Text: Psalms 28:7-8

7 The LORD is my strength and my shield;  my heart trusted in him, and I am helped:  therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth;  and with my song will I praise him.   8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

 Saturday, 15^th June 2024  

THE LIBERTY OF STRENGTH

Text: Psalms 28:7-8

Memory verse: Exodus 15: 2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

2 Samuel 22: 33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect. The Spirit of strength gives us the freedom of strength. I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me. My strength is not physical; you have the liberty of strength by the Spirit of strength. And remember, this liberty sets you free from bondage. If you have been weak, you have been in bondage of weakness. What you need is the liberty of the Spirit by the Spirit of strength for you to enjoy the liberty of strength.

The Bible says when Jesus died, He went to hell and stripped the devil of everything that he had been showing off with, He stripped him of everything; all principalities and powers and He triumphed over them. And the Bible says you are seated with Jesus. I am seated with Christ Jesus in the heavenly places far above.

So, if the devil is thinking in a particular way, you are thinking above the devil. If the devil is operating in a particular way, you are operating on a higher level by the Spirit of God. And that's why the question is coming back to us; is the Spirit of God with us? It is because, where the Spirit of God is; not was but is, that is where liberty is. If the Spirit of God has left a place there is no liberty anymore. So, check your heart; is the Spirit of God there? Because it talks about the present. Now, as we speak, at this moment, is the Spirit of God with you.

Israel rejoiced in God, as their strength, song, and salvation, Happy therefore the people whose God is the Lord: They are weak themselves, but he strengthens them, his grace is their strength: they are often in sorrow, but in him they have comfort, he is their song: sin and death threaten them, but he is, and will be, their salvation. He is their father’s God, they were conscious of their own unworthiness, they had reason to think that what God had now done for them was for their fathers’ sake.

Philippians chapter 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Do we now understand how we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us? He strengthens us by His Spirit. He strengthens us by the liberty of the Spirit.

CGDS HYMN 28: SS&S 190: 

COME, HOLY SPIRIT, COME

1. Come, Holy Spirit, come;

Let Thy bright beams arise,

Dispel the darkness from our minds,

And open all our eyes.

2. Revive our drooping faith,

Our doubts and fears remove,

And kindle in our breasts the flame

Of never-dying love.

3. Convince us of our sin,

Then lead to Jesus' blood,

And to our wondering view reveal

The secret love of God.

4. ‘Tis Thine to cleanse the heart,

To sanctify the soul,

To pour fresh life in every part,

And new-create the whole.

5. Dwell therefore in our hearts,

Our minds from bondage free ;

Then we shall know, and praise, and love

The Father, Son, and Thee !  

 Prayers 

1.  Holy Spirit, strengthen me with strength in my inner man always in Jesus’ name.

2.  LORD God Almighty, be my strength and song in all my troubles in Jesus’ name. Amen.    

3.  Pray for others in this regard.