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good morning church thank you very much
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let's get straight into it this morning
with a word of prayer thank you mighty
god
lord god we just thank you that you are
the god of all gods you're an amazing
god
mighty god we just ask you to uh be with
us here
this morning that your holy spirit will
direct and guide us father god that you
that your words with the words that that
that are spoken through our mouths
this the this morning father god the
message that is that is spoken later on
with the message that
that you want heard father god we just
pray for the softening of hearts the
opening of the ears
and the opening of minds in jesus name
we pray amen amen
have you been to jesus
have you been to jesus for the cleansing
power
are you washed in the blood of the lamb
are you fully trusting in his grace as
a
are you washed in the blood
in the soil cleansing blood of the lamb
are your garments spotless are they
white
as snow are you washed in the blood
of the lamb are you walking
daily by the savior's side are you
washed
in the blood of the lamb
do you rest each moment in the crucified
are you washed in the blood of the lamb
are you washed in the blood
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when the bridegroom cometh will your
robes be
white pure and white in the blood of the
lamb
will your soul be ready for the mad
skin's
the blood bright the lamb are you washed
in the blood in the sore cleansing blood
of
the lamb are your garments
but this are they white as snow are you
washed in the blood of the lamb
lay aside the garments that are stained
with sin
and be washed 
in the blood of the lamb
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are you washed in the blood
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amen and we hope and pray that you are
washing the blood of the lamb this
morning
amen amen hallelujah
he turned my morning into dancing into
dancing
and we dance a lot don't we we do if
you're listening last week to my wife
sermon she talked about how good of a
dancer i
am not i'm not going to dance for you
this sunday you're a better singer
yes exactly she's a better dancer you're
a better singer exactly
i can dance we won't be doing that very
well i won't scare you
he turned 
my morning
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a song of praise instead of sadness
and for my grief for all of joy
first one he turned my morning into
dancing
he turned my sorrow into joy
a song of praise instead of sadness
and for my grief here we go
that we might be the trees of
righteousness
the planting of the lord
that he might be
glorified
that we might be the trees of
righteousness
the planting of the lord that
he might be
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glorified back to verse one
he turned my sorrow into joy
a song of grace
he turned my morning into dancing
he turned my sorrow into joy
a song of praise
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the trees of righteousness the planting
of the lord that that we might be
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glorified
that we might be the trees of
righteousness
the planting of the lord that we might
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be
a beauty now the always in the ooze if
you are familiar and you do come along
to south side christian fellowship then
the oars and the ewes are a normal thing
for us in worship and we're pretty proud
of our orders
aren't we we're very happy we love it no
we love them
shout to the lord they're a south side
thing right yeah and so we do a bit of
shouting in this too that's another
thing they've got to get used to
jesus my savior
lord there is none like you
all of my days i want to
praise the wonders of your mind
tower of refuge and strength
let every breath all that i
have never cease to worship
power and majesty praise
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i
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nothing compares to the promises
my jesus lord there is none
like in you all of my days
i want to praise
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strength let every breath
all that i have never
to the ceased all the earth let us see
power and matches he prays
to the king mountains fall down
and the seas will roar
at the sound of your name
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i sing for joy at the work
of your hands forever i love
you forever i stand
nothing compares to the promise
i have courses
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he will give you oh and we give you
glory
shout to the lord shout to the lord
shout it to your rooftop at home right
now thank you mighty god that you sent
your son jesus christ to die
for each and every one of us love you
lord praise you lord
thank you lord you are awesome
there we go what this one the splendor
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let all the earth rejoices
here we go
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how great is
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is
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how great
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how is is thou
god and all will see how great
our grace is
of course again
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is
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is
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my heart will sing how great
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is
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my heart will sing how great
is
great is how god
sing with me our grace
is our god
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one more time here we go haircut how
great
sing with is our grace
is our god and all we'll see
how great
is
now we're just going to move into a time
of communion so quickly just go and grab
some juice
and a little biscuit
well good morning and it's time for our
communion service again
for this last sunday already
in the month of august some of you may
have wondered those of you who are not
regular attenders at the south side
church
why we take communion every week in some
churches there seems to be a very low
priority placed on communion
it's something that happens perhaps
fortunate fortnightly maybe monthly
even less frequently than that for us it
is vital and
integral in our worship of the lord to
have communion with him
once every sunday we find that to be the
time when we draw closest to him we find
it to be the time when the bombs
are built between him and us and between
each other
in the fellowship as we reach out to him
and take
to ourselves the emblems that remind us
of his shed blood
and of his wounded and broken body and
as we
give back to him of ourselves and
rededicate and recommit ourselves to him
so we find it an integral and important
thing to do
to yield up our lives to jesus in this
way every week
and i give him all the thanks and praise
that through him we have the ability to
do this
we are invited to do it i want to read
to you some words from
the book of first corinthians and
from chapter 11 reading from verse 17
um now we'll go a little bit further
down um
verse 23 for i received from the lord
what i also passed on to you
that the lord jesus on the night he was
betrayed took bread
and when he'd given thanks he broke it
and said this is my body
which is broken for you do this in
remembrance of me
and in the same way after supper he took
the cup saying this cup is the new
covenant in my blood
do this whenever you drink it in
remembrance of me
for whenever you eat this bread and
drink this cup you proclaim the lord's
death
until he comes now we have
simple little elements traditionally
have a little drop of grape juice
a little piece of of yeast free biscuit
to remind us of what jesus has done the
biscuit speaks to us of his broken body
it's broken it's a segment broken from a
hole broken from a part
and everybody in the room shares a
different piece of that biscuit yet it
all comes from
the one hole so it is with the church we
are separate persons we are broken up we
are separated the body of christ is in a
number of different pieces
and yet we all come back together i
could take this piece of broken biscuit
and join it to the pieces that came off
it and they would fit back together
that's what's going to happen when jesus
returns it speaks to me it reminds me
of the fact that whilst we are separated
now we will soon be one
with our lord jesus and even though
we're in isolation at the moment we are
not isolated because
jesus christ is right here with us and i
reminded also that the broken body
speaks of the
the broken bread i'm sorry speaks of the
broken body of jesus christ which was
broken so that we might be made whole
and in that wholeness we are healed in
that wholeness we are restored to
fellowship
with him and with each other so vital
is this little piece of bread and the
little cup of juice
speaks to us clearly of his shed blood
for without the shedding of blood there
is no remission of sins that's what the
old bible the old testament the bible
tells us
jesus sacrifice was so good it needs to
be made just
once for all time the blood of jesus
christ that he allowed to flow from his
body
for your benefit and for mine on
calvary's cruel cross
was so that we could be reconciled to
our god we could be made
one with him in something that no other
way could it be achieved
so when we take this cup it reminds us
the awful price that jesus paid
to bring us to him and i can only
respond
in praise and thanksgiving even as i
contemplate what this little glass of
juice is reminding me of
of his shed blood the broken body is for
our healing and restoration
the shed blood is for our forgiveness
and our ultimate destiny
at the sight of jesus christ when we
take these things we're translated for a
few moments into the real presence of
jesus christ
because whenever we take communion he's
right there alongside us
taking it with us so i want you to focus
this morning on what these elements mean
and i want you to take the real meaning
of them if you have a sickness
i want you to remember and understand
that that sickness is dealt with
by the wounds of jesus christ and if
you're apart from christ if you don't
know him as your lord and savior
take a moment to bow the knee and say
jesus i accept you i receive you as my
lord
and i want to take communion with you i
want to be a part of you
i want to be with you forever
then take up the glass if you already
know him
just thank him for the things that he's
doing both physically
and spiritually for you let's partake
together father we give you thanks for
these
of these elements we offer ourselves to
you afresh this day
we ask you to forgive us for any sin
that may have crept into our lives any
attitude any word or deed
careless irrelevant or dangerous words
and deeds and things that we may have
done
we pray for your forgiveness and we
commit ourselves afresh to you father
to follow in the path of your lordship
to follow you and where you would lead
us
and to follow your calling and in jesus
wonderful name
father as i partake of this breed i
partake of health not just for me
but for my wife for our family for our
church
for the people beyond i pray for your
anointing to flow
with healing and i pray as we partake of
the cup
that you would cleanse us afresh wash
away
the sin stains wash away the tiredness
wash away the things that may have
stepped in between you
and us that we've allowed to come in
move them aside lord
and renew your covenant with us as we
partake together i pray
in jesus name let's partake of the bread
then of the cup thank you father in
jesus name
knowing what it cost you to bring us
here lord i thank you and i proclaim
your death until you come
because you rose on the third day in
victory and you're coming back
in triumph to gather up your bride your
scattered people
thank you lord
praise your lord jesus father we are a
blessed
amazingly blessed people we have so much
to be thankful for
and i give praise and thanks to you this
day for all that you've done
i thank you for the manifold gifts that
you've poured out upon us
i thank you for your life that flows
within us i thank you father that you
will deal with the situations
around us you will bring us out of this
isolation
and you will re-establish some sanity
within our government some sanity within
our institutions again
and get our society back where it should
be i pray father you would lead the
churches to have their doors open
legally of course when they can i pray
father you'd move on the hearts and
minds of the
premiers and the prime minister to want
to see the churches open again
that people can come together and
worship you in spirit and truth
in jesus wonderful name amen
god bless you back to brad and phil for
the final
song amen well thank you frank for that
communion message that was
fantastic it was awesome best you've
ever done
sorry about that no that's
tongue-in-cheek sorry it is
well thank you frank for that community
message it was wonderful
let's now get into i stand amazed
two three i stand amazed in the presence
of jesus
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and my song shall never be
how marvelous how
wonderful is my savior's love
for me for
me it was in
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drops
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how wonderful is my
savior's love for me
in pity the angels beheld him
and came from the world
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and my song shall ever
be marvelous
oh wonderful is 
my safest love for me
he took my sins and the sorrows
he made them his very own
he poured my bird into calvary
and suffered
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marvelous how wonderful
is my savior's love for
me when
with the ransom glory
his face
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marvelous
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how wonderful is love
for
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very quickly before i forget i believe
this sunday
all christian churches within victoria
are praying for our state
and our premiers and our prime minister
and our nation so
let's just be upstanding if you're not
already standing now let's just lift up
premier daniel andrews to you right now
father god lord i just pray for a
softening in this man's heart father god
lord i just pray that your holy spirit
can speak to this man lord
that he can bow his knee lord god and
confess that jesus christ is lord of his
life publicly
lord god the same with scott morrison i
know that he has a faith
but it is time for him to stand up stand
up
and use the name of jesus christ and
lead this nation
in a godly manner so lord god we ask
your protection
over our leaders lord god we ask that
you lead them and you guide them through
your holy spirit
we speak against this covert 19 virus
and we tell it to get out and go away in
the name of jesus christ
mighty god you are bigger than anything
lord instead of us focusing on our
troubles and on our worries and on our
lockdown
lord god i just pray that all of us as
as
members of this state of this nation of
of all of the churches that our focus
can be on jesus christ
because he is the only thing that
matters right now he
is the answer god bless see you all next
week
amen
good morning i'd like to talk to you
today about
from psalm 42 and psalm 43
originally in the hebrew psalms they
were the one psalm
they've been split up into two separate
sums but they flow
together and if ever there was a psalm
for today for how i'm feeling and for
how the church is feeling
for me some 42 and 43 express it
so i want to read it to you and they
want to comment on it as we go
as the deer pants for streams of water
so my soul
pants for you o god my soul thirsts for
god for the living god
when can i go and meet with god my tears
have been my food
day and night while people say to me all
day long
where is your god these things i
remember
as i pour out my soul how i used to go
with a multitude
leading the procession to the house of
god with shouts of joy and thanksgiving
among the festive throng are you
homesick
for church are you homesick for
fellowship
i sure am why are you downcast oh my
soul why so disturbed within me put your
hope in god for i will yet praise him
my savior and my god my soul is downcast
within me
therefore i will remember you from the
land of the jordan
the heights of hermann from mount mizar
deep calls to deep in the roar of your
waterfalls
all your waves and breakers have swept
over me
by day the lord directs his love at
night his song is with me
a prayer to the god of my life i say to
god my rock why have you forgotten me
why must i go about mourning oppressed
by the enemy
my bones suffered mortal agony as my
foes taught me
saying to me all day long where is your
god
why are you downcast oh my soul why so
disturbed within me put your hope in god
for i will yet praise him my savior and
my god
psalm 43 vindicate me our god and plead
my cause against an
ungodly nation rescue me from deceitful
and wicked people
you are god my stronghold why have you
rejected me
why must i go about mourning oppressed
by the enemy
send forth your light and your truth let
them guide me
let them bring me to your holy mountain
to the place where you dwell
then i will go to the altar of god to
god
my joy and my delight i will praise you
with the harp
o god my god why are you so danced o my
soul
why so disturbed within me put your hope
in god for i will yet
praise him my savior and my god you know
right now
some of us feel that we don't have a lot
to praise god about
we're struggling with this lockdown
we're struggling with not having church
as i said before
we're struggling some of us are
struggling physically i've been on a
journey now for over 12 months of an
illness with
loss with a lot of pain and i've been
struggling there have been times i've
felt
why so downcast my soul why so disturbed
within me
put your hope in god for i will yet
praise him there are times
that we can't praise god we know we
should we know we should praise god but
we're so low
we're so downcast that we just can't
flog up to it well
he there are some keys in here that god
gave me many many years ago
as a young christian when i was
struggling this depression
and i don't know if this is anybody
else's experience but my experiences of
dealing with pain in the last 12 months
has caused
depression has caused me to question
where god is
and there are keys there's a recipe in
here to come back to come back into the
presence of god
verse one as the deer pants for streams
of water so my soul pants for you
oh god and i love this
i love the imagery of deer as it's used
in scripture
my favorite old testament book as many
of you know
all the southsiders know is the song of
songs
because in the song of songs which for
many many years
for most of the 2000 years of
christendom the song of songs
has been regarded by many of the church
fathers and many scholars and
theologians
as an allegory as a picture of christ
and his church
christ and his bride and taking her
through on a journey
to maturity to grow her up into god
and she's pictured the bride of christ
is pictured as the deer
and the christ is pictured as a stag
calling to his bride and saying come
away with me come away with me on this
journey
come to the mountains with me i've got
things i want to show you i want to grow
you up in god
a habakkuk says the sovereign lord is my
strength he makes my feet like the feet
of a deer
he enables me to go on the heights
you know we've got to learn to climb
this mountain called lockdown
whatever mountain we're facing whether
it's sickness or
depression or financial problems or
whatever it is there are mountains that
we face
that god wants us to teach us how to go
on the mountains he wants to give us
hines feet for high places song of songs
two and verse eight
listen my beloved look here he comes
leaping across the mountains bounding
over the hills
my beloved is like a gazelle or a young
stag and if you follow that through
he calls to the bride and says come
proverbs 5 19 says may you rejoice in
the wife of your youth
a loving doe a graceful dear so god's
using the imagery of the deer and you
can see i've got deer brooches on
because it's a subject that is dear to
my heart
oh excuse the pun you know and
in some in verse 1 of psalm 42 the
psalmist is saying as the deer pants for
streams of water my soul
my soul pants for you oh my god
we get thirsty we get spiritually dry we
shouldn't get spiritually dry jesus said
in john 4 he said if you knew the gift
of god and who it is
you are you asked you for a drink you
would have asked him and he would have
given you living water
jesus refers to the holy spirit as a
river of living water
welling up inside of us in john 7 he
says on the last and greatest day of the
festival jesus stood and said in a loud
voice
let anyone who was thirsty come to me
and drink whoever believes in me as
scripture has said rivers of living
water
will flow from within him by this he
meant the spirit
whom those who believed in him were
later to receive
up to that time the spirit had not yet
been given
since jesus has not been glorified you
know i've heard some preachers say
you have a well of living water in you
you have a stream of living water in you
you should never say you're thirsty
that's old testament that's old covenant
well i gotta tell you you can have a tap
in your kitchen
but if you don't go to that tap and turn
it on and get a glass of water and drink
it you will die first
there are christians who are struggling
right now
and the church has a drinking problem
the church has a drinking problem the
problem is we don't drink enough
of the living water so the psalmist is
like this deer
crying out the church is crying out and
saying i'm thirsty
i'm thirsty i need fellowship and there
are some keys
for that coming i hope for you today
the psalmist says my tears have been my
food day and night
while people say to me all day long
where is your god you know previous
verse when can i go and meet with god
when can i go and meet with god when can
we get back to church
i am missing you south so i just i'm
missing you
desperately some days and i've got to
say that facebook and phone
calls just don't cut the mustard they're
not the same i
i'm a huggy person i love hugs
and social distancing has destroyed that
for a season
what do we do when the scripture says
greet one another with a holy kiss
i wonder how we're going to respond as a
church
i wonder how christians are going to
respond when there's conflict between
the word of god
and what the law is saying so my tears
have been my food day and night while
people say to me all day long where has
you got you know
psalm 55 2 says my thoughts trouble me
and i am distraught to the voice of the
enemy
in the last 12 months when i've been in
great pain
and able to get much help from doctors
at times in the middle of the night when
in your intense pain
screaming through my head i've heard
where is your god
when we're in a time of trial we can
feel like god has deserted us
and the enemy is going to encourage that
psalm 55 2 my thoughts trouble me and i
am distraught
at the voice of the enemy when you get
low when you get
solo that you know you should praise god
but you can't
this is a psalm as i said for today
job's wife and job's confidence did the
same thing to job you know
job says why don't you just job's wife
said why don't you just curse god and
die
in the middle of the night i've heard
that screaming my through my brain in a
million miles an hour
but i draw comfort from god's word
and i hope that you will too
we don't want to be jobs job's
confidence frank often says joe's job's
comforter's got it right
they showed up the first seven days they
showed up they tried to comfort job they
didn't say anything it was only when
they opened their mouths that they put
their foot in it and i've learned in
this time of trial
some things people say are well-meaning
but they don't comfort
they bring discomfort we need to be
careful
when we're going through it someone's
going through a time with trial and we
haven't been through that time of trial
to not to say i know how you feel
because you haven't got a clue
how the person feels we need to just sit
show up if somebody's going through a
hard time and i think the people that
have
showed up for me
verse where are we four
these things i remember as i pour out my
soul
how i used to go with a multitude
leading the procession to the house of
god
with sets of joy and thanksgiving among
the festive throng
oh boy when i read that i think of
what's going on today
how much we miss fellowship when we've
been recording the friday services
together there's just been four of us
sometimes five
working on the on the service but when
we sing when we sing praise
with brad and phil we've got fred
playing in the background
there's a presence of god that comes in
why because some of the body of christ
are together
praising the lord we're missing it we
are so missing it so what are we going
to do
in the meantime verse five why are you
down casting my soul why so disturbed
within me
that's the thing that has disturbed me
and i know it's disturbed many
christians
here's the key put your hope in god for
i will yet praise him
my savior and my god put your hope in
god three times
in these two psalms we're told to put
our hope in god for we will yet
praise him you know we know as i said
before this power when we praise
we know that when jehoshaphat sent the
singers out ahead of the army
and they began to praise the lord the
lord set ambushes for the enemy
we know it's a powerful principle but
it's hard to flog up praise
when you're really low we know that when
paul and silas were in the dungeon
and they'd been beaten up for witnessing
and for sharing the gospel
and their reward was to be whipped and
to be shoved in a dark dungeon and have
their feet put in stocks can you imagine
the pain
that they were in at the time i would
have been having a whinge
i would have been having a grizzle over
the last 12 months i have had whinges
and grizzles but there have been times
when i've been able
to put my hope in the lord but because
paul and silas
chose to sing praises of hymns of praise
god sent an earthquake and set all the
captives free
all the captives were set free the
jailer and his family got saved
because these men chose to praise god in
a very dark time
and i know the principle i've preached
on the principle but when you're in the
pit
of despair when you're in the depths of
pain it's a very
very hard thing to do so how do we get
out of the hole
well i'm glad you asked me first let me
define hope frank talked about this last
time and he said
frank's definition of hope is it is the
confident
trust which believes god's plans and
promises will come true
read it again hope is the confident
trust which believes
god's plans and promises will come true
i love that because god is faithful to
all his promises
and loving to all he has made we can
hang on to the promises of god
when we've got nothing else the
amplified defines hope as a confident
and eager
expectation of good a confident and
eager
expectation of god it's not just a
wishy-washy oh i hope so
hope is a biblical hope is a very strong
sense
hope is the foundation for faith in
hebrews 11 1 we're told that hope is
being sure of what you hope for
and certain of what you do not see it is
the where are we
is the king new king james faith is the
substance of things hoped for
the evidence of things not seen hope is
the building block for faith without
hope
you can't have faith paul writes in
first corinthians 13 and now these
things remain
faith hope and love and the greatest of
these is love
but hope is an important essential
ingredient for a christian particularly
when we're doing it
tough we can put our hope in god some
the
the word hope there in the hebrew is to
wait with hope
to wait with hope i'm waiting for god's
healing promises
to manifest in my body and i'm i'm
leaning on the doctors to get me through
this season
with with medical help but i am waiting
on god to deliver on his promises
that by his stripes i have been healed
and you know when you're dealing with
depression when you're dealing with a
trial
there's a temptation for things to come
back at you you can put your hope in god
for five minutes and in the next five
minutes you can be down in the dumps
because the psalmist has just said put
your hope in god
for i will yet praise him and then he
says verse 6 the next verse
my soul is downcast within me therefore
i will remember you from the land of the
jordan
the heights of hermann from mount mizer
he's saying it doesn't matter where i am
mount hermon was a rugged mountain a
prominent mountain range
and it means the word herman means
rugged or devoted to destruction
so you can be climbing a huge mountain
in your life
you can be on mount mizer when you study
that look that up in the commentaries
that was a small
hill a little hill you could be facing a
mountain we can be
facing a mole hill but you need to
remember
god sometimes we can look at the problem
we can
be controlled by the pain we can be
controlled by the circumstances or the
situation we've got to in the midst of
this the first step that we need to take
is to remember god no matter where we
are
whether whether whether in the jordan
jordan means descending
so if you're descending into the pit
because the jordan ran down from the
mountains down
down to the plain if you in the pit if
you're descending if you're going down
the first key the first step is to
remember god
remember god think about god get your
eyes off
the situation and get them on to the
lord
verse seven deep calls to deep in the
roar of your waterfalls
all your waves and breakers have swept
over me
deep calls to deep in the roar of your
waterfalls all your waves and breakers
have swept over me oh boy have you ever
feel like you're swamped
you're so swamped with trouble you're so
swamped with problems you just feel like
you're drowning
you know jonah said the exact same words
he said the exact same words and david
and
job said very similar things that they
were drowning that they were in despair
the psalmers talk about
sinking into the maori depths when
you're sinking into depression you feel
like
you the boat's just been swamped and
it's over
all over red rover
but here comes the next key by day the
lord directs his love
at night his song is with me a prayer
to the god of my life by day the lord
directs his love at night
his song is with me a prayer to the god
of my life you know
god's loving us
all the time god is not allowing
anything into our life
will is designed to destroy us is
designed to make us stronger
it's designed to make us stronger and
sometimes when i've been walking with
frank of the morning we walk the pugs
and i've had a bad night or i'm in a lot
of pain as we're walking the pugs
suddenly a song will well up in my
spirit and i'll start to sing it out
loud i don't sing very well
i don't sing very truthfully and i'm
sure sometimes frank's ears are
assaulted
but i start to sing it rises up in my
head sometimes
my thoughts are screaming at me but yet
within my spirit something will rise up
and i'll just start to sing it
at night when it's dark when it's black
when it's depression his song is with me
it's comfort and then that can become a
prayer to the god of my life
from that if i start to get something
rising up in my spirit then i can begin
to pray
you can be so depressed or in such pain
that you can't even do that some days
here's a key know that god is directing
his life at you
and he will give you a song we're
supposed to encourage
one another with psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs sing
that's what the singers did when
jehoshaphat sent the singers out
the lord set ambushes for the army do
you know when we
sing when we sing from the depths of the
dungeon or the depths of fear
god can set ambushes for the enemy what
a comforting
thought that is
verse nine here it is there's the enemy
coming back it i've started to sing but
here's the enemy having another go
i say to god my rock why have you
forgotten me why must i go about
mourning and oppressed by the enemy
this thing is cyclical you you can have
a bad day sometimes if i'm having a bad
day i've got to
praise god i might have to do it 15
times in five minutes but eventually
if i keep at it i will get on top
goes on my bones suffer mortal agony as
my foes taught me saying to me all day
long where is your god
you know you can be in physical pain
physical agony
will push you away from god it's pushed
me away from god at times that i've had
to fight
to come back and say my god is greater
than my pain
verse 11 here it is again why are you
down casting my soul
why so disturbed within me put your hope
in god for i will yet praise him
my savior and my god i might not be able
to praise him right now but if i put my
hope in him
i know i will praise him
we have to put our hope in god
verse 1 of psalm 43 vindicate me oh god
and please
plead my cause against an ungodly nation
rescue me from deceitful and wicked
people
oh boy couldn't that be today couldn't
that be today
we need to be rescued from deceitful and
wicked people what's going on in our
land what's going on with our public
officials what's going on
with our governments there are wicked
and deceitful people
so if you're going if you're worrying
about what's going on if you're worrying
about
what's happening in the world pray that
rescue me
from wicked and deceitful people you
know in psalm 141
says my prayer is against the deeds of
the evildoers
that their rulers will be thrown down
from the cliffs and the wicked will
learn that my words
were well spoken god's words god's word
is the way
the truth and the life we can pray that
that god will
talk to our leaders and
humble our leaders that they might bow
the knee to the lordship of jesus christ
we'd also pray that if they've refused
to do that that god will
throw them down god will remove them
from office
and if we stew about being vindicated
wanting to be vindicated because
somebody's upset with us
you can spend an awful lot of time you
can waste time trying to
vindicate yourself that the bible says
that he will vindicate us
that no weapon forged against us will
prosper or prevail
and he will vindicate us as the servants
of the lord this is our heritage from
him
so again get get the focus off the
problem
get the focus off the situation get your
focus onto god that he will deal with it
because only he can deal with his stuff
it's beyond human
ability to solve these problems
so psalm 11 says why are you down cast
over my soul why so disturbed within me
put your hope in god
for i will yet praise him my savior and
my god.
that ends psalm 42 and next week i want
to come back or next time i'd like to
come back and
take this through the rest some 43 it
has some powerful
keys in it to get us back up
get us out of the pit continue to serve
the lord and continue to praise him so
i hope what i've said today has blessed
you and encouraged you and i look
forward to coming back
next time and sharing the rest
of the keys in psalm 43 thanks for
listening have a great day
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