2. When Troubles Come Your Way
Psalm 46

3. What is your default response?
Interruptions!
What is your default response?

4. Interruptions
Good vs Bad

5. Psalm 46
Expresses confidence in the security of God’s people in the middle of a threatening world

6. Psalm 46
1 God is our refuge and strength,     an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way     and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, 3 though its waters roar and foam     and the mountains quake with their surging.

7. 4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,     the holy place where the Most High dwells. 5 God is within her, she will not fall;     God will help her at break of day. 6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;     he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
7 The Lord Almighty is with us;     the God of Jacob is our fortress.

8. 8 Come and see what the Lord has done,     the desolations he has brought on the earth. 9 He makes wars cease     to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;     he burns the shields with fire. 10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;     I will be exalted among the nations,     I will be exalted in the earth.”

9. 11 The Lord Almighty is with us;     the God of Jacob is our fortress.

10. God is our refuge and strength (V 1)
…though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea (V 2)
though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging (V 3)

11. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall (V 6)
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells (V 4)
God is within her, she will not fall (V 5)

12. 7 Descriptions of God God is our Refuge and Strength
God is a present help in trouble
God is in the Holy place
When God speaks the earth obeys
God is with us
God makes wars cease
God will be exalted in the earth

13. Be still, and know that I am God (V 10)
Stop and surrender
Hands off!
Relax

14. The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. (V 11)
God is with us!

15. What about today? What forces threaten the church today?
Crisis in your life? Past or present
How does Psalm 46 help you in your response(s)?
How is Jesus a fortress to you?

16. Best of all God is with us!