“I will speak of the Lord, He is is my refuge and fortress, in Him I will trust.”
Many times it appears that the forces raging against us are so much more powerful than us. It is a time when we come face-to-face with something we can’t fix and it like drowning may likely be the result. That is what happens when we are under the weight of a daunting and overwhelming issues of life. There are three persons you should speak to, yourself, others or God. Self effort under this situation is doomed to be help for the arm of flesh will fail. Turning to man may be an option but the Bible says “It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in humans.” Pa 118:8. The only one to turn to is God. That explains why the psalmist says “I will speak to the Lord ………’
Speaking to the Lord means declaring the Word to the Lord in prayer. This was the approach of Jeremiah when the people of God were confronted by the most powerful empire of its time – Babylon. In this overwhelming difficult and powerless situation, Jeremiah turned to the Lord, speaking to the Lord by declaring the word, ‘….I am against you, O destroying mountain, …. I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain” (Jer. 51:25); “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats.” (Jer. 51:40); Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the Lord. Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth” (48-49). Zechariah too in Zechariah 4:7 say “Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: …”
Jeremiah’s message was this: God is all-powerful. ‘By his power he made earth. His wisdom gave shape to the world. He crafted the cosmos’. This all-powerful God is on your side: ‘I’m on your side, taking up your cause’. Therefore he says, ‘Don’t lose hope. Don’t ever give up’ (v.15, 36, 46).
When you feel powerless and overwhelmed, fond out what God’s Word says about your situation, believe it and declare it. And because God’s Word cannot return to Him void (Isaiah 55:11), you will see what you believe and confess come to pass. The Babylonian empire, which seemed so powerful collapsed – like every other empire before or since, but God’s people not only survived, they continued to grow and flourish. Every ‘Babylonic siege over your life shall collapse and you will grow and flourish.
DO YOU FEEL SO POWERLESS, IS THE SITUATION BECOMING UNBEARABLE AND INEXPLICABLE, SPEAK THE WORD, YOU WILL SEE THE MOUNTAIN MOVING.