Why Are You Cast Down?

Updated: Mar 5

J&G: J scrolling

G: You’ve experienced it, haven’t you? In the car. At dinner. The device that comes between you

and someone else?

Huge impact. 2007 iphone. 2010 (50%+). Negative thoughts: comparison, fear, envy.

J: Ps. 42:1-2: Our deepest thirst is for God.

Yearning for water: deer come down in the dry season.

Do you know what you are thirsty for?

Hiking: brackish, contaminated water.

How are you trying to quench your thirst? Don’t accept the salt water of the world.

We are drowning in the shallow end. Your deepest longings will only be satisfied by God.

G: 42:3-4: My tears are all I’m eating. Anxiety taking away appetite. Anxiety is speaking to

you. Capture the language of the whirlwind. “Where is your God” –his experience.

42:5-6: 3x! (5, 11, 43:5). Speak to yourself. Get to the root issues.

Push back to your relationship with God. Do you remember a time when you were good with

God? Gratitude journaling.

North of the Sea of Galilee. Hermon: source of the Jordan river.

J: David (Ps 103): bless the Lord, forget not his benefits!

42:7: You are calling me deeper. Press in. Don’t give up. The carving out of a waterfall. Self-

reliance is a trap.

Sea Doo v. scuba diving. To-do list. Work. Hobbies.

42:8: The Lord commands his love. It won’t leave. His song hasn’t stopped. Arthur C. Brooks:

“Happiness is not a feeling; it’s a direction.” 80 years earlier: D. Martyn Lloyd Jones: “Feelings

are not the test. Truth is the test.”

G: What is more true? Right hand of God v. 4900 W Cortaro? 42:9: Fear still persists. Questions

still come.

42:10: Bullies. Sometimes the adversaries are internal.

42:11: Speaking truth to yourself.

Return to the gospel again and again.

Who are you in Christ?

J: When anxiety comes, go deep by speaking truth over yourself.

Fight the scroll. Fasting? Create space for God’s voice.

Speak truth to yourself. Pray out loud. Journaling. Scripture.

G: What God says about who you are.