Week 8 | “DEAR LORD, THANKS FOR NOTHING”

From Psalm 42:1-11, 43:1-5

God does not do things you,

He does things you.

1st time – it is himself (tears)

📖 Psalm 42:3 (ESV) My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long “Where is your God?”

2nd time – it is others (taunting enemies)

📖 Psalm 42: 10 (ESV) As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”

1. GOD IS THERE, EVEN WHEN IT LIKE HE’S NOT.

📖 Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed

Not only is He always but
He is also always .

📖 Psalm 42:5, 11, 43:5 ESV Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

God’s people have to !

What Does He Do?

A) He God.

📖 Psalm 42:5, 11, Psalm 43:5 ESV Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation

2. When your soul is in .

B) He God.

📖 Psalm 42:6 ESV My soul is cast down within me; therefore i remember you from the land of Jordan and of hermon, from mount mizar

📖 Psalm 42: 8 ESV by day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

3. When you feel , what God has .

C) He for God.

📖 Psalm 43:5 ESV Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God

📖 Philippians 4:13 ESV I can do all things through Him who gives

📖 Philippians 4:11-13 ESV I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry,whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

SERMON IN A SENTENCE

When you feel like God is there, what He has done and Him, and He can lead you to .

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