Psalm 91

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High...
He that is in Christ, is a new creature....
He that knows the Lord of Glory in the pardon of his sins
He that is in communion with God in Christ with the knowledge of sins forgiven.
He that lives with a sense of the cleansing power of Christs sacrifice shed on behalf of his sins
He that continually flees to Christ for cleansing and healing and strength and hope.
He who has Christ advocating to the Father on his behalf and lives in the light of that.
He who does not pull down the shade of conscience without feeling the pangs of the knowledge that it was that sin that caused Christ pain and suffering.
He that loves God enough to live for him and die to self regularly.
He that is in the secret place of the most High...


















Psalms 91_2
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress; my God in Him I will trust.

I will speak of the refuge that God has been to me, in protection, encouragement and life.
I will say that the protection and the answer has come from God
I will talk about the trust that I have in Him.
I will tell others that when I am protected it was the Lord who delivered and came through.
I will talk about the times that I have had to run to Him for strength and protection.
I will say that God has been there when I have run to Him
I will say about the Lord that He is the house of my soul and the protection of my life and that which belongs to us.
I will talk about His good purposes for my soul in the difficulties and the protection of God in the fearful times.
I will say that the Lord belongs to me, It is awesome that the Lord of the Universe will be posessed in relationship with the likes of me. I will say that He is mine. I will say that I trust Him in circumstances and difficulties. People who have little idols which they carry have nothing on me. My God belongs to me. He makes Himself accessible and available to listen and to protect, to guide and to guard. God, who needs nothing, owns the friendship and defends the relationship with those who are His own.
We need no little idol on a charm or a shelf. He belongs to me, just as personally. He is mine. He is mine, He is mine, He is mine.
Not until you are posessed and owned, cherished and delighted in. A posession, a personal protected portion of another person can you appreciate the condescencion of God in this way to be posessed, as though a slave.
He belongs to me. I belong to Him. He is available and gracious and happy to be so for His people. So that when His people implore Him to act, because He is their purchased posession and He is their God of choice among the people who trust in all of the other things and gods available. He stands and poses, among the idols of the world. Don't you want to trust me? Don't you see what I can do for you. He stands next to drugs and money and says count the costs. People trust these things. I will say of the Lord. I have chosen Him and He is mine. When the other idols adorn themselves and take my eyes off of that which belongs to me I will say of the Lord. I have a refuge. I have a fulfillment above all of the earthly enticements. The Eunuchs Acts 7 were seen to be above the earthly and fleshly enjoyments. Not enticed by the sensual or enticing. God is agape, the love that is above that of the Eunuch's love. Condescends to enjoy and relish the relationship of being my God. I am going to deliver her. I am going to be there to catch her tears because I am her God. When I lay my head upon His lap in my grief, He is owned by me and glad to be know as my God, even though He needs nothing. I will say of the Lord, I pillow my head upon Him and I enter into Him as my home and protection.



























Why did the devil quote Psalm 91 to the Lord Jesus? The devil is a master at using the scripture verses that promise self promotion and consideration. Look at you, he says. You deserve all of the glory and the honor and the praise, why don't you just take it right now? That was the temptation and he used the scripture verse in the right way because Jesus is God. Jesus is the only person that the devil wasn't lying when he said that to. Jesus reminded us by His response that all self aggrandizement is sin. Even when deserved, it is sin to make provision for your own glory and glorification. I am here to take care of You, says the devil. Even the demons are keeping You in all Your ways and You see that, he said to the perfect Savior. Even I have to submit myself to You and only use the word of God aright when dealing with You. It ached the devil to have to tremble and use the word in truth in the presence of the Saviour. But he submitted as all creation must and had to flee at the rebuke of the Lord.
Look what he left out. You are in constant communion with God, vs9. Because you have made the Lord, Your refuge, You are taken care of.
Yo, man, You are all that and You know You are all that, how come you don't just jump off this high place and make stones into bread and show Yourself who You are. Why You so humble, man? Why You ain't makin' me do stuff that will glorify You in front of people. Why are we out in the wilderness with all this power. You and me we could go places. Jesus said, God's word is what I am here to exalt, this ain't no circus. This ain't no show of Holy Power for power sake. This has a plan to it. There is something that has to be accomplished here. The devil had no idea what Jesus was here to do or why he was sent to tempt him. He is finite. Redemption and reconciliation of man to God was a secret inside the Godhead. God said the secret things belong to the Lord. He didn't say devil, let me tell you what God is about to do. There is that kind of question in the devil's interaction in the wilderness. Am I the thousand that are going to be falling at Your right hand. come on, let's at it now then. It is not the time yet devil. We will have our day and not in your way. We ain't rumbling in the streets in front of people because God is not about making a spectacle of His love for man. All of a sudden, in the most humble way possible, we were redeemed, at the price of His life and His blood and even His human pride was vanquished for the redemption of a people who would be reconciled to God. Devil, you coming with Psalm 91 at me, let me break it down to you this way, You shall love the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve. What you are about is the service and love of self, even in your use of the scriptures. Its going to take me 3 years to race you to the cross. This is the rumble of eternity and God intends to win this conflict because He created man to be in communion with Himself. You know that you don't dwell in the secret place of the most High, so the answers to your questions remain to be seen. God is to be praised and worshipped and adored not used and exploited. Why you hungry then? said the devil, make these stones into bread. I don't understand somebody great as You are condescending to something so base as hunger and so easy to eradicate it. This is a spiritual thing devil and it is none of your business, but since you are sent for me to explain the mentality of my spiritual discipline, let me break that down, but not for you, for those that come to God in Me. said Jesus in those statements paraphrasing , it seems. The fact that the devil used that passage and so much was said and so little was said meant that the people of those days knew what the devil was saying to Jesus when he used that passage. They were familiar with those passages. They could've stoned him for refering to himself as being the direct embodiment of the secret place of the Most High God. The devil knew that He was the secret place of the Most High God. The demons believe and tremble and obeyed. In Christ we are in the secret place of the Most High God and we have to beware when the devil attempt to come at us with the very same temptations, but not really the same because we are not the secret place of the most high God. We are in the secret place of the Most God, if we are in Christ.



















Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence.
Sometimes, I wonder why He hasn't delivered me from the snares and pestilences of the past. That is insignificant. I believe that He loves me and that He will deliver me from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence and that He will make those who have made themselves our enemies into His enemies. He identifies with us and He makes Himself my shield and my defender. He cares about the tears that I cry. He cares about the concerns that concern me and has them under control. He has made Himself my God and my King and my refuge and my redeemer and my fortress and my refuge and my God and I will trust Him!

























He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Feathers to cover. protection and rest. comfort in distress. wing to lean upon. shield and protector. All of these are under. We are content to remain under his wings. He is the glory. He is the beauty and the adornment. He is the sweetness and the covering. He is the special protector and deliverer for His people. Each feather has a purpose of protection and care. Each feather of covering is for my good and I can run under and be protected and helped. Noisome pestilence cannot reach me there. snares and capturers cannot catch me there.






















You shall not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flies by day.

I do remember the terror. It is very hard to imagine that terror being gone now. God is bigger than any enemy of my soul or body. I was afraid, too often to name. I have seen God be my protector and my recompense. Every shiver of soul inflicted and every fearsome and fearful glare and overwhelming circumstance are placed under Jesus' feet. Walking and hoping not to be beaten for whatever today. People do not know what kind of emotional strain that is to children. Spare the rod spoil the child, they hold over the children's heads. Many a good discipline may be instructed and solidified by stern and severe oppression of a child's heart and mind, but beware that the spirit is not broken by your much and intense severity. God will hold you accountable. A broken spirit who can bear. When God picks up the pieces of my spirit that are crushed into the ground and stepped upon and tries to use it, I wonder if there is anything there. Like the dust, it seems to scatter. He says He knows our frame and considers that we are dust and if, as it were our spirit is crushed and broken and heart crushed and broken, it is not His fault. That is always the question of little children. Where were you God? Why did you give those people charge over my spirit to crush me? God knows. He says that we need not be afraid and though the fiercest terror come by night. Water upon and whips and scourging and threatenings and beatings and putting out and bad mouthing and ostracizing and sickness and loss of mind and perhaps even loss of life, as was James' lot; God will undertake. He will find a place for the body. He has made provision for the sould crushed by greedy clerics and ungodly people using gifts to fill their coffers and put their children through college. God will care when it is my time to die and give up the ghost and will provide for even that. Medicines and institutions and lack of money and lack of spirit and incapacities are no match for His power. He gets the glory in my distresses and the deadness of my life. He restores my soul! Arrows by day? Terrors by night? He is greater and will cover.



















Worshipping the Lord with my mind?
Ps 91:6
Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
God has my cause in His wings. I must know that. There is pestilence and there is destruction, but they are not because I love Him. He has my cause. I am not afraid of those things because my God is the Holy doctor and the holy protector of His people. He has more than a cure for those illnesses. He has a remedy. I may succumb to the sickness and things in Christ, but ultimately He will vanquish every illness and disease. Mental, emotional. I scare myself at being so sick sometimes. He has the cure and the remedy and will take care of my children in my personal absence because of my limitations. I don't have to be afraid even of myself in my sickness. He is my protector from and for me. Destruction truly wastes at the noonday. and pestilence truly eats in the night, but He has the cures, like keys in His hands to sickness, death, hell and the grave. We need, but ask Him.















A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. The wing of the Lord is around you! Especially, in grief, is this a comfort. God is the one who holds us up. The righteous one is standing when the rest of the world is doubled over in the pain. God is his stay. Fallen and falled by sin and sadness? God will lift you and be the lifter of your head, in this trial. God has a purpose and it is His delight to show forth His strength in the multitudes. Halleluia!










A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. God's purpose and plan has a timetable and it will not be done until it is done. You will see many die and go in, seeming unintentional ways hither and thither, whose life seems to have no theme or purpose. Not God's people. God always writes a theses statement over His beloved. He sets them upon the way that they should go and they go that way. Everybody else may peter out and fall on the battle field. But God holds the power for the batteries for the energizer bunny and she keeps going and going and going and God's theme is written over her head. Even years down the line, when people have written negative epitaph upon your gravestone because of their wickedness. God holds the last word and will exume purpose and design and the theme of your life from the dust to weave it into His plan. We stumble and fall and catapault ourselves erelong, sometimes and lo and behold we bump right back into the purpose of God for our lives. When we get up from our knees in repentence we need just look and it is right there. Only the fog of unbelief hides it from our gaze. As with Horatio, who went to the depths of the caves of unrighteousness committing dastardly deeds, his conscience bearing witness to that. God can save to the utmost and that which we place into our children, for God's glory may not be enjoyed by them, but it is for someone somewhere who reads the story and finds encouragement that God can and does save to the utmost all them who come to God through Him.













Psalm 91 9
Because you have made the Lord which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation.
Because you live in the light of the statutes of the Lord. Because you have listened to the word of the Lord, not just with admiration but with intention. Because you have lived within the confines of the direction of the revealed will of God, in your life. Because you do not allow the directions of the cultures and their lives to be your law and motivation. Because the kingdoms of this world live in subservience to the Lord in your estimation. This is the relationship that God owns and protects and cherishes. Who is first and most important? God is almighty and He stays His hand of destruction from the wicked, or we would all be consumed. He allows and sits in consideration of all of His creation for creations sake, but has a peculiar relationship with those who draw nigh to Him. Blessed are the meek...









Psalm 91:11 For, He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. Angels are given to guide and direct us to the mercy seat of the Most High. They are given to protect us into the presence of His Most Holy Mercy. Sometimes we bump smack into them as they are reproving us and they have to smack us into the mercy of God like a mother smacking the child into next Tuesday. And sometimes their gentle wings guide us tenderly into the merciful presence of the Lord through long listening and obedience. However we get there, they make sure that all who should be there are there.