Sermon Notes:

My Worship Will Not Be Silenced

Pastor Ross Owens

Biblical lament = A faithful response to suffering that brings our pain honestly into the presence of God.

Biblical lament is not the absence of faith. It is faith refusing to walk away from God in the middle of suffering.

Grumbling fixates on what is wrong; lament brings what is wrong to God.

I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.
Lamentations 3:19 NIV

I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
Lamentations 3:20 NIV

Pain buried is still pain carried.

Stop pushing what God is trying to pull. Stop holding on to what God is trying to heal.

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
Lamentations 3:21, NIV

Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
Lamentations 3:22, NIV

Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
Lamentations 3:22 NIV

They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:23

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
Lamentations 3:21

 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness
Lamentations 3:23

My worship will not be silenced.