Everywhere I Look … Psalms 3:1-8 1. Everywhere I Look is … . Family – Absalom 2 Samuel 15:7-14 Enemies Selah may mean to intensify voices or instrumental accompaniment; that is, to sing or play louder. Crescendo! It may indicate a pause or a rest, as if to say, “Stop and think about that.” “It is rendered in the Septuagint by diapsalmos, which either means louder playing, forte, or more probably, an instrumental interlude.” 8 Some think it means a repetition, like da capo. It may mean the end of a strophe (a musical section). It may even mean the bending of the body as an act of reverence or respect. 2. Everywhere I Look is … . Peaceful Artist: Laura Story Album: Blessings Songwriters: Laura Mixon Story We pray for blessings, we pray for peace Comfort for family, protection while we sleep We pray for healing, for prosperity We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering All the while You hear each spoken need Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things 'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You're near? What if trials of this life Are Your mercies in disguise? We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love As if every promise from Your Word is not enough And all the while You hear each desperate plea And long that we'd have faith to believe 'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? And what if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You're near? And what if trials of this life Are Your mercies in disguise? When friends betray us, when darkness seems to win We know that pain reminds this heart That this is not, this is not our home It's not our home 'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? And what if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You're near? What if my greatest disappointments Or the aching of this life Is the revealing of a greater thirst This world can't satisfy? And what if trials of this life The rain, the storms, the hardest nights Are Your mercies in disguise?