Fighter Verse Songs

4-48 Application for Dec 8, 2014 :: Psalm 118:13-14

===

I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me. The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

Psalm 118:13-14

===

This is the helpful truth for those that are falling. They’ve been pushed hard enough that they can’t keep standing on their own. And what does He do? What does He become for those who put their faith in Him?

Three things:

1. Your Strength – to enable you to keep from falling. This would be acceptable for many who are in a difficult place – but God doesn’t stop there.
2. Your Song – so you’re not just standing upright – you’re given the joy to want to sing about it.
3. Your Salvation – This is long term uprightness – eternal protection from falling.

Are you falling? Run to this God.

===

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 15:7

===

“Awesome,” we think, “I can get anything I want by doing this one thing!”.

No. Rather, think of it this way – If you are a person who stays with Jesus, and follows Jesus, and knows his will and his words and wants to serve him, then you will be the kind of person who’s will is so close to God’s that what you wish will be His will.

And wouldn’t that be a much more substantial blessing than getting three wishes?

===

In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches. I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

Psalm 119:14-16

===
Money is not as good as God. God is the source of all wisdom and joy and salvation.

So delight, fix your eyes, meditate and don’t forget His …

precepts, ways, statutes, testimonies and word.

They are better, stronger and more valuable than riches.

===

Song by Jason Harms, Performed by Jason Harms

===

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.

James 4:7-8

===

Three Commands –
1. Submit yourself to God
2. Resist the devil
3. Draw near to God

Two Promises –
1. The devil will flee from you.
2. God will draw near to you.

Do you want the promises? Wouldn’t it be nice if the devil withdrew from you today? Do you want God to draw near to you?

So: What do you need to do to resist the devil? What do you have to shut off or run from. What do you need to say ‘no’ to?

And what do you need to do to submit to God and draw near to him. What do you need to say ‘Yes’ to?

Do those things. Pray for the grace to do those things.

===

Sung by Tom Dodds, Kevin Shull and Scott Jamison. Song by Scott Jamison and Kevin Shull

===

===

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Psalm 127:1

===

God can succeed without you, but you can’t succeed without God.

As you make goals, are you asking God to make them happen? Are you aware of his working through all of it? Are you thankful to him when things get done?

Are you open to the idea that everything that ever happens is miraculous?

===

Song by Phil Carlson, Sung by Phil and Emily Carlson

===

==

Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 55:22

===

There is a good chance you have a burden today. For some of us, this burden is very deep and difficult to bear.

Notice that this Psalm doesn’t say, cast your easy burdens on the LORD.

If you are righteous in God’s site, because of the work of his Son, it doesn’t matter the size of your burden.

Give it to God and he was sustain you.

===

Sung by Carl Jamison, Guitar by Phil Krause, Song by Scott Jamison

==

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit

1 Peter 3:18

===

Here, again, is the gospel.
We were unrighteous – Christ is righteous.
We through Christ are put to death, but made alive in the spirt.
We were lost, now we can be brought to God.

===

Song and sung by Jeff Warren.

==

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you-unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures

1 Corinthians 15:1-3

===

What is the important message that Paul stresses so strongly here?
Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures.

Hold fast to this truth as if your life depends on it – because it does.
We received this.
We stand in this.
We are saved by this.
It is of first importance.

===

Sung by Tom Dodds – Song by Scott Jamison

==

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23

===

The gift is free.
The gift is through Jesus
The gift is necessary because our sin.

Our sin causes Death

But the gift is eternal life.

===

Song and Sung by Daniel Sousa

==

“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.”

Jeremiah 9:23-24

===

In our natural humanity – it sure seems like our wisdom, might and wealth is something we should boast about.

But these are all gifts.

So the Prophet says we should be boasting about the gift-giver.

And what about Him should we extol?
His love
His Justice
His Righteousness.

That’s what should give us joy. That’s what should get our mouths talking.

===

Song and Sung by the Phil Krause Family