RESTORING YOUR SPIRITUAL PASSION (1 OF 4)
Restoring Your Spiritual Passion (1 of 4)
Series: Overcoming Spiritual Entropy
Collin Wimberly
Psalm 63
CIT - David chooses to seek God in the wilderness. Series - Overcoming spiritual entropy
INTRODUCTION: ILLUS: Scene from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Tuco, a Mexican bandit has captured Clint Eastwood's character Blondie and force marches him across a desert. Blondie quickly begins to dehydrate. His lips are chaped and split, he becomes so tired and weary that he can hardly put one step in front of another. Of course, it doesn't end there. ?But it was a such a great desert scene.
David was going through one of those rough times which seemed to be his lot in life. He had been driven from the throne by Absalom, had headed out across the northern edge of the wilderness of Judea and was far from Jerusalem. Absalom his son, Amasa his nephew, and Ahithophel, once his counselor and friend, had all betrayed him. He was at the bottom.
The pre-script for the Psalm states that he was in the wilderness. The wilderness is a harsh place to be. He calls it a dry and thirsty land. The desert is a barren landscape. We know what dry and thirsty - he is longing for God. Desperate for God. Desperate for something to refresh him and help him. Some translations use the word weary. I like that. It expresses the meaning well. Sometimes we get to a point in our spiritual life that everything just seems to be weariness. We have no motivation. No joy. We just go through the motions.
Does this describe your soul this morning? How many times have we found ourselves in a dry and thirsty land emotionally, physically, or spiritually?
David will us some guidance for our souls this morning. What do we do when we are in the desert spiritually? How do we restore our spiritual passion?
I SEEK GOD- VS. 1-2 In the wilderness David goes to the only source of hope and help. He seeks God. Notice the language here. He seeks God, he thirsts for God, He faints for God. ...
Series: Overcoming Spiritual Entropy
Collin Wimberly
Psalm 63
CIT - David chooses to seek God in the wilderness. Series - Overcoming spiritual entropy
INTRODUCTION: ILLUS: Scene from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Tuco, a Mexican bandit has captured Clint Eastwood's character Blondie and force marches him across a desert. Blondie quickly begins to dehydrate. His lips are chaped and split, he becomes so tired and weary that he can hardly put one step in front of another. Of course, it doesn't end there. ?But it was a such a great desert scene.
David was going through one of those rough times which seemed to be his lot in life. He had been driven from the throne by Absalom, had headed out across the northern edge of the wilderness of Judea and was far from Jerusalem. Absalom his son, Amasa his nephew, and Ahithophel, once his counselor and friend, had all betrayed him. He was at the bottom.
The pre-script for the Psalm states that he was in the wilderness. The wilderness is a harsh place to be. He calls it a dry and thirsty land. The desert is a barren landscape. We know what dry and thirsty - he is longing for God. Desperate for God. Desperate for something to refresh him and help him. Some translations use the word weary. I like that. It expresses the meaning well. Sometimes we get to a point in our spiritual life that everything just seems to be weariness. We have no motivation. No joy. We just go through the motions.
Does this describe your soul this morning? How many times have we found ourselves in a dry and thirsty land emotionally, physically, or spiritually?
David will us some guidance for our souls this morning. What do we do when we are in the desert spiritually? How do we restore our spiritual passion?
I SEEK GOD- VS. 1-2 In the wilderness David goes to the only source of hope and help. He seeks God. Notice the language here. He seeks God, he thirsts for God, He faints for God. ...
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