WHEN YOU ARE DESPERATE
Memory
Verse: Psalm 42:11 (NKJV)
11 Why are you cast
down, O my soul?
And why are you
disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet
praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.
Text: 2 Kings 5:1–19
INTRODUCTION: Isaiah 42:8
1. The Causes
2 Kings 5:1–7
“There are many different causes for desperation in the days
we live in. There is emotional, physical and spiritual causes for desperation
and a specific type of desperation for each of these three major causes. There
are both good and bad types of desperation.”—Trey
Precht
“nesu
phanim” literally means “lift up the
face.”
Cf. Josh
7:6; 2 Sam 1:11; 1 Kgs 21:27; 2 Kgs 2:12; 1
Samuel 2:6 Deuteronomy 32:39; 2
Kings 5:11–12
2. The Cure
2 Kings 5:8–14; John
14:15; James 1:22; Isaiah 1:19
3. The Commitment
2 Kings 5:15–19; Isaiah
59:2; 1 John 1:8–9
“Naaman wants holy ground (the dirt) with him so that he can have
Yahweh with him while outside Israel. The request reflects a belief that
Israel’s territory belonged to Yahweh, while other nations were under the
dominion of other, lesser gods.”-- John D. Barry et al., Faithlife Study Bible
CONCLUSION: Psalm 42:11
