6. 1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
~Psalm 42

7. 3My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
~Psalm 42

8. 5Why, my soul, are you downcast. Why so disturbed within me
5Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. 6My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Misery.
~Psalm 42

9. 7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. 8By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life.
~Psalm 42

10. 9I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me
9I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?” 10My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
~Psalm 42

11. 11Why, my soul, are you downcast. Why so disturbed within me
11Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
~Psalm 42

12. 1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
~Psalm 42

13. The unquenchable “thirst” within is your soul longing for it’s maker!~

14. The unquenchable “thirst” within is your soul longing for it’s maker!~
“The Soul is restless until it finds rest in God.”
~Augustine of Hippo

15. 1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
~Psalm 42

16. 3My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
~Psalm 42

17. 3My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
~Psalm 42

18. 3My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
~Psalm 42

19. When the present seems hopeless your past must speak to your soul…(because the present is so dreadful that you must remember the goodness of God from your past in order to trust the goodness of God for your future.)

20. When the present seems hopeless your past must speak to your soul…(because the present is so dreadful that you must remember the goodness of God from your past in order to trust the goodness of God for your future.)

21. 5Why, my soul, are you downcast. Why so disturbed within me
5Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. 6My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Misery.
~Psalm 42

22. 5Why, my soul, are you downcast. Why so disturbed within me
5Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. 6My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Misery.
~Psalm 42

23. The reason we ask “why me Lord
The reason we ask “why me Lord?” out of gratitude today is because we might well be asking “why me Lord?” out of despair tomorrow.

24. 7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. 8By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life.
~Psalm 42

25. 7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. 8By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life.
~Psalm 42

26. “Christ in me, I am enough!”

27. Reflections on “Keeping” your Soul:.
Our souls can become so needy that we have to tell them what they’re hungry for.

28. Reflections on “Keeping” your Soul:.
Our souls can become so needy that we have to tell them what they’re hungry for.
(The quicker the fix, the faster it breaks.)

29. Reflections on “Keeping” your Soul:.
Our souls can become so needy that we have to tell them what they’re hungry for.
“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.”
~Elizabeth Taylor

30. Reflections on “Keeping” your Soul:.
Our souls can become so needy that we have to tell them what they’re hungry for.
(If you want to get whole, deep must call to deep!)

31. Reflections on “Keeping” your Soul:.
Our souls can become so needy that we have to tell them what they’re hungry for.
You must “feed” on God’s faithfulness from your past in order to face the uncertainty in your future.
(What you’re “storing” up now will be what you live on in the future.)