3. Question: To what extent would you say that verse 2 is your day-to-day experience? Psalm 84:1-2: 1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! 2 My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD, My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.

4. Psalm 84

8. What’s holding us back? Are you qualified to know God’s presence? Psalm 84:1-2: 1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! 2 My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD, My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.

9. Easy Error We lose sight of what is best for us. Truth Verse 4: Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise!

10. Easy Error We think we are too small. Truth Verse 3: Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

11. Easy Error We fail to see our circumstances as opportunities to know God’s presence in our lives. Truth Verse 5: Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

12. Easy Error We forget that the way is open through Jesus. Truth Verse 9: Behold our shield, O God, look on the face of your anointed! Why did Jesus die? For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God. - 1 Peter 3:18

13. Easy Error We forget the significance of gathering together. Truth Whole Psalm: Gathering together is the way to know God’s presence.

14. We are qualified to know God’s presence! We are qualified to know verse 2 as our experience every day! Psalm 84:1-2: 1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! 2 My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD, My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.