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Friday, August 12, 2016

My Rock, My Fortress, My Deliverer

Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

None of us know what we will face in the years of our lives, but believers can know that God in Heaven will give us strength to pass through trials and battles. The longer I serve my Lord and Savior, the more Psalm 18:2 means to me. I memorized it.

Twenty years ago concern crossed the face of the  oncologist as she read my pathology report ------ fast moving metastatic breast cancer cells. “All we can do is give you everything we have to offer,” she said. It seemed my life was dangling at the end of a rope.

But  Jesus ----my Rock, my Fortress, and my Deliverer ----gave me peace and assurance through it all.  A few years later my oncologist told me I was in a 15% survival rate for my kind of cancer.

I know I've written about this time and again, but I can't help but praise God for that victory.