TREATING SPIRITUAL DEHYDRATION
Summer Psalms – Part 4 of 7
Psalm 42-43
WHAT IS SPIRITUAL DEHYDRATION?
42.2 “My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” (esv)
42.9 “[God] Why have you forgotten me?” (esv)
WHAT CAUSES SPIRITUAL DEHYDRATION? WHEN WE ARE …
Physically Exhausted:
42.3 “My tears have been my food day and night …” (esv)
Personally Tormented:
42.10 “My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’” (niv)
Relationally Dislocated:
42.6 “… I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.” (esv)
Emotionally Overwhelmed:
42.7 “Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.” (esv)
WHAT DO I DO DURING SPIRITUAL DEHYDRATION?
Pray Anyway
Anchor My Hopes
43.5 “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.” (esv)
Preach The Gospel
42.8 “By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.” (esv)
43.2 “… why have you rejected me?” (esv)
John 15.13 “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” (esv)