WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE UNDER ATTACK
1. RECOGNIZE THAT YOU ARE IN A BATTLE
Psalm 42:3, NKJV
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 42:9, NKJV
I will say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
Psalm 42:10, NKJV
As with a breaking of my bones, my enemies reproach me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
2. STOP LISTENING TO YOURSELF
Psalm 42:4, NKJV
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me.
Psalm 42:5, NKJV
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?
3. START TALKING TO YOURSELF
Psalm 42:5, NKJV
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.
Psalm 131:2, NKJV
Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
4. GO TO GOD
Psalm 42:1, NKJV
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.
Psalm 42:2, NKJV
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Psalm 42:4, NKJV
For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
Psalm 42:5, NKJV
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.
Psalm 42:11, NKJV
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.
Psalm 42:8, NKJV
The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me—a prayer to the God of my life.
