Hello, my friends, Michael Yusuf here, and I just wanted to thank you for connecting with leading the way.

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richly bless you as you seek to serve him. Psalm 121 teaches us how to cry to God, and it shows us how sometimes when we cry to God

to just get us out of whatever mess we're in and that pressure cook of life, but he cries to God

differently. When he, the psalmist, cries to God, he is praying in confidence in the Lord.

He's crying to him with a total trust in the Lord. He cries to him with an absolute assurance in the character of God and who he is,

and it is a faith and the sovereignty of God and that the God is in control.

Sometimes the way we pray, remind me of a story that Vance Havner, the old evangelist, used to tell about an elderly

lady who had many troubles. Some of them are imaginary or some were real, and a family

are trying to do everything they could. And finally, one of the grandchildren said to her,

I said, Grandma, we have done everything that we could do for you.

Now the only thing left is for you to trust the Lord. And then there was a terror on her face

for a moment, and she said, oh dear, has it come to that? Well, it always comes to that. You better start with that.

And that's what the psalmist is doing here. He's starting with that. Historians tell us that this Psalm, it is historically

known as the Psalm of Ascent. Devout Jews would sing this song, sing this Psalm, as they

made their ways up to the highlands of Judean hills, where Jerusalem is.

Back then, they only had kind of well-trodden paths across valleys and along the rivers and

over the mountain path.

And I know that a couple of times at least that I sat there and looked up to that

hill and I imagined in my head about those pilgrims who came traveling and how much they felt

as they come from all over the land and they've traveled long distance, how much they

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