Internal Struggles

PSALM 119:1-8 COMMITMENT TO GOD’S WORD DILIGENTLY PURSUE GOD’S WORD TO HAVE A VIBRANT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. PSALM 119:9-16 VALUE GOD’S WORD. MY PASSION FOR GOD’S WORD WILL LEAD ME TO RIGHTEOUS LIFE CHOICES. PSALM 119:17-24 DIRECTED BY GOD’S WORD! GOD’S WORD MUST BE MY SOURCE OF DIRECTION FOR LIFE CHOICES TODAY. Internal Struggles PSALM 119:25-32 INTERNAL STRENGTH 1. The answer for life’s hard is God’s Truth. 25-27 2. The answer for life’s discouragement is God’s truth. 28-29 3. Choose to follow God with confidence. 30-32 BE ENCOURAGED TO LIVE CONFIDENTLY IN GOD THROUGH GOD’S TRUTH. APPLICATION 1. Properly understand the reflecting role of emotions in our life recognizing that God’s Word is key to thinking and feeling correctly. 2. Identifies the lies or misinformation you have believed about solving grief, discouragement, and emotional struggles. Issues of the heart and soul are solved with Biblical truth. APPLICATION 3. Meditating (dwelling) on truth directs my heart to believing truth which directs my choices to obedience to God. 4. In times of grief and discouragement, run to the Word of God—it is where hope is found. PRACTICAL STEPS – 4 QUESTIONS 1. What is true about God in my circumstances? 2. What is true about me in my circumstances? 3. What is true about my circumstances? 4. What are the pressures I am facing? (relational, circumstantial, financial, PRACTICAL STEPS – 4 ACTIONS 1. Express your heart and soul to God through prayer. 2. Dwell on Scripture that will point your heart to God. 3. Ask for help to think biblically. 4. Purposefully respond to the pressures based on biblical truth. BE ENCOURAGED THROUGH GOD’S TRUTH!