I
congratulated Shelley, “Wow, you’ve lost 90 pounds and you look awesome!” She
didn’t even smile, “I don’t feel like it. I just can’t see any difference.”
Ninety pounds and she couldn’t see any difference? Everyone could see it, but
she couldn’t. She told me that she was having problems in her family and wasn’t
allowed to see her grandson. And there were issues with work that were exasperating.
She was spiraling downhill, being hit on every side. This chain of events is
what I call the perfect storm.
“The
perfect storm” is a term meteorologists use to describe a storm of astronomical
power and devastation. It’s caused by a number of separate events mobilizing to
drastically aggravate the circumstances and produce a storm of extreme
magnitude.
Sometimes
we feel like our lives have been thrown into that kind of storm—no way out, nowhere
to turn for safety, no rest, no escape. Swirling in the perfect storm makes us
feel like we’re drowning and we can hardly breathe.
In
Psalm 18:5 David says, “The sorrows of hell compassed me about.” The original Hebrew
for “sorrows” translates “a noose tied together twisting around so that there
is no escape.” And the Hebrew for “compasses” means “whirl around on every
side, surround, besiege, and enclose.” When we’ve felt horribly attacked, hurt
from every side and spiraling uncontrollably down, this is what David is
describing here in Psalm 18.
David
didn’t mind telling God that the enemy was too strong for him. Like in the movie
titled “The Perfect Storm,” even the strongest and smartest guy found that
there was no escape. Like that guy, sometimes we have to admit that we truly
can’t handle it, and that’s okay with God.
What happens when this overwhelming
storm of attacks surrounds a person? They can get swallowed up like Jonah, or
nearly drowned in a hurricane like Paul (Acts 27) or pulled down in agony and
terror like David. I’ve seen people end up in the hospital, or in my own case one
time thrown into a long and miserable suicidal depression.
This
kind of intense spiraling spiritual attack is no small matter. The
oppressiveness mounts up like floods and the pot get stirred around and around
by Satan himself. We have to remember that it’s not the people who are
attacking us, but the demons that are behind the very thoughts and actions of
the evil that comes against us.
But
our God is much more powerful than anything Satan can manipulate. I’ve seen
from studying different records in the Bible that God has a specific remedy for
the perfect storm.
When
David called on God to help him, God got up off His throne and He roared:
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail
stones and coals of fire.
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and
scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. (Ps 18:13-14)
God
said He “discomfited” them, which in Hebrew means He made an uproar; He agitated
them and destroyed them. In verse 15
we’re told that God discomfited them with
a loud “rebuke at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.” We’re also told
in that verse that the roots of the attacks on David were “discovered.” The
Hebrew for that word tells us the demons
were “exposed, shamelessly revealed, stripped and exiled.” I just love
that.
At
the blast of God’s breath David was sprung out from Saul’s attempts to destroy
him. A blast from God and Jonah was thrown safely onto the beach. By the loud strong
words of Paul, the broken up ship was hurled to shore but all lives were saved,
including his.
When
I saw the perfect storm of spiritual attack on my friend Shelley, God gave me
strong loud words of deliverance to shout out, in the name of Jesus Christ. I
didn’t have to be there in her presence for Satan and his devils to hear God’s
rebuke. The demons were exposed and defeated!
In
just a couple hours I got confirmation of her deliverance: She posted a new
picture of herself in her skinny jeans and a great big smile, and another photo
showing a current snapshot of her with her grandson. I found out later that the
work issues also turned out to her benefit.
When
confronted with this kind of perfect storm situation, we need to shout or speak
with a strong word, not a polite asking. Think about yelling at a sports event.
Even the quietest and meekest can get up a good yell.
Clear
your lungs and your life with a good shout! It has to be from a standpoint of
believing in what you’re doing and believing in the power of our God to rescue.
The Lord will give the words. We just have to start. No devil, not Satan himself
can stand up against the powerful roar of our God! Believe and receive.
Our
God is greater than any storm.
Love,
Carolyn
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