Hello everyone, Janice with Reigning With Him.
Thanks for joining me today.
And we are continuing our look at Psalm 91, and we are in verse 4 today.
And I learned something very interesting today, which is really, I forgot to do this, I need
to point it out.
Here I've been in Psalm 91, the whole chapter, for almost two years now, and I realized for
the very first time, and I've been reading this chapter every single day, I realized
today for the very first time as I was studying this that Psalm 91 verse 1, verses 2 and 3,
and then verses 4 all say the same thing.
It's all just presented a little bit differently.
And these concepts were so important for God to get across to us and for us to understand
that this is the foundation of our life and this is our place of walking out in victory
because in Psalm 91, it has everything we need.
Verses 2 and 3 just bring it back, bring it forward a whole different way with He is our
refuge and our fortress and how we live in Him and from Him.
And then verse 4 today is what we're going to look at.
He brought it out three different times, which is really, really key and important.
When God says something more than once, we need to have our full attention and our focus
on it to see what He is saying to us.
And I never saw that until today.
So I'm kind of in awe of this and I knew it was important before, but now it's taking
it to a whole other level.
And I just hope I can impart this to you today.
I'm trusting Holy Spirit just to have it released in a way that you just get it again, but just
in a different way and it takes a deeper root.
So actually, I think I'm going to pray first instead of at the end.
Father, I just thank you for, this is your heart and this is a message you so desire
to come forth and for us to understand and grasp the revelation in it and be able to
then walk it out.
So I just ask for revelation for all of us today, increasing understanding and that you
would open up our hearts and our minds and our eyes and our ears to receive your word.
And we ask Holy Spirit just to impart this with power and anointing in Jesus name.
Amen.
Okay.
So Psalm 91 verse four, I'm just going to read it.
I think just from the King James, because those are some of the words I'm going to refer
to.
He will cover thee with his feathers and under his wing shalt thou trust.
His truth will be like a shield and buckler.
All right.
So we're going to look at some words here as always, but I'm seeing as I was doing this
today and studying this, I was like, wow, this is just a repeat of Psalm 91.
So what did we hear in Psalm 91 that he shadows us and in that shadow, we have the vibrations,
which is his voice.
We have those sounds swirling around us, which is his voice.
We have the insemination of his words and the things he's calling forth in us, the things
written in our book and the things he said about us and the things in his word about
us.
That's what's happening.
So it says here that he will cover us with his feathers.
So these are not little itty bitty feathers.
These are talking about pinions, which are massive long feathers.
And if you think about it with these large birds, it's where these feathers are in the
wings.
That is where the strength of the bird lies to take flight and then come in and land and
it covers its young.
It covers whatever it's trying to protect.
That is something we need to visualize, just like you can visualize being under that umbrella
in the shadow.
You can visualize yourself being covered with his wings.
And now this covering is very interesting because it brings out that it's very exact.
It's very precise.
So it's not hack and stance.
It's not throwing a blanket over your child when they're laying on the couch and not feeling
well or tossing one to a spouse when they're laying down reading or something.
It's not just a loose.
thing. It is exact. It is precise. And not only that, it is on behalf of the individual. It's
on behalf of us, but it's also covering on behalf, which is offensive, covering us, but it's
offensive and it's against whatever is attacking or coming at the individual. There's also an
element of integrity and of rightness and righteousness in this and of truth, specifically
a word. Now, is that not amazing? So think about this. Before Jesus died, before he went to the
garden of Gethsemane, he actually covered Peter with a word. Now, you remember what happened?
He had told Peter, hey, before the rooster, cock, whatever, before it cocks three times,
you will deny me. So him giving Peter that, he covered him with that word because when that
happened, Peter was like, oh my gosh, and it devastated him. It just ripped him apart inside
that he did this and he could do this. But in the aftermath of that, he could look back and go,
God knew this. Jesus knew this. He told me. And it became a covering over him, like a protection
over him that Jesus knew. He has told me this. And when Jesus found him after he was resurrected and
Peter was out fishing, as soon as Peter saw him and Jesus called out to them, you know, breakfast,
and he came running to him, that covering made it possible for there to be that immediate
reconciliation between the two. And there was nothing broken there. There was nothing that
needed to be repaired. It was immediate reconciliation because he had given him this
word of covering. So he had covered him with the word. He had covered him with his feathers.
It was exact. It was precise. It was what he needed. And it allowed for Peter to continue walking
and be sustained and continue forth in truth. Now the word wings, you know, we had the feathers,
but the wings are talking very much about the extremity, about the lateral projection
of these in a spreading out. And it's in a context of total protection. But it's also
very interesting because it says it is an expansive swiftness that these birds are able to move.
So just picture an eagle. When that eagle sees that it needs to get to his young, we have eagles
all over here and you can watch them go back to that nest. Their wings are spread out and with
exact swiftness. They spread those wings and they fly to that young one, to that eaglet,
and then they cover it with their feathers and it cannot be seen. It cannot be found.
The other interesting thing with this word wings, which I thought was phenomenal, this came out of
the Wilsons. It said that the wings have light. L-I-G-H-T. Light. And the expanded rays of the sun,
it's like expanded rays of the sun, spread out through the wings. So if you think of that,
here comes this eagle. Here comes this bird. Massive wings. It has light. The light reflecting
off the sun. The light. And if you take this spiritually, what does it say in Malachi
chapter four, it's verse two. It said he had healing in his wings. So here comes this eagle.
Here comes Jesus. Here comes God. Healing in his wings. Light in his wings. Life in his wings.
And then we are covered with that, just like we are covered with his shadow in Psalm 91.
We are covered with his feathers, with his wings of total protection. But they emanate light and
they emanate healing. And think of what else it emanates. Joy. Joy comes in the morning.
That's another meaning of this word. Wings of the morning. And it's our joy that comes
in the morning. And as he covers us with these wings of healing.
in protection. We are revived. We are renewed and joy will appear in the
morning. So, so good. Now we're gonna talk about trust just briefly because what
does, let's just read the scripture again. It says, he will cover me with his wings,
with his feathers, and under his wings I will trust. That actually means to
confide in, which is the basic meaning, but it also means to flee for protection.
That's the number one meaning, is to flee to for protection. So I'm trusting, I'm
fleeing to him and in that place, this word trust means you're gonna find hope.
So he says, I shall trust and his truth will be my shield and buckler. If he were
to read this in the New Living Translation, it says, his truth, his
faithful promises are your armor and protection. So we're gonna talk about
this word truth. Very interesting word. So his truth is stable. His truth is certain.
His truth is faithful. In other words, it's not going to change. It is
continuing. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He doesn't waver. He
is not fickle. He, when he says something one day, I don't know about you, but you
know, sometimes it's, I come before him, it's like, depending on what you grew up
with or depending on other relationships, it's like, how, what's his mood gonna be
like today? What's gonna be like today? He never changes. He is constant. He is
always faithful. It is a constant. He is stable. And so it says that when we will
trust in his truth, we're gonna trust in that stability. We're gonna trust in that
faithfulness. But it brings up the word truth. If you go to the prime root, it
talks about being a parent. It talks about support. So we will trust in his
support. We will trust in this word. It means we'll trust in his nourishment. We
will trust that he will sustain us. We will trust that he will feed us. We will
trust that he will revive us. And we will trust that this is permanent. It's
permanent parenting. And yes, it is not the end goal of just being sweet and
wonderful. It is the end goal of bringing maturity in us and growing us from
children into sons and daughters who can walk with greater responsibility and
authority. But it is truth which promotes growth. And you know that that comes by
the word. For it's a truth that you know that sets you free. It's a truth that you
know that gives you greater insight and greater revelation. And so that actually
goes with it is it is the same word promises. And in the New Living
Translation, it doesn't use the word truth. It uses the word promises. And it
says faithful promises are your armor and your protection. So we are going to
trust in his truth or we are going to trust in the New Living Translation in
his promises. And this is amazing because if you start looking in the word about
promises, this is what you're going to find. First of all, his promises glow with
fire. In the Passion Translation, you will find that in Psalm 119, 140. His
promises glow with fire. So when you take his word and it surrounds you like
feathers and you take his word and you speak it out of your mouth and you wear
it. You know Ephesians talks about putting on the armor of God. So you put
on the Helm of Salvation, the breastplate of righteousness. You gird your loins
with truth. Every part of the armor of God relates to the word. And it says it
glows as fire. It says in Jeremiah 23, 29, does not my word burn like fire? Is it not
like a mighty hammer that smashes a rock into pieces? So any obstacle in your way,
anything that enemies put in front of you that he's trying to block you,
anything he has brought to kill, steal, and destroy, you have the fire of that
word. You have a fire of those promises.
And you can take them and smash that stuff in a spirit realm to pieces, completely destroying
it.
Psalm 119, 49 through 50 says, Your promise revives me.
It is my only hope and it comforts me.
So there we are, taking his word.
There you are sitting in his shadow.
There you are under his feathers and under his wings, allowing him to revive you with
his word.
That means you'll have to get in a word.
It means you'll have to speak the word and you can also listen to the Holy Spirit ministering
to you.
Listen to Jesus, hear the Father's voice and hear what they have to say with you.
But it is an all-compassing thing that takes place all around you, but you have to tap
into it.
That's why he says, that's why he invites us in Psalm 91 to come not down here, not
stay down here, but come up into heavenly places, seated in the third heaven, seated
in the throne room, rest and linger with him there and then allow him to cover you and
shadow you with all of these things.
Zechariah chapter 2 verse 5 says that he will be a protective wall around us and then it
says that within that wall he will fill it with his glory.
And that protective wall he sets on fire.
So here he builds this wall.
This is Jesus.
He sets it on fire around you and then he fills it with his glory.
He fills that inner area with his glory.
Now you can picture all of that within this shield because it says that he is a shield
and a buckler.
It also says that his promises in the King James, let me get back to that, shall be a
shield and buckler.
So this shield is an awesome thing and this is again where the promises of God come in.
A shield, you know, we used to see just little shields that would circle and like, you know,
little kids would play with them and you kind of see that as a shield or you might see a
movie or something, then it's just, you know, like half of your torso.
That's not the kind of shield that it talks about here.
And if you look in the Hebrew, it finds out this is massive.
It completely covers you top to bottom.
You're completely covered.
And not only that, it's not just a shield, it's not just defensive, but it is offensive
because out of the shield come bundles of these thorns, these projectiles, and it's
almost like I'm having massive cactus bushes all over your shield.
So when the enemy comes at you, he is hit by, he runs into this shield, he's hit by
this shield, so it becomes offensive.
Not only do you have these prickly things, these awesome, massive thorns and everything
coming out of your shield, but they're on fire because God's promises are on fire.
And you also have a wall of fire around you.
So it is just as offensive as it is defensive.
And this is so cool because in Psalm 119 verse 114, and this is the Passion Translation,
it says, you are my place of quiet rest and your wraparound presence becomes my shield
as I wrap myself in your word.
So you see how all this relates to Psalm 91 verse 1 and Psalm 91 verse 2 and 3.
All the same things are being repeated.
He's our buckler.
He is our fortress.
We can go in there and hide.
We go into heavenly places, we sit, we linger.
We allow him to overshadow us with his word, with his presence and speaking those things.
And now we see that he is a shield and a buckler.
He is our armor and protection, all with his presence, all with his word being activated.
And then what takes place in the spirit realm with that.
Now protection is said, is used in New Living Translation.
The word buckler is used in the King James and this is very cool.
I mean, it's all just cool.
It all just blows me away.
So he is our shield and buckler or New Living.
He is our armor and protection.
So this word buckler or protection.
It means something completely surrounding a person. So here we have this wraparound thing again or that
umbrella I talked about for Psalm 91 verse 1 or the fortress and the refuge that we talked about
in Psalm 91 verse 2 and 3. We have all this repeated again and again. He wants us to understand.
He will protect us. Just come to Him and live out of that place from His presence
and take His word and hold on to it and allow Him to speak to you and live from that place
and you are so well covered. Nothing can touch you. So you have this buckler completely wrapping
around you. It says it travels around you and the interesting thing with this is there is movement
and it means also to palpitate. So just because I thought I know what this means
because it went right back to Psalm 91 verse 1 but I'm like I am still looking this up.
So I looked it up in the Webster's 1828. Palpitate. You know what this means. It means to beat gently
It means to move with little throws going pit-pat. It means to flutter.
Those are all the words for His shadow. It's all the same thing. So as we are in His shadow
it is completely surrounding us. It is fluttering. It's beating gently and you know what
we're hearing while it's beating gently? Yeah, you're hearing this heartbeat and you're picking
up. There's a rhythm and there's a sound from the throne room. There's a rhythm and a sound
in heavenly places and if you tap into that and you flow with that and if you pick up on
just the heartbeat it's not you don't hear it. It's just it's a word to describe
the heartbeat of a father and it's a description of I know how he's feeling. I know what he's
sensing. I know what's going on inside of him and when you pick up on this heartbeat
and you pick up on his heartbeat for you he begins to disclose to you how much he loves you
and how precious you are and then there's sounds in heavenly places that you can pick up on and
they are sounds of healing, sounds of life, sounds that will break bondages, sounds that
they're vibrations and you can pick up on this the sounds of color and he will release them over you
and they will bring freedom to you. So anyway that is what I have to share with you on this.
What I have done is put together a resource and it is on my resources page in my website on my
website and it is called Prayer for Setting Up Canopies. So there is a short little intro
before you would do that that I'd really like you to watch because there's a couple things I
need you to do before you step into it just for success and that is there for you and I will put
the link for my website below this video and also in the website with this teaching. This will be
listed on the teachings. I will have the notes for this so that you can go back and look up these
scriptures and you can pull the word meanings out of the notes and you can meditate on and just
allow God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus the Father, just allow them to talk to you and minister to you.
So anyway blessings to you and we will we will meet again. That's it. Bye-bye.