Do You Have a Testimony About God?

Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;
My loving-kindness and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield;
And He in whom I take refuge.  —Psalm 144:1-2


Like David's testimony of what God was in his life, we too should experience God in this way when we cry out to Him for help.

This is so powerful of a description of what our Heavenly Father is to every one of us ... when we take a moment to reflect on all He does. 
Each expression in David's psalm  is a personal testimony for us:



MY ROCK — The Lord is my rock, my solid foundation; in Him I live and have my being.  Without Christ nothing I do shall prosper.  God's spirit is my peace.  By His power He works out everything in my life.  God built His Church (we, His people are the church) on the solid foundation of Jesus Christ.  "On this rock I will build my Church."  —Matthew 16:13-20,  1 Corinthians 10:4

MY TEACHER — The special work of instructing us and conforming us into the image of Christ is through the assistance of the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 4:14-16;  1 Corinthians 12:28:1-31,

MY LOVING KINDNESS — Psalm 63 verse 1 - 3 is David speaking to God,

      1 "You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. 
2  I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your  power and your glory. 
3 Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.            

Proof of receiving God's steadfast love as our own works through His mercy, grace, faithfulness, goodness, and favor.  Without receiving God's attributes of His strength, steadfastness, and love — the depth and richness of God's Loving kindness is lost. Love by itself easily becomes sentimentalized, and separated from covenant God made with us.  To go about without God's Loving kindness suggests our strength and steadfastness is only through our own efforts. What is done apart form God will never last.  

MY DELIVERER — The process of conversion or turning to God is the reality of turning back again to Him from where we have wandered off.  Our sin separated us from Christ but we can be drawn back through Him by his grace and mercy, because we are his creation He preserves us and redeems us if we have chosen to belong to Him.  . 

MY SHIELD  — God is very often our shield of protection.  We may have close encounters with enemies; if it were not for God's shield about us, we would not experience his protection by which no enemies weapon can penetrate.


MY FORTRESS and STRONGHOLD — Our daily battles are not fought according to the  ways the world fights. Our weapons are not physical if we belong to God because this warfare is spiritual in nature. By the Holy Spirit of Christ, our weapons are those of the “full armor of God” and consist of “the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. Taking up the shield of faith, we extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. We use the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

God’s plan is to demolish spiritual strongholds., by this the Lord is building His Church, and the “gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18). What is needed are Christian soldiers, totally surrendered to the will of the Lord, who will use the spiritual weapons He provides.
                         
 Psalm 46 was written out of adversity from which God has provided deliverance to David. It relates to anyone who is in a time of trouble, or to anyone who will face trouble, no matter how extreme. It tells us that:  
     
       1   In God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him.  2 We stand fearless at the edge of the cliff of doom - courageous in storm and earthquake;  3 before the rush and roar of oceans, the tremors that shift mountains.  Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God of angel armies protects us.

4 River fountains splash joy, cooling God’s city, this sacred haunt of the Most High. 5 God lives here, the streets are safe, God at your service from crack of dawn. 6 Godless nations rant and rave, kings and kingdoms threaten, but Earth does anything he says.

7  As Jacob-when wrestling God, God also fights for us, God with angel armies protects us.  8 Attention, all!  See the marvels of God!  He plants flowers and trees all over the earth, 9 Bans war from pole to pole, breaks all the weapons across his knee. 10 "Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything."  11 Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God of angel armies protects us.   —The Message, Psalm 46

MY REFUGE — We have the privilege of going to God anytime, anywhere. We seek him in times of pain and great joy.

What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!
Oh, what peace we often forfeit, Oh, what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer!

Have we trials and temptations?  Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged, take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful, who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness; take it to the Lord in prayer.
You can take it to the Lord in prayer