Summer Playlist: Hope Talk
Hope Talk
Summer Playlist
Pastor Charlie Weir
Dictionary:
Self-Talk –speech or thoughts directed to oneself.
PsychologyToday.com
“Many people are conscious of an inner voice that provides a running monologue on their lives throughout the day. This inner voice, or self-talk, combining conscious thoughts and unconscious beliefs and biases, provides a way for the brain to interpret and process daily experiences. Our self-talk can be cheerful and supportive or negative and self-defeating. Self-talk can be beneficial when it’s positive, calming fears and bolstering confidence. Human nature, unfortunately, is prone to negative self-talk, including sweeping assertions like “I can’t do anything right” or “I’m a complete failure."
The fulcrum of this definition is in two parts “unconscious beliefs and biases” and “human nature.”
Unconscious beliefs and biases come from sustained input over time.
Human nature is what is hard wired into us at birth.
Psalm 1:1-3
Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law, day and night. 3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.
Life Verse: A passage of scripture that God used in a critical juncture of your life making the truth of that scripture an anchor for when you hit similar junctures.
Matthew 6:33
“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
God’s ultimate promise to us is presence not uninterrupted prosperity.
Lament Phase I
Psalm 42:1-4
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
God can’t be good and absent at the same time.
God cannot be wishy washy and a rock/refuge at the same time.
He is one of the other – He can’t be both.
Hope Phase I
Psalm 42:5
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
A complainer…
demands to be heard
acts in an offensive posture
believes they are the center of the universe
wants to be in control and throws a fit when they are not!
A lamenter…
wants to be comforted
trusts the person to whom they are lamenting
does not carry an offended tone
yields control to God
Lament Phase II
42:6a
My soul is downcast within me;
Hope Phase II
6b Therefore, I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar. 7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. 8 By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me - a prayer to the God of my life.
2 Chronicles 16:9a
For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
Lament Phase III
42:9. 9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?” 10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Hope Phase III
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Lament Phase IV
Psalm 43:1-4
Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked. 2 You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy? 3 Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
Hope Phase IV
Psalm 43:5
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him,
Yoke Up
Matthew 11:28-30
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Cast Off
1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
Make the Internal Decision. Anchor your hope in the God of history not the emotion of the moment.
Live out an External Display. Walk and talk this thing out without the weight of the world on your shoulders. Yoke Up. Cast Off. Praise On. “…For I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God!
Anchor into an Eternal Dependence. The best predicator of future behavior is past behavior. Scripture doesn’t hide the hard of life. It is the hard of life the frames the Love, Power and Presence of God.