THE LIFE OF A WORSHIPPER

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LIFE OF A WORSHIPPER

FUEL FOR SERVICE

The Psalms of Ascent:

A Spiritual JourneyPsalms 120-134

THE PREPARED HEART

Psalm 120Recognize where

you’re at.

THE PREPARED HEART

I call to the Lord in my distress, and He answers me. Save me, O Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful

tongues. What will he do to you, and what more besides, O deceitful

tongue? He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows, with burning

coals of the broom tree.

THE PREPARED HEART

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar! Too long have I

lived among those who hate peace. I am a man of peace;

but when I speak, they are for war."

THE PREPARED HEART

Recognize where God is.

Psalm 121-123

THE PREPARED HEART

Psalm 121I lift up my eyes to the hills – where does my help come from? My help comes from

the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

THE PREPARED HEART

Psalm 122I rejoiced with those who said to me: Let us go to the House of the Lord!

THE PREPARED HEART

Psalm 123“Have mercy on us, O

Lord!”

THE PREPARED HEART

Psalm 124-129Remember what God has

done

THE PREPARED HEART

If the Lord had not been on our side when men attacked us, when

their anger flared against us, they would have swallowed us

alive; the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over us, the raging

waters would have swept us away. Praise be to the Lord, who

has not let us be torn by their teeth. Psalm 124

THE PREPARED HEART

When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion, we were like

men who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our

tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations,

“The Lord has done great things for them.” The Lord has done great things for us and we are

filled with joy.” Psalm 126

THE PREPARED HEART

Psalm 130-132Rest your soul in God’s

presence.

THE PREPARED HEART

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord who could

stand? But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put

my hope. Psalm 130

THE PREPARED HEART

My heart is not proud, O Lord, and my eyes are not haughty; I do not

concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I

have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Psalm 131

THE PREPARED HEART

I WAS once conversing with a very excellent aged minister, and while we were talking about our attitude and feelings, he made the following confession—he said, “When I read that passage in the Psalm,

‘My soul is even as a weaned child,’ I wish it were true of me, but I think I should have to make an alteration of one syllable, and

then it would exactly describe me at times-

THE PREPARED HEART

‘My soul is even as a weaning rather than a weaned child,’ for,” he said,

“with the infirmities of old age, I fear I get fretful, and peevish, and

anxious, and when the day is over I do not feel that I have been in so

calm, resigned, and trustful a frame of mind as I desire.”

THE PREPARED HEART

…then we get like the weaning child which is fretting and worrying, and

unrestful, and who causes trouble to those round about it, and most of all,

trouble to itself. Weaning was one of the first real troubles that we met with after

we came into this world, and it was at the time a very terrible one to our little

hearts.

THE PREPARED HEART

We got over it somehow or other; we do not remember, now, what a trial it was to us, but we may take it as a type of all troubles, for if we have faith in Him who was our God from

our mother’s breasts, as we got over the weaning, and do not even remember it, so

we shall get over all the troubles that are to come, and shall scarcely remember them for

the joy that will follow! – C.H. Spurgeon

THE PREPARED HEART

Psalm 133-134Rejoice with one another.

THE PREPARED HEART

THE PREPARED HEART