Your Worth More Broken

Your worth more Broken

Psalm 34:15-22

Greeting-

Good morning and welcome to those here in service and those who are online. I am glad you’re here. You have come to the right place!

We have just come out of our Easter celebration.

A time we look at the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus.

A time that we are reminded of the brokenness of Christ…His journey to the cross and our victory because of His victory.

I have title the message “Your worth more broken”

This message will lead us into a new series that starts next week entitled “Life choices” I was going to title it Nuts and bolts but as I thought about it, I wanted us to look at our life choices and then see that there is nuts and bolts of our faith needed to make sure that our lives line up with the blessings of God.

So maybe it is a series you will need or someone you know that you could invite either to join us here or listen online.

I think the Lord every…time we get together has something to say to all of us.

So our text this morning is Psalm 34 but let me set it up first.

Shepherd David is sent by his father Jesse to check up on his brothers in battle and discovers a giant tormenting the Nation of Israel and in 1 Samuel 17 and 18 describes in detail how David defeated the giant Goliath and came against his own obstacles victorious.

Anyone have some giants in their life right now?

“Giants” are problems, pressures, pains, and persecutions we will have to face from time to time in our lives.

“Giants” often times cause major difficulties in our life.

People of faith have long faced giants in their lives. Fear, discouragement, loneliness, worry, guilt, temptation, anger, resentment, doubt, procrastination, failure, and jealousy can plague us today.

3 points here with David

David used his own armor given him from the Lord

David Put God ahead of everything else

David knew how to celebrate his victories

Well Psalm 34 was written about the time right after that victory

He went from hang ten to just hanging

As David took the head of Goliath through the town, and was bringing the head to King Saul...he was receiving a hero’s welcome.

The women of Israel began singing praises to David

“Saul has killed his 1000's and David his ten thousand”

Saul became jealous, he did not want to share that praise with him, and from that point on...set out to kill him.

One minute a hero, next minute fugitive, one minute on top of his game and the next crushed by the pressures of what was a victory only moments ago.

I wish I could tell you that coming to Christ would have you not to face anymore trials or life’s storms.

It would be a lie! If I did

I cannot tell you that, but I can tell you that even though the storms come, there is a reason to rejoice.

Your heart can be made to sing

You can pick up your head in hope!

Danny Gokey has a song out titled- “Tell your heart to beat again” it is my favorite song right now for the season I am in- “Tell your heart to beat again, close your eyes and breathe it in. let the shadows fall away, step into the light of grace. Yesterday is a closing door, you don’t live there anymore, say good bye to where you’ve been, tell your heart to beat again.”

Question- How do you do that?

Power of Jesus Christ

Joy, confidence, hope is only found in him!

Job: 14:1-2

“Man that is born of a women is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and it is cut down.”

I don’t think anyone can say that they have never have felt at some point in their lives, the crushing weight of the world upon their shoulders.

David knew the pain of suffering storms in his life…many of the storms for him were self-induced through his acts of sin against God.

David always had to come to a place of being broken before God before he could find answers.

In ourselves, we usually don’t find answers,

Sometimes we learn the hard way, because it is the only way we learn

Sometimes God has to let us down, so that we look up to heaven and cry out for his help.

When we are at the lowest level, we are forced to look up to God.

The same is for today- this world is messed up, we are messed up people, and instead of fighting God, we need to look up!

There is no hope outside of Jesus Christ!