Kristian Thorpe: Summer in the Psalms - What to do When Facing Uncertain Journeys

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great to be able to be here with you this morning and I'm going to make sure that I've In the 30 minutes that I've allotted, I want to share something that I really believe will be helpful for every one of us.

We've been in the summer in the Psalms.

Interestingly, lots of people have...

In other churches in other parts of the world have been taking their churches through Summer in the Psalms.

I want to say if you've seen that in any social media, we didn't steal it from anybody.

It was original to us.

But actually there's nothing original because there's nothing new under the sun.

Yes, according to Solomon.

But we've been going through the Psalms, and David quite rightly said, I mean, sadly, we've not been able to get one or two of the podcasts on from Belper.

That's not a lament or a telling off.

It's just fact.

So when I was preparing for the last few days, well, probably 10 days, Andy actually said to me, what are we on? And I'd got a couple of things that I was just toiling with, but I felt the Lord say specifically, I went to Psalm 121 and didn't know that David had preached.

So I actually just pre-service, if you saw David pass me his phone, I was trying to go over his outline to make sure that I wasn't replicating and I'm not.

And that is the genius of the scriptures.

But all I want to say is there have been great encouragements as we've gone through the Psalms.

And whilst we may not have one or two of the podcasts on from Belper, there are some on there and I'd encourage you to listen across the locations.

There have been A great blessing to me as I've heard young communicators communicate great.

It was great to have Andy's daughter share at our hub campus and she shared brilliantly.

And then, of course, there's been guys who are not in training, but they've been preaching for a long time, ministering God's word.

And I really believe they've been a great blessing to us.

But I want to dive into Psalm 121.

It's going to come on the screens.

I wonder if you'd follow me in the scriptures through the Bible.

It says this, I lift up my eyes to the mountains.

Where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot slip.

He who watches over you will not slumber.

Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord watches over you.

The Lord is your shade at your right hand.

Wow, we've needed some shade over this summer, eh? The sun will not harm you by day nor the moon by night.

The Lord will keep you from all harm.

He will watch over your life.

The Lord will watch over your coming and your going both now and And forevermore.

Lord, we thank you for your word.

I pray that as I share, Lord, that you would be seen, that I would be hidden, and you would share truths, valuable truths from your word in every one of our hearts.

In Jesus' name.

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