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February 28, 2021 – The Way Up When You Are Down -“ Handling Discouragement” Part 2, Psalms 42:1-11
Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile. (For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah) – ‘1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”4 These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. 5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me?Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence. 6 O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 7 Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me. 8 The Lord will command His loving kindness in the daytime; And His song will be with me in the night, A prayer to the God of my life. 9 I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” 10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 11 Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.’ Psalms 42:1-11 NASB
