Sunday, July 13 – Dereck Frymier

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A Song for Troubled Times-

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(PSALM 3:1-2) LORD, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me! Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.” 

(2 Samuel 16:6-13) 6 He threw stones at the king and the king’s officers and all the mighty warriors who surrounded him. 7 “Get out of here, you murderer, you scoundrel!” he shouted at David. 8 “The LORD is paying you back for all the bloodshed in Saul’s clan. You stole his throne, and now the LORD has given it to your son Absalom. At last you will taste some of your own medicine, for you are a murderer!” 9 “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king?” Abishai son of Zeruiah demanded. “Let me go over and cut off his head!” 10 “No!” the king said. “Who asked your opinion, you sons of Zeruiah! If the LORD has told him to curse me, who are you to stop him?” 11 Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son is trying to kill me. Doesn’t this relative of Saul have even more reason to do so? Leave him alone and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to do it. 12 And perhaps the LORD will see that I am being wronged and will bless me because of these curses today.” 13 So David and his men continued down the road, and Shimei kept pace with them on a nearby hillside, cursing and throwing stones and dirt at David. 

(PSALM 3:1-2) LORD, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me! Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.” 

(Psalm 3:3) But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high.

1. God shields my life with

✓ In the middle of betrayal, fear, and attack, David felt surrounded, not by enemies — but by the presence of God. 

2. God shields my heart with

(Psalm 3:3) But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high. 

✓ David was in shame, running from his own son, but God didn’t just protect his life — He lifted his head. 

(Romans 15:13) May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

(Jeremiah 29:11) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 

(Psalm 3:4) I call out to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy mountain. 

✓ We have hope that when we call out to the Lord he answers us 

(Psalm 3:5) 5 I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me. 

✓ We have hope that the Lord sustains us 

(Matthew 11:28) “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

3. God shields from fear 

(Psalm 3:6) I will not fear though tens of thousands assail me on every side. 

✓ Don’t stay stuck in fear-look forward in faith 

(Psalm 27:1-2) The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid? 

4. God shields my future with

(Psalm 3:7-8) 7 Arise, LORD! Deliver me, my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked. 8 From the LORD comes deliverance. May your blessing be on your people.

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