Songs 8 5

Relationship between the believer an the Lord

Romans 8 37

Lean on the Lord... And we will rise again

Isiah

God is always near for us to lean on

If we want God to help, we need to decide to lean on God.. God doesn't force

   We need to make a decision 

What it means to lean upon the Lord

1. Surrender

Surrender ownself

John 13

Luke 9

John is a angry person

Luke 9 55

The spirirt of Christ is mercy

Luke 9 56

John

1 John

John day by day surrender.. John didn't get angry with Jesus' rebuke

Yielding in the Lord is not a one time event.. 

1. 

Are we still holding to Jesus? Just the branches on the vines, even though the wind is so strong, the branch holds tight

John 19

Jesus entrusted His mother Mary to John, and John stayed with Mary until she died without leaving

   John just wants to live his life Jesus wants him to live

2. To join

Jeremiah 50 5

Matthew was at first joined to the world, being a tax collector joined himself to the Romans and oppressed his own ppl

Luke 8

Matthew gave up his own life (surrender) and joined (followed) Jesus

   From Levi (tax collector) to Matthew (gift of God)

2. -to what we have joined ourself with?

3. Delight

Song

Psalm 149

We make God happy.. we are good enough for God

God takes delight in His people

Is God our delight? 

Psalm

To David, being in God presence is his delight

Jeremiah

To Jeremiah, God's word is his delight

Pleasure in the world come and go.. only delight in  God is everlasting

Psalm 1 1

Give time to delight in Gods word, we will be blessed and rise from the wilderness

Happy is the man who delights in the Lord