DIVINE HELP IN THE JOURNEY OF LIFE

TEXT: PSALM 121:1-3.

INTRODUCTION

We all need divine help to succeed in the journey of life and it will be made available as we can look unto God as our only present help in times of need.

We all need divine help in all areas of our lives:

• Physically-Divine protection.
• Spiritually-Divine direction.
• Financially-Divine provision.

We need divine help because we cannot make it on our own strength-John 15:5.

Our help is the most High God. The God who cannot fail. God is able to send help in anyway, or form. God knows how to help us much better than we can imagine.

Let us learn:-

THE SUPERIORITY OF DIVINE HELP.

• The help of God is one of the greatest assets of man.
• The help of God ensures that you are not vulnerable to several forces on the earth.
• Help of God is critical to the welfare of the earth.
• The help of God is superior to the help of any man or system on the earth. This is because:-

1. God is the most reliable help of man-Psalm 46:1-2.

• Ordinary man can fail or change, systems can fail or change but God is reliable.

1. God is the most available help of man-Psalm 46:1.

• Men and women may not be there for you when you need their help. But God is always present whenever and at the very time you need help.

1. God is the most durable help of man-Malachi 3:6.

• Men and women who have helped you before may get tired, discouraged and stop, but the help of God is everlasting.
• Humans including parents and other relatives get tired and give up on you but God never fails throughout eternity.

1. God is the most comfortable help of man-Philippians 4:19.

• God is rich enough, affluent enough and comfortable enough to help without inconveniencing Himself.

1. God is the most knowledgeable help of man-John 6:6; Romans 16:27; 1st Timothy 1:17.

• Some people want to help but are confused, not knowing what to do and how to go about it, but He can never be confused because He knows always what to do, when and how to do it.

THE NECESSITY FOR DIVINE HELP.

• The psalmist said, “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build, unless the Lord keep the city, the watchmen waketh but in vain”-Psalm 127:1.
• You need God’s help not to labor in vain, because you don’t have strength of your own.
• When you know the secret of divine help you will cease from hardship, struggle and vain labor.
• You labor in vain without God’s help.
• Some people really struggle in life and they have nothing to show for their struggles.
• Some people have better qualifications than you do yet lack what you have, they lack the opportunities and favor you enjoy.
• Everyman who claims to be a self-made man will soon become a self-destroying man.
• The rich fool in Luke 12:16-21, was a self-made man. He was overjoyed at his enormous harvest.
• Thinking his plan for tomorrow was foolproof he said “I will say to myself, self, you have done well!! You have got it, made and can now retire.
• God called him a fool because he made no reference to God.
• It was all “I” and nothing more. You can’t amount to anything in life without God’s help.
• Only God’s blessings are permanent; every other thing is temporal.
• Always remember where God took you from; don’t become so big that you begin to think that you are self-made.
• Don’t become like Jeshrun in Deuteronomy 32:15. He lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.
• You are helpless on earth without help from above. Every blessing and accomplishment on earth is made possible through the help of God.

THE AVAILABILITY OF DIVINE HELP.

• God is always willing and ready to help those who trust Him and ask Him for help.
• His help is always available for all areas of our need and at all times of our needs.
• Divine help is always available for us in the following areas:-

1. Victory in times of battle.

• The help of God is responsible for victory in battle, especially in the face of imminent defeat-1st Sam. 7:9-12.

1. Deliverance from valleys of death.

• The help of God is responsible for our deliverance from the valleys of death, especially where others have died under similar circumstances-1st Chron. 15:26.
• It takes the help of God to survive what swallowed others, to stand where others crumbled and to still be alive where others have died.

1. Strength to succeed.

• The help of God is responsible for strength unto success and progress in life-1st kings 18:46; Daniel 11:32; Psalm 89:19; 2nd Chron. 26:5, 15.
• Behind the making of man is the help of God.

1. Deliverance from reproach and shame.

• The help of God is responsible for escape from reproach and shame in life-Isa. 50:7-9.

1. Stability and sustainability.

• The help of God is responsible for stability, persistence and continuity in life and in the face of difficulty and challenges of life-Acts 26:22.
• The help of God is responsible for surviving adverse times and weathering the storm.
• The help of God makes you exist as if problems do not exist.
• There are things we need to do to make divine help to continually be available for us:-

1. We need to remain steadfast in fervent prayer out of a pure heart and faith-Heb. 4:16.
2. We must confess our helplessness and insufficiency and trust only in God for divine help-Prov. 3:5-8.
3. Let us cultivate the attitude of gratitude and thankfulness to God always-1st Sam. 7:9-12; 1st Chron. 15:26.

• Make a spiritual stocktaking of what God has done, don’t look at what God has not done.
• Appreciate God for what He has done for you.

CONCLUSION

• We need to realize that we need divine help.
• We need to ask God for divine help.
• Never turn your back on God, always be thankful for His divine help.