WHAT IS IN FRONT OF YOU IS GREATER THAN WHAT IS BEHIND YOU!

Psalms 42:1-3

1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O 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 men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

·         Debarred from public worship, David was heartsick and his only desire was to commune with the Lord. In the text we find David in a deep meditative mood. Sometimes we must have introspection (deep self-reflection) regarding what the Lord has allowed us to achieve!
·         Whenever David is upset or experiencing challenges, he is always able to express and identify what he is feeling. We can relate to David in many ways because he has the keen ability to express his anxieties, doubts and frustrations, yet still confess and proclaim the word of the Lord over his life!
·         (2 Corinthians 5:7) In this season we must walk by faith and not by sight. We must acknowledge that yes I may be sick in my natural body, but I am walking in healing through the mighty name of Jesus. Feelings are in the flesh but joy and faith are found in the spirit!
·         (1 Corinthians 9:27) Outcomes of fasting- we are creatures of habit, Fasting helps us discipline or train our bodies and bring behaviors, thoughts, emotions under subjection. If you can conquer and control self, then you can overcome anything! Every day there is a new battle and new stronghold to overcome in the lives of the believers. Every day we must walk in self-discipline!
·         The power of expectation- you must realize that God will not give you all your blessings at once. There are gifts are on reserve and will be given in due season when you are mature enough to receive.
·         (Psalms 27:14) Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. David was a man of patience, he understood that delayed does not mean denied. In this season wait on the Lord patiently and with the spirit of expectation! If God promised it, he will surely bring it to pass!
·         We  must allow God to move outside our mind and into our spirit or heart! The heart is the most important organ in the human body. This is the time to have God in our hearts and not our intellect. God wants to abide and dwell in us continually. God wants us to love him from our heart and not our minds. We love people from the core of our being, not through intelligence. David teaches us how to move from knowing God, to being persuaded by God! God has to be in your heart!
·         (Through his heart) David sought the enjoyment of communing with God; he viewed it not merely as the sweetest of all luxuries, but as an absolute necessity, like water to a stag. Like the parched traveler in the wilderness, whose water bottle is empty, and who finds the wells dry, he must drink or die—he must have his God or faint.
·         David teaches us that the next best thing to living in the light of the Lord's love is to be unhappy till we have it, and to pant hourly after it. You see, thirst is a perpetual appetite, and not to be forgotten, and even thus continual is the heart's longing after God. 

The deer or hart is only concerned about getting to water and not concerned about being hunted. The hunter is behind it and the water is in front. The greater thing that God has for us is always in front of us!