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HEADED FOR HOME
(Blessing for the Journey)
May 17th and 18th, 2003
Psalm 84
*/1 /**/How lovely is your dwelling place,/*
*/O Lord Almighty!/*
*/2 My soul yearns, even faints,/*
*/for the courts of the Lord;/*
*/my heart and my flesh cry out/*
*/for the living God./*
*/3 Even the sparrow has found a home,/*
*/and the swallow a nest for herself,/*
*/where she may have her young—/*
*/a place near your altar,/*
*/O Lord Almighty, my King and my God./*
*/4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house;/*
*/they are ever praising you.
Selah/*
*/5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,/*
*/who have set their hearts on pilgrimage./*
*/6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca,/*
*/they make it a place of springs;/*
*/the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
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*/7 They go from strength to strength,/*
*/till each appears before God in Zion./*
*/8 Hear my prayer, O Lord God Almighty;/*
*/listen to me, O God of Jacob.
Selah/*
*/9 Look upon our shield, c O God;/*
*/look with favor on your anointed one./*
*/10 Better is one day in your courts/*
*/than a thousand elsewhere;/*
*/I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God/*
*/than dwell in the tents of the wicked./*
*/11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;/*
*/the Lord bestows favor and honor;/*
*/no good thing does he withhold/*
*/from those whose walk is blameless./*
*/12 O Lord Almighty,/*
*/blessed is the man who trusts in you./*
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*/5 /**/Blessed are those whose strength is in you,/*
*/who have set their hearts on pilgrimage./*
*/6 /**/As they pass through the Valley of Baca,/*
*/they make it a place of springs;/*
*/the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
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*/7 /**/They go from strength to strength,/*
*/till each appears before God in Zion./*
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*/Message/*
*/And how blessed all those in whom you live,/*
*/ whose lives become roads you travel;/*
*/They wind through lonesome valleys, come upon brooks,/*
*/ discover cool springs and pools brimming with rain!/*
*/God-traveled, these roads curve up the mountain, and/*
*/ at the last turn—Zion!
God in full view!/*
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The Living Bible
*/6 When they walk through the Valley of Weeping,~*/*
*/it will become a place of refreshing springs,/*
*/where pools of blessing collect after the rains!/*
*/7 They will continue to grow stronger,/*
*/and each of them will appear before God in Jerusalem.~*/*
-Literally as we pass through hard places~/weeping we transform them into pools of blessing.
-All of us are on a trip~/ a journey.
-I want to help you take the “heart of a traveler”.
-If you are confused about where you fit it is impossible to have a sense of home.
-We watched a true story about these little Aborigines girls who were taken from their moms because they had white in them.
They traveled thousands of miles across the desert to get “HOME”.
-Home has a pull on you.
WHERE IS HOME FOR YOU?
*/Philippians 3/*
*/20 But our citizenship is in heaven.
And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
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1. SET YOUR HEART ON PILGRIMAGE
-That means a journey to a sacred place.
-In your case it means live in light of eternity and don’t forget that this is not really your home.
-A journey is defined as a passage from one place to another or even from one season to another like youth to maturity etc.
-The theme of Judaism is that life is a journey.
C.S. LEWIS QUOTE
-Like Dorothy, you’ve got to get home at all costs.
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KEEP THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE
Hebrews 11
*/7 /**/By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family.
By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
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*/8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.
9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
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*/13 /**/All these people were still living by faith when they died.
They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance.
And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.
14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own.
15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.
16 Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
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-These people of faith didn’t check out of planet earth.
-They simply made choices here that mattered in the light of there.
-They lived here in faith and helped others but they knew at all times, this wasn’t their final destination.
-They were looking at the emerald city.
-How do we live our lives with the proper perspective?
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