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Messages by Desiring God

Spiritual Depression in the Psalms

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When we think and feel with the Psalms, we learn how to fight for hope in the most difficult times.

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The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

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Today's sermon text is Psalm 42.

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Again the text is Psalm 42.

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To the choir master, a masculine of the sons of Cora.

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As the dear pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.

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My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

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When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night while

0:38.4

they say to me all day long, where is your God?

0:46.0

These things I remember as I pour out my soul, how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God,

0:50.0

with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude-keeping festival.

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Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?

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Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God.

1:09.1

My soul is cast down within me.

1:11.9

Therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Herman from Mount Meizar.

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Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have gone over me.

1:26.2

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the

1:31.4

God of my life. I say to God my rock, why have you forgotten me?

1:37.0

And why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me while they say to me all

1:46.2

the day long, where is your God?

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Why are you cast down, oh my soul?

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And why are you in turmoil within me?

1:54.0

Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God.

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