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Today is a fantastic Sunday!
I am excited about praying over our children as we release them into schools.
Welcome to our guests - it is our custom to end most services with a time together at the altar.
When I conclude preaching we spend some time praying and inviting God to minister to us personally.
We invite you to join us, but recognize that not every person is comfortable with coming up as a group.
More than anything we want you to experience the presence of God today.
Congratulations Antonio and Teanna on their beautiful wedding!
If you were at Monday night prayer say a loud hallelujah!
We have started a regular prayer meeting on Monday nights.
You are invited to come to the church between 6-8pm and pray.
Intro
I want to start out today’s sermon by reading scripture.
We are going to read Psalm 88.
Does anyone wonder why the Lord included this Psalm in His word?
I have wondered about the value of it for us.
It’s pretty depressing.
Definitely we can all relate to what has been written.
Feeling abandoned by God.
Troubles and problems overwhelming us.
Feeling like we could die.
Asking if God has brought this trouble on us.
Even feeling like our friends and loved ones have disappeared on us.
Praying, crying out to the Lord that he would hear us and deliver us.
Three times the writer says “I have cried to the Lord”.
He says I cried out day and night in verse 1.
In verse 9 I have called daily upon You.
Verse 13 leaves us with the impression of one of those late night prayers that we have all prayed before.
“to You I have cried out, O Lord, And in the morning my prayer comes before you.”
The majority of scholars believe the song was written based on a lifetime of affliction and sickness.
What stands out to me, and may have dawned on you as we read.
Is that even though the writer cries out to the Lord there seems to be no response.
His prayers for deliverance, or even for an answer go unheeded by the Lord.
Three times he prays.
Three times without response he moves on to how bad life is.
This doesn’t sit well with me.
I, like you, want answers.
I want my problem fixed.
I don’t want to suffer.
I don’t want to struggle.
I want to ask “how do I fix this?” and have God swoop in with the answer.
Have you ever felt like the author of Psalm 88?
I feel like I am going to die, my troubles are overwhelming me.
Why aren’t you answering Lord?
Deliver me!
This Psalm reminds me of Job.
Job
Job loses everything.
He loses his lively hood.
He loses family, children are taken from him.
He loses his own health.
He is afflicted and sitting on ash heap scratching the boils on his skin when three friends come to see him.
Job’s life has been rocked.
He is in the throws of despair.
There is little to be positive about.
In answering Eliphaz in chapter 23 you get a sense of how abandoned Job really feels.
If I knew where to find the Lord.
I would present my case.
I think I know what His answer would be.
Would He judge me harshly?
I don’t think so.
He would deliver me forever.
Did you notice what Job said, if I knew where to find him.
I have looked for him… I can’t find him.
I have prayed, but he’s not answered.
I called out to him, but He has not heeded my call.
I don’t know where God is at and He is not answering my calls!
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Do you feel the emptiness of lost hope for Job?
We have to have hope.
Hope that it will improve.
Hope that it can change.
Right before Job is about to surrender to the hopelessness of his situation.
It is like some revelation is brought to his mind.
But!
He knows the way that I take.
Just because I go forward and He is not there.
Doesn’t mean he don’t know where I am headed.
Just because I look around and I cannot perceive him, behold him, or see him.
Doesn’t mean he is not there.
If He knows where I am…there is always some hope.
I don’t have to know where He is, as long as He knows where I am.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.
It is wonderful to think that God knows us so intimately.
God knows you so well.
He knows the hairs on your head.
He knows the way that you take.
He knows how you will stand up to the test you are in.
He knows your sitting down and standing up.
He understands your thoughts.
He knows your path.
He knows the words upon your lips.
It’s useless information.
It does not change the trial you walk through.
It does not affect the struggle you might be in right now.
It may not answer your questions of why.
But there is a life altering comfort in knowing that His hand is upon your life!
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When you can’t see Him, and you can’t get a response from your cries to Him.
Rejoice!
Because God knows that when you come out of the other side… When He has tested you, you shall come forth like gold.
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