We all would like to think that we know where we are going and how to get there.

But at every stage in life, we need divine direction. God has promised to guide us if we simply follow.

The fifth and final section of Psalms are referred to as

Deuteronomy Psalms because they remind us to keep returning to the truth of God's word.

Join us as we study them with Scott Pauli today.

In a world filled with lies and deceit, isn't it encouraging to know that God always keeps

His word? We've come to Psalm 132 in our study of the Psalms, and this is a Psalm that reminds us

that the God who promises always keeps his promises, that what he foretells, he always fulfills. You see, Psalm 132

centers on God's promise to David and the covenant that they entered into. You can study more

in the Old Testament about the Davidic covenant, all the things that God promised to David, and many

of those have already been fulfilled,

and all of those will be fulfilled prophetically. Well, Psalm 132 revolves around that covenant relationship.

It begins this way, Lord, remember David and all his afflictions, how he swear into the Lord

and vowed into the mighty God of Jacob.

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed.

I will not give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find out a place for the Lord and habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

Lo, we heard of it in Ephrita, we found it in the fields of the wood. We will go into

his tabernacles. We will worship at his footstool. Arise, O Lord, into thy rest, thou and the ark of

thy strength. Now the setting for Psalm 132 is found in First Chronicles, chapter 15 when the ark of the covenant was brought back

into Jerusalem you remember to been carried away and David brings it back and he worships and

celebrates and gives God the glory because the visible presence of God had returned into the city of

Jerusalem but it really reveals more than that. It reveals

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