Continuing a deep-dive into Psalm 23

A deep dive into Psalm 23

Let us resolve, no matter our age or station in life, that we will: Never release God’s promise, Never retire from serving God & Never retreat from the enemy. Let’s keep going for Jesus with all the strength God gives us.

When you make it your habit to seek God's presence every day, you begin to see evidence of his faithfulness all around you.

The word “yet” appears in the Bible approximately 395x. Allow me to share just a few of the ways that God uses this word “yet.”

The problem is not the sinful excess of the world that we see all around us. The problem is that we’re running the other way so we don’t have to love the world that God loves. The problem is not the gross evil that we so quickly condemn. The problem is that we’re not praying for the people who live in the wickedness we say we hate. Their sin has made them odious to us so we don’t even bother to pray for them.

God’s greatest problem is not the sinner out there.

–His greatest problem is the saint in here.

We’re a lot more like Jonah than we would like to admit. That’s why we laugh and then we squirm. There’s a lot of Jonah inside most of us.

We can’t look to the past & focus on what others have done for Christ. Nor can we live in the future, thinking about what the children of today might do thirty years from now. The only generation we can reach is our own.

Nineveh was a place where no reasonable God would go. But being reasonable has nothing to do with it. Our God has a heart bigger than all our “reasonable” calculations. He loves the city & his heart goes out to those who want nothing to do with him.

Nineveh was a place where no reasonable God would go. But being reasonable has nothing to do with it. Our God has a heart bigger than all our “reasonable” calculations. He loves the city & his heart goes out to those who want nothing to do with him.

You're just vomited out of a large fish...now what? What do you do if you are Jonah? At this point, you wait for God to tell you what to do next. In Jonah’s case, he didn’t have to wait very long.