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Psalm 143

Psalm 143

A psalm of David.

1 Lord, hear my prayer,
    listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
    come to my relief.
2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,
    for no one living is righteous before you.
3 The enemy pursues me,
    he crushes me to the ground;
he makes me dwell in the darkness
    like those long dead.
4 So my spirit grows faint within me;
    my heart within me is dismayed.
5 I remember the days of long ago;
    I meditate on all your works
    and consider what your hands have done.
6 I spread out my hands to you;
    I thirst for you like a parched land.[a]

7 Answer me quickly, Lord;
    my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me
    or I will be like those who go down to the pit.
8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
    for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
    for to you I entrust my life.
9 Rescue me from my enemies, Lord,
    for I hide myself in you.
10 Teach me to do your will,
    for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
    lead me on level ground.

11 For your name’s sake, Lord, preserve my life;
    in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
12 In your unfailing love, silence my enemies;
    destroy all my foes,
    for I am your servant.

NIV

  1. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the farthest you have ever felt from God, 10 being the closest you have ever felt to God) what number would you give in how close you feel to God today? Why?
  2. We find ourselves in two primary seasons of life: Grow or Go.

The Creator of the universe uses His creativity to grow us in ways that He realizes will motivate us best.

  1. There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss, and no loss without pain.
  2. We were commanded to go into all the earth and proclaim that Jesus is the answer to a world desperately seeking a Savior.
  3. You were born and live right now in this place because God ordained you to go in this community.

 

2 Peter 1:5-7

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 

 

Luke 14:21-23

21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.   22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.   23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.  

 

John 15:16

    Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit…

 

Mark 1:38

    And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.

 

Mark 5:19 [Jesus cast demon out of man…]

    Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.

 

Matthew 28:19

    Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

 

Mark 16:15

    And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.