6 February 2006

Text: Psalm 119:17-24

PROBLEMS IN LIFE
1. Feeling like a stranger on earth
"I am a stranger on earth…"    Psalm 119:19

2. Reproaches and Contempt
"Remove from me reproach and contempt…"    Psalm 119:22

3. Powerful foes
"Princes also sit and speak against me…"    Psalm 119:23

FACING PROBLEMS IN LIFE
1. With prayer
"Deal bountifully with Your servant,
That I may live and keep Your word"    Psalm 119:17

2. With the Word of God
"Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things
Out of Your law"    Psalm 119:18

3. Longing for God's Word
"My soul breaks with longing
For Your judgments at all times"    Psalm 119:20

4. Meditation on God's Word
"Your servant meditates on Your statutes…"    Psalm 119:23b

5. Delighting in God's word
"Your testimonies also are my delight…"    Psalm 119:24a

6 Deriving needed counsel from God's word
"And my counselors…"    Psalm 119:24b

REFUSING TO WALK IN THE WAY OF THE SINFUL
1. Knowledge of God and His word

2. Rejecting the way of sin

a) The way of pride
"You rebuke the proud, the cursed…"    Psalm 119:21

b) The way of straying from the Lord
"The cursed… who stray away from Your commandments…"    Psalm 119:21