Where have you set your hope? If you set your hope on God, you can make it through even the most trying situations.
I set my own boss I tried to put my hope
on how I felt and I felt like I was
gonna die I tried to put my hope on what
other people would do for me and they
got other people that’s like me asking
you to hold this pulpit while I preached
that thing is too heavy for you and some
of the stuff that you’ve been putting on
people platforms even the economy it’s
too heavy so Paul
man I feel anointed today do I look
anointed I just want to get this message
out to you I know I’ll see you in
Babylonian captivity but I know Jeremiah
29:11 I know somebody say I know now
this is God speaking so the inference is
you don’t know but I know the plans I
have for you and we know that in all
things
this is Romans 8:28 god works together
the good and the bad
for the good of those who love him and
are called according to his purpose
I got purpose I’m not nervous
he’s got a plan I’m not nervous I’ve got
a purpose I’m not nervous
he has a plan I’m not nervous I have a
purpose
I’m here to glorify God I’ll glorify Him
in the lion’s den and a fire on on a
ship with a storm or even in a borrowed
grave jesus said I’m not nervous I came
for this I’m God of the storm I’m God of
the brave and beside me there is no
other so I set my hope when it got real
bad when it seemed like it was gonna be
the bottom I set my home on the one who
is higher
am i nervous
I tried nervous I didn’t like it
I tried nervous it made me irritable I
tried nervous
it made me eat more I gained 35 pounds
being nervous
I tried nervous it didn’t make me a part
of the solution I tried nervous it made
me a critic rather than a contributor I
tried nervous didn’t change anything
I tried nervous gonna show up at my job
do what I can cast my vote be the dad
dots called me to be I’ll be the
preacher God’s calling me to be I’ll be
the mom God’s call me to be I’m gonna do
my part I’m not nervous
I’m gonna do my part but I will not
panic cuz I lift my eyes and I set my
hope I lift my eyes we used to listen to
that song all the time it was a Brooklyn
Tabernacle Choir I memorized all of
Psalm 121 just listening to that song in
the King James that lady who sang it she
I can’t sing it like she sang it but she
say I will lift up my eyes to the hills
from whence cometh my help my help
cometh from the Lord the Lord which made
heaven and
he said he will not suffer thy foot thy
foot to be moon
the Lord would keep me he will not
slumber nor sleep
Oh the Lord is thy keeper the Lord is
that shame upon that right hand upon thy
right hand whoa the Sun shall not smite
thee by day nor the moon by night
he shall preserve thy soul
even forevermore
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cuz my head
my head
ah
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pulled up my help call me bro
my
my
ah
oh my hair
all of my comments around you are the
source of my strength
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you are the strength of my line I lift
my hands
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everyone stand
everyone standing I have a hope I lift
my eyes Psalm 121 is called a song of
assent there were 15 of them recorded in
our Canon of Scripture for us to read
but they were originally intended for
the pilgrims who would make their way to
Jerusalem so they would have a song to
sing on the way how many know you need a
song to sing on the way to where you’re
going because Jerusalem city of peace
was set in the hills and the hills
represent hope but the hills also
represent hidden enemies and when the
psalmist is saying watch this I lift my
eyes to the hills he might have felt
like a 10th grader in a new school or he
might have felt like a nervous father on
election day in America or he might have
felt like a refugee in another part of
the world that would love to be a part
of our democratic process but he’s on
his way somewhere he’s on a journey and
as he progresses he lifts his eyes to
the hills
the place where his destination is the
place where his piece is the place where
his hope is he’s going to Jerusalem and
on his way he lifts his eyes to the
hills and he asked a question from where
does my help come where is it coming
from not looking over here over there
I’m not looking to the Hills or the
Donald you get it by two things I’m
looking above all of that and I always
always read the verse like this the
Spirit of the Lord is in this place I
always look at it like he was saying my
help comes from the hills you know
because God is above and he’s a great
king and when Isaiah saw the Lord and
the kicker King Uzziah died he was
seated on a throne high and lifted up in
it funny he was seated on the year the
king died and the year where the nation
was wondering what to do God wasn’t
pacing the marble floors of heaven
wondering what he was gonna do next he
was still seated
I came with an announcement today he’s
still seated he’s still seated at a
vision the throne wasn’t vacant and the
one who sat on that was seated so I
always thought he was looking up and
that’s that’s true you know our hope is
God reigns above
did you know that the same God who
reigns above sustains beneath
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and that’s why I’m not nervous he said I
lift my eyes to the hills where does my
help come from
I have hope in the hills hardship in the
hills
Paul said I despaired of life but I set
my hope both were happening at the same
time my hope came from my hardship watch
this this is so powerful this is so
powerful my help comes from the Lord
maker of heaven and earth he will not
let your foot be moved who are you
talking to
he’s talking to himself he’s having a
conversation with himself telling
himself don’t be nervous
I know you see what’s in those hills and
you imagine what might be in those hills
and there’s boogie men in those hills
and there might be real danger in those
hills but the Lord is your keeper and
watch this he’s not sleeping he’s not
asleep he knows he sees he knows not one
hair of your head falls to the ground
that he doesn’t count it
not one sparrow falls from the sky that
he doesn’t have a funeral he knows next
verse behold
it’s all about what you focus on he who
keeps the people of God will neither
slumber nor sleep for the Lord is your
keeper the Lord is your shape for there
to be shade there must be heat for there
to be hope there must be hardship or
else it won’t really be hope how can you
know he will deliver you if you don’t
know that he can and how can you know
that he can’t if there isn’t an enemy in
the hills for you to run to him seeking
refuge from I know I know you’re worried
about your teenager I know you’re
worried about the state of things I know
you’re worried I know you’re worried I
know I know but the Lord is on your
right hand and this is what spoke to me
I lift my eyes to the hills that means
he’s above it and God is keeping me in
sustaining me that means he’s beneath it
and he’s on my right hand that means
he’s beside me no matter which way it
goes so I’m not nervous he’s great and
he’s good he’s big and he’s near he’s
omnipotent and he’s eminent he is God
and I’m not nervous hey thank you for
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