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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswalked devotional. We are so glad to

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Speaker 2: have you listening with us here today. Today's topic is

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Speaker 2: trust in God. We will return after a brief message

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Speaker 2: from our sponsor, we can trust Him. Written by Lauren Fletcher,

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Speaker 2: red by Rochelle ALBERTI Bible reading. But as for me,

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Speaker 2: I will sing about your power each morning. I will

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Speaker 2: sing with joy about your unfailing love. For you have

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Speaker 2: been my refuge, a place of safety when I am

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Speaker 2: in distress. Oh my strength to you, I sink praises

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Speaker 2: for you. Oh God, are my refuge, the God who

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Speaker 2: shows me unfailing love, Psalm fifty nine, sixteen and seventeen.

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Speaker 2: My church recently started a Bible study called Encountering God

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Speaker 2: by Kelly Minter. In it, she talks about God's faithfulness,

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Speaker 2: that we can trust God in our present because of

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Speaker 2: what he has done in the past. She references his

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Speaker 2: faithfulness in the Word in his relationship with the Israelites.

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Speaker 2: She also mentions that we can trust God because of

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Speaker 2: his personal history with us. Kelly says, well, what I've

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Speaker 2: worded to cherish about remembering God's past faithfulness as how

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Speaker 2: remembrance informs my present and future encountering God. She further

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Speaker 2: encourages the reader to think about how God has been

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Speaker 2: faithful to them. As I pondered this question, I didn't

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Speaker 2: have to wait long for God's answer. As a reminder,

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Speaker 2: last night I was struggling with anxiety and OCD. I

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Speaker 2: had this feeling that things would not get better, and

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Speaker 2: then I heard a familiar sum. I heard it in English,

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Speaker 2: but remembered it in Spanish, tango fitierro glorio sodia. God

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Speaker 2: was reminding me that I have a future and that

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Speaker 2: things would get better. He recalled a memory from a

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Speaker 2: few years ago. I had been working at a job

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Speaker 2: and dealing with anxiety. It was the worst I had experienced.

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Speaker 2: I had a hard time completing the task expected of

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Speaker 2: me and frequently had to take breaks away from my

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Speaker 2: post to regroup. That night, Richurch was having a practice

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Speaker 2: for our new Spanish service. They sang Goodness of God.

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Speaker 2: During that song, I heard God whisper to me, you

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Speaker 2: have so much to live for. He reminded me of

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Speaker 2: a dream I have to do mission work, and tears

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Speaker 2: started welling up. Another song my Spanish and saying back

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Speaker 2: then was glorious state in it. The Bridge says, I

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Speaker 2: have a future, which is tengo fitero in Spanish. I

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Speaker 2: felt this was my personal reminder from God about what

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Speaker 2: he spoke over me. By remembering what God did in

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Speaker 2: this past moment, how he gave me hope in the darkness,

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Speaker 2: I was able to take hold of hopeless night. I

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Speaker 2: remembered his faithfulness. I knew that everything was going to

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Speaker 2: be okay. Intersecting faith in life in Psalms fifty nine,

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Speaker 2: the Psalmist recalls God's faithfulness to him. He says, but

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Speaker 2: as for me, I will sing about your power each morning.

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Speaker 2: I will sing with joy about your unfailing love, for

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Speaker 2: you have been my refuge, a place of safety when

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Speaker 2: I am in distress. He remembers how God has been

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Speaker 2: towards him. The Psalmist continues, all my strength to you,

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Speaker 2: I sing praises where you, O, God, are my refuge,

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Speaker 2: the God who shows me unfailing love. His past experience

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Speaker 2: of God encourages him to declare God as his refuge

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Speaker 2: in the present. When we remember God's faithfulness to us

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Speaker 2: in the past and in the past of his people,

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Speaker 2: we are spurred on the fresh hope for the future.

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Speaker 2: In the Old Testament, God frequently reminds the Israelites of

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Speaker 2: what He has done for them. Is there a passage

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Speaker 2: in the Bible a story of God's faithfulness that can

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Speaker 2: encourage you. Maybe it's Ruth in Naomi or Hannah and

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Speaker 2: how personal God wasn't answering each of their prayers and

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Speaker 2: desires encountering God. Or perhaps it's how God rescued his

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Speaker 2: people in the Book of Esther or an exodus. People

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Speaker 2: in the Bible also create altars as a reminder. Jacob,

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Speaker 2: for instance, is there a specific memory that you have

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Speaker 2: of God's personal faithfulness in your life that brings your

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Speaker 2: encouragement whenever you remember it. In Psalms ninety two two

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Speaker 2: through four, the Psalmist says, it is good to proclaim

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Speaker 2: your unfailing love in the morning, your faithfulness in the evening,

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Speaker 2: accompanied by a ten stringed instrument, a harp, and the

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Speaker 2: melody of a liar. You thrilling, Lord, with all you

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Speaker 2: have done for me. I sing for joy because of

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Speaker 2: what you have done. Remembering what God has done also

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Speaker 2: leads us to worship. We can praise God for his

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Speaker 2: faithfulness to us. Telling Mentor says, taking the moment to

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Speaker 2: dwell on who God has always been and what He

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Speaker 2: has done gives us strength in the present and the

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Speaker 2: hope of the future. Encountering God, it gives us faith

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Speaker 2: to move forward into what God is calling us to do.

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Speaker 2: Further reading Psalm ninety two two through four, First Chronicles

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Speaker 2: sixteen seven through thirty six, Psalm twenty five six, Psalm

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Speaker 2: thirty four nineteen, Second Samuel twenty two thirty one.

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