Protect – Psalm 91:14
Part of Under His Wings—2025

Protect – Psalm 91:14

March 23, 2025


Protect: keep safe from harm, injury, danger or damage; defend or shield from attack…


devil not necessarily after you… brings suffering so you’ll doubt God’s promises…
Gen 3:1… “did God really say…”
Mark 4:13-20… “sower sows word… satan comes at once to steal from heart…”
Luke 8:11-15… “devil steals seed… so they may not believe and be kept safe…”
2Cor 4:4… “satan has blinded minds of those who don’t believe… not understand gospel…”
Heb 10:32-36… “after you were enlightened… endured hard struggle with suffering…”


did you fight back… did you trample and crush… encounter successfully greatest perils from schemes and persecutions with which satan would thwart the gospel…
Psa 91:2… “I will say concerning the Lord… who is my refuge and fortress…”
Psa 91:13… “trample lion and cobra… crush lions and serpents under your feet…”
Prov 18:21… “death and life are in the power of the tongue…”
Matt 4:1-11… “Jesus said, it is written… it is written… it is written… devil left…”
2Cor 4:13… “I believed, therefore I spoke… we also believe and therefore speak…”


question for today’s verse… what qualifies you for God’s protection… pray…
Psa 91:14… “because he has his heart set on Me… I will protect him…”
NLT… “I will rescue those who love Me… protect those who trust in My name…”
NKJV… “because he has set his love on Me… I will deliver him… I will set him on high…”


our etp shouts you have to qualify for God’s blessings… that our love for Him is
what causes Him to protect us… and if we don’t love Him enough… good luck…
Mark 12:30… “love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength…”
1John 4:10… “this is love… not that we loved God… but that He loved us…”


do you see a difference in those verses… what changed… the cross ushered in a
NC of God’s love for us… not our love for God… out of His love, we love…
Lam 3:22-23… “the faithful love of the Lord never ceases…”
1John 4:7-21… “God’s love was revealed in this way… He sent His one and only Son so we might live thru Him… if God loved us in this way, we must love one another… we have come to know and believe the love God has for us… if we remain in that love, love is made complete… no fear in love… perfect love casts out fear… we love because He first loved us…”


OC protection achieved… NC protection received… cross changed everything…
Deut 28… “obey all, be blessed… do not obey, be cursed…”
2Cor 3:5-18… “competent to be ministers of NC… not of letter, but of Spirit… OC brought death and condemnation… NC is much more glorious… brings freedom…”
Col 2:17… “these are a shadow of things to come… the substance is Christ…”
Heb 7-10… “change of priesthood, must be a change of law… old command set aside because it was weak and useless… Jesus obtained superior ministry, mediator of better covenant with better promises… by saying NC, old is obsolete… will is valid only when people die… takes away first to establish second… this is covenant I will make with them…”


God’s blessings… including protection… are for His kids… righteous in Christ…
Psa 5:12… “Lord, you will bless the righteous… surround him with a shield…”
Isa 54:14-17… “foundation of righteousness… terror will not come near you…”
Rom 3:21-26… “righteousness of God is thru faith in Jesus… apart from law…”
2Cor 5:17-21… “He became sin… we become righteousness of God in Christ…”


how do we set our heart… or our love on God… by mediating on… talking about… hearing preaching that points us to His love for us… not our love for Him…
Psa 91:14… “because he has his heart and love set on Me… I will protect him…”
John 3:16 AMP… “God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world He [even] gave up His only begotten [unique] Son, so whoever believes in [trusts in, clings to, relies on] Him shall not perish [come to destruction, be lost] but have eternal [everlasting] life…”
1John 4:7-21… “love is from God… God is love… if God loves us in this way…”


Daniel kept his focus on God’s love and was delivered from the enemy…
Dan 6… “enemies couldn’t find anything to criticize or condemn… Daniel was faithful, responsible, trustworthy… king signed order that any person who prays to anyone except to the king… be thrown into den of lions… Daniel learned law had been signed… went home and knelt down as usual to pray and give thanks to God… officials went to king… official law cannot be revoked… king was deeply troubled and set his mind on rescuing Daniel and made every effort to deliver him… threw Daniel into lion’s den… may your God, whom you serve, rescue you… king could not sleep… Daniel, has your God been able to rescue you… God sent His angel, lions haven’t harmed me… king was overjoyed, threw enemies into lion’s den…”


story is picture of Psa 91… Daniel dwelt in shelter and shadow of Most High… rescued from every trap… was covered with feathers… took refuge under His wings… saw angels protect him… trampled on lions… set his heart toward God…
Psa 91… “live in shelter of Most High… shadow of Almighty… rescue from every trap… cover you with feathers… under His wings find refuge… angels will protect in all your ways… trample upon lions and cobras… rescue those who set their heart and love on Me…”


can look at Daniel and see demands of religion… pray 3 times a day or you won’t be protected… protection is not a transaction, it’s a relationship… no relationship, no results… comes from intimacy with Christ… pursue Protector, not protection…
Psa 27… “when evil people come against me… when enemies attack… my heart will not be afraid… I will remain confident… thing I most desire is to dwell in the house of the Lord… gaze on His beauty and seek Him… He will conceal me when troubles come… I will sing…”
Rom 8:2… “law of Spirit of life in Christ… set you free from sin and death…”
2Cor 1:10… “He delivered us from terrible death… in Him, will deliver us again…”


v14 talks about how God will protect us because we trust in His name… but which name… El Elyon, El Shaddai, Yahweh, Elohim… no, today we call Him Daddy…
Psa 91:14… “rescue those who love Me… protect those who trust in My name…”
John 17:11-12… “Father, protect them by Your name… I protected them by Your name…”
tereo… attend to carefully, take care of; guard from injury or loss; fortress or military line…
Rom 8:15… “received Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, Abba, Father…”
Gal 4:6… “because you are sons… sent HS into hearts… crying, Abba, Father…”
1John 3:1… “what great love the Father has given us… He calls us His children…”


when you draw near… full confidence God will answer and protect you… not because of your love for Him… but because of your Daddy’s love for you… pray…
Gen 45:9-11… “come without delay… settle in Goshen… there I will provide for you…”
Exo 8:22… “give special treatment to land of Goshen… where my people live…”
Exo 10:23… “darkness… people could not see… yet there was light in Goshen…”
Rom 8:31-39… “nothing will separate us from the love of God in Christ…”