1. Great Is Thy Faithfulness Psalm 6

2. The Big Picture: Overcoming the Vice Grip of Sin and Suffering

3. Great Is Thy Faithfulness Psalm 6 you will trouble “In this world you will have trouble!” (John 16:33) “Thilpis”

4. Great Is Thy Faithfulness Psalm 6 Satan uses our guilt over sin and our grief over suffering to tempt us to squeeze God out of our souls

5. Great Is Thy Faithfulness Psalm 6 I have overcome the world “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).

6. Great Is Thy Faithfulness Psalm 6 God uses His forgiveness of our sin and His compassion for our suffering to draw our souls closer to His faithful heart

7. When Beaten Down By Sin, We Cry Out to Our Gracious Savior and He Hears Our Cry for Mercy in your anger in your wrathmerciful heal “O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony” (Ps. 6:1-2).

8. Satan Uses Our Guilt Over Sin to Tempt Us to Doubt God’s Mercy: Psalm 6:1-2 in your anger in your wrathmerciful heal “O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony” (Ps. 6:1-2).

9. Satan Uses Our Guilt Over Sin to Tempt Us to Doubt God’s Mercy: Psalm 6:1-2 reduce me to nothing “Correct me, LORD, but only with justice—not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing” (Jer. 10:24).

10. God Uses His Forgiveness of Our Sin to Draw Us Closer to His Merciful Heart: Psalm 6:2, 9 LORD LORD “Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony” (Ps. 6:2).

11. God Uses His Forgiveness of Our Sin to Draw Us Closer to His Merciful Heart: Psalm 6:2, 9 The LORD, the LORD compassionate and gracious Godslow to anger abounding in love and faithfulnessmaintaining love to thousandsforgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin “Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with Moses and proclaimed his name, the LORD. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, ‘The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin” (Exodus 34:5-7).

12. God Uses His Forgiveness of Our Sin to Draw Us Closer to His Merciful Heart: Psalm 6:2, 9 merciful “Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony” (Ps. 6:2).

13. God Uses His Forgiveness of Our Sin to Draw Us Closer to His Merciful Heart: Psalm 6:2, 9 so the love of God toward us is stronger than the dirt that clings to us “You say that the sins which we commit every day offend God, and therefore we are not saints. To this I reply: Mother love is stronger than the filth and scabbiness on a child, and so the love of God toward us is stronger than the dirt that clings to us. Although we are sinners, we do not lose our family relationship on account of our filthiness, nor do we fall from grace on account of our sin.”

14. God Uses His Forgiveness of Our Sin to Draw Us Closer to His Merciful Heart: Psalm 6:2, 9 has heard “The LORD has heard my cry for mercy” (Ps. 6:9).

15. When Beaten Up by Suffering, We Cry Out to Our Compassionate Savior and He Hears Our Weeping: Psalm 6:5-8, 10

16. Satan Uses Our Grief Over Our Suffering to Tempt Us to Doubt God’s Compassion: Psalm 6:5-8, 10 because of all my foes “No one remembers you when he is dead. Who praises you from the grave? I am worn out from groaning; all night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes” (Ps. 6:5-7).

17. God Uses His Comfort in Our Suffering to Draw Us Closer to His Compassionate Heart: Psalm 6:8 LORD has heard my weeping voice “Away from me, all you who do evil, for the LORD has heard my weeping” (the voice of my weeping) (Ps. 6:8).

18. God Uses His Comfort in Our Suffering to Draw Us Closer to His Compassionate Heart: Psalm 6:8 with groans that words cannot express “The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express” (Rom. 8:26).

19. God Uses His Comfort in Our Suffering to Draw Us Closer to His Compassionate Heart: Psalm 6:8 but joy comes in the morning mourning into dancing “Weeping may remain for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me; O, LORD, be my help. You turned my mourning into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy” (Ps. 30:5, 10-11).

20. God Uses His Comfort in Our Suffering to Draw Us Closer to His Compassionate Heart: Psalm 6:8 Joni Eareckson Tada

21. When Beaten by the Silence of God, We Cry Out to Our Forever Faithful Shepherd and He Honors Our Prayers with His Presence: Psalm 6:3-4, 9

22. Satan Uses Our Anguish Over the Silence of God to Tempt Us to Doubt God’s Shepherding Heart: Psalm 6:3 How long “My soul is in anguish. How long, O LORD, how long?” (Ps. 6:3).

23. God Uses His Forever Faithfulness to Draw Us Closer to His Shepherding Heart: Psalm 6:4, 9 deliver “Turn, O LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love” (Ps. 6:4).

24. power his arm rules for him “See the Sovereign LORD comes with power, and his arm rules for him. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him. tends his flock like a shepherdgathers the lambs in his arms carries them close to his heartgently leads He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young” (Isaiah 40:10-11). God Uses His Forever Faithfulness to Draw Us Closer to His Shepherding Heart: Psalm 6:4, 9

25. unfailing lovehesed “Turn, O LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love” (hesed) (Ps. 6:4). God Uses His Forever Faithfulness to Draw Us Closer to His Shepherding Heart: Psalm 6:4, 9

26. this I call to mind “I remember my affliction (suffering) and my wandering (sin), the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them and my soul is downcast within me (silence of God). Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope…” (Lamentations 3:19-24) God Uses His Forever Faithfulness to Draw Us Closer to His Shepherding Heart: Psalm 6:4, 9

27. great love (hesed) compassions never failgreat is your faithfulness wait for him “…Because of the Lord’s great love (hesed) we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, ‘The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.’ The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him” (Lamentations 3:19-24). God Uses His Forever Faithfulness to Draw Us Closer to His Shepherding Heart: Psalm 6:4, 9

28. The Big Question: Whose View of God Will We Believe—Satan’s or Christ’s?

29. Great Is Thy Faithfulness Psalm 6