THE ANCHOR OF OUR SOUL - AUDIO LINK
I would like to say first that this
devotional might not be for everyone depending on their circumstances, but Father
led me to write this. He knows who needs
to hear this message. And so I humbly
ask that should you know of someone who do need to hear this message, that you
would please pass it on to them. Like apples of
gold in a setting of silver so is a word fitly spoken. Thank you.
It is that time of year when
Christmas is passed and the New Year stares us in the face with a challenging
glare. We all welcome a new start, but
lately “Happy New Year!” is beginning to sounds like a threat. Some have exciting plans for the year
ahead, some just cannot see their way even through this day. This devotional is about the anchor of our
soul. And the reason for an anchor is that one can remain stable, secure and
not be taken with the next wave…whatever the next wave may be.
This is also the time where we look
back on the year and ponder on the good, the bad and the ugly. Not just with what has happened through the
year in this world, but our personal journey with the Lord God. Have we grown? Have we overcome that one obstacle or sin
that kept tripping us up? Have we
done what He has told us and are we truly ready for His coming as we see the
day drawing near? All very important
questions and necessary. Not so that we
can feel guilty or pat ourselves on the back, but just simply take
responsibility for our lives. We are not
to live aimlessly, spending our lives watching YouTube or whatever other “tube”
waiting for our day of escape. No, we
are to be about our Father’s business whilst it is still day. And granted this is not always easy. Waiting for His return in the times we are in creates a greater longing to be with Him. And He knows each and every single one of us intimately. He knows what we can handle, He knows how much we still have in us, even if we feel that one more day is just too much. He has compassion on us in this season and in every season of our lives. And very often, the waiting is the trying of our faith, whether for His coming or healing, or deliverance, whatever it may be. Waiting requiers of us to endure. And He wants us to endure patiently under all pressure or storms we face.
But this year has not been an easy
year. It has had many challenges of
which Father has held true to His promise that in the latter days families will
be divided over “truths’ and that He is bringing a sword that will separate us. A sifting and a separation that has caused many of us to
lament the thought of another year. Some
of this sifting came with the price of pain, sickness, sorrow, and death. Others came through feuds, persecution and
reviling. We read in Matthew 10 the
following…
Matthew 10: 35 – 40
35 For I
have come to set a man
against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law’; 36 and ‘a man’s
enemies will be those of his own household.’ 37 He who
loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son
or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 38 And he
who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who
finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
In Luke 12 He says…
54 And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud
rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.
55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There
will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and
of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
Some have lost friendships, some
family, others their church and the circle of those you trust may have become
considerably smaller. In this Father is
saying, “Please see the time we are in. Discern the time and be comforted that
this is My doing. I have allowed it. I
am still in control.” Many of us could have
possibly dealt with these circumstances with more wisdom, maybe have waited a bit longer before we acted, or allowed the Spirit
to bring conviction. All in all, one can safely say that it has not been
easy. And possibly this could mean for
many of us that we are not too hopeful for the time ahead, whether we will see
the dawn of a New year or not.
I was meditating a few months ago on the word hope. Reading 1 Corinthians 13 and the 13th verse,
Now remaineth faith, hope and charity and the greatest of these is charity.
Charity is love. And right smack in the middle of faith and love, rests hope. And I thought, “Why of all the virtues that could have had this place of honor between faith and love, do we find hope?” Hope almost sounds feeble in nature. “I hope you have a better day! Or I sure hope it will pan out for you.” What about peace or joy, or righteousness? Surely they deserve to be nestled in between faith and love? And yet, Father in His divine wisdom, knew that hope, oh precious hope, is of much greater value, so much so, that it takes faith and love to secure it.
Some of us know what it feels like to no longer have hope. To look outside a perfectly beautiful day,
and all you see is dark and depressing clouds.
Where someone else’s joy or sunny disposition irritates you to no end. When they tell you how well they are doing, and ignorantly have no regard for the depth of your silent sorrow you do not dare to show
them. Because unlike them, your “issues”
do not have a “sell by date” and will be there the moment you put your feet out
of bed, again. Just like it has been for
so many years now. Alone in your battle with life...or so it seems at times. Every day you have to
gird up your loins and face the same monster that you have faced for years. It has worn you down and sometimes you cannot
help but wonder whether it is really worth fighting it. This may be sickness that has come like a
prison warden to inflict pain, immense weakness and a deep seated sorrow. Daily responsibilities that
you are unable to cope with. A life
sentence of which you still cannot find the offence of. You just want out. Or maybe your marriage has had its toll and
all that remains is an empty void that somehow has a weight to it that pulls
you deeper into a depression you never thought would be part of your life. You no longer talk. Your best friend no longer sees you. After all, Christians do not get depression, do they? Maybe you are one of the many
who have been struggling with addiction whether that be food, alcohol, drugs or
pornography. You have tried and tried
and you will never stop trying to overcome this horrible monster that has taken
over your life, threatens your peace and drowns you in guilt. But you are immensely tired and feel
desperately alone in your struggle.
Maybe you face disorders like I do in my family and somehow you have
learned to live with it, but it still has the capacity to cause you to show the
worst part of you even, after you have lived with it for so long. Still it drowns the life out of you as you try
to be strong every day for the weak. No longer having a life of your own as yours is swallowed up by another's needs. And
you long, you long for that sliver of hope that shines like a tiny silver
lining around the dark clouds of your life.
To you, seeing that silver lining, is more than can be described in one
word called hope. For it is the anchor
of your soul and you are holding on for dear life.
You will note that the first few verses 1 Corinthians 13 are about doing works of love, which are by no means insignificant. Giving your body to be burned, selling all that others may have, or having the faith to move mountains are no small feat. However, in the light of that which remains, only faith, hope and love will stand the test of time. These three form the backbone of the Christian life. And I would like to use the analogy of a ship where the ship itself is love, the sails are faith, and the anchor is hope.
Without
the sails of faith, we will be tossed to and fro like the word says in James 1.
James 1: 6 - 8
6 But let
him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea
driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he
will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man,
unstable in all his ways.
In fact
Hebrews 11: 1 tells us that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen. What is a
boat without sails? What are we who are
called to live by faith, without faith?
And so, when you hope, faith is the substance of that hope.
And then
we have love. Like the ship, we are to abide in love. 1 Corinthians 13 says love
bares all things, believes all things, hopes all things and endures all
things. Love hopes all things. This hope means to have an expectancy, to
trust. This is not an empty hope that is
built on wishful thinking or the ability to verbalize appropriate
scripture. These will not do in a life
where clichés disintegrate like dust in the daily storms we face.
No, this hope is built on love, love that trusts. A trust that has been earned by a daily dying to self and knowing that it is only Him that causes you to still stand in spite of all you go through. Love that has walked through valleys and over
mountains. Love that was forged and
tested. Love that is stronger than
death. Love that never fails. This hope comes from that love. It is built up and held up by faith and
love.
After everything is said and done, the Word
says only these three will remain. Paul
is not saying here that every other virtue will fall by the wayside. He is saying our faith, our hope and our love
is the true measure of our walk. Not our
works. He is saying that whatever is not
of faith is sin. Saying that you
can do wonderful things in His Name, but if it is not done in love, it will disintegrate with fire when tested. He is
saying that hope, which is a joyful expectancy, is what can endure all things…because
love hopes all things. These three will
abide. When all else fails, look to
these. They will remain and endure
all. When you feel isolated and alone in
your struggle, look to these three. When
you have prayed for years without end for unsaved loved ones, look to these
three. When you have failed yourself and
your God over and over, look to these three.
When you cannot put your foot out of bed to start a new day, look to
these three. When your teenager or mature
son or daughter, husband or wife, refuse the truth of salvation and scoff at
you and your “religion” as they would like to call it, then look to these
three. When you feel as if He might not
come as you expected after you have begged Him to save you from your heartache
with tears that has been your bread day and night, look to these three. When sickness racks your body or those you
love and you feel immersed in helplessness and desperate for answers,
look to these three, because these three will remain. They will endure and lift you up. They will cause you to be secure and stable
in the worst of storms.
With faith, nothing is impossible.
And love, love endures all things and never fails.
Hope, hope is the anchor of our soul on this very rough sea we call life
where the waves just seem to get bigger.
In Acts 27 we read of Paul being shipwrecked. At one point he says there was no moon and no stars. They were tossed to and fro by tumultuous waves. At that time the moon, being the lesser light by night and the stars as the navigation, were pivotal to get to their final destination. Dark clouds had moved like a blanket over the moon and stars which they needed to get home. It was dark. The ship was in a very bad shape and at this point they were at the mercy of the strong winds. They have already tossed so much overboard. Paul was saying, “We were without hope”. Imagine that. Paul, the great apostle without hope? However, that night the Angel of the Lord appeared unto Paul, whom he serves, which we know is Yeshua, and told him that they would not perish. Not even one. And herein lies the source of hope…a word from the Lord. This is our anchor.
Have you ever noticed how a word fitly spoken
is as apples of gold in a setting of silver?
What does this mean? I have
searched for the meaning of this verse and the overall consensus is that golden
apples in a setting of gold is either apples in a silver bowl or apples
engraved into a silver tablet. Be that
as it may, I would like to take some liberty from what I have gleaned from the
word. Gold is often depicted as wisdom or that which have been tried
by fire. Apples are for us a nourishment
and speaks of the fruit of the Spirit.
In the same way silver speaks of the word.
Psalm 12: 6
6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace
of earth, purified seven times.
Our faith is also tried as gold is tried in
the furnace of affliction. But taking
the context of this scripture into consideration, we can see that we are talking about words. So we have the setting of silver that points
to the written word and we have the golden apples that speaks of wisdom or revealed or spoken word. Is not wisdom so precious in a time of
sorrow, turmoil and uncertainty? Would
that not be what we continually ask in our extremities? "Lord, give me wisdom!" And so He says in James 1, (Paraphrasing) “Come to Me to
give you your golden apple for the day which I will take from My silver setting
of My Word and speak to you in a time fitly for every need. A time when you need it the most. But come in faith, because I give to all liberally
and without partiality.”
Romans 15: 4
For whatsoever things were
written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and
comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Through patience, which is the word endurance
or long-suffering, and the comfort of the scriptures, we may have hope. The Word is living and
God-breathed. It has the ability to
bring light into darkness, which is exactly what Paul and the men needed. They needed light. We all long for light in a time of
darkness. In Psalm 119 we read that the
entrance of Your Word gives light and understanding to the simple. Light in our darkness. Darkness that may have been for a whole
night, but with the break of dawn, a beautiful sliver of hope breaks through
and we find ourselves at the shore of hope.
All that Paul told them at that time is let the anchor down. This is what He is saying to us. "Let the anchor down." We often hear words like, "Just don't lose hope." But the truth is that the ship is not holding onto the anchor, but the anchor is holding onto the ship. This anchor determines whether you stand secure and sure in times of storms. Let the anchor down.
Hope is defined in the Strong’s Concordance as
a joyful expectation. This makes me
think of a woman that is about to give birth, to which we may ask, “So when are
you expecting the baby to be born?” Just
like a pregnant woman, a boat or ship is said to give berth when it docks at
the harbor. We can say
that at sea we are in travail. And so we
are told that when a woman gives birth to a son, she forgets the toil and labor,
and she rejoices as a son has been brought into the world. In fact, it says in Acts 27 that there were
616 men on the ship with Paul. 616 in
the Strong’s Concordance means to bring forth, give birth or about to give
birth. There is no coincidences with our
Lord. His promise to us is that He knows that we are in labor, but soon there will be a birth and a son will be born. All our labor will be forgotten and we will rejoice like never before. He personally will wipe every tear from our eyes. How He longs to do this.
On our life’s journey some serious storms may
come our way and when we look at what happens around us, like Paul and those
men on the ship, it may appear pitch black as we no longer see the moon or
stars. Often like Paul we can be put in
a place, a season, even a lifetime where it seems that there is no hope. We cannot face the wind, it is not in our
power. We cannot command the stars to
shine, that is Another’s privilege. We
cannot tell the moon to light our way anymore that we can tell our
circumstances to be no more. But that
which can overcome all these, is the Word.
For He who is the Word says, “Look unto Me and you will be lightened and
your face will not be ashamed. My Word
is a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your path.” And when the storm rages
we can know that there is One who spoke one word and even the winds
obeyed.
At one point you may have asked, “Why Me? Why now? Why
did this happen?” I am sure Paul having
gone through so many shipwrecks also asked this. Why would He who is our light, our way, our
source and our strength, cause us to go through so much without doing
anything? Why is He allowing the moon to
be covered with dark clouds and the stars to be obscure? Why is He not silencing the storm? Why has He not answered after all these
years? Paul could
write to the Hebrews in all authenticity about enduring in a storm after surviving one shipwreck after another.
Remembering that this is the same man that the Angel of the Lord appeared to on the ship, he says in Hebrews 6: 13 that when the Lord God made a promise to Abraham, He did so by swearing by Himself as there is no greater than He by which He could make this oath with Abraham. Saying, surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Meaning simply that once an oath or covenant is made it settles all disputes. All questions we could possibly bring to the table to question God’s integrity or plan are silenced. It settles it, because He has spoken and by an oath made by the highest authority it shall be done. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise (that would be you and me), the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Look at the hyperbole Paul is driven to, to bring across the message of hope to the Hebrews. He is saying, “Look people, please consider just with whom Abraham made covenant. Please consider that we too are the heirs of promise and that it is impossible for God to lie…therefore you CAN have hope. It does not matter what your circumstances are, God cannot lie.” Your circumstances will also fight against this anchor of hope, which is His Word. They will tell you, "It's no use. Why even try? He doesn't care or nobody cares!' It will tell you that you might as well face it, this is your lot. Yet He has given us His Word that is so important to Him that it is exalted above His Name. This anchor cannot fail no matter how strong the storm. Paul continues and says, which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil.
The context is His covenant with us. For if we fail to understand the immutability of covenant, we will not have hope. We will always think there is some loophole or fine script at the bottom of the agreement, even if we won't admit to it. Covenant transcends just giving your word to someone that you will do something for them. Covenant bears with it blessings and curses, but more importantly it is binding yourself to another in blood. This is why the Word says that there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother. "Friend" in Hebrew context is language used for covenant. Not even your blood relative in those days were seen as close as one with whom you stand in covenant with. It is a friend that sticks closer to you than a brother. Covenant is becoming one with that person. A life for a life. And the one whom we have become one with, is bound to us and us to Him. He gives us the Word, which is His covenant with us. This Word will never return void, but will do that which He sends it out to do. Just like love never fails, so His Word that He gives us will never fail. Does this mean we will always understand? No, for His ways are not our ways. This is not the loophole or fine script. This is God in His sovereignty that holds the earth in the span of His fingers and commands the waves with one word. We have to understand that this is the same God who slaughtered His Son on the altar of the cross to be that blood sacrifice of this covenant with us. This is why Paul says in Romans 8,
“If God be for us, who can be against us? If He then gave His Son for us, how much more will He not give us all other things?”
We have to consider who this is
that bounds Himself to us with His Word, which is His covenant with us and
therefore we can have hope even in the darkest of times. We can believe Him when He says, "I will never
leave you nor forsake you…No never!" Not a
man, but the Lord God Himself. Therefore Hebrew
10 says…
Hebrews 10: 35 – 37
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great
recompence of reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of
God, ye might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will
not tarry.
The reality is that His will in what we are
going through takes pre-eminence to our need of deliverance or even the answers
we desparately need and demand. But, in the midst of His will
being done in us, or in someone else whilst we wait, we can have an anchor…His
Word. That specific apple of gold for
the day. For His Word will secure us and
enable us to endure in the greatest of storms that may seem as birth pangs. However,
we can be assured that our ship having endured will berth and bring forth. It will never return void.
Hebrews 2: 9 – 10
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the
angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by
the grace of God should taste death for every man.
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by
whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of
their salvation perfect through sufferings.
This Captain of our salvation means Chief, meaning
first. However, I would like to take the
liberty in saying that when we have given our lives to Him, our ship, that there
can only be one Captain. At what stage
do you think the Captain is allowed to jump ship? We know that it will always be after all are
safe and only then may the Captain leave.
How much more the Captain of your ship?
In all consideration you may think that your ship is sinking, but your
Captain lies at rest in the corner, awaiting you to join Him in His rest. He is not going anywhere. He will never leave you. But if you are looking at the storm, you will
continue to try and save all the men on board and fail to see the rest He has
provided even now whilst the storm is raging.
The Holy Spirit led me to look up anchors and I came
upon Ron Wyatt’s website showing the anchor of the ark. No small anchor. The beauty of it is that the anchor is a very huge Rock. There is no Rock like our
God. Even in the greatest storm of life,
the Flood that destroyed the world, the anchor, Yeshua, could hold the ark and
save those on the ship. How much more
can He save you? The Word of God, the Rock, is fixed and
stable. This is why hope is an anchor of
our soul.
I was thinking of the account of Moses who during a battle was to hold up his rod and as long as his rod was lifted high, the Israelites won the battle. Soon Moses’ arms became very tired and Aaron and Hur came to his aid. They moved a rock so that he could sit on it, whilst they held his arms high. And so the battle was secured and victory was theirs. Considering that we are talking about hope and that hope in essence is the Word of God, that Rock, we can see how this rock upon which Moses sat, resembles our Rock, Yeshua, the Living Word. The anchor of our soul. And so just like hope is placed in 1 Corinthians 13 between the arms of faith and love, so Moses between Aaron, which means light bearer and Hur, which means white linen. Moses always represents the written law, here sitting on the living word, the spoken word, the apples of gold, our hope and anchor of our soul.
In all
battles we cannot do without hope. We have to rest both on His written and spoken word. We are to live from every word that comes from the mouth of God. Only then can we lift the rod of authority over our battles. This
is why Yeshua says in Matthew 7 that whosoever hears His word, meaning what He
says to you, and does it, he will be likened unto the man who built His house
on the Rock. The storm came and the
house stood strong. However, the man who
hears His commandments and does not do it, is likened unto a man who builds his house on sinking sand. When the storm comes, the fall of
that house will be great. Being built on
this hope cannot be divorced from doing the will of God. In your storm, has He spoken to you and given
you direction? Has He admonished or
disciplined you? Has He given you a
personal word that shines as light in darkness? And most
importantly have you done what He has told you to do?
For only in doing and obeying His word will your house, or ship, be built
on the Rock of Hope. Only then will your
soul be anchored in the midst of the greatest storm. Moses’ rod speaks of authority, but unless
Moses was able to rest, that is to say, walk by faith, on the Rock, he would
not have been able to hold the rod of authority to overcome in battle. This word “sat” concerning Moses, means to
abide, remain, dwell, to be set or inhabit.
A lot more than just “sat”.
Covenant never goes without both parties doing their part. If what is required of us is to remain in His
Word in the greatest of storms, not just reading it, but doing it and also
memorizing it, then we can be sure that our anchor will never fail us. We can have a joyful expectation, a hope that
will never fail. It is then when we can authentically say, I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise whall continuely be on my lips. Many shall see and trust in the Lord. The humble shall hear and be glad (Psalm 34). They will ask, "Why do you still have hope?" Because our hope is not
an idea, it is not a wish, it is not as mist, but it is sure, strong, enduring,
faithful covenant. Our hope is
God.
Romans 15: 13
Now the God of hope fill you
with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the
power of the Holy Ghost.
I pray that you will know that this devotional
was not written because of a random choice, but because the Father knows the
hour and understands our weakness and He hears our cries.
Psalm 34: 15 - 22
15 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open
unto their cry.
16 The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the
remembrance of them from the earth.
17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their
troubles.
18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart;
and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but
the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the
righteous shall be desolate.
22 The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of
them that trust in him shall be desolate.
In Genesis 9 He gives us more than just an
anchor. The ark was stationed on Mount
Ararat…not just a rock, but a mountain. And
there He makes covenant with both you and me.
As I read this, I pray that you will personalize this word for yourself
in knowing that no storm is too big for our God and that He promises by
Covenant that it will not destroy you.
Only believe.
Genesis 9: 13 - 17
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over
the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me
and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more
become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Then Noah says...
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look
upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every
living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the
covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the
earth.
May you be reminded each time you see a rainbow, that
He has made covenant personally with you and will keep His Word. The rainbow to remind both you and the Father
that storms will never have the last say.
I end this devotional with a word that I
received from Father on the 10th November 2021. Please write these words I receive from Father down where you can have them in one place. They will minister to you in a time that you really need them.
THE ROCK
THAT CANNOT BE MOVED
Be still and
know that I am God.
I have said
that in your weakness I am your strength.
You ask for strength, I ask for faith.
Faith to believe that I will be all you need in the time to come, even
now.
Look unto Me
My Child, look unto Me. As it is
written, they looked unto Me and they were lightened, and their faces were not
ashamed. I will never leave nor forsake
you. Therefore, even in your weakness
now, come drink of My living water.
I have said
that as the planting of the Lord by the living water you will bear fruit in all
seasons and have leaves even in the times of drought. Even Joseph when in prison had more than
enough because I determined and purposed him to be there. Surely in My purposes I not only prepare My
vessels, but I also provide.
Never lose
sight of My love for you, dear Child.
Remember, it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things and
endures all things.
Think on
these things in the times that require you to bear, to believe, to hope and to endure. Think on Me. I am all you need, but come in faith. You are called to live by faith. These seasons are for the testing of your
faith, so use it boldly and see if I will not do super abundantly above all you
could ask or think according to the power working in you. Even though you are weak, there is a power in
you activated only by faith. It is Me in
you, ready and eager to show Myself faithful to those who live by faith.
Therefore,
do not fear. Look unto Me and walk in
the knowing that we are one.
In your
weakness, I have not left. I am still
with you. So how can you be
destitute? How can you be without
hope? How can you be weak? Know that your mind is to be brought subject
to My purposes and not faint in a time of battle or tribulation. For as man thinketh, so is he.
Therefore,
build your life on the Rock, My Word and STAND.
Stand in faith on the Rock that cannot be moved.
I AM your
strength.
Psalm 46
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
