by Annagail Lynes

Created on: July 12, 2008   Last Updated: July 13, 2008

I am having trouble in my marriage. My child is rebellious. I am afraid of the tornadoes and hurricanes coming my way. How do I apply the Word of God?

I heard about soldiers in the Middle East in the first Gulf War. They prayed the 91st Psalm over themselves every day. Amazingly, not one of them died or suffer any injuries.

A pastor encouraged his congregation to pray the 91st Psalm over themselves, their families and countries. During the Tsunami of 2004, it didn't touch any of them or their properties.

A man car-jacked a woman, who had been studying the 91st Psalm at church. She couldn't remember the entire Psalm. She said all she could remember. She screamed, "Feathers! Feathers!" The car-jacker thought she was crazy and left her and the car.

A person knocked on the door of another woman at an odd hour, and instead of being afraid, she quoted Psalm 91:1-our spiritual 9-1-1-He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty. When she opened the door, she found a police officer who had the wrong address.

Now these are just a few accounts of what happened when people quoted the 91st Psalm and believed it.

Imagine what would happen if we used the Bible in every situation we faced.

Last year, I had an Internet buddy that feared every time a tornado would come her way. She feared that it would do her, her family and her property harm.

As Believers, instead of being afraid of the tornadoes, we can quote the 91st Psalm. Then we can go to sleep, resting in the promises of God.

By the time my grandfather died, I had been battling an illness for a long time. The combination of grief, sickness and fear kept me up at night. I didn't sleep much at all. Then I discovered the sleeping Scriptures in Psalms and Proverbs (Psalm 3:5, Psalm 4:8, Proverbs 3:24-26, Psalm 121:5-8). Now I quote them every night before I go to bed. Now I can't stay up all night even if I tried. I can't stay up worrying because I fall asleep.

I couldn't stand staying in houses where people had died. Upon moving into the same house my grandfather died in, I clung to those Scriptures. I've been in this house for two years now, and I have not had one sleepless night. I even enter the room my grandfather died in on a regular basis.

When I am afraid or I heard about sickness or violence on the news, I quote, "No evil shall befall me neither shall any plague come nigh my dwelling" (Psalm 91:10).

When I eat something questionable, I quote the Scripture, "Bless the Lord all

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