GOD WRITES THE LYRICS OF OUR SOULS IN THE PSALMS. “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.” - Psalm 42:4 “...My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, the Mount of Mizar.”- Psalm 42:5 “My tears have been my food day and night while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” Psalm 42:3 “Why do I go on mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? - Psalm 42:9 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?” - Psalm 42:10 “Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me.” - Psalm 43:1 “Why do I go on mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” - Psalm 42:9 “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?” - Psalm 42:1-2 “My tears have been my food day and night.”- Psalm 42:3 “My soul is cast down within me;...”: Psalm 42:6 “Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.”- Psalm 42:7 “I say to God, my rock: Why have you forgotten me?” - Psalm 43:9 “For you are the God in whom I take refuge:; why have you rejected me?” - Psalm 43:2 “Where are you God?” “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? -Psalm 42:1-2 Comfort Comes in the Presence of God. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” - 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 Comfort Comes Through Godly Community Get Connected to Lifegroups: benm@lifepointohio.com “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 6 and my God. Comfort Comes When We Preach Truth to Our Souls 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. - Peter 1:6-7 “28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28). “Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling! 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. - Psalm 43:3-4 John 8:12 "“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. - John 14:6 Comfort Comes When We Trust Jesus is the Way to God.