Why the Lord Must Be Your God Genesis 28:10-22 In our passage God reveals himself personally to Jacob in a dream. There is no doubt that Jacob knew about God. Certainly Issac, and even Abraham had told him and Esau all about God and the promises that he had given...

Troubled But Not Distressed 2 Cor. 4:8 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO How was Paul able to be troubled but not distressed? When most of us are troubled, we get very distressed.  Here’s how our life generally goes.  Things are rocking along pretty smoothly.  Then trouble starts to build and we start...

Affliction often draws you close to God as you see in Ps 107.  There’s a zeal for God in the trial, or the trouble, or the distress, or the affliction.  We are to continue with zeal after affliction passes. But as we can see with Israel, they repeatedly went back...

Deliver Us Only Jud. 10:6-16 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When Israel finally had enough of the oppression from their enemies, they cried to God and said, Deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.  Their desperate cry to the Lord to deliver them is so typical of sinners caught in sin....

Rebels Against the Words of God Ps. 107:10-15 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When men become rebels against the words of the Lord [Ps 107:11] and contemn the counsel of the most High, they find themselves in ever increasing trouble.  Once the trouble starts it only gets worse with time.  Rebels against...

How could Paul say, “I take pleasure in distresses” and really mean it?  Paul could say that he took pleasure in distresses because, when he was in distress, he received from the Lord:  Grace – 2 Cor 12:9-10 “I take pleasure in… distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am...

In 1 Sam 13, Saul was the king of Israel.  He had reigned 2 years when Jonathan and the thousand men who were with him smote a garrison of the Philistines [1 Sam 13:2-3].  The Philistines retaliated by gathering themselves together to fight with Israel [1 Sam 13:5].  There were...

In Ps 142:3, David wrote, “my spirit was overwhelmed within me.”  In Ps 142:6, he said, “I am brought very low.”  A fair number of good people whom I know are overwhelmed right now.  There seems to be an oppressive spirit attempting to discourage and defeat good men and women. ...

When Israel had the opportunity to enter Canaan the first time, they encountered some problems that set them back and caused them to wander in the wilderness for forty years.  Then when they finally made it into the land, they encountered a couple more problems that caused them unnecessary grief...

David Was Greatly Distressed 1 Sam. 30 :1-19 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When David went to the Philistines to get away from Saul’s constant attempts to kill him, he allied himself with Achish.  Achish gave him and his men Ziklag as their city to dwell in.  After nearly one and a...