1. Drawing Near with Confidence
Pastor Nathan Weller
August 5, 2018
Series: Drawing Near to God

3. social, and emotional condition—they show you what
“Every situation in life is represented in the book of psalms. Psalms anticipate and train you for every possible spiritual,
social, and emotional condition—they show you what
the dangers are, what you should keep in mind, what your
attitude should be, how to talk to God about it, and how to
get from God the help you need.”
--Tim Keller--

5. how to pray with confidence
Psalm 121 teaches us
how to pray with confidence
that God will help us

7. --Psalm 121 ESV I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your shade on your right hand. (cont’d)
--Psalm 121 ESV

8. --Psalm 121 ESV 6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord will keep you from all evil;
he will keep your life.
8 The Lord will keep your going out and
your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
--Psalm 121 ESV

10. about the little things
The Almighty One cares
about the little things

12. --Psalm 121.1-2, 5a ESV 1 I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth...
5 The Lord is your keeper...
--Psalm , 5a ESV

14. --Isaiah 57.15 ESV For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in the high and holy place,
and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
--Isaiah ESV

16. Confident that he never grows tired of his people

18. --Psalm 121.3-4, 8 ESV 3 He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
8 The Lord will keep
your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore.
--Psalm , 8 ESV

20. 1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always
to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there
was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give
me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”
6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says.
7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give
justice to them speedily.
--Luke a ESV

22. You can have confidence
that God is keeping you

24. --Psalm 121.5-7 ESV 5 The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord will keep you from all evil;
he will keep your life.
--Psalm ESV

26. As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good
--Genesis ESV

28. --Romans 8.28 NLT And we know that God causes everything to work
together for the good of those who love God
and are called according to his purpose for them.
--Romans 8.28 NLT

30. 1 I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.
2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce
fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they
will produce even more.
--John NLT

32. Drawing Near with Confidence
Pastor Nathan Weller
August 5, 2018
Series: Drawing Near to God