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Jun 30, 2025 06:00am

The Supernatural Support of God When You’re Under Seige

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What do you do in days when you are attacked? When the enemy (both spiritual and often physical) is coming upon you like a flood and it seems that they have the upper hand? When you cry out in despair for you feel there is no way out?

CALLING OUT

David was fighting for his life as he was running and hiding from King Saul, and it seemed to go on forever. Saul, filled with jealousy and driven by a demonic oppression that made him furiously afraid of David, pursued David with his army to try to kill him. There was no reason, for David had done nothing but help him. We must realize that there was a greater Enemy behind Saul; the one who is always opposing the work of God and the advance of His kingdom in every way.

Time after time, David cried out to God, and always God delivered him, often in supernatural ways. David was learning lessons of faith that can be learned no other way and would serve him well in the future as he led God’s kingdom.

Psalm 18 is a glorious cry of thanksgiving and love for the Lord from David as his battles with Saul came to an end. He was overwhelmed with joy for the Lord had become his “strength … my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.” (Psa. 18:1-2)

But there was a turn that David made that brought this deliverance. He describes how he “called to the Lord in his distress and I cried to my God for help” and the Lord delivered him and then, ultimately, subdued his enemies and even appointed David to rule over them. Listen to this glorious summary of those days.

¹⁶He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he pulled me out of deep water.

¹⁷He rescued me from my powerful enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.

¹⁸They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support.

¹⁹He brought me out to a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.

This is our God. These are His ways. He delights in those who delight in Him, who recognize their need and trust in Him with all their heart. You will always find God draw near with all the direction, protection, and power needed to those who draw near to Him.

I look back over seven decades plus of life and see how the Lord has delivered me again and again. I have known His mighty deliverance when it seemed that my situation had no solution, and my enemies were intense; when it looked as if there was no way out. It is all God’s doing, and it makes me say with David, “I love You, Lord, my strength!”

Are you under siege? Do you feel there is no hope? Read Psalm 18 over and over again. Study God’s ways in the life of David and then call out to God for help. He delights in those who delight in Him, and He has always been faithful to those who turn upward and not inward.