The Way of Wisdom, Part 2

Are you walking through a dark night of the soul? In Part 2 of The Way of Wisdom, Pastor Josh opens up Psalm 42 to explore how God meets us in seasons of despair, depression, and spiritual dryness. Whether you’re facing grief, anxiety, doubt, or just feel distant from God, this message offers real hope.

Do What You Want To
Vertical Worship

All Creatures (Sing the Harmony)
Shane & Shane

Great Are You Lord
All Sons and Daughters

Touch Of Heaven
Hillsong

Wisdom is knowing and understanding God’s ways and actively applying them to my life.

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Psalm 42:1-11
As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

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What do we do in the dark night of the soul?

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1. Preach to Yourself

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Psalms 42:5
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?

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Deuteronomy 31:8
And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.

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Psalm 34:17
The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

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John 16:33
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

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Romans 8:38-39
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Isaiah 41:10
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

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Action 1
Find some fight verses for yourself.

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2. Hope in God

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Psalms 42:5
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? HOPE in God;

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Psalms 42:6
My soul is cast down within me; therefore I REMEMBER you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

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Action 2
Keep a remembrance journal.

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3. Praise at Midnight

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Psalms 42:5-8
“O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again PRAISE him, my salvation and my God … By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and AT NIGHT his SONG is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

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Zephaniah 3:17
“He will take great delight in you … He will rejoice over you with singing.”

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Action 3
Sing God Songs in the Night.

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Joan Osborne “One of Us”
“What if God was one of us, Just a slob like one of us, Just a stranger on the bus, Trying to make his way home?”

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Hebrews 4:14-16
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

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