In the Midst of Trouble (You Will Revive Me!)

Thou Wilt Revive Me

"Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me" (Ps. 138:7).

The Hebrew rendering of the above is "go on in the center of trouble." What descriptive words! We have called on God in the day of trouble; we have pleaded His promise of deliverance but no deliverance has been given; the enemy has continued oppressing until we were in the very thick of the fight, in the center of trouble. Why then trouble the Master any further?

When Martha said, "Lord, if thou hadst been here my brother had not died," our Lord met her lack of hope with His further promise, "Thy brother shall rise again." And when we walk "in the center of trouble" and are tempted to think like Martha that the time of deliverance is past, He meets us too with a promise from His Word. "Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me."

Though His answer has so long delayed, though we may still continue to "go on" in the midst of trouble, "the center of trouble" is the place where He revives, not the place where He fails us.

When in the hopeless place, the continued hopeless place, is the very time when He will stretch forth His hand against the wrath of our enemies and perfect that which concerneth us, the very time when He will make the attack to cease and fail and come to an end. What occasion is there then for fainting?  --Aphra White

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I have given great passion to the business of informing believers that their is no circumvention of life's struggles. No matter how hard you try to get around it, the vicissitudes of life will roll in. You will face hardships and disappointments. At some point you will feel the heartache of abandonment. Your advancement is dependent upon it. There cannot be a victory without there first being a battle.

Process always be precedes promise. The believer must come to a complete understanding that there can never be an obtainment of divine promise without there first being a bearing out of divine process. The process prepares the believer for advancement. Well, how are we do engage these moments of difficulty and darkness? We must come to the knowledge that God does his greatest work in the darkest of times.

7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand will save me. (Ps. 138:7, AMP)

When I am in the midst of trouble, when the darkness has encompassed me, not at the beginning of trouble, but in the midst of it is where I find that the hand of God moves most powerfully. When trouble has become my reality, when heartache is my daily meal, when disappointment as taken up residence in my soul; that is when God comes in. When it seems that you have breathed your last breath of hope and your soul despairs beyond rescue; this is when God comes in and revives.

When the doctors have said that there is nothing that they can do, God can revive you. I am not speaking of those times in which God shows up at the eleventh hour, just in the nick of time. I am speaking of those moments in which the clock has struck midnight and there has been no answer. When people have begun to write the obituary to your life, hopes and dreams. That place where, even you start to believe that it is too late. There is no pulse, there is no sign of breathing, the body of your hopes and dreams has grown cold, but God is not restricted by time and circumstance. He is not shaken by the depth of your despair. He is not perplexed by the prognosis of the specialist because he specializes in the impossible.

So don't allow the darkness to deafen your faith. Don't allow the difficulty to deter your drive towards your destiny. Don't allow the flagrant assault of those you trusted to fool you into submission. If God has chosen to leave you in the midst of this most vehement storm you must believe that He has a great work to perform in it. There was over 400 years of intense prayer and waiting to move God to move Israel. It took 13 years of unwavering perseverance before God elevated Joseph to meet his destiny head on. It took 25 years of waiting with nothing but a nomadic existence before Abraham received the promised seed.

Dr. Rick Wallace

There is a bearing out of the process at hand. The awesome thing about God's principle of process is that He does not ask you to tread it out on your own. He has promised that He will never leave nor forsake (fail) you. He has promised that He will be a strong tower. He has promised that He will do a new thing. He has promised that He would heal the land.

It is when the enemy has pinned you in and is about to strike that fatal blow to your hopes and dreams that God moves in and defends you with the ferociousness of a parent defending their young. It is in the darkness that God proves Himself. It is in the midst of trouble that God's power is manifested in full. So hold on, refuse to give in. Instead of giving up, look up, and you will be able to say like King David, "Although I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for you are with me." God is about to revive all that has died in your life. Don't give up! ~ Dr. Rick Wallace