The text this week is Psalm 143:9-10, where we learn that a response to the difficult circumstances of our lives is to flee to the Lord and then follow him. The worship theme is “my refuge,” and the visual theme is level paths, after the phrase in verse 10 “Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground.”
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Psalm 62:1-8 For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. 2He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. 3How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? 4They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah 5For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. 6He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. 7On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God. 8Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah (Hannah Gronseth’s tune, no video available)
Dwell – Aaron Keyes
Psalm 62 (My Soul Finds Rest in God Alone)
Preparation for Communion:
Rock of Ages – Fernando Ortega
Closing Worship:
A Mighty Fortress (Christy Nockels)
Scripture for Mediation: Lead me / Follow me
Psalm 27:11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
Psalm 139:7-10 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
Isaiah 42:16 And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.
Matthew 4:18-20 While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
Matthew 9:9 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
Luke 9:23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.