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“Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Jehovah is Thy keeper; the shade upon thy right hand.”

I heard a lady one time who was nervous about something in her family,
and she thought of that verse and here is how she prayed. “Well, Lord,
no use both of us staying awake”. Exactly so. He never goes to sleep.
We always have His undivided attention. Read Psalm 127 also in this
regard.

I have a book by a man named Abram Kyper called “Near to God”. In
his book he tells about when he was a little boy and how he was afraid of
shadows. This one day he was terrified laying in bed because this big
old shadow was coming toward him. He was frozen with fear. You
know how a kid is. Every little piece of clothing on the wall is a bear or
a monster. He was so frightened he could not even speak. And, all of a
sudden, his mother kissed him on the cheek. It was his mother! What a
relief. All he saw was this big shadow. Then he made this point. “The
Lord is my shade upon my right hand”. The next time you are in
darkness and you are so afraid because of what is coming, it might just
be Jesus bending over to kiss you. He is the shade upon your right hand.
All these things are designed to turn your eyes to the Lord. Psalm 146:5,

“How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob.”

I do not know a verse that I have prayed more than that, and I will tell
you why. Because I know Jacob. I have studied Jacob, and the more
you study Jacob the more precious is the truth that He is the God of
Jacob. Because if He is the God of Jacob I have hope! Jacob was both a
scoundrel and thief. And if He is the God of Jacob, He is the God of Ed
Miller and a scoundrel like you. Psalm 34:7,

“The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him.”

Twenty-two times in the Old Testament The angel of the Lord is the
Lord Jesus. The angel of the Lord does encamp round about those who
fear Him. God can surround your house. And He does. Psalm 90: 2,

“Before the mountains were born, or You gave birth to the earth
and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”

You talk about boundaries. “From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art
God.” Now why is it that we can believe that? That God is on both ends
of everlasting, the beginning and the end. Then we have a hard time
believing He is on both ends of some little thing we are going through. If