The Sermon Teach Me To Do Your Will by David McGee
Jan 13, 2013
Teach Me To Do Your Will (38:31)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 143; Psalm 23
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Psalm 143
1) Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
2) Don‘t enter into judgment with your servant, For in your sight no man living is righteous.
3) For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
4) Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
5) I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.
6) I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
7) Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don‘t hide your face from me, So that I don‘t become like those who go down into the pit.
8) Cause me to hear your lovingkindness in the morning, For I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to you.
9) Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
10) Teach me to do your will, For you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
11) Revive me, Yahweh, for your name‘s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
12) In your lovingkindness, cut off my enemies, And destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant. Psalm 144 By David.
Psalm 23
1) Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
2) He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
3) He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name‘s sake.
4) Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
5) You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You have anointed my head with oil. My cup runs over.
6) Surely goodness and lovingkindness shall follow me all the days of my life, And I shall dwell in Yahweh‘s house forever. Psalm 24 A Psalm by David.
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And then we are looking at Psalm one forty three and the title of the messages teach me to do thy will, and actually verse ten of Psalm one forty three, but I thought it would be me. We would look at the entire Psalm, and were reading it from the message Bible. Listen to this prayer of mine God had attention to what I'm asking. Answer me, your famous for your answers. Do what's right for me, but don't please don't hold me into court, not a person alive to be acquitted there the enemy hunted me down. He kicked me and stopped me within an inch of my life it but me in a black hole buried me like a corpse in the dungeon. I sat there and despair my spirit draining away my heart heavy like led. I remember the old days when overall you've done and ponder the ways you've worked stretch out my hands, feet and stretched out my hand to you as Thursday for you as a desert thirsty for rain. Hooray with your answer, God, I'm nearly at the end of my rope don't turn away. Don't ignore me, that would be certain death if you wake me each morning with the sound of your loving voice. I'll go to sleep each night. Trusting you point out the road. I must travel, I'm all ears. All eyes before you save me from mine enemies. You're my only hope. Teach me how to live to please you, because you are my God need me by your blessed spirit into a cleared and level pastureland. Keep up your reputation. God give me life in your justice, get me out of this trouble in your great love vanquished my enemies make a clean sweep of those who are raspy and why. Because I am your servant. This is a very interesting Psalm often is verse ten is the emphasis and often when we parted ways. Think about it. We generally look at verse ten is the only contact start the main person teach me to your will, O God, but I thought as we would as I was reading this that I would do the entire song. I like to do those Scripture text and run through them. If we think about the will of God. I think sometimes in our context of our daily living. It's hard for us to imagine that we are here for divine purpose. I mean, it just isn't something that pops up every day whenever somebody pulled out in front of you are a fetal something goes wrong, we recently immediately think on here for a divine purpose that what happens about when things don't go right, you know where car with people. All this is a divine purpose going on in my life as any takers know the first thing you wake up in the morning, you think, wow, it's a new day. I'm going to look forward to God 's divine purpose in my life, but even then we know and I'm being a little facetious so much of our life is about living about life itself, going and coming, you know, getting losing getting up in the morning getting ready for work, going to work. One would have to lunch you know whatever software we get home while Rome, where we can do with this and that and get ready for bed to start the routine all over tomorrow. I'm here for the purpose. So, what choices will I make today that will make a difference. What am I going to do that is going to be on the divine purpose. This week I had down. I had an unusual day. One day, and I can't remember all the things that happen that the then there was one of those days in which to start off with opening the door for someone, and they were just exceptionally happy for Amanda. I generally opened the door for people, but sometimes open a door for people and they walked by, and like hello thank you so if you know you didn't notice, but it always does. This is one of those that you open the doors of visit. Thank you and you and you did this for them and they said thank you and I was now going to lunch, and there is this individual, and they were not. I don't think they had a need in the sense that they were trying to sell little things for needy children and I thought I went into dominate Québec was in that are really there for needy children. There's trying to get money that you have something beef for lunch and then made little things that keep it. And they would use it. I was a shared folder to know those they needed for needy children. I give you this if you give me money for lunch now. So I give her money for lunch, and but it's just as things admit that we just got one of those days, and the individual 's Islamicist lunch cost in their that you know I favorably for lunch, but these things are going alright. It's like that extraordinary day that you meet with individuals that do we really make a difference for them. And whatever we think of living for divine purpose is is a divine purpose. Something souls spiritual that it doesn't have everyday contacts you see our divine purpose is about living in touching people think about Jesus and his ministry, and he spent time where he spent time with people you spend time away from people. It went away to pray anything had times that he went awry away by himself but he was always with the disciples are with individuals talking with him meeting with them help and then you know when they needed that he found five thousand euros when they needed to walk on water. He was there whenever he needed the blind man came by me. He healed them. When the widows now the child when the child had died. He raised the child was sick and he's always meeting and talking with people divine purpose divine purpose is sometimes seen as so spiritual that we we never do it, but in reality, divine purpose is something we do every day. The divine purpose of God is something we do every day in our conversations in our work and our conversations with people are working in talking to your neighbors and friends, and everything else that's all part of a divine purpose because you are God for these people because the divine is alive and you teach me to do your will of God, and that any a discreet look at that. Teach me often we think of this teaching as something where learning, but it is teaching to do. I'm learning to teach me to dig this ditch his affect. Here's a shovel. Let's do it think we often think of teaching is setting in a classroom and teach me how to do it. So we sat in the classroom and it's like reading a book on how to drive a car of what you never get behind the wheel. Teach me to do is teach me, and then get behind the wheel, then do an drive and so as we look at this David is in this wound is very dark place in his life and he is he has been hounded by Saul. He has been hiding from Saul. He has been all bad why is most of his followers, and he's very depressed and discouraged, and this is the Psalm that we look at and it's often thought of them. Whenever I do, the twenty third Psalm that David writes about your that is one of the Jewish tradition has it that David is in the back of the cave and solids in the front of the cave and Saul is hunting for David and David in the back, any right, the twenty third Psalm, and it is in the twenty third Psalm. If you think about it. You see the aspects of this type of situation because the Psalm. Prior to this is one that that speaks about David in this very difficult place. The sump one forty two one forty three that David is an is this this place of hurt a place of questioning the quasi- place of despair and it's in that place the he is remembering what God has done for him. So when we think of living in a divine purpose and especially when things really go wrong and things are not working how man is that opening up to us what God wants us to be never couple weeks ago we spoke to live the movie limit is enough and in them. The question was in that message was if we didn't face the circumstances that we were in that we are in when we open up the gift things that we need in our life to live, due to circumstances open the gift things of our life and in the answer is yes. But God has gifted things for us that are being opened by every situation enough and whenever we whenever we respond according to the will of God, and the character of God, and the by the spirit of God by loving and caring, forgiving, and besides the things we are setting in motion an outcome that is going to be for God 's good in God 's glory so before we ask and look at this Psalm a look at the darkness, that that David finds himself in. We got asked myself the question, what is the character of God did whatever we go to God in prayer we exert we always need to shape our prayers within the character of God. We don't just look at our needs without a God, why did it happen. Why that happened like this. These types of things. So what I did in the McCarrick of God 's number one Will of God, abandoning the answer is, will not advance it who got abandoned me, the answer is no. Can something remove me from God 's care. Thank you does he know his God know where I am at right now. Yes, his writings will absolutely suggest is not okay, but keep it simple. We got absolutely Zen, most definitely rated not to get through this okay. Can God change the situation I am in most definitely kick in. Yes, Van God give me strength and guidance to take me through this, so we have that in place, our awareness of God 's character then must shape how we talk about our need that we that we face now in God 's character, then shapes how we talk God about what we're facing. Though he's not that old evening. This cannot separate me. He knows exactly where I am. He can change all the circumstances we can change me into all of that. So with that in place, how do we converse with God. How do we offer our conversation it, we have David example. In Psalm one forty three David says, first wanted to lessons of this prior mind, God and Ione. First, they had liked anything I thought Tet Offensive here, but I don't think it's that kind of the no declaration. I think it's the declaration, like Jesus, whenever either the tomb of Lazarus God, thank you to you always hear me when I pray if that type of declaration God, you always hear me when I pray lessons of this prayer of mine. Pay attention to what I'm asking. Answer me, your famous for your answers. Let's have a conversation with God, one God always hears me when I pray and I know, you have some glorious answers for me. How do we shake. That's where we shaken within the confines of God 's character and never leave me for Satan is not a plan and purpose for my life. He is opening up to give things that are in my life, and he is going to do a good thing in me. And when God says good that's fabulous. No word to him in the Scripture, as you know, we have extravagant and fabulous and yellow kinds of big words, but good means not just average. But, way above average is as great as it can be so do what this is David 's declaration is in your hearing. They your mother. Pay attention to me. I you are famous for your answers. Now do what's right for me. We don't always know what's right. We don't always know if we win we like to think of something we think of prior installing on exactly how we should do this is he somehow got confused and everything is doing what's right for me, but don't please don't call me into court, not personal, I would be acquitted if please don't look at me and take me for my evilness, and in the false and problems that I've had and the says that I've done. Don't take me to that court. No one is without sin. No one can be included. There, because on our own. We are total failures. We have sin, you probably blown it and there is no way would I get honest told David doesn't know there is adult acne. There were don't think we did a court block by your grace and mercy. Then he gets the problem. The enemy hunted me down or whose David's enemy. That's all that great enemy of David has hunted him down, hunted him the idea of hunting is like dogs pursuing a prey that this fall is relentless in his pursuit of me and he wants to just wallow what he done. He's hunted me the pic to me and he stopped me with an inch of my life, so he's describing what is going on these describing the situation is so bad it is for me. Does God know this, you know what statement during David is unburdening himself, his heart before God. Sometimes people say what you know, good to talk about things. It's good to talk about things that event poorly vented David Vincent God. He is taking the situation as he sees it. Any decline in giving up to God within the framework of the character of God. This situation that has that he's been looking at here the enemy saw was hunted down, he has taught me a black hole was the piece of a exhibit saying the glycol every government and K there. There are satellites authenticate that without darkness. That's black when I was in college we used to ghost be looking caving and of course we always want with somebody who is an expert which we thought they were and the young Willie go back in these caves and may be back in there for hours and I had great faith in the people who really nothing outside of August. Me and Bradley got lost when my roommate. We got lost. We turned around and nobody was there. And I mean we were. We were hunting on imagine was like going out, you know, we're stopping around and trying to find a way out. We found that we found a place to get out, but there was about thirty feet of water deep in about fifty across the gap and it was slim or go back to back and as the guy who was our guy. We found him sitting there with a large looking for us needs as well. We forget goes back to restart from just a few guys longer than most the men gone full circle and the foggiest notion were redrawn, and it was it was a black hole. All right, so is depressing and David is saying to me, is this black quality is in is depressing and forced him to think dark Fox dark thoughts. Doctor Fox living in darkness dark spots are the ones that bury me like a corpse in the dungeon, dark thoughts of the ones that are completely contrary to God 's work. That's not the work for me that I fallen into a black hole and I can't get out, and it's reviewed never worked with individuals live work with individuals that have attempted suicide. They have tried to kill themselves and then often gratefully. Fortunately they have survived, but almost every one of them has talk has spoken of this black hole that they fall into emotionally and that there is nothing but blackness and darkness, and the only way out this death. It isn't that they are milder not allowed to visit the situations there. This emotional darkness that people fall into and David talks about. He talks about this darkness that has fallen into, and it's like being a corpse in that dungeon that he can't find his way out, and there's this business place of despair. It is so despairing to David that he feels like he is best. All of his dreams are gone. All of his hopes are gone. He is very I sat there, he says in this dark hole in this cave. I sat there in despair, my spirit draining away as if someone had pulled the plug on his spirit you have everything that was it him. That was why the whole is just draining from him. My heart is heavy like led, broken, and having this of what is taking place is so unbearable, then what is he due no note was around coaching him. He's framing this situation is framing this event in the character of God. So no matter how we frame our events. We don't in with my heart heavy like let the that leaves us nothing. That's why people will find despairing and leaving and walking away from life in God, and everything else is because they stop there, but David Chandler, David changes he says. I remember the old days was you remember he remembers the day that he was a shepherd as a boy he remembers how God had anointed him king. This is a man who was supposed to BK and he's hiding in a cave. This is a man who led the armies of Israel, against other nations, and was victorious. This is a man who had led thousands of people in the battle and now he's hiding in a cave, but I remember I remember the old days when God was my portion. When God was at work in my life when I went over all. I went over all you've done. Ponder the ways that you were not only in my life but I remember the ways that you work in the history of Israel. I remember how they did these things in the lives of other people. David and in other places, says David encourages himself in the Lord picked himself up by his own bootstrap when there's no one else to talk to. We talk to God. And when we talk to God. We always encourage yourself because that's the character of God when he goes on, because now I am striking out my arms to you. I'm empty-handed. I'm empty-handed here in this cave to see now this is turning from despair to prayer. He's going from despair of what is going on in describing the situations he is venting what has happened is venting his frustration. Now you say I'm open-ended I was. I was. I was the leader of the armies and I have nothing. Saul has haunted me and kicked me and put me in this place and I I feel like, and there's no hope for me, but I remember I remember your calling upon my life, I stretch out my arms to my MS Thursday, for you God as a desert is thirsting for Ray. I've had my fill of all these other things that I need the refreshing in my soul that only the reign of God. Only the blessing of God. Only the presence of God can bring to me ASAP. This is longing for God as a desert longs for rain and how that will rain comes upon the desert is flowers blooming in the desert. Why, because the seeds are already in the dust amendment in the ground is there. Did you know that in some of these lakes there are fish and frogs all that stuff there down in the mud, like in a hibernation that there are people that have anything of the people who live in the desert areas like this okay when the mod is there, they were cut out sections of that mud and they will put it in their houses and that would arrange fish will come out of the mud and the size of their houses because they kind of it in this hibernation and window when the water comes, they come back to life and people have actually had finished tomorrow. Their walls because they cut them out in that lot and use them as bricks in their home. When the nurse when you're thirsty for God. In the reign of God comes upon her life things come to life. Do the places that we find ourselves in open of gift things that never would've come to us had we not been in this place. I'm thirsting for you as a desert thirst for rain, partly with your answer, in a hurry if I just don't know how much longer I can take it away. Why, because I'm nearly at the end of my rope. I don't know if I can continue on. I mean decay. I'm in despair. I moved on the blackhole. I'm like a course in Anaheim. I remember, remember what you said. I remember what you've done. I'm empty-handed. Lord I have nothing to offer you, except just me answer my prayers. I'm at the end of my rope. David's afraid. Please God, don't turn away. Don't ignore me because if you ignore me, it's certain death. The focus is now on God, not on soul, not on the events not wrong to remember those things put them in the context put them in the context of the character of God. If you wake me morning with the sound of your voice if you wait for the sound of your voice like I desire to hear the voice of God in my spirit think there is a divine purpose for our life, we hear the voice of the divine. You'll build we all hear the voice of the divine and the songs that we've sung in the Scriptures we are reading or hearing God 's voice. Speak to us of hope and if I hear the sound of your loving voice in the morning I'll go to sleep each night. Trusting you. There is security in knowing that God loves us. There is a security in knowing that I'm safe in the arms of my father. There is a security in knowing that God has a divine purpose for us point out here. A goat was going to point out the row that I must travel, I'm all ears. I'm all eyes for you I you got you got my total attention focuses change focus has changed. I'm all here is that all eyes God show me the road here, the voice of God, i.e., there is a path through the purpose is the place is all these things before me. Anyhow, save me from mine enemies is not talking about being kicked by Saul is a God save me from my enemies. You're my only hope you're the only one of the make sense out of this. You're the only one who is going to help me here. Teach me first ten main part of this verse business this fall. Teach me how to live to please you teach me what to do. Don't just how they want to do, teach me there is an instruction here God instruct me in the paths of righteousness. Yeah no I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil because you are with me soon as I saw this is here about in the morning. Where are the sheep Lord is my shepherd I shall not want to show out like any good thing. He makes me to lie down in green pastures, we see David conducts its end is a place he writes the twenty third Psalm. It is this a place where he says, God you're my only hope. Teach me, teach me and give me an knowledge about what is not just about doing it is not just about learning. It's about learning and doing. It's combining them together teach me to do to live that will please you. Because I please God. All of these things will fit into a divine pattern that is the character of God has a plan for your life. God has a purpose for you. He's called you by name. While you were getting your mother 's womb baby in the mother 's womb got wanted just got out while they were there. God put in all the things& provide entire life. All those things are in their and jump in the circumstances of life will bring out all of the opportunity you know when you're teaching and school. What you do while it's already in the cases is helping us to bring it out of them something to try to stuff it in, but for most digit is bringing about it why our life is trying to stop it, and there is already a letter and I was bringing it out, save me from my enemies. God, you're my only hope to teach me how to live to please you, because because your my God, it's not the loss that I've encountered. It's not solve. It's not the power of being the general in charge is not the position is not that life is not the event you are my God lead me by your blessed spirit. If the spirit is less than the spirit abides in us. We are blessed that I'm blessed saying on blast. Why does God is in you, the blessed Spirit is a new out in the blessed Spirit being you and you will be blessed, although they do not. I don't need that later why they don't leave me by your blessed Spirit where into cleared and level pastureland. We never had clear land, but clear clearing land is taking up trees not grow shrubs in the grubs, and everything else and in a pastureland is where the cattle graze all those things with a major displacing them into these places where all this will take place whenever the children of Israel were to go with the promised land was a land flowing with milk and honey pastureland cleared way, we meet the place where I can be fruitful and grow in my life. First, eleven. Keep up your reputation. God give me life. God has a reputation. The description says in the twenty third Psalm that he will leave me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake. Anyone worthy of the name Shepherd will make sure that his sheep are safe people protect his sheep with his life for your namesake. Keep up your reputation got it is the character of God to protect the sheep is the character of God to provide for his people. It is the character of God to never leave you nor forsake you is the character of God to prepare a place for you. It is the character of God to prepare for you if the character of God that he will help you in every situation in life and never abandon you that the character of God, so as we form our prayers formed within the character of God, keep up your reputation and your justice, God is never unfair use never unfair. David could value the cave is no God, you are just the kick me when I was the God you are just vintages yours, you'll take care of this, I will focus on your provision, get me out of this trouble focuses on God, get me out to go away, leave me blessed me in your great love. Thanks. Wish mine enemies, you know, I finally said that I think God in your great anger and power grid of my enemies and but God is a God of love in his love, he will vanquish, he will deal with those individuals from his money can be anything but love God so loved the world he gave in your great love bank which Miami's make what a clean sweep make a clean sweep of all those who were harassed me all those who been picking on me and doing the wrong things by me and and all those things God make a clean sweep of all who harassed me and the great question is nonpublic, why, why should we do this, why should God protect me. Why should God provide for me. Why should God watch over me. Why should he do this because I am your servant, saying I am God 's servant, and I am God 's servant. That's why he looks at you and you can't err in that position. He's already given you because you can't earn it. He's given you an arm, right are responsibilities that his character, so the game of circumstances is also one of Christ that he will face this prior is a prayer. If that is a prophecy that Jesus Christ in the same situation would have read as he faced the cross kick me when I was chased me to the black hole regard, we sweat great drops of blood, took him to the place of despair, Peter can't you just pray with me one hour people. He was abandoned. All of these things are characteristic of what happened with Christ at his crucifixion. I'm your servant father, you will vanquish all of my files in your great love and loss also, you and I is a great song. This is great what you what God teach me to do your will, and then teach me to do your divine will. You see we have a divine purpose. God is with us. Amen. The extent. So how we frame frame our prayers in the character of God. We don't pretend that those needs don't exist. The first part of that song outlines the need that David had the second outlines how the God is going to provide something that you got didn't get upset with this because David remembered Solman remember became rumored to depression, not that's all there but then he follows it up with the super John's life to read this song over and over and over ten I have any computer on your computers to go to Bible Gateway .com and you can then audio Bible in their I listened to the saw this all part about thirty times yesterday just over and over and over again. After I had stuck up for any dispute notes is one of those things is that the repeat button, and you can listen to these things listen to the word of God is listened to listen to and listen to it again, father, thank you for your work. Thank you for the understanding we have of your character and God for your divine present provision he will do these things are like because your servant whenever you gave at the loss we are heirs of your righteousness. We are heirs of your blessing because your spirit is in us about thank you thank you for your provision. Thank you for your forgiveness. Thank you, about for your well in your purpose, your path for our life and you think you given us in the opportunities to bring out the gift things that are inside of us. Thank you Lord for all the good things that you have done. We remember all of the things you done for thank you Jesus bless us now, Lord, we might be blessings each me to do your will. We pray everyone said amen. God bless you blame the peopleAnd then we are looking at Psalm one forty three and the title of the messages teach me to do thy will, and actually verse ten of Psalm one forty three, but I thought it would be me. We would look at the entire Psalm, and were reading it from the message Bible. Listen to this prayer of mine God had attention to what I'm asking. Answer me, your famous for your answers. Do what's right for me, but don't please don't hold me into court, not a person alive to be acquitted there the enemy hunted me down. He kicked me and stopped me within an inch of my life it but me in a black hole buried me like a corpse in the dungeon. I sat there and despair my spirit draining away my heart heavy like led. I remember the old days when overall you've done and ponder the ways you've worked stretch out my hands, feet and stretched out my hand to you as Thursday for you as a desert thirsty for rain. Hooray with your answer, God, I'm nearly at the end of my rope don't turn away. Don't ignore me, that would be certain death if you wake me each morning with the sound of your loving voice. I'll go to sleep each night. Trusting you point out the road. I must travel, I'm all ears. All eyes before you save me from mine enemies. You're my only hope. Teach me how to live to please you, because you are my God need me by your blessed spirit into a cleared and level pastureland. Keep up your reputation. God give me life in your justice, get me out of this trouble in your great love vanquished my enemies make a clean sweep of those who are raspy and why. Because I am your servant. This is a very interesting Psalm often is verse ten is the emphasis and often when we parted ways. Think about it. We generally look at verse ten is the only contact start the main person teach me to your will, O God, but I thought as we would as I was reading this that I would do the entire song. I like to do those Scripture text and run through them. If we think about the will of God. I think sometimes in our context of our daily living. It's hard for us to imagine that we are here for divine purpose. I mean, it just isn't something that pops up every day whenever somebody pulled out in front of you are a fetal something goes wrong, we recently immediately think on here for a divine purpose that what happens about when things don't go right, you know where car with people. All this is a divine purpose going on in my life as any takers know the first thing you wake up in the morning, you think, wow, it's a new day. I'm going to look forward to God 's divine purpose in my life, but even then we know and I'm being a little facetious so much of our life is about living about life itself, going and coming, you know, getting losing getting up in the morning getting ready for work, going to work. One would have to lunch you know whatever software we get home while Rome, where we can do with this and that and get ready for bed to start the routine all over tomorrow. I'm here for the purpose. So, what choices will I make today that will make a difference. What am I going to do that is going to be on the divine purpose. This week I had down. I had an unusual day. One day, and I can't remember all the things that happen that the then there was one of those days in which to start off with opening the door for someone, and they were just exceptionally happy for Amanda. I generally opened the door for people, but sometimes open a door for people and they walked by, and like hello thank you so if you know you didn't notice, but it always does. This is one of those that you open the doors of visit. Thank you and you and you did this for them and they said thank you and I was now going to lunch, and there is this individual, and they were not. I don't think they had a need in the sense that they were trying to sell little things for needy children and I thought I went into dominate Québec was in that are really there for needy children. There's trying to get money that you have something beef for lunch and then made little things that keep it. And they would use it. I was a shared folder to know those they needed for needy children. I give you this if you give me money for lunch now. So I give her money for lunch, and but it's just as things admit that we just got one of those days, and the individual 's Islamicist lunch cost in their that you know I favorably for lunch, but these things are going alright. It's like that extraordinary day that you meet with individuals that do we really make a difference for them. And whatever we think of living for divine purpose is is a divine purpose. Something souls spiritual that it doesn't have everyday contacts you see our divine purpose is about living in touching people think about Jesus and his ministry, and he spent time where he spent time with people you spend time away from people. It went away to pray anything had times that he went awry away by himself but he was always with the disciples are with individuals talking with him meeting with them help and then you know when they needed that he found five thousand euros when they needed to walk on water. He was there whenever he needed the blind man came by me. He healed them. When the widows now the child when the child had died. He raised the child was sick and he's always meeting and talking with people divine purpose divine purpose is sometimes seen as so spiritual that we we never do it, but in reality, divine purpose is something we do every day. The divine purpose of God is something we do every day in our conversations in our work and our conversations with people are working in talking to your neighbors and friends, and everything else that's all part of a divine purpose because you are God for these people because the divine is alive and you teach me to do your will of God, and that any a discreet look at that. Teach me often we think of this teaching as something where learning, but it is teaching to do. I'm learning to teach me to dig this ditch his affect. Here's a shovel. Let's do it think we often think of teaching is setting in a classroom and teach me how to do it. So we sat in the classroom and it's like reading a book on how to drive a car of what you never get behind the wheel. Teach me to do is teach me, and then get behind the wheel, then do an drive and so as we look at this David is in this wound is very dark place in his life and he is he has been hounded by Saul. He has been hiding from Saul. He has been all bad why is most of his followers, and he's very depressed and discouraged, and this is the Psalm that we look at and it's often thought of them. Whenever I do, the twenty third Psalm that David writes about your that is one of the Jewish tradition has it that David is in the back of the cave and solids in the front of the cave and Saul is hunting for David and David in the back, any right, the twenty third Psalm, and it is in the twenty third Psalm. If you think about it. You see the aspects of this type of situation because the Psalm. Prior to this is one that that speaks about David in this very difficult place. The sump one forty two one forty three that David is an is this this place of hurt a place of questioning the quasi- place of despair and it's in that place the he is remembering what God has done for him. So when we think of living in a divine purpose and especially when things really go wrong and things are not working how man is that opening up to us what God wants us to be never couple weeks ago we spoke to live the movie limit is enough and in them. The question was in that message was if we didn't face the circumstances that we were in that we are in when we open up the gift things that we need in our life to live, due to circumstances open the gift things of our life and in the answer is yes. But God has gifted things for us that are being opened by every situation enough and whenever we whenever we respond according to the will of God, and the character of God, and the by the spirit of God by loving and caring, forgiving, and besides the things we are setting in motion an outcome that is going to be for God 's good in God 's glory so before we ask and look at this Psalm a look at the darkness, that that David finds himself in. We got asked myself the question, what is the character of God did whatever we go to God in prayer we exert we always need to shape our prayers within the character of God. We don't just look at our needs without a God, why did it happen. Why that happened like this. These types of things. So what I did in the McCarrick of God 's number one Will of God, abandoning the answer is, will not advance it who got abandoned me, the answer is no. Can something remove me from God 's care. Thank you does he know his God know where I am at right now. Yes, his writings will absolutely suggest is not okay, but keep it simple. We got absolutely Zen, most definitely rated not to get through this okay. Can God change the situation I am in most definitely kick in. Yes, Van God give me strength and guidance to take me through this, so we have that in place, our awareness of God 's character then must shape how we talk about our need that we that we face now in God 's character, then shapes how we talk God about what we're facing. Though he's not that old evening. This cannot separate me. He knows exactly where I am. He can change all the circumstances we can change me into all of that. So with that in place, how do we converse with God. How do we offer our conversation it, we have David example. In Psalm one forty three David says, first wanted to lessons of this prior mind, God and Ione. First, they had liked anything I thought Tet Offensive here, but I don't think it's that kind of the no declaration. I think it's the declaration, like Jesus, whenever either the tomb of Lazarus God, thank you to you always hear me when I pray if that type of declaration God, you always hear me when I pray lessons of this prayer of mine. Pay attention to what I'm asking. Answer me, your famous for your answers. Let's have a conversation with God, one God always hears me when I pray and I know, you have some glorious answers for me. How do we shake. That's where we shaken within the confines of God 's character and never leave me for Satan is not a plan and purpose for my life. He is opening up to give things that are in my life, and he is going to do a good thing in me. And when God says good that's fabulous. No word to him in the Scripture, as you know, we have extravagant and fabulous and yellow kinds of big words, but good means not just average. But, way above average is as great as it can be so do what this is David 's declaration is in your hearing. They your mother. Pay attention to me. I you are famous for your answers. Now do what's right for me. We don't always know what's right. We don't always know if we win we like to think of something we think of prior installing on exactly how we should do this is he somehow got confused and everything is doing what's right for me, but don't please don't call me into court, not personal, I would be acquitted if please don't look at me and take me for my evilness, and in the false and problems that I've had and the says that I've done. Don't take me to that court. No one is without sin. No one can be included. There, because on our own. We are total failures. We have sin, you probably blown it and there is no way would I get honest told David doesn't know there is adult acne. There were don't think we did a court block by your grace and mercy. Then he gets the problem. The enemy hunted me down or whose David's enemy. That's all that great enemy of David has hunted him down, hunted him the idea of hunting is like dogs pursuing a prey that this fall is relentless in his pursuit of me and he wants to just wallow what he done. He's hunted me the pic to me and he stopped me with an inch of my life, so he's describing what is going on these describing the situation is so bad it is for me. Does God know this, you know what statement during David is unburdening himself, his heart before God. Sometimes people say what you know, good to talk about things. It's good to talk about things that event poorly vented David Vincent God. He is taking the situation as he sees it. Any decline in giving up to God within the framework of the character of God. This situation that has that he's been looking at here the enemy saw was hunted down, he has taught me a black hole was the piece of a exhibit saying the glycol every government and K there. There are satellites authenticate that without darkness. That's black when I was in college we used to ghost be looking caving and of course we always want with somebody who is an expert which we thought they were and the young Willie go back in these caves and may be back in there for hours and I had great faith in the people who really nothing outside of August. Me and Bradley got lost when my roommate. We got lost. We turned around and nobody was there. And I mean we were. We were hunting on imagine was like going out, you know, we're stopping around and trying to find a way out. We found that we found a place to get out, but there was about thirty feet of water deep in about fifty across the gap and it was slim or go back to back and as the guy who was our guy. We found him sitting there with a large looking for us needs as well. We forget goes back to restart from just a few guys longer than most the men gone full circle and the foggiest notion were redrawn, and it was it was a black hole. All right, so is depressing and David is saying to me, is this black quality is in is depressing and forced him to think dark Fox dark thoughts. Doctor Fox living in darkness dark spots are the ones that bury me like a corpse in the dungeon, dark thoughts of the ones that are completely contrary to God 's work. That's not the work for me that I fallen into a black hole and I can't get out, and it's reviewed never worked with individuals live work with individuals that have attempted suicide. They have tried to kill themselves and then often gratefully. Fortunately they have survived, but almost every one of them has talk has spoken of this black hole that they fall into emotionally and that there is nothing but blackness and darkness, and the only way out this death. It isn't that they are milder not allowed to visit the situations there. This emotional darkness that people fall into and David talks about. He talks about this darkness that has fallen into, and it's like being a corpse in that dungeon that he can't find his way out, and there's this business place of despair. It is so despairing to David that he feels like he is best. All of his dreams are gone. All of his hopes are gone. He is very I sat there, he says in this dark hole in this cave. I sat there in despair, my spirit draining away as if someone had pulled the plug on his spirit you have everything that was it him. That was why the whole is just draining from him. My heart is heavy like led, broken, and having this of what is taking place is so unbearable, then what is he due no note was around coaching him. He's framing this situation is framing this event in the character of God. So no matter how we frame our events. We don't in with my heart heavy like let the that leaves us nothing. That's why people will find despairing and leaving and walking away from life in God, and everything else is because they stop there, but David Chandler, David changes he says. I remember the old days was you remember he remembers the day that he was a shepherd as a boy he remembers how God had anointed him king. This is a man who was supposed to BK and he's hiding in a cave. This is a man who led the armies of Israel, against other nations, and was victorious. This is a man who had led thousands of people in the battle and now he's hiding in a cave, but I remember I remember the old days when God was my portion. When God was at work in my life when I went over all. I went over all you've done. Ponder the ways that you were not only in my life but I remember the ways that you work in the history of Israel. I remember how they did these things in the lives of other people. David and in other places, says David encourages himself in the Lord picked himself up by his own bootstrap when there's no one else to talk to. We talk to God. And when we talk to God. We always encourage yourself because that's the character of God when he goes on, because now I am striking out my arms to you. I'm empty-handed. I'm empty-handed here in this cave to see now this is turning from despair to prayer. He's going from despair of what is going on in describing the situations he is venting what has happened is venting his frustration. Now you say I'm open-ended I was. I was. I was the leader of the armies and I have nothing. Saul has haunted me and kicked me and put me in this place and I I feel like, and there's no hope for me, but I remember I remember your calling upon my life, I stretch out my arms to my MS Thursday, for you God as a desert is thirsting for Ray. I've had my fill of all these other things that I need the refreshing in my soul that only the reign of God. Only the blessing of God. Only the presence of God can bring to me ASAP. This is longing for God as a desert longs for rain and how that will rain comes upon the desert is flowers blooming in the desert. Why, because the seeds are already in the dust amendment in the ground is there. Did you know that in some of these lakes there are fish and frogs all that stuff there down in the mud, like in a hibernation that there are people that have anything of the people who live in the desert areas like this okay when the mod is there, they were cut out sections of that mud and they will put it in their houses and that would arrange fish will come out of the mud and the size of their houses because they kind of it in this hibernation and window when the water comes, they come back to life and people have actually had finished tomorrow. Their walls because they cut them out in that lot and use them as bricks in their home. When the nurse when you're thirsty for God. In the reign of God comes upon her life things come to life. Do the places that we find ourselves in open of gift things that never would've come to us had we not been in this place. I'm thirsting for you as a desert thirst for rain, partly with your answer, in a hurry if I just don't know how much longer I can take it away. Why, because I'm nearly at the end of my rope. I don't know if I can continue on. I mean decay. I'm in despair. I moved on the blackhole. I'm like a course in Anaheim. I remember, remember what you said. I remember what you've done. I'm empty-handed. Lord I have nothing to offer you, except just me answer my prayers. I'm at the end of my rope. David's afraid. Please God, don't turn away. Don't ignore me because if you ignore me, it's certain death. The focus is now on God, not on soul, not on the events not wrong to remember those things put them in the context put them in the context of the character of God. If you wake me morning with the sound of your voice if you wait for the sound of your voice like I desire to hear the voice of God in my spirit think there is a divine purpose for our life, we hear the voice of the divine. You'll build we all hear the voice of the divine and the songs that we've sung in the Scriptures we are reading or hearing God 's voice. Speak to us of hope and if I hear the sound of your loving voice in the morning I'll go to sleep each night. Trusting you. There is security in knowing that God loves us. There is a security in knowing that I'm safe in the arms of my father. There is a security in knowing that God has a divine purpose for us point out here. A goat was going to point out the row that I must travel, I'm all ears. I'm all eyes for you I you got you got my total attention focuses change focus has changed. I'm all here is that all eyes God show me the road here, the voice of God, i.e., there is a path through the purpose is the place is all these things before me. Anyhow, save me from mine enemies is not talking about being kicked by Saul is a God save me from my enemies. You're my only hope you're the only one of the make sense out of this. You're the only one who is going to help me here. Teach me first ten main part of this verse business this fall. Teach me how to live to please you teach me what to do. Don't just how they want to do, teach me there is an instruction here God instruct me in the paths of righteousness. Yeah no I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil because you are with me soon as I saw this is here about in the morning. Where are the sheep Lord is my shepherd I shall not want to show out like any good thing. He makes me to lie down in green pastures, we see David conducts its end is a place he writes the twenty third Psalm. It is this a place where he says, God you're my only hope. Teach me, teach me and give me an knowledge about what is not just about doing it is not just about learning. It's about learning and doing. It's combining them together teach me to do to live that will please you. Because I please God. All of these things will fit into a divine pattern that is the character of God has a plan for your life. God has a purpose for you. He's called you by name. While you were getting your mother 's womb baby in the mother 's womb got wanted just got out while they were there. God put in all the things& provide entire life. All those things are in their and jump in the circumstances of life will bring out all of the opportunity you know when you're teaching and school. What you do while it's already in the cases is helping us to bring it out of them something to try to stuff it in, but for most digit is bringing about it why our life is trying to stop it, and there is already a letter and I was bringing it out, save me from my enemies. God, you're my only hope to teach me how to live to please you, because because your my God, it's not the loss that I've encountered. It's not solve. It's not the power of being the general in charge is not the position is not that life is not the event you are my God lead me by your blessed spirit. If the spirit is less than the spirit abides in us. We are blessed that I'm blessed saying on blast. Why does God is in you, the blessed Spirit is a new out in the blessed Spirit being you and you will be blessed, although they do not. I don't need that later why they don't leave me by your blessed Spirit where into cleared and level pastureland. We never had clear land, but clear clearing land is taking up trees not grow shrubs in the grubs, and everything else and in a pastureland is where the cattle graze all those things with a major displacing them into these places where all this will take place whenever the children of Israel were to go with the promised land was a land flowing with milk and honey pastureland cleared way, we meet the place where I can be fruitful and grow in my life. First, eleven. Keep up your reputation. God give me life. God has a reputation. The description says in the twenty third Psalm that he will leave me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake. Anyone worthy of the name Shepherd will make sure that his sheep are safe people protect his sheep with his life for your namesake. Keep up your reputation got it is the character of God to protect the sheep is the character of God to provide for his people. It is the character of God to never leave you nor forsake you is the character of God to prepare a place for you. It is the character of God to prepare for you if the character of God that he will help you in every situation in life and never abandon you that the character of God, so as we form our prayers formed within the character of God, keep up your reputation and your justice, God is never unfair use never unfair. David could value the cave is no God, you are just the kick me when I was the God you are just vintages yours, you'll take care of this, I will focus on your provision, get me out of this trouble focuses on God, get me out to go away, leave me blessed me in your great love. Thanks. Wish mine enemies, you know, I finally said that I think God in your great anger and power grid of my enemies and but God is a God of love in his love, he will vanquish, he will deal with those individuals from his money can be anything but love God so loved the world he gave in your great love bank which Miami's make what a clean sweep make a clean sweep of all those who were harassed me all those who been picking on me and doing the wrong things by me and and all those things God make a clean sweep of all who harassed me and the great question is nonpublic, why, why should we do this, why should God protect me. Why should God provide for me. Why should God watch over me. Why should he do this because I am your servant, saying I am God 's servant, and I am God 's servant. That's why he looks at you and you can't err in that position. He's already given you because you can't earn it. He's given you an arm, right are responsibilities that his character, so the game of circumstances is also one of Christ that he will face this prior is a prayer. If that is a prophecy that Jesus Christ in the same situation would have read as he faced the cross kick me when I was chased me to the black hole regard, we sweat great drops of blood, took him to the place of despair, Peter can't you just pray with me one hour people. He was abandoned. All of these things are characteristic of what happened with Christ at his crucifixion. I'm your servant father, you will vanquish all of my files in your great love and loss also, you and I is a great song. This is great what you what God teach me to do your will, and then teach me to do your divine will. You see we have a divine purpose. God is with us. Amen. The extent. So how we frame frame our prayers in the character of God. We don't pretend that those needs don't exist. The first part of that song outlines the need that David had the second outlines how the God is going to provide something that you got didn't get upset with this because David remembered Solman remember became rumored to depression, not that's all there but then he follows it up with the super John's life to read this song over and over and over ten I have any computer on your computers to go to Bible Gateway .com and you can then audio Bible in their I listened to the saw this all part about thirty times yesterday just over and over and over again. After I had stuck up for any dispute notes is one of those things is that the repeat button, and you can listen to these things listen to the word of God is listened to listen to and listen to it again, father, thank you for your work. Thank you for the understanding we have of your character and God for your divine present provision he will do these things are like because your servant whenever you gave at the loss we are heirs of your righteousness. We are heirs of your blessing because your spirit is in us about thank you thank you for your provision. Thank you for your forgiveness. Thank you, about for your well in your purpose, your path for our life and you think you given us in the opportunities to bring out the gift things that are inside of us. Thank you Lord for all the good things that you have done. We remember all of the things you done for thank you Jesus bless us now, Lord, we might be blessings each me to do your will. We pray everyone said amen. God bless you blame the people