Universal Worship Defined

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Universal Worship Defined

Psalm 150:1-6 ESV

1 Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens!
2 Praise him for his mighty deeds;
praise him according to his excellent greatness!

3 Praise him with trumpet sound;
praise him with lute and harp!
4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe!
5 Praise him with sounding cymbals;
praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!

The final Psalm is a universal call to worship. It begins and closes with Hallelujah, Praise the Lord. This is the privilege and joy of every believer, but it is also the universal responsibility of all creation which includes all mankind. The universalism of this Psalm is a unique look into the requirement of worship.

1. Psalm 150:1 The where of praise is described. It is local, “in his sanctuary.:” As all politics are local, the beginning place of praise is in God’s local dwelling place. The gathering of God’s people is his sanctuary. The church is his house in a peculiar way and praise is always “comely for the upright.”

But His praise is not confined to the local expression. For the Psalmist it went far beyond Israel. It was to be universal to the “mighty heavens.” As Israel was not then to consider their God a local deity, so now no church has the right to nationalize God. He is in his “mighty heavens” and he is unconfined.

Praise is recognized as a local responsibility but it is universal in its extent.

2. Psalm 150:2 The reason God is to be praised is simple.

A. It is because of what He does. He is to be praised “for his mighty deeds.” It is unbelief to fail to believe God is active in His creation doing “mighty deeds.” We are sure of this because his word tells us it is so. And if we look we see him in judgment and mercy. We fail to recognize God’s activity not because it is not before us, but because we fail to look for it.

There is a reason lying behind His activity that demands our praise. This is “his excellent greatness.” All praise to God is directed ultimately to this first truth of God’s self revelation. God, in his being, is worthy of man’s absolute devotion. The self-revealed triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is infinitely worth of the praise of all creation.

3. Psalm 150:3-5 The Psalmist describes how God is to be praised. He is to be praised with humanly invented esthetic means. This writer names particular musical instruments. There are enough different instruments named to assure that all the inventions of man that can be used to make harmonious music can be included here.

The qualification for the instruments and the sounds they produce is that they are to praise God. That does not exclude esthetic gratification but it does exclude human gratification, entertainment, and sensual enjoyment. It does not say that any musical sound which instruments can produce is to be accepted. The qualification is singular. It is to “praise the Lord.”

This is neither easy to define nor always easy to recognize. But the difficulty does allow us to dismiss all musical instruments or to accept the blatant entertainment that has been introduced into Christian worship.

Psalm 150:6 The who of worship is stated so plainly it cannot be misunderstood, “everything that has breath.” This is a universalism that so plainly extends beyond Israel that honest Old Testament commentaries do not attempt to so confine the breadth and scope of the statement.

This is applied to everything in general. Psalm 19:1 has to apply here. The creation is to be praise for its creator. In everything and always it displays His glory the work of His hands.

More particularly this addresses mankind. As those who have breath, that can express God’s glory, power, and goodness, man universally has the responsibility to praise God.

How can this Psalm be applied? There are three ways this affects our worship..

1. God is to be praised for His Creation. We live in a sin-cursed world. But we do not live in a God- deserted world. Roses have thorns. But they are roses with their beauty and perfume.

2. The responsibility of praise is a call to forsake selfishness. The one who praises God realizes the responsibility that he is a giver and not just a taker. It is easy to forget this but worship is giving God His worth. This giving must extend to the whole of loving God and no less to loving our neighbor.

3. This Psalm answers the question of what the church can use to praise God. The requirement of

a cappella singing in worship should forever be put to rest by the information given here..

John Calvin begins an argument in Psalm 33 that musical instruments are a part of the Old Testament typical worship that is done away with in the New Testament church. He, in no way proves this, he merely states it and then takes his statement as proof. But when he comes to Psalm 150 he is too honest to do this. He states there is a universal requirement but he will not use it to correct his earlier position. Many earlier Reformed commentaries follow Calvin in this understanding.

Unless one is willing to say the Old Testament is not authoritative in directing worship in the church, the plain directive of Psalm 150 cannot be extended to mankind universally and exempt the use of instruments in the church.

It is not enough to say the New Testament never tells us to use musical instruments in worship. For the church not to use them there must be something later than Psalm 150 which forbids their use in the church.

With everything that can be used for praise let everyone who has breath say Praise the Lord.

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The Impossibility of Salvation For Man

Mark 10:23-27; Matthew 19:23-26; Luke 18:24-27 NKJV

Mark 10

23 Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!”

24 And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God!

25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
26 And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, “Who then can be saved?”
27 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”

The Scriptures are unrelenting in their description of man’s inability to please God. This is stated without qualification. For even the believer when left to himself will only produce the “works of the flesh.” It is only as the believer acts in faith in Christ that he pleases God. “For whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”

Christ’s disciples had a preconceived understanding of what it was to be blessed of God. It was to have wealth. Wealth meant one was blessed both materially and spiritually.

How easy it is to condemn those men for their evidently false understanding of God’s ways. But think of how many ways we equate spiritual favor with present status. We are at least as guilty of this as those in the Scriptures.

1. Vs 23-24 The advantages of this life furnish no qualification for Kingdom citizenship.

The occasion of our text is a man who comes to Christ to inquire about eternal life. This man presents a very favorable appearance. a) He is sincere Vs 17; b) He is knowledgeable and moral Vs 19A, 20 c) He has an abundance of worldly possessions. But he went away distraught without what he came to get Vs 22.

This furnishes the occasion for Jesus to teach His disciples and us a great truth about Kingdom Citizenship. There is no worldly advantage or qualification which grants any help toward Kingdom Citizenship.

2. Vs 25-26 The real issue is stated clearly in Vs 26. It is salvation. “Who then can be saved?” If that one who should have had the greatest advantage faces an impossible obstacle, how then can any ordinary person expect to be saved?

And Jesus does state this man’s salvation as an impossibility. I take this illustration to be a graphic illustration of something we easily see as impossible in the natural realm. And in Vs 26 this seems to be exactly how His hearers understood it; an impossibility was stated.

3. Vs 27 The nature of salvation is plainly put before His disciples and all who read this verse. It is impossible with men, but not an impossibility with God.

This needs to be considered in its plainness. In the light of the questions, “Who then?” and the answer, “No one” except God can do the impossible. A careful consideration of John 1:12-13 finds John stating this same truth. a) Believers alone receive the blessing of being a child of God. But this is not left without explanation. B) Vs 13 states the impossibility of human contribution and the single means of god’s giving life in the face of human impossibility, “but of God”.

Every claimant of Kingdom life must face this question. From what source is your spiritual life derived? From you?, from you with the help of man and sacraments?, or is it in the purest sense from God and comes to you without the taint of human interference?

I have found the farther I can get from any personal contribution in my salvation and the more I can find it coming from God, who is the God of impossibilities, the safer I am, with God receiving all the glory for the salvation of a poor lost sinner.

BIBLICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LOST PERSON

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BIBLICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LOST PERSON

Psalm 14:1;; NKJV

1 The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt,
They have done abominable works,
There is none who does good.

Psalm 36:1-4

1 An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked:
There is no fear of God before his eyes.
2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes,
When he finds out his iniquity and when he hates.
3 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
4 He devises wickedness on his bed;
He sets himself in a way that is not good;
He does not abhor evil.

Psalm 50:21B

You thought that I was altogether like you;
But I will rebuke you,
And set them in order before your eyes.

There are many different ways unbelievers are described. They are always guilty in an unflattering way. They are always outside of the blessings God bestows on His elect. Even their prayers are an abomination. And they always have the unbearable weight of God’s wrath upon them. John 3:36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

The three Psalms mentioned above give different insights into the nature, activity, and thinking of unbelievers. The sinfulness of man is never benign. It is always actively opposed to God.

1: Psalm 14:1 A description of the speaker begins this pregnant statement. The one who speaks is a fool. His speech is a result of his nature, character, and activity. The description which follows reveals the character and cause of atheism. A corrupt person, with abominable activity, who cannot do good is here the subject. It is, from the standpoint of Scripture, unthinkable that an atheist can be a just, ethical, honorable person. “None do good, no, not one”

2. Psalm 36:1-4 The person before the believer here has three revealing characteristics which define him.

A. 36:1B He has no fear of God. There is nothing about him which brings respect for God’s law. He has no possibility of wisdom. Separation from God marks his words and deeds. His consuming interest is himself.

B. 36:3A He is revealed in his conversation. The absolute description given in the verse may not be true of every lost person. This depraved conversation may, because of education, culture, and gentle disposition, be largely absent. But close attention to the conversation of the lost person will find evidence of “no fear of God”, and the failure of wisdom.

C. 36:4C “He does not abhor evil” This person may be legalistic. He may be civilized. He may be very cultured. But his distaste for overt evil is personal and emotional. It does not derive from a hatred of sin based on it being a transgression of God’s law. As such it is an offense against God. This is at the heart of the believer’s hatred of sin.

The just Lord loves righteousness and hates iniquity. Hebrews 1:9 “You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.” He has put this in the heart of every saint.

3. Psalm 50:21B This is the fatal mistake of every unbeliever. Their understanding of God rises no higher than their selfish considerations. The creature is most prone to mistake himself for God. He thinks God’s righteousness is no different than the right and wrong he pursues. He thinks God must love him because he loves himself. He thinks God must approve of his charity, kindness, and overall civility because he delights in it and it is applauded by his companions.

His thoughts of God never rise to the level of God’s absolute Holiness. The justice of God deriving from the pure application of His law never enters the realm of his consideration. He is the atheist, practical if not doctrinal. He has no fear of God. God is no more dangerous to him than any other human speculation. His concerns are materialism, pleasure, and rule. He is motivated by and acts on these concerns.

If you are a believer you have an unchangeable belief in the person of God. You have been freed from the bonds of corruption. You are not a slave to sin. And the mind of Christ Jesus is yours. I Cor. 2:16. For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. Truly our lines have fallen in pleasant places.

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Understanding important truths from the Bible….

Psalm 87:1-7 NKJV

1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God! Selah
4 “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me;
Behold, O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia:
‘This one was born there.’ ”
5 And of Zion it will be said,
“This one and that one were born in her;
And the Most High Himself shall establish her.”
6 The LORD will record,
When He registers the peoples:
“This one was born there.” Selah
7 Both the singers and the players on instruments say,
“All my springs are in you.”

It is a sad fact of our day that Christians have lost their love for the church both in the abstract and the particular.

The church is a fact of our existence. She exists as the beloved of God, the embodiment of the elect, and the bride of Christ. It is this church of which Christ is the head. It is this church which expects and will welcome Jesus’ return. It has no national boundaries and cannot be defined in terms of any particular culture.

The question which must be answered is ‘how is the church known?’. Or ‘what is its particular representative?’. It is that church on any spot, on any corner, in any meeting place where the Gospel is preached and believed. This is the absolute minimum requirement. The sacraments and discipline may be added. Government is a requirement for the church. Even if these features are there without the Gospel believed and preached it is not a true church.

The presence of this church in its stated meetings for worship, Christian growth, and evangelism are statements to the world that there is a church of God which continues. Psalm 87 informs us of some important features of this church.

A. Vs 1-2 God has founded and loves this church. The origin of the church is determined. The church universal, and in each of members, is the result of God’s purpose and receives His love. I Peter 2:3-4, 9

B. Vs 4c, 6b All the rights and privileges of the church universal and particular belong only to those who have been “born anew”. This is a matter of first concern to John as he establishes the importance of it and gives us a clear understanding in it. John 1:1-13, 3:1-7

There are three important results of this birth.

1. Vs 4 The people who are exposed to this church recognize that those who compose its community have a unique origin. The church can account for her weak testimony to this present age by admitting it has given up her supernatural birthright.

2. Vs 5 The church’s primary distinction is her supernatural birthright and her supernatural continuance. As the church particular has laid aside its supernatural provision for the cheap armament of humanism or unbelief or the spirit of this age it has to the same degree lost the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.

Let the church weep and beat its breast. Let it cry for revival and God’s knowledgeable presence. These are not found in the brilliance of human talent or administration. This church that gives up the supernatural is like Samson with his hair cut, “He wist not the Spirit had departed.”

3. Vs 7 “All my springs are in you”. There is given to the church in both its forms the provision to satisfy a need that is in every born-again member of her society.

Man is created with a need for community. God has given the citizens of His kingdom a particular place to fulfill that need. It is in what we call the local church.

Please do not make the mistake of thinking you have a pleasing fellowship with God outside this church. If you were born there; if you have your strength there; if your neighbors are to recognize your birthright there; then you must put yourself there.

This is both necessary and desirable. In Vs 7 Those who praise God without exception declare their complete dependence on this source as the unfailing supply.

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Psalm 90:1-2 NKJV

1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever You had formed the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

This Psalm is titled A Prayer of Moses the Man of God Because the titles are not a part of the inspired Psalm, we do not know for sure this was written by Moses. But two things we can say, even in the Psalms which are for the most part of great age, this is an ancient Psalm. Secondly, it is certainly worthy of Moses. There is no other Psalm any more comforting to older people than this one.

In these first two verses, there are three truths the believer must hold as primary to his faith.

1. Vs 1 God alone is and has always been the object of the believer’s faith and the only source of safety, provision, and comfort. The Psalmist never intends any God but He who reveals Himself in the Scriptures. God can only be known by His self-revelation. And the saving knowledge of God is found in Holy Scripture only. Cf Psalm 19:7-8.

2. God is creator. This is a basic truth to the faith of the Church. The date and origin of the Apostles’ Creed may be and is argued. And it is doubtful if it is adequate for an inclusive confession for the believer. But it is ancient and the truth contained is worthy of every Christian’s faith.

This Confession gives as a first article of faith “God, the maker of heaven and earth.” That is the faith of the Church. When there is failure here there is certain to be failure at every point requiring supernatural activity.

God, as creator, is able to do with His creation whatever He pleases. No act of His in His creation is outside the will or power that is His as God.

The words of Daniel 4:35 are simple statements of our faith. ³⁵ All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven
And among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, “What have You done? The King’s understanding was returned to him, Daniel 4:34A and in the clarity of that he came to know of God’s dominion. And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom is from generation to generation. This leads us to our third truth.

3. Our faith is firmly based on the eternality of god. “Before….even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”

When God confronted Moses at the “Burning Bush”, He revealed His name as “I Am”, or the eternal one. In Hebrews 11:6 the article of faith is that “He….must believe that God is.” John’s Gospel begins with the eternity of the Word, John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

God is before all things. Whatsoever is not God is created. If the Son is not eternal, He is a creature and is not God. If the Spirit is an emanation, He is a creature and is not God. The whole of all we know, visible and invisible, has an origin. It has a beginning. God is. He is yesterday, today, and eternally. This is our faith. This is our comfort. As God is not the creation of man but is eternal, so He will be when all His works are consumed and only His church remains.

I believe in the Father; I believe in the Son; I believe in the Holy Spirit, one God in Three Persons eternal and the creator of all things visible and invisible. Sola Deo Gloria.

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Psalm 45:1-2 NKJV

1 My heart is overflowing with a good theme;
I recite my composition concerning the King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

2 You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.

Title: The Beauties Of The Savior.

We are told very little in the Scriptures of the physical appearance of Jesus. He must have been of the ordinary appearance of that day because he had to be identified, as he was among a crowd, to those who came to arrest him. Again in John 8:57 the Jews said to Him ‘You are not yet fifty years old’, which is at least an indication he must have appeared much older than his thirty years.

But this physical appearance is of no concern to the believer. The beauty described by the Psalmist (45:2a) draws our attention and interest. The comments on this Psalm by the great teachers of the church capture the beauty of the Savior which truly and substantially thrills every believer.

Treasury of David

Title: For the Sons of Korah “ Special singers are appointed for so divine a hymn. King Jesus desires to be praised not with random ranting raving, but with the sweetest and most skillful music of the best trained choristers”.

A Song of Loves: “Not a carnal sentimental love song, but a celestial canticle of everlasting love fit for the tongues and ears of angels.”

Vs 2. Thou art fairer: “In person but especially in mind and character, the King of saints is peerless in beauty. The Hebrew word is doubled ‘Beautiful, beautiful art thou’. Jesus is so emphatically lovely that words must be doubled, strained, yea, exhausted before he can be described.”

Vs. 2 Thou art fairer: “Thus he begins to set forth his beauty wherein is the delightfulness of any person, so it is with the soul when God hath made known to man his own filthiness and uncomeliness through sin, and that only by Jesus sin is taken away; oh, how beautiful is this face, the first sight of him.”

Vs 2 Thou art fairer: “He first describes the glories, the beauties, the astonishing loveliness, of his person. Though to a carnal eye there was no beauty to desire him, his visage was marred more than any man’s and his form more than the sons of men, yet to the eye truly enlightened, he is the king in his beauty, fairer as the mediator, the Head, the Bridegroom of his church and people, than all the children of men.”

Vs 2 Thou art fairer: “O fair sun, and fair moon, and fair stars, and fair flowers, and fair roses, and fair lilies, but O ten thousand times fair Lord Jesus.”

Matthew Henry

Vs. 2 Thou art fairer: “Those that have an admiration and affection for Christ love to go to him and tell him so. Thus we must profess our faith, that we see his beauty, and our love, that we are pleased with it.”

Perowne

Whole Psalm: “Israel’s true king was not David or Solomon, but One of whom they, at best, were only faint and transient images. A righteous one was yet to come who should indeed ride in truth and equity, who should fulfill all the hopes which one human monarch after another, however fair the promise of his reign had disappointed, and whose kingdom, because it was a righteous kingdom should endure forever.”

James Luther Mays (Modernist)

“Christians have traditionally understood the psalm as a song of love between Christ and his church. This interpretation is also a safeguard against attributing the divine right of rule to any other save Christ in whose hands it is utterly safe.”

II Thessalonians 1:10 when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed. At the great day of our resurrection the beauty of the Savior will be the single object of our admiration. It is to our best interest and his glory for this to consume our admiration and attention now.

O could I speak the matchless worth, O could I sound the glories forth which in my Savior shine,

I’d soar, and touch the heav’nly strings, and vie with Gabriel while he sings in notes almost divine.

I’d sing the precious blood he spilt, my ransom from the dreadful guilt of sin, and wrath divine:

I’d sing his glorious righteousness, in which all perfect heav’nly dress my soul shall ever shine.

I’d sing the characters he bears, and all the forms of love he wears, exalted on his throne:

In loftiest songs of sweetest praise, I would to everlasting days make all his glories known.

Well, the delightful day will come when my dear Lord will being me home, and I shall see his face,

Then with my Savior, Brother, Friend, a blest eternity I’ll spend, triumphant in his grace.

Samuel Medley

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Psalm 42:6 NKJV

O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
From the Hill Mizar.

The writer of this Psalm presents a different picture than that thought of as representing a believer. He is, in present day terminology, depressed. He questions God, vs 9A, I will say to God my Rock,
“Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”; he accuses his companions, vs 3B While they continually say to me, “Where is your God?”, 10B While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”; but more particularly he addressed himself, vs 5A-B. Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?

In this Psalm and the one following there are some useful lessons for the believer who experiences depression.

1. Believers have in the past, and do now, have the troubling experience of depression. The fact that the Psalmist by inspiration writes of his experience should put to rest all the foolishness the positive thinkers say about this subject.

There are two facts about this problem. First it is not a cause for embarrassment. For one to think he cannot be a Christian and be depressed is put to rest in Psalm 42:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance. Secondly it is not acceptable to the believer. Though the believer should be neither embarrassed nor utterly discouraged, they should be determined to put this behind them.

2. There are reasons for depression. The writer is frank in stating

a) vs 2 he has lost his way into the presence of God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God? Unbelief in the promises of God and a failure to recall God’s deliverance of himself has overwhelmed him. Vs 9a I will say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me?

b) He has listened to his enemies. vs 9b-10. Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” As with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

c) The everyday trials of a life lived amidst the natural world have overcome him, vs 7. Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me.

3. There is a way out of depression.

a) vs 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God? Give attention to this question - begin to answer it.

1) Read the Scriptures. Learn again in them the nature of God. Renew the mind in its understanding of the proneness of the human soul to depart from God.

2) Read in the Scriptures of the trials and triumphs of the saints. I personally continually return to Psalm 73 for a lifting up of the downcast. 3) Go again to that place that gave comfort and joy. Vs 4. When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast. There ask God to reveal the beauty, glory, and joy of the church. Rejoice in being a part of it.

3) The depressed saint must determine no matter how deep and dark the hole may be, he or she will not surrender to it. Vs 11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.

When the final gun is sounded and the race is run the believer must determine as the Psalmist has, Psalm 43:3-4 Oh, send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your tabernacle. Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And on the harp I will praise You, O God, my God. He has the means, the promise, and the provision to give him confidence to pray for and confidently expect deliverance.

You who are experiencing depression say “That is well and good but it is too easy. I have tried it and it doesn’t work”. I know it. But you must, and I emphasize must, go back to that same principle, the word of God, the assured presence of God, and pray. It is only here you will find relief.

It will serve you all well to understand Psalm 87:7 Both the singers and the players on instruments say, “All my springs are in you.”