THE LORD WATCHES OVER YOU Reach Above PSALM 121 “A Song of Ascents” God is with us when we worship. God is with us when we wonder.

The Ascent Psalms: Pilgrims’ Songs Psalm 120: Deliver Me, O Lord Psalm 121: The LORD Keeps Me Psalm 122: I Am Glad to Go to God’s House Psalm 123: We Look to God Psalm 124: God is With Us: He is Our Help Psalm 125: We’re Surrounded--By the LORD! Psalm 126: Restore Us to Your Glory Psalm 127: We Must Trust Psalm 128: It is a Blessing to Fear God Psalm 129: Evil Can Annoy but God Can Save Psalm 130: We Wait on God Psalm 131: Be Still My Soul Psalm 132: Thank God for Choosing Us! Psalm 133: Thank God for His United Family Psalm 134: Come, Bless the Lord The Great Hallel Psalms

Psalm 121  I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.  The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.  My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.  Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.  The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.  The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore! ESV

God is with us when we worship or wonder! Matthew 18:20  If God is with us in our disagreements, how much more so in worship? 1 Corinthians 3:16, 6:19  If God dwells with us individually, how much more in the community of believers? 2 Kings 6:15  “O Lord, please open his eyes!” Psalm 125:2  “As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people.”

O holy Savior, Friend unseen, the faint, the weak on Thee may lean, Help me, throughout life’s varying scene, by faith to cling to Thee. Blessed with this fellowship divine, take what Thou wilt, I’ll ne’er repine; E’en as the branches to the vine, my soul would cling to Thee. Far from her home, fatigued, oppressed, Here she has found her place of rest. An exile still, yet not unblest, while she can cling to Thee. What though the world deceitful prove, and earthly friends and joys remove with patient, uncomplaining love still would I cling to Thee. Though faith and hope may long be tried, I ask not, need not aught beside; How safe, how calm, how satisfied, The souls that cling to Thee! Blessed is my lot, whate’er befall; What can disturb me, who appall, While as my Strength, my Rock, my All, All, Savior, I cling to Thee!

Lessons of the Psalm 1. God is willing to help us. (2) 2. God is able to help us. (2) 3. God is close enough to help us keep on our feet. (3) 4. God is our keeper. (3-8) 1. He won’t fall asleep on the job. (4) 2. He can guard you from enemies, exhaustion, the elements, and even evil. (5-7) 3. He can watch over your entire life. (7) 4. He can watch wherever you are. (8)