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God Works the Nightshift by Pastor Raymond Woodward

1,316 views · Published 26 January 2017 · 56:23 · Indexed 28 October 2026
Channel: The Faith Once Delivered To The Saints · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism
“He who keeps you will not slumber.  Behold, He who keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm 121:3-4) God never slumbers nor sleeps, and there is no end to His understanding, power and might. He's a great and glorious God, that always can be connected to night or day. He's the protection in times of need, and help which can reach and save to the uttermost. Actually, the Bible contains eighty-three verses or stories that are set in or make mention of the night, so essential to any life is dealing openly and creatively with “the terror of the night.”  This morning we heard of Jacob’s dream that night near Haran where he took a stone for his pillow, and dreamt of a ladder that reached from earth to heaven, with the angels of God ascending and descending upon it.  Jacob felt alone and frightened for all kinds of reasons – many of them self-inflicted by this self-serving schemer – but Jacob was reminded that there is heavy traffic between heaven and earth, and he was reminded in his dream of the promise God had made to his grandfather Abraham, that through his family, God would bless all the families of the earth.  Jacob awoke and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place; and I, I did not know it.”  “How awesome is this place!  This is none other than the house of God, and this the gate of heaven.” The Bible is full of stories and events set in the darkness and terror of night.  In Genesis 32 Jacob will wrestle with a stranger in the night as he goes to bed knowing he will have to face his brother whom he had wronged many years before in the morning.  It was in the night that the old man Eli heard the Lord calling Samuel, the boy, by name.  Paul had a vision one night in Troas in which a stranger told him to go to Macedonia, where the Gospel would first be heard on European soil.  He also found himself late one night in prison with Silas when an earthquake shook the very foundations of the prison, freeing them in that moment.  Daniel had two visions that came to him by night, and of course, “there were shepherds keeping watch over their flocks by night when an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were sore afraid.”  It was by night that Jesus came walking toward the disciples, on the Sea of Galilee, in the fourth watch of the night, the darkest part of the night, and believing He was a ghost, the disciples were “terrified.” We all must contend at times with “the terror of the night,” and in those terrible moments, how important it can be to feel that someone is with us, that we are not in fact alone, but that someone is keeping watch over us to protect us.  In the dark of the night, in the midst of “the terror of night,” many have learned that “He who keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.”  God is with you all the time, when you feel God’s presence, and even when you do not.  God is faithful, and this God promises ever and always to keep you, to guard your life, to watch over you.
God Works the Nightshift by Pastor Raymond Woodward

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