Sunday, February 24, 2013

Trust in God: Complaints to Comfort


Pastor Tony Pladies

The Challenge
Finding our way from the
Cavity of Complaints
to the
Comfort of Christ

Psalm 56

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In God I Trust

To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

56 Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me;
    all day long an attacker oppresses me;
my enemies trample on me all day long,
    for many attack me proudly.
When I am afraid,
    put my trust in you.
In God, whose word I praise,
    in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
    What can flesh do to me?
All day long they injure my cause;
    all their thoughts are against me for evil.
They stir up strife, they lurk;
    they watch my steps,
    as they have waited for my life.
For their crime will they escape?
    In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!
You have kept count of my tossings;
    put my tears in your bottle.
    Are they not in your book?
Then my enemies will turn back
    in the day when I call.
    This I know, that God is for me.
10 In God, whose word I praise,
    in the Lord, whose word I praise,
11 in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
    What can man do to me?
12 I must perform my vows to you, O God;
    I will render thank offerings to you.
13 For you have delivered my soul from death,
    yes, my feet from falling,
that I may walk before God
    in the light of life.

Matthew 7:1-2

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Judging Others

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Jeremiah 10:12

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12 It is he who made the earth by his power,
    who established the world by his wisdom,
    and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

John 14:6

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Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Matthew 19:26

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26 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

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