Psalm 121
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What keeps someone from seeking Help?
A Song of Ascents… The Purpose
A Few Observations...
Hebrew Word Natsar - Used six times
To watch, To Guard, To Keep
The Lord My Helper
The Lord My Helper
I will lift up my eyes to the hills—From whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.
The power of a redundant question.
Our help doesn't come from a place, it comes from a person.
Keeping your Problems in perspective. (The intrexies of creation)
Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.
The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all its fullness, You have founded them. The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in Your name. You have a mighty arm; Strong is Your hand, and high is Your right hand.
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And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
To Him who alone does great wonders, For His mercy endures forever; To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, For His mercy endures forever; To Him who laid out the earth above the waters, For His mercy endures forever; To Him who made great lights, For His mercy endures forever— The sun to rule by day, For His mercy endures forever; The moon and stars to rule by night, For His mercy endures forever.
The Lord My Stability
The Lord My Stability
He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel Shall neither slumber nor sleep.
God Provides stability in your life.
moved-to slip or slide, to stagger, to be shaken.
Oh, bless our God, you peoples! And make the voice of His praise to be heard, Who keeps our soul among the living, And does not allow our feet to be moved.
He will guard the feet of His saints, But the wicked shall be silent in darkness. “For by strength no man shall prevail.
Do not be afraid of sudden terror, Nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes; For the Lord will be your confidence, And will keep your foot from being caught.
He makes my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on my high places.
Psalms 2. The Help God Brings (3–4)
• We stand in grace (Romans 5:2)
• We stand in the gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1)
• We stand in courage and strength (1 Corinthians 16:13)
• We stand in faith (2 Corinthians 1:24)
• We stand in Christian liberty (Galatians 5:1)
• We stand in Christian unity (Philippians 1:27)
• We stand in the Lord (Philippians 4:1)
• The goal: that we should stand perfect and complete in the will of God (Colossians 4:12)
through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,
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Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
col 4.12
God doesnt take a break
Who is the man who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good?
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
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The Lord My Protector
The Lord My Protector
The Lord is your keeper; The Lord is your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, Nor the moon by night.
Safest place to be is in the presence of your Father.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”
How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; And in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge, Until these calamities have passed by.
Because You have been my help, Therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.
For You have been a strength to the poor, A strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat; For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
The Lord My Preserver
The Lord My Preserver
The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.
The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.
All Evil- anything that can harm you.
But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
God’s Handiwork is Before Me
Gods Eyes are Upon Me
Gods presence is Beside Me
Gods power is all Around Me