Episode 4

In God Alone: Trusting at all Times (North OC)

In this fourth sermon of the 'In God Alone' series, Marcel Hall delves into Psalm 62 to discuss the importance of trusting in God at all times. He revisits key themes previously covered in the series, focusing on the trust we should place in God during all circumstances, be it turmoil, temptation, or periods of uncertainty. The sermon emphasizes trusting in God’s character and promises, using personal anecdotes and encouraging congregants to reflect on their own experiences. The message concludes with a challenge to immerse oneself in Psalm 62 throughout the week and to seek solace and strength in prayer and scripture during trials. The sermon closes with communion, reminding the congregation of the peace and salvation brought through Jesus Christ.

00:00 Introduction to Trusting in God

00:14 Opening Prayer

01:10 Reading and Reflecting on Psalm 62

04:16 Sharing Insights from Psalm 62

10:15 Deep Dive into Trusting God

10:51 David's Perspective on Trust and Adversity

16:26 Finding Peace in God's Presence

20:21 Understanding Waiting on the Lord

21:13 Trusting God in All Circumstances

22:02 Pouring Out Your Heart to God

25:34 Avoiding Trust in Worldly Things

29:31 Trusting God in the Moments

35:15 Practical Steps for Trusting God

36:45 Closing with Communion and Prayer

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Transcript
Marcel:

All right, so we're going to continue in our series in God alone.

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Uh, Daniel Samogie spoke last week and

talked about trusting for the generations.

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And today we're going to be talking

about trusting at all times.

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Trusting at all times.

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Let's go to the Father in prayer.

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Father in heaven, you are glorious.

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You are magnificent.

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You are powerful.

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You are the Almighty.

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You are the Alpha and the Omega, the

beginning and the end, the first.

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and the last.

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You are a refuge.

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You are a safe place.

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Our deliverer, our hope, our stronghold

and our fortress and our salvation.

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God, we are grateful that we

have you as all those things.

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But yet you are also our dear father

and we thank you for this chance to

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get into your word and study out what

your message is for us this morning.

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And we pray for that.

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We will trust in you, God, that

we will put our trust in our

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faith in you and in you alone.

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And God, you will lead us to green

pastures beside quiet waters.

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And God, we know that your mercy and

your goodness follow us wherever we go.

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And we praise you in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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We're going to go over to Psalm 62, Psalm

62, and uh, we are going to actually

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be reading from the NASB today, okay?

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The NASB, throw you off a little

bit, a little flavor in here for you.

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And so we're going to read in

Psalm 62, again, we've been

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reading, or walking through some

of the Psalms for this series.

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And a reminder, the Psalms are really

kind of a spiritual playlist, if

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you will, God's Spotify playlist.

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Because it's filled with poetry and

songs and they really communicate how

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to have a relationship with God, but

also, uh, helping us to understand some

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of God's character and God's truth and

God's promises so that as we read and

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sing and worship God together and in

our own personal devotional time, we can

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be reminded and therefore our faith can

grow and we can walk in the ways of God.

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And so here we are in song.

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Psalm 62, it reads, my soul,

wait, let's do this also.

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As we read this, I want you to go

ahead and take notes, please write

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down anything that stands out to you.

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Maybe there's a word, there's a phrase,

there's a concept that stands out to you.

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So go ahead and write that down

as we walk through Psalm 62.

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You guys with me here?

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Okay, all right.

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So let's read it again.

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It says, my soul waits in silence.

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For God alone.

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From Him comes my salvation.

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He alone is my rock and my salvation.

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My stronghold.

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I will not be greatly shaken.

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How long will you attack a man that

you may murder him, all of him, like a

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leaning wall, like a tottering fence.

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They have planned only to thrust

him down from his high position.

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They delight in falsehood.

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They bless with their mouth,

but inwardly they curse my soul,

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wait in silence for God alone.

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For my hope is from him.

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He alone is my rock and

my salvation, my refuge.

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I will not.

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My salvation and my glory rest on God.

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The rock of my strength,

my refuge is in God.

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Trust in him at all times, you people.

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Pour out your hearts before him.

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God is a refuge for us.

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People of low standing are only

breath and people of rank are alive.

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In the balances they go up, together

they are lighter than breath.

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Do not trust in oppression and

do not vainly rely on robbery.

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If wealth increases Do

not say your heart on it.

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God has spoken once twice I have

heard this that power belongs to God

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and Faithfulness is yours for you

reward a person According to his work.

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Let's stop right there again right now.

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What stood out to you from this passage?

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We'll give you a couple

of seconds right out.

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What stood out to you From this passage.

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And if you're online, uh, go ahead

and write in the chat right there what

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stood out to you from this passage.

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And in fact, as you're writing this down,

go ahead and with the person to your

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right or left, go ahead and share briefly

what stood out to you in this passage.

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How did this passage minister to you?

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And again, if you're

online, go ahead and share.

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So we're gonna take a couple, uh,

maybe one or two minutes here to go

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ahead, finish writing and share with

each other what stood out to you.

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from Psalm 62.

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We'll give you about 30 more seconds.

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30 more seconds.

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Okay.

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Alright.

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Maybe we have a couple people share what

are some things that stood out to you

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or maybe you heard from the person next

to you from this passage in Psalm 62.

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Let's have a couple people share

what stood out to you or maybe from

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your partner there from Psalm 62.

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Uh, Vicki.

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Alright, thank you very much.

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For those, uh, who could hear maybe

online there, she talked about one,

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her husband mentioning, uh, the word

silence and, uh, and then also she

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talked about stronghold, being a vet.

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That really resonated because it

gives you the advantage and if God's

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our stronghold, we have an advantage

over our enemy, the devil there.

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Okay, awesome, thank you so much.

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Others, let's get a couple more.

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Share what you got from Psalm 62.

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Yes, Devin.

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Okay,

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so the last line, how God will reward

our work and so sometimes you can

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forget that, but trust that God will

bring about a righteous judgment.

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Okay, good.

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All right.

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Others?

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Any more?

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Yes, Kenny.

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Uh, what's this?

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How God is our refuge.

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And so we'll be shaken by things, but

however, we're safe and we won't be shaken

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to the point in which we'll be upended.

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Yes, that's good.

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That's good.

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All right.

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One more.

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One more.

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One more.

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Okay.

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Carrie.

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Yes.

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Okay, so the word waiting and

how it requires patience and that

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could be a challenge to be patient

to wait upon God right there.

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And so I know we can share some

other things, but there's already

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been some good that's been shared.

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And so thank you for sharing that.

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And so now my work is done.

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I'm just going to go home right

now and not share anything.

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But you can see God has

already ministered to you.

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And whatever God has ministered

to you, again, write that down

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and be able to go back to it maybe

later today or throughout the week.

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However God ministered to

you so that you can grasp it.

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So that truth cannot just ruminate, but

that it can actually penetrate your soul

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and produce what God wants in your life.

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I want to share a couple of

observations that stood out to me

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and many of the same things that

were shared, I will mention as well.

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But one of the things that I see here in

the passage is this call to trust in God

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at all times to trust when there's turmoil

to trust when you have adversaries.

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To trust when you're tempted

with sin or tempted to put your

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trust in wealth or in people.

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And so there's this call to

trust in God at all times.

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And so I want us to walk

through Psalm 62 a little more.

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So let's break it down some more.

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Church, are you still with me?

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All right.

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So let's go back over my soul

waits in silence for God alone.

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That right there is a

powerful phrasing, isn't it?

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My soul, my very being.

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And this is David who wrote this.

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And David was a warrior.

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David had many battles.

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He was a veteran like Vicky.

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And so he was also a king.

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And he was a poet.

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And he was a shepherd.

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And so he had different

facets to his life.

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So his perspective is always very unique.

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And very helpful and vivid in imagery.

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And he says, My soul waits.

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In silence for God alone to wait

in silence means that there's

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a confidence that's there.

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I'm waiting in silence.

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The NIV translated as my soul rest in God.

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And so there's this idea that we

can rest because we're trusting.

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He's trusting that God will deliver.

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There's an expectation.

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There's a security and an

ability to rest in who?

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Does he wait silently in, on,

and for God and God alone?

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And why?

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Why can he?

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Well, because it's who

God is and what God does.

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You see, our, our theology, our view

of God, our understanding of God

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influences our faith, our actions.

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Because how we view God

will then determine how we

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respond to God in his work.

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How we respond to his promises.

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And so if we view God in a certain

way, that will influence what you do.

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You guys get what I'm saying here.

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And so he says my soul can

rest, my soul can be silent.

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Despite what's going on because I know

who God is and I know what God does.

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Because my view of God is that

he is a one of salvation, a rock.

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He is hope.

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And what he will do is he will

guard me from being shaken.

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It says God alone is the rock,

meaning he's a secure place.

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God alone is salvation, meaning

deliverance, deliverance

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literally from the challenges.

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And we also know spiritually as well.

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He is a stronghold, a high wall,

a, a, a, a, a rocky fortress,

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meaning protection for him.

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And also he would not be greatly shaken.

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I might be shaken, but I

won't be greatly shaken.

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I won't be upended or taken

down by whatever is going on.

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And he says, God alone

will do that for me.

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Why?

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Because that's who he is and that's

what God does for his chosen people.

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And we continue and he goes on and he gets

real, real honest right here, doesn't he?

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He says, man, how long

will you attack a man?

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He's referring to himself.

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He's like, man, how long y'all

gonna try to kill a brother?

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He's talking about these

enemies that are in his life.

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And we know David had some

serious enemies who were

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literally trying to take his life.

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Now, I might have some

people that don't like me.

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But I don't know if I have people

that really want to kill me.

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And if they do, they just haven't

made that known to me yet.

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And hallelujah that they

haven't made that known to me.

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I think that God is protecting my soul

if one of you guys wants to kill me.

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You gotta work that out

with the Lord, okay?

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And just don't try it today, all right?

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My daughter's birthday's tomorrow.

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I gotta be there for her, okay?

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But he talks about this reality

of having these challenges.

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David has some haters, some ops in his

life, and he's being real about this.

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You know, life's hard when you have

relational challenges, isn't it?

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Life can become really challenging

when you feel like you have enemies

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who are trying to take you down.

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It doesn't.

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You ever feel like you have

somebody who's like, man, you

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were just trying to take me down.

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You're just trying to bring me down.

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And this is the turmoil that David

is facing as he writes this song.

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And you know, when we have these

relational challenges or when

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we have these, these enemies

in our life, what does it do?

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It can really steal our joy, can't it?

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It can consume us.

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It could take away our peace.

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It could take away our, our, our,

our, our, our sense of well being

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because we're consumed by it.

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It could tempt us to, or not only

just tempt us, it could lead us

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to some really bad choices and

some sinful actions when we have

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these things going on in our lives.

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And so what does he say despite all

of this that's going on in his life?

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What does he say right after this?

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He says, my soul, wait

in silence for God alone.

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For my hope is from him.

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He alone is my rock and

my salvation, my refuge.

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I will not be shaken.

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There's things going around me

that are trying to shake me.

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But I will not be shaken.

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My salvation and my glory rest on God.

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The rock of my strength,

my refuge is in God.

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Trust in him at all times, you people.

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Pour your hearts out before him.

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God is a refuge for us.

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And so what happens?

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He says, man, I'm in the midst of

some turmoil, but I'm reminding

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my soul to wait silently on God.

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And so my soul can wait quietly

because I know who God is.

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And I know what God does

for his chosen people.

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You know, to wait quietly is

somewhat easy when things are.

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Going well in your life, isn't it?

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But when there's turmoil in your life,

it's really hard to wait on God silently.

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Because what do we want to do?

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We want things to happen now.

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We want God to deliver us now.

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And so if we don't feel or sense

He's doing that, then what do we do?

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We either get afraid, we doubt,

or we take control of ourselves.

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And then, that can lead

to some poor choices.

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And some regrets.

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But David waited quietly through

a storm that was all around him.

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And I believe it was this

two part of waiting on God.

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It was because he entered

truly the presence of God that

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allowed him to wait silently.

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But in the silence, he also was

reminded of God's presence and

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God's promises for his life.

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You guys get what I'm saying?

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And so many times we have to go to God.

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In order to silence and quiet our souls.

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But in the quiet and silencing of our

souls, God ministers to us, reminding

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us of his promises of who he is.

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Therefore, we can have inner peace

despite what's going on on the exterior.

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And so we see this idea that again,

the presence of God provided inner

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peace in spite of external turmoil.

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External turmoil.

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There's stuff that's going on around

and he's like, man, this is real.

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It's crazy out here.

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But you know what?

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Inside I have peace, confidence

and rest for my soul.

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He says God alone would deliver

him from the trouble because God

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is the source of protection and

God is the source of security.

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And he states his reputation as well

as his salvation and trusting in God.

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He says, he says, my salvation

and my glory, my honor.

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In other words, in other

ways, it can be translated.

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He says, man, you know what?

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They're trying to attack my, my incessant,

my character and my reputation, but you

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know, I'm not going to put that on people.

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I'm going to rest that

upon God and God alone.

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He will provide, he will defend.

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He.

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Will justify.

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You know one of the things that God

taught me a little while ago is,

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God will vindicate the righteous.

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He will.

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He will vindicate the righteous.

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And so sometimes when I'm in some

turmoil, I'm reminded, God you're

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going to vindicate the righteous.

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If I'm righteous right

now, it will become clear.

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I don't need to fight to

vindicate myself before others.

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But I want to.

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I hope my name and my image

is too high, honestly.

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And so I want to fight for

it, I want to defend it.

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But God's like, you don't have

to fight that fight, Marcel.

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Because if you've been righteous,

don't worry, I'll vindicate you.

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And if you haven't, then I'll show you

where you need to repent and change from.

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So you're okay.

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You don't need to worry, Marcel.

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Trust me.

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I got this.

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And so we see this psalmist in this

waiting and I don't know about you, but

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man, it's really hard to wait sometimes.

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I thank you Mark and

Kerry for sharing that.

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I read this quote that was really

cool and I want to read this for you.

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It says to wait in silence before the

Lord is not idleness or inactivity.

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We can think waiting on the Lord

means I just don't do anything.

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I'm just wait.

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I'm just going to wait.

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Nothing's happening.

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I'm just waiting.

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And we can misinterpret this.

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He says it is calm worship and

faith, resting in his greatness

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and submitted to his will.

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It is preparation for the time

when God gives the orders to act.

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And so waiting upon the Lord

is trusting that he's present,

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trusting that he is there.

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I'm waiting on his goodness and

his timing and he will direct

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me when to move and how to move.

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To make sure I stay aligned with his will.

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That my deeds are righteous and

my deeds are accomplishing his

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goals and desires, not only for

my life, but for those around me.

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And so again, we move forward and he

says to trust in him at all times,

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not just sometimes, not just a few

times, not just most of the time,

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but to trust in him all the time.

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And David now switches from

talking about his own to now

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encouraging the congregation.

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You people, the things that I've

learned, trust me, I'm calling

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you, trust in God at all time.

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And so he's challenging, he's encouraging

us to trust in God when there's good,

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when there's challenging, and when

there's chaotic and uncertain times.

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And one way to do this, he guides

us is right after that when he says,

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and pour out your hearts before him.

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You know, we can honestly tell God all

that we're thinking and feeling completely

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vulnerable in his presence because we

know he is our refuge, our place of safety

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and shelter, protection and security.

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So we can go to God with the good,

bad, and the ugly that is in our lives.

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And so it's not either or,

I'm quiet or I speak up.

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No, they both go together.

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I know when I was younger in my

faith, I didn't want to express

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negative things to God in my prayers.

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You get what I'm saying?

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Like if I was angry, I knew I wasn't

having righteous anger, so I didn't

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want to talk to God about this.

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Now God already knew that I had

some righteous anger, but I didn't

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want to express that to Him.

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Or maybe I was frustrated.

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God, why did you let this happen?

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I didn't want to share that with him.

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God's holy and I don't want to offend God.

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But as we see again through the

Psalms, is that God actually invites

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us to have that open dialogue.

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He says, that's actually when I

will start to provide this security

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and this shelter for you, is when

you pour out your soul to me.

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And what I've learned is that as I

go to God in prayer and as I share,

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God, you know, I'm just frustrated.

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I'll be honest with you.

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I'm not excited.

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I'm angry.

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And I know that my anger right now

is not holy, but I am hot and I want

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to do something that isn't good.

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And as I express this to God,

as I get real, the spirit starts

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to minister to me and starts to

get me to go from this thinking,

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thinking to some righteous thinking.

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And so even though I was fearful to

come to God with this, God handles

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it and then he starts to minister

to me and guide me to a place where

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I'm humbling myself before him.

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I'm gathering myself, I'm getting

more clarity on how I need to humble

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myself and choose to do what's right.

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And I come away with more faith,

more hope, and more confidence.

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But when I used to refrain from doing

that, I didn't experience God as this

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shelter, rock, fortress, and stronghold.

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And so God is calling all of us, and

for some of us, this is really easy.

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We go to God and, man, we

can just pour out everything.

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For some of us, we withhold these things.

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Because we think, for some reason,

that God either doesn't want to hear

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it, or we'll be in violation of His

righteousness if we express these things.

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But we gotta have a mind change.

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God is calling us to pour

ourselves out to Him.

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So that He can provide the security

and refuge that our very soul needs.

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Church, do you get what I'm saying here?

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And so we can trust God as we go to Him.

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Because He declares, I'm a refuge.

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I'm a safe place.

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I'm a stronghold.

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I'm your protector.

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I'm your deliverer, and I'm your redeemer.

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Come to me.

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And when we do, we rest in God.

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And now we have a confidence

God's gonna work this out.

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He's present.

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It's who He is.

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It's what He does.

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I can take a step of faith in Christ now.

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And we keep going in Psalm 62 verse

9, Church are you still with me here?

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It says people of low standing are only

a breath, and people of rank are alive.

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Basically he's like, hey you got

these quote unquote nobodies and you

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got the quote unquote somebodies.

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He says it, and he used

this imagery of a scale.

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And he's like, hey if you put

the somebodies and the nobodies,

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and you put them on a scale,

they would weigh less than vapor.

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He's saying, look, you don't

want to put your trust in people.

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You don't want to put your trust in

these things or think it's about this

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position or He says, don't even do that.

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That's futile.

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It doesn't make any sense.

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Don't waste your time on that.

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And he goes on.

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And, uh, he says, don't put your trust

in oppression or vainly rely on robbery.

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Don't don't go down the route of sin.

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Don't violate for the sake of money.

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And he says, if wealth increases,

do not set your heart on it.

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Don't trust in riches and definitely don't

go after them in an illegal, immoral way.

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And, you know, when we don't trust

in God, we can be tempted or even

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led to compromise our righteousness.

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To gain, we can shade the truth in order

to gain maybe a couple more dollars.

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We can maybe start to fidget

and lie for on our taxes.

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Why?

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Because we're not really

trusting that God will provide.

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And we're trusting in our wealth or we're

trusting in riches or in possessions.

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So therefore what we compromise are

integrity and our righteousness.

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And so David is saying,

don't do such a thing.

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Don't set your heart on wealth.

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That's not where you rest your faith.

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That's not where you put your heart.

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And we're reminded of Jesus who

says, Hey, life does not consist

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in the abundance of possessions.

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And he reminds us to seek first

his kingdom and his righteousness.

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And he will provide.

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We continue in verse 11.

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He says, God has spoken twice.

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I have heard this, that power belongs

to God and faithfulness is yours.

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Lord, we are reminded here.

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He's basically saying,

look, God has said it.

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We've heard it before.

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God has all the power.

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God is powerful and he brings

us back to promises and God's

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truth and this word faithfulness.

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The Hebrew word is has said.

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And it can be translated as, as merciful

or loving or kindness or, or faithfulness.

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And so he's saying, God, you have

the power, you're faithful, you're

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merciful, you're kind and you're loving.

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Therefore, I can trust you.

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And I can put my trust in you alone.

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And then he's reminded,

God will judge properly.

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God's gonna judge.

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I don't need to worry.

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God is going to judge

because He's a righteous God.

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And so, how do we respond from Psalm 62?

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I believe one of the things

is this, is what it says, is

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to trust in God at all times.

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To put our trust in God and not

in other things or other people,

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because those things won't satisfy

or produce what our very souls need.

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They may provide something temporarily.

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Or partially.

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Or maybe they serve as a distraction

from what's going on in our life.

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But they don't provide the

soul rest that we need.

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Because God is the

source of our well being.

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Our rest, our stability and our salvation.

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Only God can provide the strength

during the tough and uncertain times.

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So we trust in God alone.

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And we do it at all times.

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Now this thing is really challenging.

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God has been teaching me this

over the last several weeks.

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Actually at midweek I was

talking with, with Mark Barron

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and a couple other people.

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Couple other people.

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And God has been telling me, Marcel,

you need to trust me in the moments.

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Because I can trust God before something.

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God, I trust you.

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But then once I get in the

moments, then that trust evacuates.

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And then afterwards I come

back and I'm like, God, I know

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you're going to work it out.

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But I spent this time and this energy

and this frustration in the moment

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and this turmoil in my soul because

I'm not trusting God in the moment.

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You guys get what I'm saying?

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I can do this.

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This is my challenge.

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And so, in fact, I'll share briefly,

like, I trust God with my life.

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I'm like, God, you got this.

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And I go to the doctor the

other day because I had set

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up and I set up a colonoscopy.

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Some of y'all are like, Oh, there you go.

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Don't know what a colonoscopy is,

ask the person next to you, okay?

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And so my dad, so I'm over here feeling

good, like, Okay, I got this colonoscopy,

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you know, uh, uh, like, I gotta go, I

gotta HMO, so I gotta go get approved,

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And then, uh, and we're in there with

the doctor, And it's real quick, he's

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like, Alright, let me ask you a couple

questions, Okay, alright, two weeks,

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here we go, We're gonna get you on

here, you're gonna fast on this, And I'm

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like, oh, hold on, brother, We going a

little quick here, You know, we talking

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about marriage, I need to know your

last name, you know what I'm saying?

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I'm like, hold on, man, like, wait,

this is really happening, huh?

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He's like, man, we're

going to put you to sleep.

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I said, hallelujah.

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Okay.

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And so I saw myself in a moment.

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I'm like, man, I was cool before,

but once we got into moments,

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I started to lose that trust.

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And now I'm a little like, I'm

a little wavering, wavering

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back and forth on my trust here.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Because my dad died of

colon cancer last year.

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And so there's a reality of what's going

to happen when I get those results.

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What's going to happen?

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It's going to show something.

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Is it going to be colon

cancer, prostate cancer?

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I don't know, but now I'm tempted

to not trust in the moments.

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But God is saying,

trust me in the moments.

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Trust me in the moment, Marcel.

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No matter what the results

are, I'm your refuge.

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I'm your stronghold.

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I'm your fortress.

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I'm your deliverance.

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I'm your salvation.

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I'm with you.

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I will be with you.

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And I'll provide what's best.

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And so now that's my challenge.

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But God is saying, Marcel, you can

come up with as many reasons not

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to trust me, but there's no excuse.

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Because you've heard it once and

you've heard others say it many times.

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That God is powerful and

faithfulness is with the Lord.

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And so we need to trust wholly in

God, but our impatience leads to

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dangerous and destructive thinking

and sometimes dangerous and decision,

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uh, destructive decisions in which

we mess up and veer from God's ways.

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Brothers and sisters, do you

understand what I'm saying?

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I read this quote.

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I thought it was really good.

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It says, God's delays

are not God's denial.

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God's delays are not God's denials.

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So sometimes when we're in the moment,

we think God's delays or his denials

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saying I'm not going to provide.

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And we start to get nervous

and we start to get scared and

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oh no, so that we doubt God.

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I don't know.

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I know I read that.

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I know I sang that.

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You'll do it again.

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And Christ alone.

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But, but I don't really believe it

because it hasn't happened on my time.

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And so we take it as God's denials.

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But God's just delaying

so he could come through.

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And it's his timing.

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It's not our timing.

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He's not on our schedule,

but he's always on time.

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And so we need to trust that

God's delays are not God's timing.

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Denials.

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And this is why it's so important we

keep going back to God's character,

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who he is, our view of God.

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Because again, if we view

God as a stronghold, as a

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fortress, then guess what?

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We'll have confidence and we'll have

rest and we can wait silently in God.

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But if we view God as this shaky

bridge that we're not going to

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cross, I don't know if I can

really trust and keep walking.

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That bridge looks a little shaky.

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That God Almighty seems like

the God who's half mighty.

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But if we view God as the almighty, then

that affects not only our views, our well

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:

being, but then our actions going forward.

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So this is why we have to remember

who God is and what God does.

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And this is again why it's so important,

brothers and sisters, that we dig deep

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in our personal devotional time with God.

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Because God reminds us.

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Of who he is and what he does

as we consume his word as we

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pour out to him in prayer.

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God ministers to us and

reminds us I'm with you always

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trusting me in this situation.

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And so this is why we can't

have times when we go.

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I just give him a little bit

or I'll get back to it later.

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Now we are so desperately in need of this

time with God because this is when we come

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back to his truth and to his promises.

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And this is why it's so important that

we have these relationships, that we

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have godly relationships that remind

us of who God is and what God does.

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I believe it's difficult to do and

achieve, but when we have the right

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view, then we can remember He is there,

He will deliver, and He will provide.

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Let's get real practical here.

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Alright, brother and sister,

are you still with me?

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Action steps this week.

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Real quickly, read and pray through

Psalm 62 every day this week.

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Read and pray through.

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It says you read it, read a verse

and then pray about that verse.

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Because you can relate in some form or

fashion with every line that's in there.

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And so read and pray through Psalm 62.

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That could be your quote

unquote devotional time or it

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could be an additional time.

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Whatever the case may be.

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But then also, read and pray through Psalm

62 whenever you face a trial this week.

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You're gonna face something.

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And go back to Psalm 62 and read and

pray through it and allow God to minister

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to you, to center you so that you can

remember to trust him at all times.

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Wouldn't you like to have David's trust,

confidence, and peace in your life?

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Wouldn't you like to have that?

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Imagine facing your next trial with a

faith that waits in silence for God alone.

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Imagine facing your current

trial with an attitude that

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waits in silence for God alone.

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Imagine facing this week with your

soul waiting, trusting, resting in

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God alone, who is your hope, your

rock, your salvation, and your refuge.

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We can.

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By trusting in God at all times, we're

going to close out with communion.

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This is a time where we remember

we take the emblems that that

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symbolizes Jesus's death and burial

and resurrection, his body and blood

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that was shed for our salvation.

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:

And we are reminded again that it is

through Jesus that we can have trust

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:

that we can rest while waiting in

silent confidence in God's timing.

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And in God's salvation and in John 14, he

says this to the apostles and I believe

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:

it's a promise that also applies to you

and me today in:

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I leave with you my peace.

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I give you.

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I do not give to you as the world gives.

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Do not let your hearts be

troubled and do not be afraid.

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Let's pray father.

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Thank you so much.

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so much for your word.

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Thank you for your scriptures.

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Thank you so much for Jesus and him

embodying what it means to wait upon you.

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And father, we're so thankful that because

of Jesus and because of the peace that

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is provided to us and through Jesus,

that we can wait in silence before you.

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We thank you for the salvation.

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We thank you for the hope.

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We thank you for the redemption.

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:

We thank you for the deliverance.

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:

We thank you for the strength.

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:

We thank you for the protection.

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:

We thank you for being our

strong and our safety nets.

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:

We thank you for being our God.

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Our Father and our friend.

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:

Our hope and our salvation.

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:

And it is through Jesus

that we have all this.

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Thank you Lord.

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for coming to earth.

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Thank you for living a righteous life.

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Thank you for preaching your word.

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Thank you for staying upon the cross.

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Thank you for dying.

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Thank you for your burial.

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Thank you so much for your

resurrection and thank you for your

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Holy Spirit that indwells within us.

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We love you.

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We thank you.

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We praise you.

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We honor you and we ask to

guide us to trust in you at

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all times in the name of Jesus.

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Amen.

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