The Wilderness | Psalms of Lent Week 1 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

Luke 24:44 NIV: He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

The Wilderness Process(MULTILINE)

The wilderness isn’t punishment—it’s an invitation.(MULTILINE)

Psalms 42 ESV

Book Two

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” 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 with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and 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? 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 the day long, “Where is your God?” Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

The Wilderness Process

1. Desperate (MULTILINE)

Psalm 42:1-2 ESV: As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

2. Deep (MULTILINE)

Psalm 42:3 ESV: My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

3. Determined (MULTILINE)

Psalm 42:5 & 11 ESV: Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Mark 1:12-13 ESV: The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Why are you cast down, O my soul,(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

2 Corinthians 1:10 NIV: He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us…(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)