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“The LORD your God is with you.” What “He is mighty to save.” This is a powerful, life-changing line. Our God is not a wimp. He is able and ready to save us from anything. He is in charge.

Sometimes it is hard to see how God has saved us. He may be saving us all the time and we don’t see it.

The movie Signs gives us a great picture of how God saves us. In the movie, the world is under attack by space aliens who come to the home of Graham, a former Episcopal priest, played by Mel Gibson. Graham’s son has asthma, and during the attack, the son nears death because of his condition. Graham hates God because God has given his son this condition, and his son is unable to breathe. But when an alien tries to kill Graham’s son with poison, the poison does not enter his body because the asthma has closed his lungs. Graham realizes that the asthma has actually saved his son’s life. Earlier in the story, the last words of Graham’s dying wife to her husband were “Graham . . . see!”

Do you “see”? God is saving you all the time. How can you enhance your ability to see God working in your life? It begins by asking, “God, help me to see.” It continues by looking for His action in your life. It concludes by writing it down. God will move in your life this week. Jot a few lines about the experience. See!

It seems every day ends with a miracle here. And whatever God may be, I thank God for this day.

 ?LIEUTENANT DUNBAR IN DANCES WITH WOLVES

“He will take great delight in you.” God not only loves you; He likes you. Sometimes love can feel like a requirement: I have to love my sister, because we’re in the same family. It’s way more than this for God. He really likes to hang out with you, like a best friend.

He will quiet you with his love.” Often we are quieted with a shout?Hey, shut up! Zephaniah said that God will quiet us with His love. Have you ever been quieted by love? It’s like melting. Finally, “He will rejoice over you with singing.” You make God sing!

Draw a picture of this verse. It doesn’t have to be a great painting, just a simple picture of what it means for you to experience God as expressed by Zephaniah in the verse.

GOD OF LOVE 

Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. (Romans 5:5)

Read Romans 5. The book of Romans is in the New Testament. We experience God at a new level in the New Testament, as compared to the Old Testament.

How can you see this new relationship with God expressed in this verse?  

Many Bible versions title sections within the chapter. What title does your Bible version give for this section?