What Can I Do When Trouble Overshelms Me

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What can I do when trouble overwhelms some welcome Turning Point today. Thank you for joining us. We delight having you in the month of September as we focus our attention on the word of God, and on these questions that were answering the question.

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Thank you for your generosity for your faithfulness helping us during these days, we count on you and were so grateful. Well let's get started with today's lesson I want to talk to you today about how we deal with these fears that are the result of our trouble and I want to use as my subject the man David and is my text. The famous 27th Psalm. We aren't sure when David wrote this, it's probable that he wrote it during the time when he was running from Saul in fear. Some have suggested that he may have written this Psalm when Absalom his son took away the throne of Israel from him committed treason on his own dad whenever it was written.

We do know this, that the 27th Psalm is a personal testimony of a man who was in trouble and despite the many moods that are reflected in this Psalm. It is quite evident that the psalmist knew what to do when trouble, visited his life is a very deeply spiritual Psalm that is easily divided into two sections and it's important to understand the sections as we quickly move through the text verses one through six give to us. The psalmist testimony of how he dealt with the spirit and is trouble. And then, almost as an illustration for us verses seven through 14 is David's prayer that he prayed when he was in trouble. So at the beginning we have some principles of how to deal with trouble in our lives, and at the ending.

We have an actual prayer that was played by the psalmist when trouble visited him. Let's look first of all, at the first six verses as we extract from this Scripture. Some of the principles that we need to learn so that when we have trouble we know what to do. Principle number one in David's life, express your faith.

David said in verse one. The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid.

We know that David is in a time of trouble. We know that fear is knocking on his door the rest of the Psalm speaks of his enemies. It speaks of his trouble, and yet here he is at the beginning of this Psalm expressing out loud and aggressively display he is saying out loud what he knows to be true inwardly even though his feelings don't match up with the words that he's expressing the psalmist testimony you see begins where religion must always begin and that is with a personal declaration of faith and in the very action of expressing your faith during the time of trouble you take first step toward healing and wholeness want you to notice that. Secondly, David moves from expressing his faith to extending his you know the catastrophe report is in the midst of your trouble, whatever it may be you sit down with a yellow sheet of paper yellow pad and you try to imagine the very worst thing that can happen to you.

As a result of the trouble you're now experiencing. You write it out you extended clear out to its complete and you write the worst scenario you can imagine that you read it out loud and recognizing that this problem you have, could never be that bad. You start feeling better already. Well David is sort of done that in this Psalm.

He's extended his fear to its logical boundaries, pieces, Lord, I want you to know that I have my trust in you and you are my salvation. I won't fear you. He says when the wicked come against me to eat up my flesh in my enemies and foes. They stumbled and fell on the Army may encamp against me, my heart shall not fear the Lord may rise against me in this, I will be confident.

David thinks of all the things that could happen to him. The very worst things a good happen to either subterfuge and enemy sneaking up on him or see an enemy and camping against them. Over a long period of time or Aurora pestilence. And David says no matter what happens as bad as it could ever get. I have this confidence and what is his confidence, his confidence is what he's already said his confidence is that the Lord is his light and his salvation, expressing your faith and then extending your faith in verses four and five he talks about experiencing is is one thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire at his temple.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion in the secret place of his tabernacle, he shall hide me, he shall set me high up on a rock. Though this is a wonderful rich verse. First of all I need to point out to you that David has now reduced his life.

He is living his life down to one thing. Do you see this one thing I will do it reminds me of what Paul said when he wrote to the Philippians and in his letter to the Philippians, Paul said this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching for them to those things which are before I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. David said something very similar here diddly he said this one thing I do when trouble comes, I center my thoughts on God. I get into the temple where God is into the sanctuary where God is. I meditate on the beauty of God and I spend time with God's people you'll either let trouble push you back toward God or you let it push you away from God. David said I made sure when trouble came into my life that I spent time in the sanctuary that I came to the tabernacle that God became my pavilion. The last thing I think is pretty exciting because not only do we need to experience our faith, but verse six says we need to enjoy our faith in you know, that sort of an anomaly there.

How can you enjoy trouble.

I didn't say enjoy trouble I sit enjoy your faith and listen to what verse six says as we read the Psalm and he says, and now my head shall be lifted up above mine enemies all around me.

Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tabernacle I was saying yes I will sing praises to the Lord while in what David is saying is this, that when we come to God in worship and in prayer. When we are going through trouble in the time when we feel less like worshiping him is the time when we need to worship in the most when we come to church on Sunday and will walk and notice our heads are down in general want somebody with so much trouble that their heads are down and have you felt that in your life you face a confrontation and it goes wrong and you walk away from there with your head down, very graphic is let me tell you what the Bible says. The Bible says that when you face trouble, and you put worship back in the center of your life that worship becomes watch this, the lifter of your head.

Praise God that you can come in the church with your head down, you can walk into church with the burdens of the world on you with trouble so overwhelming that you feel like you're going to drown and you get caught up in the worship of the Lord. It's almost like a visual thing God just takes your head and need to solicit right up. See friends there something about worship. That's really a dynamic truth and that is the thing. Worship does his worship makes God willing in your heart is gone. Yes he can't get any bigger than he is something God is God. He's the ultimate bigness, but worship magnifies God worship takes who God is and it puts it in your heart so that she began to feel and sense and appreciate the greatness of Almighty God and watch what happens when you see the greatness of Almighty God, and you put your trouble in that picture.

Everything changes everything. When you measure your trouble against the trouble of others.

You might be depressed when you measure your trouble against the greatness and magnificence of God. What a thing that is under your head gets lifted. Well, those are the principles that David tells us in Psalm 27 and then I told you in verses seven through 14. He prays and I'm just going to have to skip over this quickly. Here are some things I observed in verses seven through 12. First of all when we study this prayer we understand how to pray when trouble comes, he says in verse seven. Here, Lord, when I cry with my voice, have mercy.

Also upon me and answer me when you said seek my face, my heart said to you, your face, Lord, I will seek and I wrote down in my notes that true prayer in the time of trouble is really responding on our part to God.

Isn't it interesting that even though trouble overwhelms us. We are not prone even in the midst of our trouble to take the first step toward God were stubborn people. The Bible calls us stiffnecked and so when trouble comes we have this incredible urge to work it out ourselves and sometimes God is the last option on the long list of options, but if I understand the song correctly enough. I understand what David is saying what he saying is this, that in the midst of my trouble. I heard God say to me. Seek my face, David, and he said when I heard God say, seek my face, I saw the face of God and try to remember and reflecting. You know I'm given the trouble so I don't think back to far I can get early often experiences and I have to tell you that I think there's a nugget of truth here that we may have overlooked, and that is that every one of our troubles and every one of our situations. Whether it's our marriage or with our children or finances or business or health or whatever. There's always a time in the midst of that when the voice of God speaks to us and says to us seek my face. David said when God said to me. Seek my face. I said Lord your face.

I will seek to put it in the vernacular of today.

David heard God say David David, I love you and and David said, and I love you too, David. I want fellowship with you and God and I want fellowship with you to we have this little thing we do in our marriages no way maybe it's not that when your marriage but it is in most marriages that I know about we do this little answer back and forth you're a believer where where were calling home. And if you have a conversation I say I love you and she says I love you too and I think that's what's going on with David and his God in the midst of his trouble. God is saying David, I love you, David is just asking this in the midst of your trouble.

You hear the voice of God respond to it. For true prayer in the time of trouble is really responding to God. Notice, secondly the true prayer in the time of trouble relies upon God's provision. I can only read the verses but you will see it. He says do not hide your face from me. Do not turn your servant away in anger.

You have been my help God. Do not leave me or forsake me a God of my salvation, for when my father and my mother forsake me, than the Lord take care of me when David prays in his time of trouble. He realizes how dependent he is upon God so dependent that he said God even if it were true that my father and my mother could forsake me. I know that you will take Mia care for me, David's father and mother never forsook him he was saying this sort of as an extension of what could possibly happen is using as an illustration in the greatest love relationship that David knew his relationship with his parents is that relationship should go sour with my mom and dad. She kicked me out and disowned me God. I know that I would never be disowned by you. You know when David wrote the song, he may not have known at the time about the breakup of the family in our day. I know some of you here today whose parents have thrown you out of the house because of your faith in God and what a wonderful promise. This is to you that when your mother and father forsake you. God will be there to provide for you. He is your father, your heavenly father. True prayer the time of trouble, resigns to God's will teach me a whale Lord, and lead me in a smooth path because of my enemies. David's prayer is a prayer of humble submission to God's will.

He's not trying to sort out his trouble himself. Isn't that what we try to do is not what were prone to do.

David is insane. Lord, please.

I figured out my way now.

You blessed know he saying, Lord, here's a blank sheet of paper.

I have no idea how to get out of this trouble.

You fill in the page assignment bottom of it.

Lord you teach me away when you come to God in the time of trouble you can't come with your own agenda friend you may think you know the way out. You may even have sorted it all out. Have it all figured out. You may have a wonderful plan but you need to set that plan aside and come to God and say, teach me your way. I don't know what you want me to learn from this.

I don't know what you want me to understand from us but God, my will is totally your will teach me your way. I resigned to do whatever you tell me to do. True prayer resigns to God's will. I just about came out of my chair when I saw the because of some experiences that I've been having in my own life.

Maybe, but it's just incredible. In verse 13 David says.

I would've lost my heart.

I would've fainted unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living I've read this song over and over again. All my life and I really never understood that verse until recently. Dave is not talking about seeing the goodness of the Lord in the sky by-and-by. He's talking about seeing the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living friends.

What is the land of the living.

It's the here and now it's today tomorrow yesterday to say I would have it I would've given up. I would've lost my to go on. If I had not believed to see your hand goodness in the here and now I don't have to debate with all of you today the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. All except, that is God's people. We know that there is the evidence of God and his goodness in the here and now in the land of the living. But you know what the problem is here is we don't see it. And the reason we don't see it is because we don't look for it. One of the most wonderful things you can ever do. My friend is to begin to take note of the goodness of God in the land of your living. I've been keeping a little journal keeping track of the goodness of God in the land of my living and I've been writing down the things that God does just keep in a little list and I go back often and read that listen sometimes. I have dry days, you know. Please don't be disappointed with me. Sometimes I just have dry days when I try to fellowship with God and it's really awkward.

Maybe I'm a little discouraged, happens to me on Monday. I don't know why, just sort of does you know it's been a great encouragement to me. It's to read my list of the goodness of God in the land of my living in its growing and every time I get in trouble and I'm wondering whether God knows what's going on in my life and whether he cares or whether he can do anything about it. My faith is kind of a flickering claim I opened up my journal and I read my list of the goodness of God in the land of my living. Someone set a long time ago that an unexamined life is not worth living. And I believe that more than I ever have before friends if you can walk through your life and never take note of what God is doing. If you're not keeping any notes.

If you're not kind of writing down the good things that the Lord does, you're missing out on one of the great blessings you could have as a believer what you need to do. You see, is to compile the experience.

How do I know that God is going to help me in the trouble I have now. You know, I know that because I've kept a record of how he helped me in the trouble I had last month and I kept a record back into the trouble I have before and how God carried me through how he answered my prayers and I've got a whole list of things to begin. Thank you Lord for and then there's a phrase or a statement or paragraph what God is done there so personal. I never dare read them to you what you should have a list like that because if you don't recognize the goodness of God in your prayer, your prayer will be anemic. Finally, verse 14 were finished.

True prayer in the time of trouble remains calm when God delays you see, God is in on your time schedule. My friend you in a lot of trouble. Now your marriage is on the rocks. Your kids are driving you crazy and doing things you never dreamed even knew how to do your finances are topsy-turvy. Everything is inside out in your sand Lord help how many can give the witness that you prayed that to word prayer Lord help anybody beside me. I was driving a car some years ago. Going through an intersection and I saw a car coming through the intersection. The other way like toward me and I pray Lord help you hit the back door and hit my door hit the back door. Nobody was sitting back there.

I mean, I'm glad the Lord redirected to the back door. I don't know if he would've done it if I invite Lord help, but I don't have time to for anything would Lord help right, you better learn how to pray that prayer you may need it someday. Since all try.

Let's try it out loud. Lord help right keep that one on your list, which you know sometimes we pray Lord help and he didn't do it right away.

We have to wait all I hate to wait all I was Biltmore for speed and comfort, nearest you know I hate waiting see my all of life is made up of waiting in the hardest waiting that you ever have to wait is when you want God to do some about your trouble, and he didn't seem to be doing in the psalmist ends up some on how you pray when you're in trouble and he says wait on the Lord, be of good courage, he will strengthen your heart rate, I say on the Lord.

How do you know he will strengthen your heart, would you go all the way back to the beginning of the Psalm, the Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life on the Lord, be of good courage, he will strengthen your heart, one who was the strength of your life wants to be the strength of your heart.

All of these principles are available to just like they were to David write your own Psalm and God will hear you.

Psalm 27 is one of the best ones is just fueling your heart and soul and with hope and courage and and make you so glad you're Christian and that you know God and to talk about something else that will encourage you tomorrow and Thursday. The one who meets your needs from Mark chapter 1 limits to what was going on here.

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