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Speaker 2: Hello, and thank you for listening to your Daily Bible Verse,

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Speaker 2: the podcast that examines one verse each day to learn

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Speaker 2: more about God and his will for us. You know,

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Speaker 2: rejection can make even the best relationships feel unsafe. We

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Speaker 2: can build walls to close ourselves inside of but God

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Speaker 2: calls us to live at ease with others, to live open,

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Speaker 2: through steps to learn to trust God with your relationships.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Jessica Vanrokeol And after this short word

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Speaker 2: from our sponsor, we'll dive into today's Bible verse, Psalm

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Speaker 2: chapter eighteen, verse nineteen. Today's Bible Versus Psalm Chapter eighteen,

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Speaker 2: verse nineteen. He brought me out into a broad, spacious place.

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Speaker 2: He rescued me because he delighted in me. Years ago,

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Speaker 2: I hiked up a steep but small mountain in the

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Speaker 2: Northern United States. I wound my way through thick trees

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Speaker 2: and over slippery, thin flat rock. In fact, if you

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Speaker 2: didn't walk sideways up the mountain, you would slide down

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Speaker 2: the mountain. That's what this rock did. So branches slapped

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Speaker 2: on my arms, and bushes snapped at my legs. But

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Speaker 2: then the trees thinned out, and I stepped onto a

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Speaker 2: wide plateau. Sunlight poured over me, the ground evened out,

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Speaker 2: the views were breathtaking, and the spacious us felt like freedom.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes in life it can feel like we're climbing a

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Speaker 2: steep trail, where stress, fear, or failure can constrict us,

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Speaker 2: and our steps feel risky and exhausting. But then God

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Speaker 2: comes beside us. Psalm Chapter eighteen, verse nineteen says He

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Speaker 2: brought me out into a broad, spacious place. He rescued

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Speaker 2: me because He delighted in me. What a beautiful reminder

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Speaker 2: today God delights to rescue us. His love for us

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Speaker 2: isn't duty bound, but motivated out of his love. Psalm

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Speaker 2: eighteen fills the heart of those who feel like they

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Speaker 2: can't take another step, and it fills us with comfort

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Speaker 2: and hope. Charles Spurgeon says this about today's verse. Some

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Speaker 2: will not see the hand of God, but I warrant you,

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Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, those who have been delivered out of

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Speaker 2: deep waters will see it. Their experience teaches them that

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Speaker 2: God is yet among us. Psalm eighteen was written by David,

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Speaker 2: and we know from scripture that David faced extreme trials, lions, bears, giants,

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Speaker 2: life on the run, being despised, leading other ne'er dowells.

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Speaker 2: David does not say his way was perfect, but that

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Speaker 2: he continued to show a heart of devotion, obedience, and faithfulness.

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Speaker 2: Today's verse comes from a chapter symbolizing the ongoing life

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Speaker 2: struggles against physical and spiritual forces while highlighting the rescuer

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Speaker 2: of us. All examining the context of a verse involves

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Speaker 2: looking at the nearby scriptures, cross references, and the whole

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Speaker 2: narrative of the Bible. From the beginning, God planned a

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Speaker 2: great rescue through the life and death of Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 2: but God also rescues us on a day to day

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Speaker 2: basis when we cry out to him. God is strong

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Speaker 2: enough to save and put us in a safe place. David,

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Speaker 2: despite the dangers he faced, was set in safety even

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Speaker 2: when his circumstances didn't always seem safe. The spacious place

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Speaker 2: is figurative language demonstrating freedom from distress and anxiety. God

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Speaker 2: delivers us to spacious places where we exchange distress for peace,

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Speaker 2: we exchange anxiety for trust. Other verses to consider are

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Speaker 2: where David echoes his earlier thought. In Psalm eighteen, verse

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Speaker 2: thirty six, David writes, you gave a wide place for

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Speaker 2: my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

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Speaker 2: Imagine that. He writes again in Psalm chapter forty, verse two,

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Speaker 2: he speaking about God drew me up from the pit

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Speaker 2: of destruction, out of the mirie bog and set my

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Speaker 2: feet upon a rock, making my step secure. I have

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Speaker 2: found that distress and anxiety can weigh our feet down

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Speaker 2: and make forward momentum hard. We can experience the same

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Speaker 2: kind of rescue. Listen to Psalm one hundred and eighteen,

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Speaker 2: verse five. Out of my distress I called on the Lord.

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Speaker 2: He answered me and set me free. Not only does

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Speaker 2: David rite of God rescuing him, but he also gives

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Speaker 2: the reason why God cares so much. God delights. To

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Speaker 2: delight is to incline or bend toward God, the one

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Speaker 2: who put the sun and moon in their place, delights

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Speaker 2: in us. He, the one who breathed stars, bends toward us.

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Speaker 2: This verse tells us God is strong enough to save

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Speaker 2: and puts us in a safe place because of his

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Speaker 2: delight for us. Delighted in him has two meanings. First,

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Speaker 2: God delighted in David because God chose him, anointed him,

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Speaker 2: and set his loving kindness on him. Second, God delighted

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Speaker 2: in David because David lived a righteous life. We can

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Speaker 2: live a righteous life. God reveals his love to us

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Speaker 2: by delivering us from sin, evil propensities, and spiritual enemies.

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Speaker 2: God sets Jesus's righteousness on us and then helps us

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Speaker 2: live it out. God's favor is the root and fountain

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Speaker 2: of deliverance. He sustains and he bears up. Mostly in

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Speaker 2: this psalm, David reminds us that God delivers us not

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Speaker 2: for our own merit, but for God's grace and good will.

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Speaker 2: David lived as a forgotten shepherd and a fugitive in

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Speaker 2: a cave before he sat on a throne. Joseph from

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Speaker 2: Genesis in the Old Testament lived as a precious son,

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Speaker 2: then as a slave, then in prison, before he finally

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Speaker 2: moved to a palace. Like Spurgeon writes, our hearts thrum

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Speaker 2: with the pleasure made sweeter after the pain, we will

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Speaker 2: know hardship. It will feel like life drowns us with heartache.

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Speaker 2: When we cry out to God, he rescues us because

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Speaker 2: He delights in us. There will be times when we

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Speaker 2: don't experience a physical rescue where we are completely removed

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Speaker 2: from our situations. Life. I'm sorry, just sometimes isn't like that.

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Speaker 2: But instead we can know an internal rescue breed from

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Speaker 2: anxiety and distress. Today, lean into God's delight of you.

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Speaker 2: He inclines toward you to set you in a place

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Speaker 2: free from worry anxiety, and he calls you to walk

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Speaker 2: into a spacious place with him and to trust him.

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Speaker 2: Let's pray, Holy God, thank you so much that you

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Speaker 2: delight in us. The you lead us to safety. Lord,

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Speaker 2: that you reach down from on high and you grab

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Speaker 2: us out of the miriy depths, the place of distress

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Speaker 2: and anxiety. God, and you bring us to this spacious

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Speaker 2: place where you give us peace and freedom. Lord, Help

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Speaker 2: us to trust you, help us to look to you,

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Speaker 2: help us to follow you forward, to keep our eyes

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Speaker 2: fixed on you.

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Speaker 2: We love you, and we delight in you in Jesus' name.

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