Title: Hang in There, Your Joy is Coming!
Text: Psalm 30:1-6
Author: Darrow Perkins
INTRODUCTION: Have you ever been frustrated? Do you know what it's like to get frustrated because it seems that things just don't work out the way you think they should sometimes? The more you do, the more obstacles and challenges seem to work against you. You've got a mind to do what needs to be done, but something or somebody always seems to get in the way, slow you down, upset you, frustrate you, get under your skin, on your last nerve, and even get you to the point of wanting to sometimes revert to your B.C. days. Let's keep in mind that the accuser of the brethren (the devil) is on a mission to ensure your complete and total destruction because he wants you to fall down and stay down. What you cannot do is stay down; you've got to "Hang In There; Your Joy Is Coming!
Moses gives us a good example of what it was like to have "life" coming at you all the time. In Exodus Chapter 17, God was dealing with Moses concerning the provisions of the people and instructed Moses to smite the rock and water would be provided for the people and their livestock. Having obeyed the command of God, the people were taken care of. We later find in Numbers 20 that God is again dealing with providing for His people because they approached Moses about needing provisions for themselves and their livestock. The text reads in Exodus 20:3, "And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!" The word "chode" here is past tense for the word "chide" and means to "scold, reprove, reprimand rebuke, blame, complain, and debate." God told Moses this time to speak to the rock instead of smiting (or hitting) the rock and He would provide yet again for His people. By the time Moses had gathered together the congregation, he wasn't calling them the children of Israel, but rather "rebels" because of the way they were conducting t ...
Text: Psalm 30:1-6
Author: Darrow Perkins
INTRODUCTION: Have you ever been frustrated? Do you know what it's like to get frustrated because it seems that things just don't work out the way you think they should sometimes? The more you do, the more obstacles and challenges seem to work against you. You've got a mind to do what needs to be done, but something or somebody always seems to get in the way, slow you down, upset you, frustrate you, get under your skin, on your last nerve, and even get you to the point of wanting to sometimes revert to your B.C. days. Let's keep in mind that the accuser of the brethren (the devil) is on a mission to ensure your complete and total destruction because he wants you to fall down and stay down. What you cannot do is stay down; you've got to "Hang In There; Your Joy Is Coming!
Moses gives us a good example of what it was like to have "life" coming at you all the time. In Exodus Chapter 17, God was dealing with Moses concerning the provisions of the people and instructed Moses to smite the rock and water would be provided for the people and their livestock. Having obeyed the command of God, the people were taken care of. We later find in Numbers 20 that God is again dealing with providing for His people because they approached Moses about needing provisions for themselves and their livestock. The text reads in Exodus 20:3, "And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!" The word "chode" here is past tense for the word "chide" and means to "scold, reprove, reprimand rebuke, blame, complain, and debate." God told Moses this time to speak to the rock instead of smiting (or hitting) the rock and He would provide yet again for His people. By the time Moses had gathered together the congregation, he wasn't calling them the children of Israel, but rather "rebels" because of the way they were conducting t ...
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