to “know The Rock”…

This Psalm is David’s praise when God delivered him from the hand of Saul. This Psalm, as someone has labeled it, could be “All The Way From the Jaws of Death to Jehovah’s Throne.”…

Let’s go before Jehovah’s throne and take a look at some insights in this Psalm.

Verse One opens with Love – My strength –

When was the last time you told Jesus you loved Him?

His strength in verse 1 tells us that He preserves us and by His providence watches over us.  Jesus is our strength.

Verse Two:  David calls the Lord his strength, rock, fortress, and his deliverer; in all of this, He is his Savior.

Then David uses:

           My Shield…He protects me

           My Horn…. Power

By taking hold of the horns of the altar a person would be safe from his attackers.  This is how we need to hold on to our God today..

David uses the word “fortress” – a good place for protection and a good place to get a vision and a perspective of life.

Verse Three:  Worship comes from this old Anglo-Saxon word “worth”.  Worship is that which is extended to the one who is worthy.  David said, “I will call upon the Lord”, why? Because He “is worthy to be praised.”

If we are going to be delivered from our enemies (the things that are against the word of God), then we are going to have to, like David, really begin to call upon the Name of the Lord.

It is one thing to say the Lord is….. these things listed, but can you say that the Lord is “my”…..Strength, Shield, Fortress, Rock and Deliverer?

God is personal and He is just right for each of us….