Me: Good scripture!

Prodigal: Scripture is very helpful!

The short article had left me with a since of fear.  My mind was racing toward so many different possibilities.  I started to feel my heart race, and my breathing speed up.  I sat there imagining a couple of scenarios, and trying to determine several steps I needed to make. 

Then quickly before thoughts could take over the Holy Spirit reminded me of God’s word.  I didn’t need to plan.  I need God’s word.  I reached for the bible in the second drawer in my desk.  I was desperate for it now.  I felt like the dog who sees the bone down the steps, and smells the meat on the bone.  I needed God’s word.  I longed for God’s word.  It was the only thing that would satisfy in that moment of time. 

I somehow already knew where to turn.  Psalm 91.  I had turned there before during this week.  I needed these words again.  I needed them now, all else did not matter.  I opened the bible with the brown leather covering.  I felt the pages in my hand.  My eyes found the Chapter, and then quickly recognized the sequences of numbers I needed to find.   

There on the left-hand page was the entire Psalm.  As I read my spirit seemed drawn to several of the verses in the middle. 

Psalm 91:2-11 (KJV) 

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress:  my God; in him will I trust. 

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust:  his truth shall by thy shield and buckler. 

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. 

Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 

There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 

I let out a deep breath.  My spirit was refreshed from the living word of the bible.  The fear was gone.  God’s wisdom, and truth replaced the anxiety of the words of man.   

I was going to be fine. 

I had a mighty God. 

God watches over me. 

No longer do I fear, but bow down in reference to the Lord who is with me. 

Praise Your Holy Name. 

Psalm 91:1

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org