Psalm 18: 29

Running and Leaping

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
(Psalm 18: 29 KJV)

God did something for David that I want God to do for me, and that you want God to do for you. God empowers David to run through a troop, and leap over a wall. His life is a meeting with battles and he wins every one, running through the battle, conquering soldiers. Many times David escapes his enemies, leaping over walls. This text, Psalms 18:29, is David’s testimony of the power that God gives him to win every battle. It is God who wins, because God gives David strength to run and leap.


What God did for David, God did for Nelson Mandela, who runs through the troop on Robben Island where he is imprison for 27 years to freedom. He runs and then he leaps over the wall of apartheid, knocking it down carrying his people on his back. God did the same for Barack Obama, who runs through a troop to become President of the United States of America, and leaps over the wall of impossibility to sign a Health Care Reform Bill.


John McCain was a North Vietnamese prisoner of war for five and a half years where he suffers torture, but he outruns the troop and reaches freedom in 1973. After set free, McCain keeps on running until he leaps over the wall of injustice, writing the John McCain Detainee Amendment, banning inhumane treatment of American prisoners of war, even those at Guantanamo Bay.


We want God to do for us what God did for David, Nelson, Barack, and McCain. When we do what we do on behalf of others God is with us, empowering us to run through troops and leap over walls. Let’s become the running and leaping generation and continue David's legacy. I’m looking to see you soon on the highway of life, running through a troop and leaping over a wall. Amen! Amen!

Pslam 69:13


GOD ANSWERS PAYER WHEN WE ARE READY FOR THE ANSWER


But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time (Psalm 69:13a).

When we pray God does not always answer us because the time is not right for God to answer. I know we believe that God is a right now God, but that is not always true. God is a right now God if the time is right. Our God refuses to answer our prayers if what we ask God to do prevents us from doing the will of God, or prevents God’s will in the lives of others.

Don’t you remember that God sends Jesus into the world, only when the time is right. God waits for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacobs to do God will in the earth. Then God sends all the prophets into the world, and lastly God sends John, to prepare the way for Jesus. And then when the time was right God sends Jesus, born of a virgin, name Mary.

Yes, in the fullness of time God sends Jesus (Galatians 4:4) That means that God sends Jesus into the world when the time is right for the world to need a Savior. God is a timely God, who knows our time and answers not our prayer if the time is not right for us, and others.

In the book of Psalms, Chapter 69:13a, the writer of the book of Psalms knows that God answers only at an acceptable time. And so David prayers that God answers his prayer when the time is acceptable. David knows God answers prayer at a determine time, and so he prays knowing that Gods answers his prayer when the times is right.

Not unlike David we must pray and patiently wait for God to answer our prayer. God hears us, and God answers us when God decides the time is right for us to receive that for which we prayer.