Teaching | The Dark Night of the Soul: Part 01 | Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship E06
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Have you ever felt like there is a wall between you and heaven? John Mark explores the Dark Night of the Soul, talking about what it is, what it isn’t, and some ideas for how to move through this season well.
Key Scripture Passage: Psalm 42
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:06.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the naming your stage in apprenticeship series. |
| 0:14.0 | And please turn in your Bibles to Psalm 42. |
| 0:20.0 | Psalm 42, Psalm 42. |
| 0:23.6 | Psalm 42 as we continue our practice |
| 0:27.1 | on naming your stage of apprenticeship. |
| 0:30.1 | As the deer pants for streams of water, |
| 0:36.7 | so my soul pants for you, my God. |
| 0:42.2 | My soul thirsts for God, for the living God, when can I go and meet with God? |
| 0:49.2 | My tears have been my food day and night. |
| 0:53.0 | While people say to me all day long, |
| 0:55.0 | where is your God? |
| 0:58.0 | These things I remember as I pour out my soul, |
| 1:02.0 | how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the mighty |
| 1:06.2 | one with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. Why my soul are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your |
| 1:20.9 | hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. |
| 1:27.0 | My soul is downcast within me. |
| 1:30.0 | Therefore I will remember you. From the land of the Jordan the heights of Herman from Mount |
| 1:36.4 | Mizar deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls all your waves and breakers have swept over me. |
| 1:47.1 | By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me a prayer to the God of my life. I say to God my rock why have you forgotten me |
| 2:03.2 | Why must I go about mourning oppressed by the enemy? |
| 2:07.4 | My bones suffer |
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