Finding Daily Joy in God's Steadfast Love

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Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. I love that for Christian heess dedicated to the Daily discipline of seeking our joy in God, this text is so huge so draw out 10 minutes of insights from what you see in this text alone about our daily desire for God. [00:77:68]

There are few things Tony that I love to do more than to take a a Bible verse like this a word from God, and I want to underline that this is a word from God and then squeeze it like a sponge that has been dipped in the river of God's Delights and see how many cups I can fill. [00:111:68]

This is a god inspired prayer to God that's what the Psalms are this means that it is God's will for his children for us to experience satisfaction it is God's will that Christians live with hearts that are deeply content and satisfied that we he he does not will that our hearts be continually Restless or fearful or joyless. [00:165:20]

God's will for us is that we be able to say with complete authenticity with the Apostle Paul I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content that is to be satisfied to enjoy peace contentment confidence gladness joy and notice that he's not equating satisfaction with Pleasant circumstances. [00:199:87]

This is a prayer which means it's a battle if it came naturally we would not need to cry out for satisfaction this is a gift from God it's not something we can make happen with food or caffeine or drugs or sex or wealth or health or friendships or family. [00:236:04]

The morning is when we Face the day and according to this Psalm our days are filled with toil and trouble verse 10 we're like grass that is renewed in the morning and then in the evening Fades away verse six we are about to walk into a new day and experience the consequences of sin in this world. [00:285:00]

We cry out in the face of sin and finiteness and opposition and futility we cry out for satisfaction yeah we don't expect all the circumstances to change it's just the Fallen world we live in we won't be of any good to anybody as George Mueller taught us we won't be of any good to anybody if we all share in the moaning. [00:331:19]

When you get up in the morning and you see before you a day of trouble and problems problems upon problems which you cannot solve and you feel weak and sick and the things you thought were going to bring you some happiness have all crumbled where where do you look for satisfaction and Moses this is a Psalm of Moses. [00:395:75]

Moses answer was I look to the love of God for me isn't that amazing God loves me Moses says God chose me before the foundation of the world we Christians say to be his treasured possession God gave me existence God sent his son and paid for the failures that I've committed and the offenses against him. [00:420:91]

God open my eyes to see the worth and greatness and beauty of Christ God promises to be my treasure God promises to make everything including all my troubles and problems work together for my eternal Joy God loves me that's the source of his satisfaction his steadfast love and we pray for the ability to taste it. [00:453:68]

God is telling us to ask him to make us satisfied to make us happy to make us glad to make us rejoice no matter what and the amazing thing is that he says all our days not just sunny days Happy Days days all our days the reason it's amazing is because in the first 13 verses of this Psalm our days are being swept away. [00:521:32]

Psalm 9014 is a glorious word of God to his children in the midst of their troubles in this real world and I pray that you and I Tony and all of our listeners would take hold of it and ring out of it every cup of blessing that we need indeed squeezed out like a sponge dipped in the river of God's Delights. [00:600:12]

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