Today’s message is not just a random statement, it is God’s position over your life. This is the Lord committed to helping you out of all your situations. You should be confident in this fact and rest in Him.

Our text of the day says emphatically that God will help you and you will not be ashamed. It does not matter whether your situation is beyond human ability, God said He will help you. As long as you are a genuine child of God, He will help you fight all your battles visible and invisible.

Maybe some situations have been threatening to disgrace or embarrass you, God’s word to you says you will be helped and instead of shame it will be glory. Whether the devil likes it or hates it, you will be helped.

Maybe you are wondering where the help will come from. Your help will not come from man, it will be God Himself helping (Psalms 121). Even if men promised and fail, the promise of divine help is sure because God has committed himself to you.

Are you amidst some crisis, God is there with you and you will not be moved, God will help you even quicker. No matter the threats of men, may the Almighty God help you.

Men and women who have touched the height of God’s grace are those who never settle for the less. I have heard a great man of God share the testimony of how he told God that he does not want to be an ordinary pastor. He wanted God’s anointing and power. That man of God is more than 80 years old today and still walking in the supernatural.

Men in the world have paid a serious price to get the things they desired, but ours was paid already 2000 thousand years ago by the selfless sacrifice of Christ. God want to give us these things but we must ask. We can take great courage in the fact that He did not withhold His Son but freely gave Him up for our sins. Certainly, He will not deny us anything we desire according to His will.

If you are okay the way you are, God will not force anything on you that you don’t want. The Bible is full of stories of men and women who were not satisfied with empty religion or status quo. Such a man is Caleb who at 85 was asking for a mountain to conquer. While other men could have asked for the plain, Caleb chose the mountain (Joshua 14:10-15).

Many follow or worship God today mainly because of what they hope to receive from Him. But for us, it’s beyond that. It’s serving and loving Him wholeheartedly even when there is no promise or when the promise is delayed.

How does a person get to this point of intimacy and affection for his creator that one would say with Job, even though He slays me, yet will I trust Him?

At what point does He become the object of attraction at the very core of our soul that we would rather not live than to live without Him? Many saints did touch this dimension and it became their reality. To them, God was their all, and if you must take Him off their lives, you must be willing to take their lives as well.

Of such men was Paul the Apostle, who boldly claimed that nothing could ever separate him from the love of God. He was persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Our response to temptation will determine whether we will overcome or be defeated. There are some temptations that you can just rebuke the devil. One such occasion occurred when the devil asked that the Lord bow and worship him – the Lord said, get out of here satan, you shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve. The devil ran away (Matthew 4:8-11)

When it comes to sexual temptations, you don’t start casting and binding the devil, you must simply flee. It is not even the time to start quoting scriptures. The Bible is very clear about this, FLEE. In 1 Corinthians 6:18, scripture says, Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

To further show us how serious this matter is, Paul in his admonition told the young Timothy to flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Darkness is confusion, it takes light to dispel darkness. It is safe to say that the world without Jesus is in darkness and will continue to wallow in confusion.

From the fall of man, the entire humanity was plunged into spiritual darkness, Satan was oppressing and suppressing men, until Jesus the light of the world step down into the dark world.

Everyone who has come into the new life in Christ is a carrier of light. They are different from every other person. They have been given the power to drive out every darkness in their domain. One such power is found in Mark 16:17-18. And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Yesterday we spoke extensively on God’s desire for us to be different in this present world as believers. While some people may think it is impossible, the Bible gave us example after example of men who were different despite all odds.

Today we will consider one of such men and how he distinguished himself amid corruption as a man of God. Towards the end of his life, he finished with this testimony – Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

Samuel grew up in the house of God in Shiloh but in the same place were the godless sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas. The Bible told us that these two sons of Eli did wicked things before the Lord. Even though Samuel had every excuse to be wicked, he was different.