The Power of Praise

09/03/22 • 43 min

Psalm 42:1 - Psalm 43 The Bible is broken up so that it is easy for us to reference. I believe they should have made these 2 chapters 1 total chapter and you'll see why as we read.
Psalms 42:1 David is ordained to be the king, but he can't be the king because there is a king. King Saul, he has to wait till he dies. Saul became very jealous of David because God took away the kingdom from his family and because the people loved him so much. David was so jealous that he was determined to kill him.
David was hiding in the desert with a lot of his men. Think of the words were about to read as a man's thoughts that he is getting into his journal.
"As the heart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after thee oh God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?"
David is saying as we need and want water I want and need you God.
"My tears have been my meat day and night! While they continually say unto me, "Where is my God!"
So he's saying, I'm upset, I cry a lot while people say to me, You're doing this all for God? Where is he? He doesn't care about you!
"When I remember these things I pour out my soul in me for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the House of God, with the voice of joy and praise with the multitude that kept Holy day!"
He's remembering when he worshiped God at the temple with his people. He's trying to keep his mind on the blessings.
Now, what is he saying again? And who is he talking to? He's talking to himself.
"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance."
He's saying to himself, "Stop looking at what you can see! Praise God, he is the help of your countenance!" Notes to be continued

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Focus and Commitment Even When Things Get Tough

This episode is more of a kick in the butt. Everyone has one goal or another, most of the time many, yet it's few that achieve them. This episode gets into God's perspective of what to do when sh** hits the fan or we have discouragement or disappointment.
How important it is to stay the course and how normal it is for things to fall off track. We often look at those things as barometers to quit, when in reality it's just life. It is the path all take to achieving.
Consistency is the key to achieving everything. We often think we need to WANT to do something but even if you don't want to do something, but do it, you will get the result you are after. It's pushing past those moments of despair where all the fruit lies. Have you ever heard, sure I'm going out on a limb, that is where all the fruit is! It's not comfortable. But so what :) It gets comfortable with time.

I go into The first chapter of James to explain how this works in God's world. Did you know that God says to count it all joy when we find ourselves in many difficult situations? Why is that? Because it gives us practice. Not practice in being a martyr but practice in living by faith. With each challenge comes the choice to complain and get frustrated or give thanks and have patience. God says that standing in faith with patience knowing that all will be well comes with a promise, we will be complete, and entire and we will not want for anything. This is a very revealing and very misunderstood chapter of The Bible.

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Feeding the Body, Starving the spirit? Oh Taste and See The Lord is Good

We make such a big deal about The Bible like it's so mysterious. It's not. I learned how to read The Bible by reading Egemires Bible. It helps us to get what it actually says in the traditional Bible. I recommend reading a book in the children's Bible and then go in the corresponding Bible story in the traditional Bible and you'll totally understand it.
We learn that we feed our spirit when we read The Bible. The Bible says to "Taste and that The Word is good" God doesn't say things just to say them. We literally are feeding something. We are eating The Word of God we are feeding our Spirit and what is the promise? "Blessed is the man that trusts him!"
So, if The Word of God is Food and we have a body and a spirit what has to be fed? BOTH body and spirit. Our body is just our earth suit, it ends, but our spirit goes on forever, it is more real than this body is, but we're so much in this world that we can't see that.
Whatever we are feeding, is what is going to be the strongest. That's why we believe in our head that God will protect us or heal us but we get absorbed in fear. Why is that? Because we're feeling our flesh more than our spirit, many times we're starving our spirit.