Psalm 90

Establish the Work of Our Hands.

1. As you review the year, remember God's mercy.

1. 13 Return, O LORD! How long? And have compassion on Your servants.

• Psalm 135:14
• Lamentations 3:22 Through the LORD's mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not
• Matthew 9:36; Matthew 14:14; Matthew 15:32; Matthew 20:34
• Hebrews 5:2 He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness.
• James 5:11

1. 14 Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!

• Isaiah 53:11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.
• Psalm 22:26; Isaiah 58:11

1. As you review the year and remember the days of affliction, remember also the days of gladness which God brings.

   1. 15 Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, The years in which we have seen evil.

2. John 16:20; Revelation 7:14-17
3. Joel 2:25 "So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.

4. 1. 16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your glory to their children.

5. Acts 4:20; 4:29-30.
6. Psalm 44:1; Psalm 22:30-31
7. 2 Timothy 2:1 You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

1. As you review what you've accomplished this year, remember God desires holiness to adorn all we do.

   1. 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.

2. Psalm 96:9;
3. Psalm 27:4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.
4. Psalm 149:4 For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation.
5. Psalm 110:3
6. Isaiah 65:23
7. 1Cor 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
8. 2 Thess 2:16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, 17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

• January 9 2000; second week preaching in Cambridge. Acts 1:1-14. Commitment made to the congregation in the morning sermon:
• My agenda is:
• Look into the future waiting on the Lord.
• Look into heaven in worship and prayer.
• Look into the world in compassion and confidence
• Look into my heart to keep unity in the bond of peace.