Amen and amen.

We have some of the craziest stories you've ever heard in your life.

Do we not?

I don't know how many churches this weekend will share testimony of high-speed car chase with the police and prison and Baker Correctional

and a thrift store and a prom dress that ends in tears and salvation and baptism. Amen? Amen.

They're all over the place. And as dynamic as that story is, that testimony is, What's crazy is that your little, I grew up in church

and got saved when I was seven, is just as miraculous as that one because we were dead in our

trespasses. And by the mercy and grace of God, we have been made alive in Christ. Amen? All right,

if you got your Bible, Psalm 91 is where we're going to be, and I'm kind of excited about this one.

This is a very, very familiar Psalm to me, and the reason it is a familiar Psalm to me is because when you say, Pastor, I need prayer, and it's like a doozy, man, this is the Psalm I pray.

And the reason I pray it, because kind of the theme of

this Psalm is about God's protection and provision and deliverance of God's people by the Almighty God.

Now, what I will say as we work through Psalm 91 is this, is that you cannot read just one

Psalm all by itself and build

out a robust theology of suffering and blessing and protection. And all of the outstanding

and credible promises in Psalm 91 are true and what most evangelical preachers want to do

is just ascribe all of them to heaven when we get there

one day. And that is true. They will all be fully, completely realized in heaven. However, I also

believe that they are true for us today and right now. So as we walk through the Word of God,

if your current experience and circumstances don't necessarily

be seeming to line up with some of these statements, what I want us to do as a people is

that we willingly choose to set our doubts and disbeliefs aside and believe God's word

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