Think back on a time of great trouble in your life. What kinds of feelings did that trouble produce in you? How did you handle the situation? How did you experience God in the midst of trouble?

Read Psalm 46:1-3. How is trouble depicted in this first stanza of the psalm? How is God depicted?

Read vv4-7. How does the imagery within the city compare/contrast to that of world outside from the first stanza (vv1-3)? What is it about the city that makes the difference?

Curiously, there has never been a river in Jerusalem. What might the figurative river of v4 represent? (See also Revelation 22:1-3)

What is the parallel between the mountains of vv2-3 and the nations of vv6-7?

Read vv8-11. How should we understand v10 in light of the ‘trouble’ depictions of Psalm 46? In what way are we to be still? What is the significance of God’s promise to ‘be exalted’? How does that benefit his people?

Today in the sermon, Robb mentioned God’s 3 P’s: Presence, Power, and Promise. How are these depicted in the psalm? How do you see them manifest in your own life?