Advancing Encouragement By:
Bishop James Jr. Hairston
Psalms: 34:19: Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
What are afflictions? These afflictions can be either natural or moral that are adversity, calamity or distress. Not only that these afflictions have a wide range of affect on the righteous where no one can give a certain or specific event that may appear worse than the other to say one affliction trumps the other. All afflictions have its reasons and the Lord will deliver the righteous out of them all, He said it and I believe it. In addition whatever your affliction is it is important to the Lord that you have the strength to endure it until He makes His way to deliver you, Colossians 1:12. Here are several examples of afflictions from any adversity, calamity or distresses; grief, harm, heavy hurt, ill (favored), mischievous, misery, naughty, noisome, not please, sadness, sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wickedness, or wicked one, wretchedness, and wrong, from the word rah. In most cases these are ill wills that are brought on by either the evil one working through natural events or through moral events such as working through people to cause any of these displeasures from above in your life. We all have experienced natural things to happen to us (including sickness and disease) or people acting immoral toward us and if God be for us who can be against us, Romans 8:31 and nothing can separate us from the Love of Christ, Romans 8:35. David had experienced great affliction and know what it is like to be delivered from them all. I too know what it is like to be delivered from afflictions and if the Lord did it before He will do it again and again and again in Jesus Name. No matter what your affliction is or has been the Lord will always be there for you to deliver you because the Word of God says He delivers you out of them all. The righteous are the only people on earth that have this promise and if God said it I believe it and today my friend is the day to believe it if you have not already to be strong in the Lords mighty Power (Ephesians 6:10) for He is coming to deliver you out of your affliction in Jesus Name…
James Jr. Hairston