Focus: Case Closed (Pt.2)

Text: Lam.3:58

"O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life."

God sees your pain and feels your anguish. He knows every bit of what you are going through, and He will plead the CAUSES of your soul. He has all it takes to take care of all that is bothering you. He knows all the insults and assaults that you are swallowing and the contradictions of your life.

God will not only plead your cause; He will also redeem your life. He will break the shackles and set you free. It's not yet time for you to die. God will disappoint those who see you as a flop or failure. Hear me, God has sent me through this devotional to raise your hope and ignite your faith! Isaiah declares that "the LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people" (Isa.3:13). Solomon says, "For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them" (Prov.22:23). Yes, the Lord will plead your cause and take up your matter. He won't let the enemy to rejoice over you. Solomon says again, "For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee" (Prov.23:11). Note that; your redeemer is mighty. 

The forces messing with you are messing with the wrong person. You are too big for the devil to handle. The fire of God burns and shines around you. You are a terror to Satan and his agents.

Job sought desperately for one who would plead his cause. He says, "Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost" (Jb.13:19). Again he says, "O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour" (Jb.16:21). He longed for a legal advicer, and indeed for a redeemer. Ain't you glad that the Lord is out to plead your case and save you from trouble? David said to Saul, "The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand" (1Sam.24:15). You serve a God who will not let you lose to Satan. Your God will not allow Saul in your life to have the upper-hand. In fact, God has reserved Saul's throne for you. Saul will go to battle and not return. The oil of God on your head will bring you to royalty.

Bring your case up before the Lord! Talk to your Father in heaven! Bow before Him and let Him hear your cry. The psalmist prayed, "Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me" (Ps.35:1). Join the psalmist in this prayer. Call on your God to plead your case! Your case has lingered; let God step in and bring it to a close! Again he says, "Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word" (Ps.119:154). Look at the three prayer topics: plead my cause; deliver me; and, quicken me according to thy word. Hallelujah! He prays again, "Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man" (Ps.43:1). Before God pleads your case, He will first of all deal with certain things in your life that are not right. He will make you see your own heart through the mirror of the word, and cause you to repent of your sins, and then He will plead your cause and deal with your foes.

Not only will you call on God to plead your case, you have to call on Him also to plead His own cause in your life. The psalmist cries out, "Arise, O God, plead THINE OWN CAUSE: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily" (Ps.74:22). 

God never loses a case. He never goes to battle and returns defeated. He will put reproachers in their place and reduce them to nothing. He will humble or humiliate the arrogant and lift up the humble.

Get ready to shout, 'Case Closed!' Jesus Christ said to a man, "Take up your bed and go home." Instantly, the man took up his bed and went home, and that was how a 38-year old situation came to an end. It's now your turn. Case closed.

by Bishop Moses E. Peter