Most of us, in times of difficulty, turn to friends and others for help, comfort, and advice. God’s word at the beginning of Psalm 146 tells us not to. The psalmist warns us:

Psalm 146:3-4 (The Message)

3-9 Do not put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing about life, about life of salvation. Human mothers don’t have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them. Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in God and know the true blessing! God made heaven and earth, the sea and all the fish in it.

Psalm 146:3-4 (New King James Version)

3 Trust not in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 his spirit departs from him, he returns to his land; On that very day his plans perish.

That said, we must turn to God’s promises and look to and claim the promises in difficult times. Let’s look at eight promises in the two psalms.

For the sake of clarity, I will quote the NKJV and the Post in each case.

Promise 1 He’ll give you a hand when you’re down.

Psalm 145:14 (The Message)

14 God gives a hand to those who are unlucky, gives a new start to those who are ready to give up.

Psalm 145:14 (New King James Version)

14 The LORD upholds all who fall, And lifts up all who are oppressed.

I have to say that there have been many times when I have been on the verge of quitting and the LORD in His wisdom and His mercy has sent someone or something to give me the grace to get up and have another try. I have a preacher friend who tells me that we fall when we transgress God’s laws, meaning that we fall every time we sin. And this is not correct. The Lord is always there to pick us up and forgive us every time we fall.

I am confused, stunned and amazed at how much grace the LORD of heaven has for us. I have broken the law so many times in twenty years of sex addiction and I am amazed at how much and how willingly he forgave me during all those years. I am eternally grateful that He sent a teacher of the Word across my path to show me that my sexual addiction was not going to be tolerated forever and the need for me to find true repentance.

Promise 2 Everything God does is right

Psalm 145:17 (The Message)

17 Everything God does is right; the trademark in all his works is love.

Psalm 145:17 (New King James Version)

17 The LORD is just in all his ways, merciful in all his works.

Everything God does is right. That is such a profound statement in the midst of a suffering and dying world that we live in. Every thing that God does is right. And God abounds in love and his love is merciful and sometimes we are so unworthy of that love. Oh, if we could be more like Jesus and walk in the grace, mercy, and compassion of Jesus, this world we live in would be a different place. Promise 3 God promises to hear your prayers

Psalm 145:18 (The Message)

18 God is there, listening to all who pray, to all who pray and mean it.

Psalm 145:18 (New King James Version)

18 The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Have you ever felt like your prayers bounced off the roof of your house and never made it to heaven? I’ve got. So I began to walk in Truth towards God and began to seek him in my life and obey him. It is encouraging that the LORD listens to all those who pray with faith that He is listening and who pray as if they really mean it and it is not an obligation or a ritual that they need to do as part of an empty religion. I find the promise in Jeremiah 29 encouraging.

Jeremiah 29:12-14 (New King James Version)

12 Then you will call on me, and go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek me and find me, because you will seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, saith the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity;

You realize that the Lord told Israel here that they need to seek Him with all their hearts. Again in the Psalms it says that He will be close to all who pray to Him in truth, with all their hearts.

This year I have been seeking the Lord for healing and restoration in my life and now I have a counselor who is doing a wonderful job with me, helping me in my spiritual life and releasing the enemy’s hold on my life through the curses that I have spoken upon me. life and curses that my family has had.

It is encouraging that the Lord of heaven and earth will be close to all who seek him and cry out to him. Promise 4 He will grant your wishes if you delight in Him

Psalm 145:19 (The Message)

19 He does what is best for those who fear him: He hears their cry and saves them.

Psalm 145:19 (New King James Version)

19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him; He too will hear his cry and save them.

The Lord is there for the helpless and will save those in need. It is his promise to all who need his help. It’s like how sometimes when we’re in trouble, God leans down with an ear waiting for us to cry out for help.

He loves so much to answer our prayers and move heaven and earth to answer them and show us that he loves us and remains a sovereign and saving God.

Few of us fear the Lord as we should. If we all feared Jehovah we would stop sinning. The person who loves the LORD and has a reverent fear of the LORD will have godly desires and they will come true.

Psalm 37 shows that those who delight in the Lord will see their promises fulfilled.

Psalm 37:4 (New King James Version)

4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Many people have desires but want the things of the world not the things of God, but when one delights in the LORD and treats the LORD as his own husband then the LORD will see his desires come true as are His desires.

Promise 5 He will preserve you through thick and thin

Psalm 145:20 (The Message)

20 God adheres to all who love him, but everything ends for those who do not love him.

Psalm 145:20 (New King James Version)

20 The LORD protects all who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

It is good to see that God can be on our side when it comes to temptations and trials, and this verse applies to all of us who love him and put him first in our lives. I imagine the jams and pickles that mothers and grandmothers bottle and preserve for years and how delicious they are to taste in due time. The Lord promises that he will take care of us and help us during the days and years of our stay on earth. I find tremendous comfort in this verse, as does anyone who has sinned as much as I have.

Promise 6 He will do justice for you

Psalm 146:7 (The Message)

He always does what he says, defends the wronged,

Psalm 146:7 (New King James Version)

7 who gives justice to the oppressed, who feeds the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free.

The LORD goes to battle for the oppressed and people who are wronged by others. He gives prisoners of sin a life of freedom through his Son and can also free people in prison. He feeds the hungry.

Who feeds the hungry?

He feeds the hungry. Even in starving nations, He raises up people in the West to ask for money and resources to feed the hungry. So many times I have run out of food and the LORD has used a friend to provide for me. So many times the Lord has fed me by putting into the heart of another to send me money or for a person to buy me something to eat. Also, the Lord often uses me to feed a person who has bad luck and this hurts him a lot.

God is wonderful and too good for all of us, and yet because He is so good to us, we need to reach out to others and share that love and lead others into truth.

Promise 7 He will give you light where you are spiritually blind

Psalm 146:8 (The Message) He gives sight to the blind, He lifts up the fallen.

Psalm 146:8 (New King James Version)

8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD lifts up the downtrodden; The Lord loves the righteous.

What a generous God we have! He not only heals blind people, even today these healings are being done in the name of Jesus, but He is busy removing the scales of bad teachings and bad doctrines from the eyes of the church. It is a great mercy that the Lord can speak clearly against a false teaching and dismantle it with a good teacher and the anointing of the Holy Spirit from him. The LORD does not even need a good teacher, for in 1 John the Teacher is identified as the Holy Spirit and even through a prayerful reading of God’s Word, the eyes of a blind person can still be opened.

The Bible is still effective in bringing people to conviction of sin, repentance, and leading them to a life of holiness. The Bible lives and breathes and will open the eyes of the spiritually blind and correct student of the Word who wants to be corrected and guided by the Holy Spirit. God’s Word promises it right here!

And in most cases the blind are caught up in a sin and have fallen short and when their eyes are opened they can find repentance and begin to walk in grace and live in a new life where this hindrance or sin is no more. keeps them in bondage.

Promise 8 He will take care of single mothers, orphans and widows

Psalm 146:9 (The Message)

GOD loves good people, protects strangers, sides with orphans and widows, but kills the wicked.

Psalm 146:9 (New King James Version)

9 The LORD watches over foreigners; He helps the orphan and the widow; But the way of the wicked He upsets.

A contemporary interpretation of this promise could be that the Lord will take care of the single mother whose son does not see his father. Divorce seems to make many women single and these women are precious to the LORD. Single Christian mothers should take great comfort in this verse and not rush too easily into another man’s arms to provide when the Lord promises to provide here.

He relieves the orphan and the widow means that He will be there to be their relief. The LORD knows your struggles and knows your heart. You just need to find him and present his case to him.