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How Can I Be Happy?

Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 27, 2006

based on 28 ratings

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Happiness blockers: 1. A demanding spirit that insists life should be good and easy. 2. A lack of play. 3. Basing your happiness on circumstances rather than trust.

Singer and diva, Madonna, is one of the wealthiest people in show business and has openly flaunted her self-indulgent lifestyle. A couple of years ago she was asked in an interview if she was happy. Her response was: “I don’t even know anybody who is happy!” Not only was she not happy, but she ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-11

Denomination: Methodist

Spiritual Drainers

Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Apr 5, 2006

based on 18 ratings

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things that kill spiritual life

Intro: years ago in Tallassee Alabama I went with the men of the church to the train tracks to unload a box car of lumber for the new church building. When I got home I was physically drained, I fell into bed that night. We all have known times of physical exhaustion. In the spiritual realm there ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:5-11

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Persistency Of True Faith Joy And Praise

Contributed by George Barton on May 2, 2006

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Using Habakkuk 1 and 3 and Psalm 42 as texts, the sermon demonstrates that true faith persists in spite of unnumbered problems and apparently unanswered prayers.

THE PERSISTENCY OF TRUE FAITH, JOY AND PRAISE REVISED 05-02-2006 This morning I want to talk about the persistency and growth of true faith, joy and praise. My sermon has two points: First, true faith, joy and praise persist and grow even when trials and troubles seem ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Put Your Hope In God Series

Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jun 11, 2006

based on 14 ratings

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We may find ourselves asking God where He is, but we must remind ourselves that God loves us and God is with us all day long.

Put Your Hope in God Psalm 42 The writer of this psalm is a Korahite That means a few different things. He was a highly respected Levite who was part of a rich family tradition of music and worship. He was a man of status, deeply embedded in the tradition of Temple worship. It means that his ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-11

Denomination: Mennonite

A New Attitude For A New Year

Contributed by Rodney Fry on Jan 1, 2004

based on 35 ratings

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A New Year Sermon

Scripture: Psalms 42 and 43, especially 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. Introduction: You’d like to begin 2004 saying, “This is the year that the Lord has made. I will ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:5

Denomination: Baptist

The Antodote For A Troubled Life

Contributed by Norris Harris I on Feb 13, 2003

based on 70 ratings

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I must use this period of ministry in addressing those very special saint who are experiencing UNUSUAL TROUBLE and are TROUBLED thereby. I need to address you because You and Your Experience has been Overlooked and given Too Little Attention by the minist

“Trouble in my way, I have to cry sometimes. So much trouble, I have to cry sometimes. I lay awake at night, but that’s alright; Because I know Jesus will fix it after awhile.” Here we are again. I want to use this ‘Preaching Moment’ to deal with what’s going on underneath our skin. So, WE NEED TO ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-5

Denomination: Baptist

Longing For The Lord Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on Mar 20, 2003

based on 129 ratings

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I want us to take a look at Psalm 42 in order to better understand the kind of depression that can hit us in the spiritual solar plexus.

Longing for the Lord Last week we focused our attention on Psalm 32, and established the fact that our unconfessed sins can cause us physical problems. When we don’t confess we can experience distress. What we’ll learn this morning is that pain is not always a direct result of sin. Last Monday ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-11, Psalm 42:1

Denomination: Baptist

Depression

Contributed by Jim Twamley on Mar 25, 2003

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Depression is one of the most common psychological problems, affecting nearly everyone through either personal experience or through depression in a family member. Each year over 17 million American adults experience a period of clinical depression.

(Slide #1) Job 30:16-17 16 "And now my heart is broken. Depression haunts my days. 17 My weary nights are filled with pain as though something were relentlessly gnawing at my bones. NLT (Slide #2) Job 30:25-28 26 So I looked for good, but evil came instead. I waited for the light, but darkness ...read more

Scripture: Job 30:16-17, Psalm 42:1-11

Denomination: Pentecostal

Wandering In The Spiritual Desert

Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Jun 18, 2004

based on 84 ratings

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I got the bones of this outline from John Maxwell’s "One Hour With God" devotions. What do we do when we are running on empty?

INTRODUCTION • Have you ever been to the point in your walk with the Lord that just did not seem to be going anywhere? Did you or do you feel like you are wandering in the desert in circles, thirsting for water? • There are times in our lives when we can feel very empty spiritually, we can find ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-11

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

On The Run And Searching For Water

Contributed by James May on Feb 26, 2012

based on 9 ratings

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Like the deer pants after water, the people of God are often hounded by adversity and the enemy of our souls. Often we find ourselves running the wrong way, becoming thirsty and dry spiritually. It's time we started running to Jesus, our only true sourc

On the Run and Searching for Water By Rev. James May I know that I’ve told this before, but I want to begin this message again by bringing to your mind the story of the lion and the gazelle that dwell on the Serengeti plains of northern Africa. Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-11

Denomination: Independent/Bible

How To Thirst For God

Contributed by David Scudder on Dec 4, 2011

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What do we need more than anything else in our lives? We know that the answer is "God" but do we really live that way? Trials reveal what we are trusting to make life work. Here we see David's deep longing to be closer to his God.

INTRODUCTION: "In his riveting and unsettling book Night, Elie Wiesel describes his boyhood experiences as one of the countless victims of the Holocaust. Ripped from his home and separated from everyone in his family except his father (who would die in the death camps), Wiesel suffered a dark night ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-11

Denomination: Independent/Bible

6.3 (The Hardest Sermon I’ve Preached.) Series

Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Feb 25, 2011

based on 6 ratings

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This is the second major earthquake our city has suffered in the past seven months. We have this time suffered more physical damage and serious loss of life and injury. If you are reading this please take the time to pray for the people of this city.

6.3 [Why the hardest? February 22nd 2011 was a Tuesday, at 12.51pm the Quake struck effectively shutting down the City, New Zealand's second largest by population. As a Salvation Army Corps we immediately became involved in relief efforts, while dealing with our own minor issues and a community of ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 103:13-19, Psalm 42:5

Denomination: Salvation Army

My Soul Thirsts For God - All Saints Day Memorial Service

Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Nov 5, 2012

based on 4 ratings

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A short talk given at our annual Memorial Service where we invite family members to come and give thanks for the life of a loved one who has died recently.

Throughout my life I have been encouraged by the faith and by the actions of some very unlikely people. During the summer I spent some time talking to people with a variety of disabilities and impairments and I have to say I found myself both inspired and uplifted. Watching the Paralympics was ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-11

Denomination: Anglican

Where Is Your God?

Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Jan 16, 2009

based on 4 ratings

| 12,598 views

When the world asks us where God is in our dark times, there is an answer for our souls that the world will never be able to refute.

Where Is Your God? Griffith Baptist Church – 1/18/09 P.M. Service Text: Psalm 42 Key verse: Psalms 42:11 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. Premise: When the ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-11, Psalm 42:1

Denomination: Baptist

Wandering In The Spiritual Desert

Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Jul 12, 2007

based on 37 ratings

| 32,306 views

Psalm 42 gives us encouragement in times of spiritual dryness.

INTRODUCTION • SLIDE #1 • Have you ever been to the point in your walk with the Lord that just did not seem to be going anywhere? Did you or do you feel like you are wandering in the desert in circles, thirsting for water? • There are times in our lives when we can feel very empty spiritually, we ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-11

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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