One Thing I Will Seek

April 30, 2023 Speaker: Tim Rice Series: Psalms of Hardship and Hope

Passage: Psalm 27:1-14

Memory Verse for the Week: Psalm 27:13-14 (ESV)

I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living! Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!

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Intro: “In the heart of every man is a God-shaped vacuum …”

THE POWER OF DESIRE
How do desires reveal?

HIJACKED DESIRES
How are idolatries just highjacked desires?

CAN A HEART BE PURIFIED?
How can our desires be redeemed?

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …

1. Worship the LORD for how He is glorious in His beauty, power and love. Praise Him, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, for how He has made Himself known to us so that we can have the highest and best joys possible in Him.

2. How have you lived as if you have to follow through on your desires in order to be authentic? Confess your pride and unbelief to Jesus, asking Him to forgive your idolatries and fulfill you by His sufficiency.

3. Give thanks to Jesus for how He was rejected in our place that we would gain His worth. Thank Him for being passionately committed to every good desire, the love of His Father’s surpassing worth, to give us His new desires.

4. Who do you know who lives controlled (enslaved?) by their desires? Pray for them, asking the Lord to make known to them His saving power and love and that He would set them free.

5. Ask the Holy Spirit to bear in you His fruit of love and peace, especially in how the LORD alone is sufficient to anchor your worth and life passions. Pray for His work to root out your idols, and to establish you in Christ.

Looking Back

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