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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to another Prayer through the Psalms episode

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Speaker 2: of the Praying Christian Women podcast. I'm Jamie and we

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Speaker 2: are going to be talking about and praying through Psalm.

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Speaker 1: Sixty two today.

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Speaker 2: If this is your first time joining us, I'm so

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Speaker 2: glad you're here. This is my kind of favorite time

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Speaker 2: of the week. I love taking this time to just

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Speaker 2: breathe and just invite God into the chaos of living.

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Speaker 2: I just feel like, more than ever, we are just

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Speaker 2: busy people, and this time is a respite from some

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Speaker 2: of that busyness. But I think it's also an invitation

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Speaker 2: to set better boundaries. When I feel the breath of

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Speaker 2: fresh air that it is to sit here with you

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Speaker 2: and to talk about the psalms and to pray through

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Speaker 2: them and meditate on them and invite God into our

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Speaker 2: lives reminds me of the fact that our life is

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Speaker 2: about so much more than the things we do, and

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Speaker 2: so it is. It's just a really good invitation. Psalm

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Speaker 2: sixty two is another beautiful psalm. Last time we had

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Speaker 2: this amazing psalm of celebrating God's bigness and his protection

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Speaker 2: and his you know, being a refuge and sheltering us

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Speaker 2: under the shadow of His wings. This one is another

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Speaker 2: where David is saying that God alone is a refuge

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Speaker 2: from treachery and oppression, and so he goes into some

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Speaker 2: specifics of what he's going through, which I think a

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Speaker 2: lot of us can relate to.

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Speaker 1: This is for the choir director.

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Speaker 2: According to Jeduthan, this has us cross reference First Chronicle

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Speaker 2: sixteen forty one, twenty five to one, Psalm thirty nine

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Speaker 2: and seventy seven for the titles. So he talks in

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Speaker 2: this particular Psalm about treachery, about people that are pretending

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Speaker 2: to be blessing him and then inwardly they're cursing him.

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Speaker 2: I think we can look at this particular concept from

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Speaker 2: two directions. We can look at it as, are you

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Speaker 2: facing someone who's doing that to you? Are you facing

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Speaker 2: maybe discovering someone was not who you thought they were.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they weren't the friend you thought they were, Maybe

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Speaker 2: Maybe they said that they thought you were good and

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Speaker 2: then they're bad mouthing you to someone else, or maybe

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Speaker 1: We've all been.

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Speaker 2: There, and maybe that's what you're facing now. But I

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Speaker 2: see it just as you know. Going into this, I

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Speaker 2: think today we'll incorporate some confession. Are we people of

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Speaker 2: Are we showing integrity in the things that we're saying.

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Speaker 2: Are the texts that you send about someone, or even

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Speaker 2: the thoughts you're thinking in your own mind about someone,

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Speaker 2: are they truly what's good and noble and pure and

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Speaker 2: excellent and praiseworthy. Or are we being double minded and

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Speaker 2: double tongued and so I don't know.

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Speaker 1: For me, that's just something. I'm a people pleaser.

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Speaker 2: I'm a peacekeeper, and sometimes I think if I'm being

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Speaker 2: really brutally honest with you, and it's embarrassing to admit,

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Speaker 2: I think that sometimes I will say things to people

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Speaker 2: I don't think most people would consider me a judgmental person.

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Speaker 2: But it's interesting that, as I've been praying recently for

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Speaker 2: God to reveal hidden sin, I didn't get to talk

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Speaker 2: to you about this last time when we I think

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Speaker 2: it was two times ago when we had like a

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Speaker 2: confession time, and I meant to say it, but I didn't.

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Speaker 2: One of the things I felt convicted of in our

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Speaker 2: time of confession is that I'm way more judgmental than

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Speaker 2: I'm working on training my brain to be more gracious,

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Speaker 2: since I've invited the Holy Spirit in to search me,

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Speaker 2: that I've been catching thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Time and we will incorporate some prayer and confession into

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Speaker 2: the people around us. All right, let's pray, Lord God,

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Speaker 1: In this world where we are just so busy. We

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Speaker 2: We need you as our anchor in this world where

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Speaker 2: truth seems to be kind of being traded for relativism.

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Speaker 2: We need your truth to anchor us as well. And

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Speaker 2: so God, I just pray. I almost feel the relief

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Speaker 2: of tethering myself to you as my anchor. I sometimes

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you for your.

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Speaker 2: Word, which is a source of truth that we can

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Speaker 2: able to have a Bible in our hands, we're able

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Speaker 2: to stand on the truths that are timeless, even when

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Speaker 2: the times around us are changing and the perspectives of

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Speaker 2: people are changing, and circumstances of the world are changing.

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Speaker 2: Your truths never change. We just pray for the wisdom

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Speaker 2: to read your truths with eyes that can see to

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Speaker 2: the heart of what they mean. We pray that we

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Speaker 2: would be unwavering on the things that are carved in stone.

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Speaker 2: But we also pray for teachability and adaptability to be

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Speaker 2: able to apply those truths to a wide range of situations.

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Speaker 2: And that's where your Holy Spirit comes in. So we

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Speaker 2: do ask Lord for your Holy spirit to guide us

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Speaker 2: to direct us. We thank you for the words of

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Speaker 2: and just pray that we would be able to keep

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Speaker 2: our eyes fixed on him, that we could become more

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Speaker 2: and more like him. And Lord, I confess right now

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Speaker 2: that there are things in my life that I'm not

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Speaker 2: even that aware of, and thank you for being faithful

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Speaker 2: to draw them out when I ask you to draw

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Speaker 2: one thing and think another. I pray that I would

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Speaker 2: be as gracious and generous and loving toward people in

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Speaker 2: the opportunity to hear from you now as we take

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Speaker 2: this minute or so of silence, Search me, Oh God,

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Speaker 2: and know my heart, Test me and know my anxious thoughts.

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Speaker 2: See if there is any offensive way in me, need

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Speaker 2: We just thank you for the gift of your Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 2: for the gift of your word, and just pray that

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Speaker 2: race with perseverance, unshackle us from anything that's slowing us

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Speaker 2: for in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's read through Psalm sixty two. So again

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Speaker 2: the title is God alone, a refuge from treachery and

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Speaker 2: oppression for the choir director. According to Jeduthan, a Psalm

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Speaker 2: of David, my soul waits in silence for God.

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Speaker 2: From Him is my salvation. He only is my rock

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Speaker 2: How long will you assail a man that you may

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Speaker 2: inwardly they curse Selah. My soul wait in silence for

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Speaker 2: God only, for my hope is from Him. He only

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Speaker 2: rest the rock of my strength. My refuge is in God.

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Speaker 2: Trust in Him at all times. O people, pour out

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Speaker 2: your heart before him. God is a refuge for us Selah.

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Speaker 2: Men of low degree are only vanity, and men of

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Speaker 2: they are together lighter than breath. Do not trust in oppression,

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Speaker 2: and do not vainly hope in robbery. If riches increase,

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Speaker 2: do not set your heart upon them. Once God has

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Speaker 2: spoken twice, I have heard this that power belongs to God.

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Speaker 2: And loving kindness is your oul. Lord, for you recompense

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Speaker 2: a man according to his work.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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Speaker 2: I like that this word waits where it says verse one,

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Speaker 2: My soul waits in silence for God only. According to

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Speaker 2: the lexicon, that word, actually it doesn't just mean sitting.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't just mean like doing nothing. It actually has

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Speaker 2: to do with stillness creating silence. It's kind of an

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Speaker 2: so much coming in. We need to actively create white space.

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Speaker 2: And if we don't do that today, in today's day

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Speaker 2: in that stillness. It's only in that silence that God

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Speaker 2: but we miss out on the still small voice God.

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Speaker 2: You know what do they say? God is a gentleman.

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Speaker 2: He's not going to impose himself on you. You need to

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Speaker 2: invite him, you need to make space for him. And

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Speaker 2: so this verse one, I could just stop there, full stop.

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Speaker 2: repeat my soul waits in silence for God only. It says,

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Speaker 2: my soul wait in silence for God only. My soul comma.

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Speaker 2: So it kind of goes. In the very beginning, David

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Speaker 2: and God only. It's it's being obedient what I had

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Speaker 2: hoped it would do. And then verses three through four,

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Speaker 2: murder him? And talking about these people that delight in

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Speaker 2: falsehood and blessing on one side and cursing inwardly.

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Speaker 1: And so then it's like, as a.

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Speaker 2: Result of all of this turmoil, I'm not My soul

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Speaker 2: isn't waiting. It's restless. It wants to do something, it

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Speaker 2: but there's so much. My soul's response is chaos to

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Speaker 2: the chaos. And yet David says in verse five, my

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Speaker 2: Remember that stillness you felt before, And that's what we

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Speaker 1: Come on, soul.

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Speaker 2: Let's coach our souls to be quiet. For my hope

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Speaker 2: Lord God, we we love you, and we thank you

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Speaker 2: that you are our respite, that you are our salvation,

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Speaker 2: We choose you God, We choose to quiet our souls.

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Speaker 2: let us be victims of our own busyness. Convict us

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Speaker 2: with your spirit that it's time for a break. Equip

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Speaker 2: us with tools of discipline to incorporate those times into

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Speaker 2: but to truly meet with you for our benefit and

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Speaker 2: for your glory.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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