God's Cure for Troubled Times

Enjoying the Journey

Scott Pauley

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🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Psalm 91. This is a cheerful psalm! You can keep a song in troubled times if you can keep your eyes fixed on God. If you need encouragement meditate on this Scripture. Join Scott Pauley's study through Scripture this year. Find resources for every book of the Bible by Dr. Pauley and Enjoying the Journey at enjoyingthejourney.org/journey-through-scripture/.Whether you're a new believer or have walked with the Lord for years, you'll find thousands of free devotionals, Bible studies, audio series, and Scripture tools designed to strengthen your faith, deepen your understanding of the Bible, and help you stay rooted in the Word of God. Explore now at EnjoyingTheJourney.org.Extend the Work Enjoying the Journey provides every resource for free worldwide. If you would like to help extend this Bible teaching, you may give at enjoyingthejourney.org/donations/

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0:00.0	Life is a journey, and the fourth section of the Psalms, known as the Numbers' Psalms, show us the goodness and guidance of God along that journey.
0:16.0	If we want to move forward, we must look up. Let's join Scott Pauli now as we open the Word of God and find direction for the road of life.
0:35.6	A German physician said that this particular psalm was the best preservative against the outbreak of cholera in his day, the plague that was spreading.
0:46.8	Campbell Morgan said it was one of the greatest possessions of the saints.
0:50.8	Charles Spurgeon said it was one of the most cheerful of all the Psalms.
0:55.3	I'm referring to Psalm 91.
0:57.7	Psalm 91 is God's cure for a troubled time.
1:02.2	That's exactly right.
1:03.3	We're living in troubled times, and there are many troubled hearts, but I want you to know God has a cure, and Psalm 91 shows us the cure.
1:12.4	Many people believe it to be an extension of Psalm 90.
1:15.9	Most folks believe that if an author is not designated in the Psalm,
1:21.2	then the author of the previous Psalm is the one who's continuing to write.
1:25.5	If that's true, then Psalm 91 was written by Moses, just like Psalm 90.
1:31.8	And we don't know what experience was behind it.
1:33.7	Obviously, there are difficult circumstances.
1:35.5	If you look through Psalm 91, these 16 verses, you find words like pestilence, terror, arrow, destruction, evil, plague, trouble. Are you encouraged yet? Tough times, troubled
1:47.9	times. And yet when you read Psalm 91, you don't come away thinking about that. You come away
1:53.4	thinking about God. The emphasis is on God. May I say to you that the cure for a troubled time
1:59.8	is to get your eyes off the trouble and back on God.
2:03.8	That's why Psalm 91 begins with God.
2:06.6	Listen to the opening verses.
2:08.2	He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
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