PSALM 139:13-14
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together
in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am
fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are
wonderful, I know that full well.

PSALM 42:1-5

For the director of music. A maskil of the sons of Korah.

1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my 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 people say to me all
day long, “Where is your God?” 4 These things I remember as I pour out my
soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty
One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. 5 Why are you
downcast O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

PSALM 42:6-11

6 My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land
of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon - from Mount Mizar. 7 Deep calls to deep
in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over
me. 8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me - a prayer
to the God of my life. 9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?” 10 My bones suffer
mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your
God?” 11 Why are you downcast

O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in

God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

1. Admit your feelings to deal with your feelings.

PSALM 42:9-10

9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go
about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?” 10 My bones suffer mortal
agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your
God?”

2. Fall back upon what you know and less upon what you feel.

ROMANS 8:31-34
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for
us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but
gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him,
graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against
those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is
the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died - more than
that, who was raised to life - is at the right hand of God and is also
interceding for us.

ROMANS 8:35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship
or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is
written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as
sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither
death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the
future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all
creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

PSALM 42:8

8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me - a
prayer to the God of my life.

PSALM 42:4

4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to
the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts
of joy and praise among the festive throng.