The Way Out Is Up

Psalm 50:14-15

Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High,and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you
will honor Me. NIV

At some time or other in our lives, we all face trouble. The psalmist
speaks about the day of trouble. There is not one of us that does not,
at sometime or other, pass through a day of trouble. But here the
psalmist tells us the way out of trouble, the way of deliverance. And
let me tell you, I've had to prove this many times in my own
experience.

What is the way out of trouble? "Sacrifice thank offerings to
God." In the very midst of your trouble, exercise your faith and
begin to thank God. Offer Him that sacrifice of thanking Him and
praising Him. Then call upon Him in the day of trouble and His promise
is, "I will deliver you," and not merely that, "You
will honor Me." God's deliverance will work out to His
glory, it will become a testimony in our lives of how God has
delivered us in the day of trouble.

And then, further on in that psalm, the psalmist says, "He who
sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that
I may show him the salvation of God" (v. 23). So, when
we're in trouble and we make that sacrifice of beginning to
thank God although we may see no way out, we prepare a way that God
shows us His salvation. God opens the way for those who offer Him the
sacrifice of thank offerings.

So when you're in the midst of trouble, remember, that's
the way out! - Derek Prince