#1,362 - Finding Hope in God During Turmoil (Psalm 42:5)

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David Platt

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

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Why are you cast down on my soul and why are you in turmoil within me? View the 2021 McLean Bible Church Reading Plan here.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:04.0	Psalm chapter 42, verse 5 and 11 say the same thing, and then Psalm chapter 43 verse 5 says the same
0:14.4	thing. So let me read what it says, this verse that we see in both of these chapters that are back
0:21.6	to back and think about what the Bible is teaching us here and how we can pray according to this word.
0:28.9	So Psalm chapter 42, verse 5 and 11 and Psalm 43, verse 5 say, why are you cast down on my soul?
0:37.6	And why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God. For I shall again praise him, my salvation and my
0:47.2	God. Oh, pardon me, once you just read it three times, you feel the effects. In fact, I'm going to
0:52.4	do that. Let me just say it again and again. Why are you cast down on my soul? And why are you in
0:58.8	turmoil within me? Hope in God. For I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. Why are you
1:07.0	cast down on my soul? And why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God. For I shall again praise him,
1:14.7	my salvation and my God. Like even in just repeating it, you can feel the turmoil within the
1:23.3	Psalmist as he's praying this. And this is one of the more famous well-known Psalms because it
1:30.0	starts, Psalms 42 starts with the verse as a dear pants for flowing streams. So my soul
1:37.3	pants for you, oh God, my soul thirst for God for living God, when should I go and appear before
1:42.8	God? There's a longing in the Psalmist here to be with God. He feels distant from God,
1:48.6	even physically distant from the temple, likely the context in the Psalm. And he's cast down. His
1:54.5	soul is low. Why are you in turmoil within me? Like there's an angst in him. There's a longing in
2:02.0	him that I trust is familiar to every worshipper of God, every child of God. There are times when
2:11.8	your soul feels downcast and there's turmoil within you that is often accompanied by a feeling of
2:23.0	distance from God, lack of intimacy with God, or maybe just walking through the struggles of
2:31.0	this world and just feeling overwhelmed by them. And that's what I love about this verse that we see
2:39.6	three times in Psalm 42 to 43. Why are you cast down on my soul? Why are you in turmoil within me?
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