Join us as we continue to dig into the Psalms this summer! This week at The Hill Church, Pastor Jimmy Steele taught out of Psalm 84!

2. What is at the center of your life?
At the center of our life and ministry as a
body must be a hunger for God which leads
to reliance and trust in Christ.

3. How lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, faints
for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to the living God.

4. Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O LORD of hosts,
my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your
house,
ever singing your praise!

5. Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
6 As they go through the Valley of Baca
they make it a place of springs;
the early rain also covers it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength;
each one appears before God in Zion.

6. O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9 Behold our shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!
For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the
house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

7. 11 For the LORD God is a sun
and shield;
the LORD bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does he withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
12 O LORD of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in
you!
(Psalm 84)

8. I. We must hunger for the Presence of God
(vv. 1-4).

9. II. We must rely upon the strength of God
(vv. 5-7).

10. My own plans are made. While I can, I sail
east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails
me, I paddle east in my little boat. When
she sinks, I shall swim east with my four
paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I
have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot
over the edge of the world in some vast
waterfall, I shall sink with my nose to the
sunrise. . . (Voyage of the Dawn Treader).

11. Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his
presence continually! (Psalm105:4)

12. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I
have commanded you. And behold, I am
with you always, to the end of the age
(Matthew 28:19-20).

13. III. We must trust in the Superiority of God (vv.
10-12).

14. “Indeed I count everything as loss because
of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ
Jesus my Lord. For his sake I suffer the
loss of all things and count them as
rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ”
(Philippians 3:8).

15. A believer does not look upon serving God as
a burden, but as a privilege. Suppose God
let you choose anyone in the world to serve
and know intimately, but wouldn’t let you
serve Him? Suppose He allowed you to serve
in any political or business position in the
world, but barred you from serving in His
Kingdom? Or suppose He

16. permitted you to serve yourself, doing
anything you wanted with your life and with
no needs or worries, but you could never
know Jesus? Even the best of these things
becomes a miserable slavery in comparison
with the immeasurable privilege of serving
God. That’s why the psalmist could say,

17. “For a day in your courts is better than a
thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God than
dwell in the tents of wickedness” (Donald
Whitney).

18. At the center of our life and ministry as a
body must be a hunger for God which leads
to reliance and trust in Christ.