Psalm 2

One thing I can see in this world always is the fact that are wars are not against flesh and blood but against principalities and strongholds. The earth is full of the curse of Adam and Satan has his rebellious spirit in the hearts of so many men they go against God and all that He desires

In the opening verses it shows that the kings of the earth come together in unity against the Lord and His anointed ones. Notice that their first attack is on God, they come against the foundation of the anointed ones in order to try to get to us, yet if Christ is the foundation, who or how shall we be moved? Never!

· Though we may see in this nation the wicked seeming to be ruling, tearing apart God’s laws and they seem to be making more progress, like they’re winning, we must place our trust in the Lord! In verse 6 it says that the Lord sits on His holy hill, the place which is HIGHER than ours and HE is still in control!

· I love in verses 7 and 8 how the Lord calls us His sons and daughters, which He is the one which has birthed us and that as we ASK, and then He will give to us the nations as an inheritance and the ends of the earth as possession.

• Inheritance- a title that has been inherited or the right of an heir to inherit wealth or title, it’s simply something which is given due to a status of being an heir.

• Possession- ownership, state of being controlled, it means that you must make an ACTION in order to have ownership!
• As Sons and Daughters of the King He tells us that as we are his children, we will be given the nations, or areas in our life such as peace, love, joy, and the blessings of the Lord as we walk in obedience to His Word.
• Yet there comes a time when we must take possession of the ends of the earth, a time when we step out and because we are a child of the King, we walk in the authority He has given us and take the places which were conquered by the enemy at first, but we will TAKE BACK for the Lord!
• We must learn to walk in the inheritances, the blessings which the Lord gives us as we walk as a child of Him but also learn to walk in the authority of the Lord and take possession of which is to be for the Lord’s use (souls, business, finances, and everything which we are lacking in order to serve Him).

· In serving the Lord we must walk in fear of the Lord and also rejoicing with trembling!

• Whatever we rejoice in, in this world, it must always be with trembling, because of the uncertainty of all things in it. To welcome Jesus Christ, and to submit to him, is our wisdom and interest.

· When the fear of the Lord, the desire to do His will above ours in our guide and we learn to rejoice in the times which God has given us, it truly is a blessing! We must not hold onto the seasons or blessings which God has given to us, but continually lay them down at His feet, because they’re in His control, not ours!

· The reason in the last verse that it says that we are to kiss the Lord, to bow down at His feet and surrender all that we are is because apart from Him, we are NOTHING and our lives were nothing before Him and apart from Him, we don’t have life!

• It will be absolute destruction to ourselves, we will perish in the way of our sins and from the way of our futile hopes and dreams; and perish when we try to do things the way we want to.
• We will always miss the way of happiness, fall short of getting the desires of our heart, when anything but the Lord is our delight, He is the ultimate source, and apart from Him we are nothing and have nothing.
• Christ is the ONLY way; we must follow Him and walk in the Spirit instead of the flesh because the flesh only births the death which we don’t want, but His Spirit brings life!

· Christ calls us blessed as we place ALL of our trust in the Lord!

• We begin to walk in the blessing of God when we surrender our lives into His hands; it’s when we truly lose our life that we gain it in Him. Losing things into His hands and out of our own hands can be the hardest thing to do because it’s scary; it’s out of our comfort zone.
• Yet every time we put our hands to something, it creates death, look at man who put his hands to the Ark of the Covenant, he was struck dead, when David put his hands to Bathsheba situation, and he killed not only Uriah but also his baby.
• Yet just as Abraham, the man whom God calls the father of Faith, laid down Isaac at the altar, the very promise which God gave to Him, then he truly gained the promise which God gave to Him!

· One of the greatest things I’ve learned is the art of surrender, it something that I still struggle with, but am learning daily. As we lay down the desires of our heart, but instead of picking it back up, we lift up instead the prayers of our hearts, the desires of our hearts. When God sees a sacrifice, the actually burning of our wants, it’s a sweet fragrance to Him! Though we think we may have killed it and it’s gone, God has shown in His Word that which we thought was dead He can bring back to life! (Jesus, Lazarus, the dead girl, etc.)

• Yet it all comes down to TRUST, the art of surrender is the key to trusting the Lord.
• Unbelief is a sin against the remedy. When we don’t believe God, then it’s impossible to trust God and it’s the very thing which keeps us from the answer, the results we desire, and the dreams of our heart becoming a reality.

TRUST not in yourself but in your ever present help in time of NEED, the lover of your soul, which seeks to bless you, which laid down His life for you, which gives you hope, future, and a purpose, fear not, because perfect love casts out ALL FEAR.