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Five Things to Draw us to the House of God! Psalms 84:1-12
Psalms 84:1 - How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of
hosts! 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my
heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found
an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even
thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. 4 Blessed are they that
dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. 5 Blessed is the
man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. 6 Who
passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the
pools. 7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth
before God. 8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
Selah. 9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper
in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For the
LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing
will he withhold from them that walk
Psalms 122:1 - I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go
into the house of the LORD.
Psalms 26:8 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy
house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Hebrews 4:14 - Seeing then that we have a great high
priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast
our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with
the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are,
yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that
we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
I. He found Praise in the House of God!
Psalms 84:4 - Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:
they will be still praising thee. Selah.
II. He found Power in the House of God!
Psalms 85:5 - Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;
in whose heart are the ways of them.... 7 They go from strength to strength,
every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
Hebrews 1:2 - Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his
Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person,
and upholding all things by the word of his power.
II Corinthians 6:4 - But in all things approving ourselves
as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in
distresses, 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in
watchings, in fastings; 6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by
kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 7 By the word of truth, by the
power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
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