PSALM CHAPTER 34 MAINTAINING HAPPINESS: Bless the LORD at All Times ! Learning How To Make The Lord The True Center of My Life ! 1. MAKING GOD THE TRUE CENTER CONTINUALLY.    A. A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO MAKE HIM FIRST ABOVE ALL. HOSEA 12:6. B. NOT AS HARD IF WE ARE CONSTANTLY SERVING HIM. ACTS 6:4. SEEN IN NORMAL

PSALM CHAPTER 35 MAINTAINING HAPPINESS: Dealing With Unjust People 1. TURN TO GOD INSTEAD OF YOUR OWN THOUGHTS.         ***HAVING MANY AGAINST YOU SHOULD NOT HINDER YOUR SERVICE TO GOD. PS. 119:157. A. SEEKING HIS PROTECTION. V. 1-3. LUKE 18:38-42. B. SEEKING HIS JUDGMENT. 4-6. KNOW THAT AT THE LEAST IT WILL COME LATER. LUKE 19:27, REV. 20:12. C.

PSALM CHAPTER 36 MAINTAINING HAPPINESS: Discerning Things With Truth, Not Imagination ! Learning How To See Things Through God’s Eyes ! 1. SEEING THINGS AS THEY REALLY ARE.   V. 1. A. REQUIRES THE VIEW FROM A RENEWED HEART. B. REQUIRES A DEPENDENCE ON GOD-SUPPLIED SOURCES: —THE WORD. HEB. 4:12, —THE HOLY SPIRIT. JOHN 16:13. —SOME BELIEVERS HAVE EXPANDED ABILITIES IN

PSALM CHAPTER 37 Everything is NOT as it appears on the surface !   1. EVIL DOERS HAVE A PRICE TO PAY.  37:1-2 A. THE CONSEQUENCES TO THEIR SINS NOW. —NATURAL CONSEQUENCES. ROM. 1:27, AS EXAMPLE —CONSEQUENCES FROM BREAKING LAWS OF MEN. ROMANS 13:4. B. THE CONSEQUENCES TO THEIR SINS LATER. —SIN HAS A CUMULATIVE EFFECT. HEB. 12:1, PS. 25:11,18. —JUDGING

PSALM CHAPTER 38 * * * MAINTAINING HAPPINESS * * * When trouble comes, is it chastening ? And, what can I do about it ? 1. ACCEPTING THE TRUTH THAT SOME TROUBLES ARE SENT BY THE LORD.   V. 1. A. REQUIRES AN UNDERSTANDING OF OUR TENDENCY TO SIN. PS. 58:3, IS. 53:6 B. REQUIRES AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHY GOD WOULD BRING

PSALM CHAPTER 39 How does a person use their tongue to please God ?   1. IT BEGINS WITH OUR OWN HEART. V. 1 A. TAKING HEED TO OUR OWN WAYS. I TIM. 4:16, DEUT. 4:23. B. BEING CONCERNED ABOUT OUR OWN SIN. LUKE 6:42. C. LOOKING AT WAYS TO STOP OUR SIN. PS. 119:11, D. BEING AWARE THAT OTHERS

PSALM CHAPTER 40 Getting Used To God’s Timing: A Growth Issue For Us All ! The Blessings Of Waiting For God’s Time !!   1. THE ASSURANCE IS BASED UPON KNOWING THAT YOU DID WHAT HE WANTED. V.1. “OUR CONFIDENCE”= I JOHN 3:21-22. A. HE HAD TO WAIT. —AS MOST BELIEVERS DO. MATT 7:7. —NOT AS THE UNBELIEVERS. JOHN 5:3.

PSALM CHAPTER 41 Blessings Come From God for Considering The Poor Who Are The Poor ??   1. WHO ARE THE POOR ?    DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW ? SEVERAL WORDS USED, EACH WITH A DIFFERENT MEANING. A. THOSE WITH TRUE HARDSHIPS. Strong’s #01800= Heb word.=dal=In a low state. PROV. 10:15. *Used in PS. 41.    B. THOSE POOR

PSALM CHAPTER 42 What Distinguished The Truly Godly Person’s desires from those of A Merely Religious Man ?   1. THE DESIRE OF THE GODLY SOUL.    V.1. *COMPARED TO A DEER SEEKING LIVING (RUNNING) WATERS. THESE ARE CONSCIOUS, INTENSE, AND ACTIVE DESIRES ! A. FOR GOD. THE LOST—BY THEMSELVES—DO NOT SEEK GOD. PS. 14:2, PS. 53:2. THE HUMBLE—WHO SUBMIT

PSALM CHAPTER 43 What Can You Do When Everyone Seems To Be Against You ??? “Judge”—from Hebrew word ‘Shaw-phat’=“to judge, punish or vindicate. To enter into a controversy with discernment.”   1. APPEAL TO GOD. A. JUDGE ME. PSALM 7:8, PSALM 54:1. B. PLEAD MY CASE. (AGAINST THE ACCUSERS) HOW CAN GOD PLEAD YOUR CASE BEFORE OTHERS ? —JUDGMENT UPON