Trust and Obey (Psalm 44, Part 1)

Since suffering is a part of God’s discipline in our lives, may we learn to trust and obey our God.

What God Has Done: His Past Acts of Deliverance (verses 1-3)

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ps%2044:1-3&version=NIV

Our churches have forgotten how to remember God. We have become biblically illiterate. Since God is our eternal source of mercy, may we fill our minds with God’s Word.

We have heard, O God, what You did in days long ago. Help us to recall Your mercy and justice, and to put Your Word into our minds and hearts. Thank You for loving us.

We Trust: Confidence in God (verses 4-8).

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ps%2044:4-8&version=NIV

Trusting in God does not come naturally for us. When difficulties arise we turn first to human solutions. Yet God has redeemed us with a price and has enriched us with His fullness. May we place our confidence in God alone.

You are our King and our God; You decree victories. We trust in You alone. In You, God, we place our confidence. We praise Your name forever.

http:www.geneva.edu/object/newsong_pop_psalm44A