PSALM CHAPTER 5

Does it sometimes seem that your prayers are in vain, and that wicked have favor in all they do? That is not the case as stated in Psalm 5. "For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you." It goes on to include the boastful and liars as well. Later in verse 12 it even tells us the being faithful to God allows his favor to cover us the same as a shield would. That is an awesome God! He is here for us through thick and through thin. Our faith has to ultimately get to the point where we are grateful in times of prosperity and times of not. Can we handle the blessing for the good and the bad? Psalm 5 shows us the if you are in any way tied to unjust that the Lord is not on your side, so when we pray and feel like God doesn't hear us we must first check ourselves and our faith. We should know that His favor is the shield of the believer. He hears us in the mornings, He accepts our righteous offerings, so why do we grow weary when we face a obstacle? That is the devil trying to infiltrate into our lives because he feels ruff times will cause our faith to dwindle. He does not have to attack every Tom, Dick, and Harry who you see living wrong yet are successful in the world, for the simple fact they are already on his side. The devil does not have to get them because he already has them. "But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;" Our time will come if it is not already upon us, we just have to continue to grow in Him. Everything is a lesson, everything the the Lord or devil for that matter throws our way is an learning experience. You face it with God, you hurdle it with God, then you share testimony about it and how God helped you through it. That's what it comes down to in my life. I take the good with the bad, never get too high and never get too low. The glory goes to God in both accounts weather I am a 4X Pro Bowl fullback or I am no longer in the NFL. God will get the glory and his favor is my shield against all that have negative things to say about me. They will have so much to say when things from the outside world look grim. They will ask where is YOUR  Lord now? If He loves you so much why did he allow you to get cut so many times? Hey, Psalm 5 tells us,  "For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue." I read this so I know their angles, their words lose their venom and cant get to me. They should not get to you, we know our faith in Him opens the door for his favor in our lives, and in that favor we will prosper in ALL we do regardless if the world views it as prosperity or not. Their opinions matter not!