THE PERFECT STORM

 

THE PERFECT STORM
I congratulated Lori: “Wow, you’ve lost 90 pounds and 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 work issues 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 several separate events mobilizing to drastically aggravate the circumstances and produce a barrage 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 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 describes here in Psalm 18.

 

David didn’t mind telling God that the enemy was too strong for him, like in the movie “The Perfect Storm,” even the strongest and smartest guy found no escape. Like that guy, sometimes we must 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 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 Satan himself stirs the pot around and around. We have to remember that it’s not the people attacking us, but the demons 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). “Discomfited them” in Hebrew means He made an uproar; He agitated and destroyed them.  

 

Verse 15 says: “Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.” “The foundations,” or the roots (demons) of the attacks on David were “discovered.”  The word “discovered” means that the demons were “exposed, shamelessly revealed, stripped, and exiled.” 

 

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 out of the sea creature’s mouth and safely onto the beach. From Jonah 2:10: “And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.” God didn’t just mildly speak to the fish and politely ask it to vomit. The Hebrew word for “spake,” in this verse means He “commanded” that fish to upchuck now!

 

Philippians 2:13 tells us: “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure,” and sometimes that means He’s going to inspire us to shout at the devils!

 

When I saw the perfect storm of spiritual attack on my friend Lori, 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 of hours, I got confirmation of her deliverance: She posted a new picture of herself in her skinny jeans, 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 benefitted her.

 

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 the 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 mightier than any storm.

 

Love, Carolyn  https://www.amazon.com/Carolyn-Molica/e/B007GZO1HA?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_15&qid=1651431514&sr=8-15