Question: To what extent would you say that verse 2 is your day-to-day experience?

Psalm 84:1-2:1How lovely is your dwelling place,

O Lord of hosts!2My soul longs, yes, faints

for the courts of the LORD, My heart and my flesh cry out

to the living God.

Psalm 84

Psalm 84

What’s holding us back?Are you qualified to know God’s

presence?

Psalm 84:1-2:1How lovely is your dwelling place,

O Lord of hosts!2My soul longs, yes, faints

for the courts of the LORD, My heart and my flesh cry out

to the living God.

Easy Error• We lose sight of what is

best for us.

Truth• Verse 4: Blessed are

those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise!

Easy Error• We think we are too

small.

Truth• Verse 3: Even the

sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

Easy Error• We fail to see our

circumstances as opportunities to know God’s presence in our lives.

Truth• Verse 5: Blessed are

those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

Easy Error• We forget that the way

is open through Jesus.

Truth• Verse 9: Behold our

shield, O God, look on the face of your anointed!

Why did Jesus die?For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God.

- 1 Peter 3:18

Easy Error• We forget the

significance of gathering together.

Truth• Whole Psalm: Gathering

together is the way to know God’s presence.

We are qualified to know God’s presence!We are qualified to know verse 2 as our

experience every day!

Psalm 84:1-2:1How lovely is your dwelling place,

O Lord of hosts!2My soul longs, yes, faints

for the courts of the LORD, My heart and my flesh cry out

to the living God.