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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, a calming

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Speaker 2: Scripture Center devotional podcast designed to help you end each

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Speaker 2: day with God's word in your heart and on your mind.

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Speaker 2: Right after the short word from our sponsors, we will

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Speaker 2: reflect on tonight's scripture, Psalm twenty seven. Our evening reflection

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Speaker 2: is written by Meg Butcher and read by Kyle Norman.

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Speaker 2: Psalm twenty seven. The Lord is my Light and my salvation.

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Speaker 2: Whom shall I fear? The Lord is a stronghold of

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Speaker 2: my life. Of whom shall I be afraid when the

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Speaker 2: wicked advance against me to devour me. It is my

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Speaker 2: enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall. Though

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Speaker 2: an army besiege me. My heart will not fear the

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Speaker 2: war break out against me. Even then I will be confident.

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Speaker 2: One thing I ask of the Lord. This only do

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Speaker 2: I seek, that I may dwell in the House of

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Speaker 2: the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze

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Speaker 2: on the beauty of the Lord, and to seek him

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Speaker 2: in his temple. For in the day of trouble, he

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Speaker 2: will keep me safe in his dwelling. He will hide

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Speaker 2: me in the shelter of a sacred tent, and set

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Speaker 2: me high upon a rock. Then my head will be

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Speaker 2: exalted above the enemies who surround me. At his sacred tent,

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Speaker 2: I will sacrifice with shouts of joy. I will sing

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Speaker 2: and make music to the Lord. Hear my voice what

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Speaker 2: I call. Lord, be merciful to me and answer me.

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Speaker 2: My heart says of you. Seek his face, your face, Lord,

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Speaker 2: I will seek. Do not hide your faith from me.

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Speaker 2: Do not turn your servant away in anger. You have

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Speaker 2: been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me.

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Speaker 2: Oh God, my Savior, Though my father and mother forsake me,

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Speaker 2: the Lord will receive me. Teach me your way. Lord,

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Speaker 2: lead me in the street because of my oppressors. Do

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Speaker 2: not turn me over to the desire of my foes,

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Speaker 2: for false witnesses rise up against me, spouting malicious accusations.

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Speaker 2: I remain confident of this. I will see the goodness

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Speaker 2: of the Lord in the land of the Living. Wait

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Speaker 2: for the Lord. Be strong and take heart and wait

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Speaker 2: for the Lord. This beautiful Psalm ends with a verse

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Speaker 2: I include in my prayers every morning. Wait patiently for

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Speaker 2: the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for

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Speaker 2: the Lord. Verse fourteen from The New Living translation, waiting

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Speaker 2: is hard. Patience is not an easy virtue to behold.

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Speaker 2: Yet when we put our craving for immediacy aside, we

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Speaker 2: get to experience the wonderful benefit and blessing of waiting

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Speaker 2: of patience. Psalm twenty seven reminds us to center our

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Speaker 2: lives around the Lord, who is worth waiting for. So

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Speaker 2: often we push to find answers instead of waiting on

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Speaker 2: the Lord's steadfast, reliable timing it. We so often rush

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Speaker 2: ahead to get to what's next, instead of taking a

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Speaker 2: deep breath and enjoying the process, the journey from point

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Speaker 2: A to point B. In life, there will always be

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Speaker 2: something coming up next, always another season of life lurking

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Speaker 2: around the corner. Will never be able to predict what's

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Speaker 2: coming for us, or at us, or what will happen

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Speaker 2: to us, both good and bad, and what we do

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Speaker 2: with that fact determines the value of our days. Will

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Speaker 2: we spend each day grasping for control of what we

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Speaker 2: can never predict, or will we take deep breath and

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Speaker 2: bravely commit to waiting on the Lord. The courage it

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Speaker 2: takes to develop godly patience is commendable. It is brave

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Speaker 2: to wait God cares for us infinitely more than could imagine.

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Speaker 2: His ways are mysterious to us, but his love for

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Speaker 2: us is obvious. So meditate on this psalm tonight. Listen

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Speaker 2: to it over and over until its truth seeps deeply

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Speaker 2: into your mind, heart and soul. And be brave, have courage,

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Speaker 2: and rest in the Lord's strength. Tonight, Father, I wait

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Speaker 2: patiently on you, brave and courageous. Oh Lord, I wait

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Speaker 2: patiently for you, and I will repeat that truth, those

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Speaker 2: words until my heart's intentions align with your will grow

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Speaker 2: in me godly wisdom and courage. I pray to walk

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Speaker 2: boldly behind you, Jehovah Rohi, all of the days of

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Speaker 2: my life, following your specific design for my life and

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Speaker 2: running towards your purposes. Let my life bring glory to

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Speaker 2: your name, Mahaba in Jesus' name. Amen. How did Tonight's

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