Our world sees helplessness as something to be overcome, but if we are wise we will embrace it. True wisdom is the knowledge that the strength of Christ can only be known in our weakness.

The Lord My Helper
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
"I noticed the car on fire and no one standing around it, so I thought it just happened and the car's on fire. The car was filled with smoke, the door was jammed. i pried it open and saw the victim slouched over the airbag.” Rory Lyons, a roadside angel.
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Earlier this week, Rory Lyons was on his way to work when he stopped to offer help after noticing the Prius had run off the road in northern California and hit a tree. Inside, Rory discover Joseph Cully. His leg was pinned and the car was on fire and the windshield was burning." Rory pulled Culley out of the car just as the fire began to consume the car. A life was saved by a roadside angel. Has that ever happened to you? Someone you didn’t know, at just the right time, came and saved your life? There is a promise to all Christ followers. “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid.” Hebrews 13:6. Welcome to HT, I’m CM sharing the GS that’s all about Jesus and a program called “The Lord My Helper”.

I’m Charles Morris and welcome to Haven Today telling the Great Story that’s all about Jesus. It’s one thing to let off some steam and it’s another to be of the right mind. The scriptures say we can dwell in the Almighty and he will dwell in us through his son, Jesus. This is a program called “My Helper Is Here” and I want to invite you to sample the words of a good friend of Charles Spurgeon. We’ve put up an audio chapter and a written chapter of the book by Octavius Winslow, “The Lord, My Portion: Daily Needs Divinely Supplied”. Too many times, we just want the escape valve or we want a few simple action steps to get on with our lives when troubles hit and times are tough. But these are exactly our times to find grace, new grace, more grace, grace in the Lord Jesus Christ. Only he provides the grace to see us through. So may I invite you to visit our website, haventoday.org, and let the words of grace, written by Octavius Winslow over 100 years ago minister to you today? Each day in the last few days we’ve been keying in on a verse or cluster of verses that we can grab onto and remind us of this grace in Jesus. Hebrews 13:6, “So we say with confidence, the Lord is my helper. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” And now let us receive this grace of our Lord Jesus.

Song: I Wonder - Leeland
From the WOW Hits album 2012, the bonus track by Leeland, I Wonder. Hebrews 13:6, “So we say with confidence, the Lord is my helper. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” The program is called, “The Lord My Helper”. We all need help, don’t we? It might be a traffic accident and we’re trapped in a burning car like Joseph Cully of Danville, California. Some of us have lost jobs and that is how we learn that the Lord Jesus is our helper.

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We are helpless in ourselves, just as much as we are without a portion in the world. Both lessons are only learned by experience, in the school of the soul’s nothingness, and in the school of the world’s insufficiency. This is holy teaching and the Lord blesses it. Unfortunately, we don’t learn the lesson of our spiritual helplessness once and for all. It’s a daily, hourly lesson that we learn through the events of our everyday living. It won’t be complete until we graduate to the glory filled studies and noble work of Heaven. But just imagine how we’ll be able to learn when God renews our bodies and expands our reach in eternity. Imagine what we’ll be able to understand and how our lives will conform to his holiness. Imagine the wonderful feeling when our hearts are perfected in God’s love. For now, though, God is educating us for eternity to come, in the now, in the today. He’s showing us a great truth. We learn it by seeing what we’re really like, by feeling our mental limits, by seeing our moral lapses and by feeling the discipline of trials and temptations and even sorrow. The great truth we’re learning is this, from John 15:5, “Without me, you can do nothing.” “I was brought low,” David told us that in Psalm 118:6, “and he saved me.” This is how God teaches us. First our souls are brought low, but then the Lord lifts us up. And we can feel pretty low indeed sometimes, can’t we? Low in our spiritual lives, low in the gifts God gives us, low in the evidence of our Christian walk. We may feel low mentally, physically or low in life’s situations, but these are the times when we experience the truth of God’s word. Remember Job 22:29, “When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast..” Does it seem as if the Lord is mowing you down or bringing you low by his heavy burdens? It’s really just so that you can tell the world, along with the psalmist, “When I was brought low, he saved me.” Just look at what a helper we have in Jesus. Our helper is divine. He saved me. We’ve already quoted Hebrews 13:6, “The Lord is my helper.” The Lord Jesus is an all-sufficient helper. “I have given help to One who is mighty” says the Heavenly Father in Psalm 89. He’s speaking of the Son. The Father required help to bring his chosen church to himself and he found it in his co-equal and co-eternal son. Christ was able to carry out this saving work because he was fully God and fully human. And the help God laid on Jesus is help for us as well. So the Lord Jesus is our helper. Totally powerful, loving and caring. He is all we need. Our help has perfect timing. It comes just when we need it, not a moment sooner, always in God’s time. He intervenes, but never before his time and never after. When we’re down, he lifts us up. So just wait, because his time is best. As Isaiah 30:18 tells us, “Blessed are all who wait for him.” His help works. People try to help, but fail. On the other hand, the Lord’s help never fails and never falls short no matter how urgent the need or how desperate we are. We can trust him because he has told us, “I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” So we can boldly say like Hebrews 13 tells us, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?” But now, what kind of help do we need? For the most part, God takes you in a unique direction as a believer, but it is a path where you will find no footprints but Christ’s. A path that only leaves room for the Lord himself. Do you have a physical need? The Lord owns every resource of Heaven and earth. And the one who fed more than 5000 with a few loaves of bread will not overlook or forget you. After all you’re his beloved child. So don’t hesitate to plead with him saying, “Lord help me,” until he does. Do you have a spiritual need? Scripture tells us that all his fullness dwells in Christ. Whatever your need, if you need to be forgiven of sin, if you need to know he has accepted you, if you need victory over sickness that won’t go away, if you need support and comfort in sorrow, if you need guidance when you’re perplexed or troubled, if you’re deeply worried for someone you love, just cry out, “Lord help me!” Your prayer will not be in vain. You will be able to boldly declare, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear.” A heavy dose of grace, that’s what we need every day, and especially today.

Song: But for your Grace – Paul Baloche