“If This is Deliverance…”

Exodus 5:22-23

“Who said time heals all wounds? Who said God comforts? Does He walk with me to the cemetery to the grave of my six—year—old son who died of leukemia twelve years ago, or the grave of my eighteen-year-old daughter who died of lymphoma two years ago? Does He cry with me? What could He possibly do to ease the pain? Does He know how it hurts to pray to a God who is [supposed to be] merciful? Loving? Understanding? I work in a hospital. Does He walk through the corridors to visit the sick, the dying? Is He there to ease the pain, to wipe the tears? No! No! No!... I’ll feel like this today, and tomorrow and always. Is there really a God, is He a creation in the mind of man?... I’m not satisfied with the answers provided by religion…. I’d like to meet Him face to face and “tell it like it is.”

“I became a Christian and where did it get me? Lord, I am doing what you told me, why am I having all these problems?”

“If This is Deliverance…”

Two Things to Remember When Troubles Come

1. Being a Christian does not mean all our problems will be solved.

2. Having problems does not mean we are weak spiritually.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

1 Peter 5:8 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

“If This is Deliverance…”

How can we fight back when Satan attacks (3 ways)?

“If This is Deliverance…”

1. Turn to prayer

2. Turn to the people of God

3. Turn to God’s promises and meditate on them

Exodus 6:11 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.

Exodus 6:11 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.