None Beside Thee...

Lord, there is none beside thee to help. (2 Chronicles 14:11, RV).

Remind God of His entire responsibility. "There is none beside thee to help." The odds against Asa were enormous. There was a million of men in arms against him, besides three hundred chariots. It seemed impossible to hold his own against that vast multitude. There were no allies who would come to his help; his only hope, therefore, was in God.

It may be that your difficulties have been allowed to come to so alarming a pitch that you may be compelled to renounce all creature aid, to which in lesser trials you have had recourse, and cast yourself back on your Almighty Friend. Put God between yourself and the foe.

To Asa's faith, Jehovah seemed to stand between the might of Zerah and himself, as one who had no strength. Nor was he mistaken. We are told that the Ethiopians were destroyed before the Lord and before His host, as though celestial combatants flung themselves against the foe in Israel's behalf, and put the large host to rout, so that Israel had only to follow up and gather the spoil. Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale.
--F. B. Meyer

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There are those times is which it seems that you are standing alone. Those who you considered friends have either abandoned ship or folded under the pressure. Do not become frenetic or unglued because of the darkness that surrounds you. Your outcome is brightest when your only hope is the Almighty. 

Dr. Rick Wallace 

Don't buy into the illusions of the enemy as he attempts to whisper the sweet nothings of negativity into your ear. Don't assume the perspective that your circumstances are bigger than God. You will find that it is when you are in the deepest of pits and the darkest of moments that you are standing in the middle of a move of God. He has promised to never leave nor forsake you. He has promised to move on your behalf. He has declared that no weapon that formed to move against you will prosper. Stand on His promises and do not waver. 

There is nothing too hard for God. Simply stand still so that you may witness His awesome power in your life. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace

Additional Resources by Dr. Rick Wallace 

Books

1. The Invisible Father: Reversing the Curse of a Fatherless Generation

2. Renewing Your Mind: The Dynamics of Christian Transformation

3. Elevation through Revelation

4. When Your House is Not a Home

5. The Power of Healing Affirmations

Blogs

1. 100 Men of Purpose

2. Master Fitness 21

Trusting God In The Middle Of Your Mess

What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter (John 13:7).

All is not revealed in the beginning. There are moments when there seems to be no clear indication of what is taking place in your life. You are searching for some cohesive or distinct pattern that might be indicative of what God is doing in your situation. Through your limited perspicacity you strive to make sense of it all, but you falter underneath its weight. There is a reason that God commanded that we don't lean on our own understanding (Prov. 3:5, 6). His thought and ways are higher than ours (Isa. 55:8, 9).

It is not for us to figure out or rationalize God's movement in our lives; we are to simply trust Him. We too often attempt to orchestrate the the dynamics at work in our lives instead of trusting God and allowing His plan to unfold through the conduit of our faith. We press when we should pray. We strive when we should stand still. We worry when we should simply wait.

I'm am sure that Joseph had some questions as he struggled through his plight, being beaten and thrown in a pit by his brother; not to mention being enslaved and imprisoned. None of this resembled the vision that God had given Him, but Joseph had been taught by his father Jacob to trust God above all else.

God was maturing Jacob through his trouble. He was preparing him through his struggles. He was building character through the testings. Joseph could not understand. Honestly, he could not fathom what was about to take place in his life. When this all started he was a brash little teenage kid with a dream, but God was about to bust a move in his life that would set the course of history. By simply trusting God, Joseph was elevated.

I am sure that there were many cold nights out there in the wilderness as David kept his father's sheep. There had to be moments when David wondered how in the world do you get anointed to be king and then sent back out to watch the sheep. David didn't fully understand it, but God was training him to shepherd a different kind of sheep. God sent lions and bears to prepare David to face the giant opportunity that was soon to come. David didn't completely understand, but he trusted God anyway. Because of his faith, David become the greatest human king to live; even the humanity of Christ descended from Him.

Dr. Rick Wallace 

It is not for you to fully understand God's movement; full revelation does not require faith. God places us in situations in which the outcome seems uncertain, so that we are forced to exercise our faith. Faith is best seen in the darkness of uncertainty. Faith becomes expressively distinctive when pragmatic and empirical evidence is no longer present. Faith stands tall when men declare things impossible for you. Faith acknowledges your negative circumstances and then totally disagrees with them.

Yes, you are going through a difficult time, but God is working in the undercurrents of your struggle. He is about to do a "new thing" in your life (Isa. 43:19). He is about to shake up the world around you. You are being positioned for the spectacular. Just trust Him! ~ Dr. Rick Wallace