How God Protects You

• “Lord, I want to thank you, first of  all, for your presence. You’ve been   with me.” How many know the truth that  God has been with you when nobody else   was? You might be there right now. It might  have been last night. You were saying, “God,   I sure am lonely,” but even in your greatest  loneliness, there was light, wasn’t there? Come on.
• Even when you were a little girl and  you were 12 or 13 years old and you just felt   so weird and so strange, there was something  inside of you that you knew you weren’t alone   even though you felt alone. Even though  you didn’t get invited to the parties,   there was something in you  that knew, “I have a purpose.” You were never alone, not for any of it. He  is present.
• I don’t need a feeling to prove   his presence. You know, I don’t need more  proof of his presence than I already have.   He told me he was with me, so he is with me.  It’s just a matter of me becoming aware of   it. “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was  not aware of it.” So, thank God for his presence. Secondly, thank him for his protection.
• He said, “Lord, if you’ll be with me,   and if you’ll watch over me, if you’ll protect me,  God…” What does it mean that God protected me? It   doesn’t mean you never broke your toe and said,  “Ouch.” It doesn’t mean he kept every weapon from   being formed. It means that in spite of whatever  weapon was formed, you had the faith to endure it.
• I want you to thank him for your shield and  your buckler. I want you to thank him that   there have been angels around you that kept you  from car accidents that you didn’t see coming.   I want you to thank him for slow drivers that  got in front of you, and you cussed at them,   and they kept you from getting to the next  intersection where there was going to be a   drunk driver, but you were too busy cussing at  the slow driver to know about the drunk driver.
• So, I want you to thank God for the protection  you haven’t even recognized yet. I want you to   just go back over your life and realize  that there were some things that God did…   I want you to praise him for the crazy  person that you asked him to make fall in   love with you because you had not turned  the corner and seen their crazy yet,   and you found out four years later that when  God said “No” when you said “Please,” God was   doing you the greatest favor of your life.  He was protecting you. Don’t you see that?
• He wasn’t punishing me because he hated me; he was  punishing me to protect me. There is a punishment,   a discipline, that comes from God that is meant  to protect. If God is convicting you right now   of a sin in your life, I want you to praise  him for his protection. He’s looking out for   you. He hasn’t given up on you.
• He’s not  going to let your heart get so hard that   you keep on doing it until you die from it.  I want you to praise God for his protection. I want you to thank him that he kept  your mind from going absolutely buck   wild over 2025. Your mom lost her mind.  You didn’t lose yours. You kept your   sanity. He brought you here. He woke  you up.