Your Emotions Matter to God: Learning from the Bible’s Songbook
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Desiring God
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🗓️ 11 September 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following resource is from desiring God.org. |
| 0:05.0 | Would you pray with me? |
| 0:10.0 | What will I render to the Lord for all of his benefits to me? |
| 0:15.0 | I will lift up the cup of the Lord to fill it. So come and fill our cup and pour it out and pour it out in this room. |
| 1:05.0 | In Jesus' name, amen. So why is the songbook of the Bible punctuated with so many commands addressed to our emotions. |
| 1:19.2 | Why do we read, love the Lord your God with all your heart, oh you Saints? Why do we read, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in all of Him, Psalm 33. Why do we read, let all the earth exult, |
| 1:29.7 | Psalm 64, delight yourself in the Lord, Psalm 37. Rejoice in the Lord. Psalm 97. Be glad in the Lord. Psalm 32. Hope in God. Psalm 42. Give thanks to the Lord. |
| 1:44.8 | Some 33. Love, stand in awe, |
| 1:49.2 | exult, delight, rejoice, be glad, hope, give thanks. Those are commands. They're not testimonies, |
| 2:01.1 | they're not promises, and they're not prayers. |
| 2:08.0 | There are lots of testimonies to God's faithfulness in giving emotions. |
| 2:18.3 | I love the Lord from 16. There is nothing on earth I desire besides you. Psalm 73. How sweet are your words to my taste, |
| 2:30.0 | Psalm 119. Those are testimonies, not commands. The Psalms are full of promises that he will come |
| 2:39.0 | through with emotion. The Lord satisfies the longing soul, some 107, the humble will be glad, |
| 2:51.2 | some 69, the righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance. |
| 2:57.0 | Some 58. |
| 3:00.0 | Those are promises. |
| 3:01.0 | They're not commands. |
| 3:05.4 | And the battle is filled. The Psalms in particular are filled with prayers. |
| 3:15.8 | Let me hear and be glad. |
| 3:19.5 | Let the bones that you have broken. |
| 3:21.4 | Rejoyed, Psalm 51. Oh oh gladden the soul of your servant |
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