Floods Overflow Me

So I Went Through Fire & Water

PRAYER - "Bless God"

In this text, the word blessing means to kneel as in worship. Repeatedly, the psalmist says, "Blessed be the LORD, ...bless ye God in the congregations, ....Sing unto God, ...O sing praises unto the Lord, ...Blessed be God." He declared that even the enemies of God saw how "the singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were damsels playing with timbrels." When you go to pray, bless God. Sing, dance, kneel, worship, praise. Bless Him. Even kings must bless the Lord.

Psalms 68:29 - "Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee."

PRINCIPALS - "The Wealthy Place"

"How terrible art thou in all thy works! ...Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men." Why does the psalmist call God "terrible"? Because His works are sometimes truly dreadful (as the parting of the Red Sea and delivering Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land). God's "terrible" acts refine men as silver in the fire, but produce priceless results.

Psalms 66:12 - "Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place."

PRINCIPLES - "God Will See You Through The Flood"

Most of us have felt desperation like David's. "Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. ...I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me." Sometimes enemies threaten us and we feel overwhelmed - like we are drowning. "Let me not sink!" Like Jesus in Gethsemane, praying for the cup of suffering to pass, we pray for grace to survive our suffocating trials. But trials are ordained. Noah survived his flood, and you can survive yours.

Psalms 69:15 - "Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up." 

PROPHECIES - "Prophecies About Jesus' Betrayal"

Nineteen Messianic psalms contain 128 prophetic facts about Jesus Christ. They also contain 72 facts about the traitor, Judas Iscariot. Psalm 69 contains several of those facts. Of Judas, "Let their table become a snare before them, ...Let their habitation be desolate; ...Let them be blotted out of the book of the living," and more. Of Christ, "They hate me without a cause, ...They gave me gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." 

Psalms 69:20 - "Reproach hath broken my heart; ...I looked for some to take pity, ...but I found none."

• People of Christian faith do not live trouble-free lives, they live by faith in the midst of troubling times and circumstances!

• Your calling does not exclude your marriage and family. It doesn’t require you to sacrifice your family members for this.

• Today is the right day to make your decision in light of the truth that God owns it all. Live your life in this world while investing your wealth in the next.

• There are no second-class citizens in God’s kingdom.

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•  God’s wisdom? You pray. You talk to God, and you let him talk to you by reading the Bible. That’s how you get God’s wisdom.