Turn in your Bible to Psalms 42 and we're going to speak this morning the battle for our courage

There is a battle going on we're in the series called the battle and one of the greatest battles that the enemy fights against every believer is the battle for our believer's

courage.

And we're going to read in Psalms 42 in just a moment about this battle that King David fought regularly. If you read the Psalms, if you read more than one at a time,

it seems that every other Psalm, David was either really excited or really depressed.

Like every other one, good day, bad day, good day, bad day.

And so he wrote a Psalm every day, it seems like, and you can kind of follow the pattern of this life.

You ever do that when you read the Psalms? But it makes me feel better because that's sometimes

that's how I feel. Good day, bad day, good day, bad day. Well in Psalms 42, David is not having a very good day.

And he was battling discouragement, battling heaviness, battling a tormenting attack that was happening in his life.

And so let's read Psalms 42, verse 9, and this is out of the message version of the Bible, and it's not a literal translation, but it captures the thought of what David was trying to communicate.

Okay? Psalms 42, verse 9.

Says, sometimes I ask God, my rock solid God why did you let me down?

Now let's pause here for a moment.

How many of you have asked God that question in the past why lord why god where are you why have you let me down

Have you ever asked that question? We have some honest people

Let's try that one more time. How have you ever asked God that question in some form?

Well, I have.

I certainly have it.

And God's not offended by that question.

He wasn't offended when David asked the question.

So let's keep reading. Why am I walking around in tears

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