Working the Night Shift
Steve Wagers
Psalm 134
Psalm 120-134 - A Song of DEGREES
Degree - Elevation/Journey to a higher place
1) From Captivity to Jerusalem at end of the exile
2) Ascending up 15 steps to the Temple (Ctyard Men/Women)
3) Songs they sang as they traveled to the Feasts
4) Degrees linked to Ahaz's sun dial set back (Hezekiah)
15 Psalms: 5 - TROUBLE / 5 - TRUST / 5 - TRIUMPH
(120:1) ''In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.''
(121:1) ''I will lift up mine eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help.''
(122:1) ''I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.''
PRIMARY - Psalm 131, Psalm 133, Psalm 134 (ONLY 3 verses)
Ps. 131: WEANING
''as a child weaned of his mother''
Ps. 133: WILLING
Ps. 134: WORKING
Psalm 130 - PARDON of the Lord
Psalm 131 - PATIENCE of the Lord
Psalm 132 - PROMISES of the Lord
Psalm 133 - PEOPLE of the Lord
Psalm 134 - PRAISE of the Lord
Psalm 120 - COMMENCEMENT of the journey
Psalm 134 - CONCLUSION of the journey
Psalm 134 - HEIGHT OF THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE
(God trusts the ones enough to work on the night shift)
''Faith is like film - It ONLY develops in the dark''
J. B. Buffington - ''You came in carrying your Bible. There'll come a time when your Bible will have to carry you.''
Psalm 134 - Call to WORK - WITNESS - WORSHIP
Eugene Peterson: ''The life that begins in repentance, concludes in a life of praise.''
Psalm 134 - A SHIFT CHANGE - Day shift to Night shift
(1 Chronicles 9:33) ''...they were employed in that work day and night.''
Psalm 134 is what those going out from the day shift are saying to those coming in on the night shift.
Word of PROCLAMATION
Word of EXHORTATION
Word of CELEBRATION
1) The CHALLENGE OF the Night Shift!
A) DARK Time
(Genesis 1:3-5) ''And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 ...
Steve Wagers
Psalm 134
Psalm 120-134 - A Song of DEGREES
Degree - Elevation/Journey to a higher place
1) From Captivity to Jerusalem at end of the exile
2) Ascending up 15 steps to the Temple (Ctyard Men/Women)
3) Songs they sang as they traveled to the Feasts
4) Degrees linked to Ahaz's sun dial set back (Hezekiah)
15 Psalms: 5 - TROUBLE / 5 - TRUST / 5 - TRIUMPH
(120:1) ''In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.''
(121:1) ''I will lift up mine eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help.''
(122:1) ''I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.''
PRIMARY - Psalm 131, Psalm 133, Psalm 134 (ONLY 3 verses)
Ps. 131: WEANING
''as a child weaned of his mother''
Ps. 133: WILLING
Ps. 134: WORKING
Psalm 130 - PARDON of the Lord
Psalm 131 - PATIENCE of the Lord
Psalm 132 - PROMISES of the Lord
Psalm 133 - PEOPLE of the Lord
Psalm 134 - PRAISE of the Lord
Psalm 120 - COMMENCEMENT of the journey
Psalm 134 - CONCLUSION of the journey
Psalm 134 - HEIGHT OF THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE
(God trusts the ones enough to work on the night shift)
''Faith is like film - It ONLY develops in the dark''
J. B. Buffington - ''You came in carrying your Bible. There'll come a time when your Bible will have to carry you.''
Psalm 134 - Call to WORK - WITNESS - WORSHIP
Eugene Peterson: ''The life that begins in repentance, concludes in a life of praise.''
Psalm 134 - A SHIFT CHANGE - Day shift to Night shift
(1 Chronicles 9:33) ''...they were employed in that work day and night.''
Psalm 134 is what those going out from the day shift are saying to those coming in on the night shift.
Word of PROCLAMATION
Word of EXHORTATION
Word of CELEBRATION
1) The CHALLENGE OF the Night Shift!
A) DARK Time
(Genesis 1:3-5) ''And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 ...
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