Almighty and everliving God, your humble servants require your fatherly goodness mercifully to accept our prayers and comments for your chosen leaders of this great nation of America. It has pleased you to let them have a change leader to continue their work of greatness.

Bless guide and direct president Biden and vice president Harris to lead their people in the right direction.
Let brother/sisterly love continue. Heb 13:1

I was introduced to an awesome expanded explanation of Psalm 91 this fall through
Peggy Joyce Ruth’s book Psalm 91, which included 30 personal testimonies! I’ve prayed it over myself and loved ones everyday. It just covers every protection you would ever need!

thank you for this article! let’s also pray this over Trump, those who are losing jobs, those being persecuted for their beliefs, and our military and those in government trying to fight this evil. amen

Father we ask Holy Spirit to teach us and guide us into all truth (John 16:13). Holy Spirit, help us to receive Your Word so that Your ideas become my ideas. Open our eyes to see the wonderful truths in this Psalm.

Psalm 91 KJV
1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him will I trust.”

3 Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence.
4 He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust; His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
5 Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flieth by day,
6 nor of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that layeth waste at noonday.
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee.
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because thou hast made the Lord, who is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation,
10 there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

11 For He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.
12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample underfoot.

14 “Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known My name.
15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him My salvation.”

The four names for God in 91:1-2 reveal Him as:
1. Most High – Supreme, independent, ultimate, highest, greatest
2. Almighty – all powerful, most powerful, authoritative, dominant, strong
3. LORD – Lord God Yahweh – covenant keeping God
4. My God – God is up close and personal; He invites us to have an intimate relationship with Him
All these names cause us to be very confident in our God and his power.

Declaration: God (alone) is my refuge; God is my fortress (place of safety); God is MY God, I trust in God.

91:3-8
God rescues us from hidden traps and shields us from deadly hazards from the natural world, man-made, and from the spiritual world. God rescues and protects us with His: wings and feathers. Feathers, wings symbolize a nurturing mother bird, comforting, and self-sacrificial. He is our shield and rampart (barricade or battlement). Shields and barricades show God’s power and might in not letting anything harmful in. The Lord gives security from all natural and supernatural causes of “fear”, whether war or disease or disaster. Day and night – His protection is 24/7; there is no limit to His protection because He has full authority over all things that happen on earth.

91:9-10
God’s protection is promised to those who LIVE WITH God; those who know Him well and have an intimate relationship. The promise is not that we won’t have trouble, grief or hard times. The promise is that is won’t harm or destroy us. Safe in God’s arms, troubles that do come into our lives are used by God for our good and His glory. He promises that our wounds won’t destroy us. God’s promise is that He will always give us what we need to endure the suffering and even turn it into something good and positive in our lives for “…in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” Romans (8:37-39). We will have suffering in this life, but God will sustain and rescue us. See also 2 Corinthians 11:23-28; 12:7-10; Romans 8:16-18, 28, 31, 35-39.

91:11-13
Angels will guard and protect us and keep us from harm. “The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and He delivers them” (Psalms 34:7). “Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?” (Hebrews 1:14). With the help of angels, God enables us “Trample down lions and poisonous snakes; crush fierce lions and serpents under our feet”(Psalm 91:13). These are word pictures for any dangerous or difficult task we face. Sometimes we have to do something that we just don’t have the ability or strength to do. God promises supernatural power, sometimes given in the form of angles helping or protecting us.

In 91:14-16, the psalmist emphasizes that the conditional promises of trust and protection are really true and trustworthy. God himself is making these promises to the one who loves God, who has a deep longing and desire for God. To love God is to put Him first in your life, above and before everyone and everything. If we do then He promises:
I will rescue them
I will protect them
I will answer them
I will be with them in trouble
I will deliver them
I will honor them
I will satisfy them with a long life
I will show them my salvation

There are three conditions do these promises: those that love God;
those that acknowledge or trust God’s name; those that call upon God. “I will protect him” means “I will set him inaccessibly high” or “raise him to a high, secure place”. God is not only with us in trouble, but He protects us in such a way that the harm that comes from trouble cannot even touch us. It says God will, “will,” not “maybe” – If God says He will do something, then He will! We need to be just as definite in our commitment to God.

Response:
How can you deliberately take refuge in God? How can you avail yourself of God’s protection?
1) Make a list of fears and troubles for which you want to trust God for deliverance and protection.
2) According to Psalm 91, what is your part in experiencing God’s deliverance and protection?
3) How will you go about doing what you need to do?

Father, we not only put our ourselves under Your wings, but we also put our nation, our churches, our families under Your wings, and declare Your protection over us during this “national crisis” we are facing. Watch over us and protect from evil. Deliver our nation into Your hands, that we may be truly “one nation under God.” In Jesus’ name we proclaim Psalm 91 as our anchor and thank You for Your protection.

Reference: http://www.isaiah613.com/biblestudies/psalms/ps_leaders/ps_leader_20.pdf

LOL !! After a year of the Chinese virus wreaking havoc, this old lady practically has it memorized!! Take it with communion every day, especially, if like me, you can check off 5 of the co-morbidity boxes.

I know so many people terrified to even go to the grocery store but I’ve been to Lutsen MN, Rapid City SD, Duluth MN, Wisconsin Dells WI, Lacrosse WI, Branson MO, Wisconsin Dells WI, and I’m heading back to La Crosse this weekend. I live in Maple Grove MN. All those trips have been taken in the last 8 months. God’s medicine WORKS, and the side effects include water parks, restaurants, and beautiful scenery. You can’t use up the Grace we have been given, He delights in us and wants us to be happy and GRATEFUL.

I’m very grateful for the hedge of protection around me and I give Him ALL the GLORY, after all, it’s His Word, His body and His blood that covers me. God is GOOD, ALL the time.

Amen. I love Psalm 91! I call that
Psalm our Hedge of Protection Prayer. It covers the arsenal (from soup to nuts) of many of the futile weapons the thief, the murderer from the beginning, the father of lies, the accuser of the brethren, and the devil who prowls around like a lion, seeking whom he may devour, forges and hurls at us for the purpose to steal, kill, and everyone whom and every thing that God loves. But I love the fact that the spiritual weapons with which God equipped His children and He who lives in us are greater than he who lives in the world, the prince, power of the air, the adversary, and the enemy of our souls. When we put on the full armor of God , and confess with our mouths , it is written, when we take our God-given authority and execute it over satan , and decree and declare God’s word, He hastens to perform it and the enemy cannot harm us because God has given His children power over all the power of the enemy, when we worship God in spirit and in truth and praise and glorify Jesus in songs of love, gratitude, and adoration, He inhabits our praises and sets ambushes for the enemy and in His presence, the enemy melts like wax. When we diligently hearken to God and heed it and submit to His Lordship in our life, the devil may come to attack us in one direction but he will flee from us in 7 different directions when we resist him in the name and authority of Christ.
God gave us fervent, effectual prayers of intercession to pray in Jesus’name and for His glory,and times of fasting with prayer to deal with all of the hard and difficult problems in our lives , that seem impossible for us to conquer without His help and grace in our extreme times of need. He filled us with His Holy Spirit and fire to burn away our dross , so we can be golden vessels in His hand, meet and ready for our Master’s use, to empower, empower ,anoint, and appoint us to witness for Him everywhere we are, to overcome evil with good, love, and forgive others as Jesus forgives us, to do good, and heal all who are oppressed by the devil. Last but not least He gave us our Heavenly Language to with which to sing and pray the perfect prayer and will of God when we don’t know how to pray, for times of refreshing, to build up and edify our personal faith in God, and for God to reveal mysteries to us in a language the enemy can understand. Yep, I thank God sooo much today for Psalm 91 . it is true for perpetual generations and forever settled in heaven and for all the other spiritual weapons with which God has equipped His people called by His name to trimph always in Christ. 🤗❤️➕🤟🙏🙏💖