Week 4 • 10.22.2023

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Week 4 • 10.22.2023

October 22, 2023 • Pastor Jason Miller • Psalm 42

KEY SCRIPTURE

Psalms 42

1 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[d]

with shouts of joy and praise

among the festive throng.

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.

6 My soul is downcast within me;

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.

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?”

11 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.

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SERMON NOTES

This week, we welcomed Holly Ruter, LISW to the couch on the stage and discussed mental health from a therapy and theological stance during a question and response time with Pastor Jason Miller. If you'd like to watch that back you can view it on our YouTube channel.

I found an interesting article that drives home what was discussed during the Q&R: christianity.com/wiki/christian-life/the-bible-say-about-mental-health.html

Week 5 • 10.29.2023

October 29, 2023 • Pastor Derek Crawford • Ephesians 4:1–6, Matthew 22:36–40, Genesis 50:15–21, Matthew 28:18–20

KEY SCRIPTURE Ephesians 4:1-6 (NIV) 1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. PRAYER Loving God, Thank you that I was created to be in relationship with others, even though at times I may not be as present as I could be with the people I hold dear. In all my relationships, I ask for your love to shine through me. In all my interactions, may your wisdom guide my words and every decision that I make. Amen.

Week 3 • 10.15.2023

October 15, 2023 • Pastor Jason Miller • Romans 12:1–2, 2 Corinthians 10:5

KEY SCRIPTURE Romans 12:1-2 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. 2 Corinthians 10:5 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. PRAYER Father, Thank you for the gift of my life & thank you for your Word, Your Spirit and Your People. I have been raised with Christ, Holy Spirit, help me to set my heart and mind on things above, rather than things here on earth. Because of Jesus, I am hidden with you. Help me to offer my body to you as an act of worship. Where I have conformed to the world, show me. Holy Spirit, transform and renew my mind, my thoughts and my feelings so I can know Your will for all of my life. In Jesus name, Amen! Sermon note and discussion questions can be found at https://zionclearlake.org/20231015

Week 2 • 10.08.2023

October 8, 2023 • Pastor Jason Miller • 1 Thessalonians 5:16–23

PRAYER Father, we praise you for you are good. Holy Spirit, help me to rejoice, to find my joy in Jesus throughout the day. To come to you with all of my needs in prayer and to give thanks even in the hard times. I want to get out of your way, Holy Spirit. To take seriously and test the Word you have for me today. To hold on to what is good and to reject the things in my life that dishonor you. Help me become more like Jesus in all areas of my life - in my spirit, soul and body! Thank you for your faithfulness! In Jesus name, Amen! KEY SCRIPTURE 1 Thessalonians 5:16-23 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt 21 but test them all; hold on to what is good, 22 reject every kind of evil. 23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Sermon notes, additional scripture and discussion questions can be found at https://zionclearlake.org/20231008