Psalm 86 Message 4

Psalm 86

Message 4

Joy

Me:

1. A book called “Suffering”

a. Hope when life doesn’t make sense

i. It’s about a pastor and going through some health issues

b. It rang a bell for me.

i. I recalled those days with my back problems

ii. I’m thinking this is good sermon material

iii. But something just wasn’t right

iv. I was kind of a bummer reading that

v. I have some unrealistic expectations

vi. Blah blah blah

c. Turn to Psalm 86

i. Psalm 86:4 (NIV) — 4 Bring joy to your servant, Lord, for I put my trust in you.

Psalm 86:4 NIV

Bring joy to your servant, Lord, for I put my trust in you.

ii. Bingo

iii. We can focus on the problem so much that we forget the cure.

iv. What I really need is joy!

v. What you really need is joy

We:

Jump for Joy

a. What makes a person “jump for joy”?

i. To jump up and down because one is very happy.

ii. As defined by Westers Dictionary

iii. But if you are happy, you know it.

Joy robbers

i. I preached a sermon one time that I talked about joy robbers from the book of Philippians

ii. I named four things that rob us of our joy

Circumstances

Worry

Things

People

iii. These things can bring stress depression sadness heartache sorrow

iv. “We live in a broken world where people die, food decays, wars rage, governments are corrupt, people take what isn’t theirs and inflict violence on one another, spouses act hatefully toward each another, children are abused instead of protected, people slowly die of starvation or die suddenly from disease, sexual and gender confusion lives, drugs addict and destroy, gossip destroys reputations, lust and greed control hearts, bitterness grows like a cancer, and the list could go on and on.”

v. No wonder we are exhausted

We need a joy that comes from within

i. Not a happiness that is built on sandy ground.

ii. No better place than the bible

God:

Bring Joy to Your Servant

a. I put my trust in you.

i. Psalm 86:4 (NIV) — 4 Bring joy to your servant, Lord, for I put my trust in you.

Psalm 86:4 NIV

Bring joy to your servant, Lord, for I put my trust in you.

ii. This will sound so simple, but it is so profound

Eternity changes everything.

b. Earthy minded

i. One of the points in my sermon on “Joy Robbers” was this.

ii. We can become earthly minded.

iii. Joy is based on how my life is going

iv. Job good Family good Money good I’m good

v. All of that is temporary and broken

vi. Do you remember the out of town box and the in town mailboxes at the post office?

vii. You would mail a letter to your neighbor, and they would get it the next day.

viii. Not anymore (3 days)

ix. Now we can what? Send a text or email. We can send cash over our phones

David said

i. I will put my trust, hopes, dreams, and joy in you LORD.

ii. When you begin to see things from an eternal perspective.

iii. This is what Paul did in Philippians

iv. Philippians 3:8 (GW) — 8 It’s far more than that! I consider everything else worthless because I’m much better off knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. It’s because of him that I think of everything as worthless. I threw it all away in order to gain Christ.

Philippians 3:8 GW

It’s far more than that! I consider everything else worthless because I’m much better off knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. It’s because of him that I think of everything as worthless. I threw it all away in order to gain Christ

You:

The Single Mind

a. Thing about those joy robbers

i. They can only rob you of your joy if you let them.

ii. Paul had a single mind.

iii. Everything else was a crap pile.

b. Begin today

i. Understand you worth and value is based on being a child of God

ii. Not someone’s opinion of you.

iii. I have struggled with this the past few weeks

iv. You have nothing to prove but only to my Lord and Savior

v. You need to prove my love and devotion to Him.

vi. Bringing Him honor is my goal

vii. Don’t be a jerk but you don’t to need to prove worth

viii. With Christ you have eternal value

ix. Psalm 86:4 (NIV) — 4 Bring joy to your servant, Lord, for I put my trust in you.

Psalm 86:4 NLT

Give me happiness, O Lord, for I give myself to you.

We:

Joyless

a. Has the joy left?

i. Maybe your looking in the wrong place.