By Kenneth E. Hagin

Is there something you want God to do for you? According to His Word, there are several things God wants to do for you—good things that we all desire. So what’s the catch? The condition is that you must set your love upon Him.

Psalm 91:14–15 says, “Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.”

In Psalm 91:14 and 15, there are five things El Shaddai—the God who is more than enough—said He will do for the person who sets his or her love upon Him.

God said, “Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore WILL I . . .”:

Deliver Him.

Set him on high.

Answer him.

Be with him and deliver him.

Honor him.

We need to understand the importance of the simple phrase “I will” or “I shall.”

A very learned man once addressed a group of us ministerial students. This man had an excellent working knowledge of many languages. In fact, when one of the young ministers asked him how many languages he was fluent in, he replied, “Thirty-two.”

This scholar was a translator for the U.S. government during World War I. He was recognized as the leading Hebrew and Greek scholar of his day.

When he visited us, he told us, “There are some things in the Greek—and this would be true in some cases in the Hebrew—for which we have no idiom in the English language.

“For instance,” he said, “in John 14:13, where Jesus said, ‘. . . whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do . . .’ the King James Version says, in effect, ‘I will.’” In other words, Jesus said, “I will do it.”

This scholar went on to explain, “Now, the translators felt they ought to use either ‘I will’ or ‘I shall,’ because that is the strongest assertion you can make in the English language. You can’t say anything stronger than ‘I will do it,’ or ‘I shall do it.’ The translators thought they should make it the strongest assertion that can be made in English.”

The scholar read the verse to us in the original Greek (it was all Greek to me!). Then he said, “Now I’m going to translate that literally for you.”

This is what that verse literally says:

“If you will ask anything in My Name, if I don’t have it, I’ll make it for you”!

“I’ll make it for you”! And, thank God, He can. Because He is El Shaddai—the God who is more than enough.

I was reminded of this incident because in Psalm 91:14 and 15, God says He “will do” the following five things.

1. “I will deliver him.”

Thank God, the God who is more than enough is a delivering God!

God told Abraham that his descendants would be sojourners in a foreign land for four hundred years, but He promised, “I will bring them out with a strong hand.”

God doesn’t forget His promises: Four hundred and thirty years after Israel’s captivity began in Egypt, God raised up Moses and Aaron to lead Israel out of bondage—and He brought them out with a strong hand. He is still the same delivering God today! He is more than enough!

According to Acts 10:38, “. . . God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing ALL that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”

Satan is the oppressor. Jesus is the deliverer.

2. “I will set him on high, because he has known my name.”

This point will be studied with the fifth point.

3. “He shall call upon me, and I will answer him.”

God has always been a prayer-answering God. Throughout the Bible, God said, “I will answer.”

Jeremiah 33:3 says, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”

In Isaiah 43:25 God said, “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” Then He added, “Put me in remembrance . . .” (v. 26).

Remind God of His promises! Remind Him of His Word! He is faithful to cause it to come to pass in your life.

The New Testament also proves that God hears and answers prayer.

MATTHEW 7:7–8

7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

MARK 11:24

24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

JOHN 16:23

23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

God will hear and answer your prayers! God doesn’t want you to worry or be anxious about a thing. If you’re worried or anxious, you shouldn’t be. Philippians 4:6 says, “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” God says, “Be careful for nothing.” A better translation is, “Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything.”

Why shouldn’t you fret nor have anxiety? Because God is the One who is more than enough! He is the All-Sufficient One, the One who never changes, the One who never fails. He is just as able today as He ever was. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 3:8). And He’s interested in you! He’s concerned about you! That’s why He said, “Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore . . . I will answer him.” He didn’t say, “If it’s My will, I will answer him.” He said, “Because he has set his love upon Me, I will answer him.”

When your love is set upon God, you conform your will to be in line with His Word. A man or woman walking in true fellowship with God will never ask anything outside the will of God. And the Word of God is the will of God.

4. “I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him.”

God didn’t say you weren’t going to have trouble just because you’ve been born again and filled with the Spirit. In fact, He rather infers that you are going to have trouble because you’re a Christian.

The world is going to persecute you. They’re going to talk about you. They’re going to speak evil of you. And the devil, who is the god of this world, will put pressure on you at every turn.

No, God didn’t say we would never have any troubles. But He did say, “I will be with him in trouble.”

Psalm 34:19 says, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” Does the Lord deliver us out of half of the afflictions, or troubles? No, He delivers us out of all of them!

5. “I will honor him.”

Whom will God honor?

PSALM 24:3–4

3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?

4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, not sworn deceitfully.

You can’t cleanse your own hands, and you can’t purify your own heart. But you can be cleansed by His blood and stand in the holy place, because He has cleansed you and robed you in His righteousness.

God said , “I will honor him” (Ps. 91:15). This statement is similar in meaning to “I will set him on high,” which is the second thing God wants to do for us according to Psalm 91:14. These are two things God said He would do for the person who has set his love upon Him.

I would rather have God’s honor than have the greatest honor this world can bestow. The world honors politicians, statesmen, generals, educators, superstars, athletes, and inventors. But if they ever honor a preacher, they honor some humanistic preacher who doesn’t believe in the Virgin Birth or the authenticity of the Word of God.

The world as a whole will never honor a real Bible-believing, tongue-talking, divine healing-practicing preacher of the Gospel any more than the world honored Jesus. No, you must compromise if you want to receive the honor of this world. But I would rather have God’s honor. The world’s honor will pass and fade away, but the honor God bestows will last forever.

Are there circumstances in your life from which you need to be delivered? Are you in a situation in which there seems to be no way out? God promises you deliverance!

Have you been crying out to God about problems in your life? Do you have prayers that need to be answered? Thank God, God will answer you when you call upon Him!

No matter what you are going through right now, no matter the doctor report or news forecast, God will be with you in trouble. Not only will He be with you in trouble, He will also deliver you!

When you set your love upon God and know His Name, He will honor you and set you on high. I don’t know about you, but I want to be set on high — where the devil and circumstances and problems of this world can’t touch me!

If your love is set upon God, begin to thank Him today for these five promises that He’s given you in His Word. Thank Him and praise Him for delivering you, for setting you on high, for answering you when you call, for being with you and delivering you in trouble, and for honoring you. Thank God for all He is doing in your life!