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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Hey there, and welcome to another prayer through the Psalms

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

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Speaker 2: I'm very.

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Speaker 1: Very excited to be with you.

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Speaker 2: You may not know it, but it's been a while

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Speaker 2: since I've recorded a psalm. I did a few kind

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Speaker 2: of in a batch because I knew I was going

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Speaker 2: to be busy and away from the computer, and I'm

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Speaker 2: so happy to be back. I love this time with you.

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Speaker 2: It is sacred and special and set apart and makes

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Speaker 2: me slow down and I'm going to be fully transparent

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Speaker 2: with you. I'm not always happy about it. There are

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Speaker 2: times when I know I have psalms to record and

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Speaker 2: I think, oh my goodness, that's going to take a lot.

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Speaker 2: Because it does. It sounds counterintuitive, but as a fellow human,

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Speaker 2: you know, it takes energy to slow down.

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Speaker 1: It takes effort to.

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Speaker 2: Stop the grind, to take a step off the treadmill

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Speaker 2: of life and meditate on God's word. And I'm going

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Speaker 2: to also confess that I haven't been meditating outside of

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Speaker 2: these psalms in the last few weeks on God's word

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Speaker 2: like I should be.

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Speaker 1: And it takes a toll. It steals energy.

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Speaker 2: From us to give constantly to the demands of busyness,

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Speaker 2: to pour ourselves into tasks and to do lists, and

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Speaker 2: there's a time for them. A lot of it is

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Speaker 2: just stuff that has to be done. But I believe

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Speaker 2: that's why God created the Sabbath, and he knew that

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Speaker 2: there is absolutely a time when we need to slow down.

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Speaker 1: And not to mention.

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Speaker 2: When we become disconnected from the vine, we start to wither.

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Speaker 2: I see that in my one hundred degree Utah weather

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Speaker 2: the last week. Is there was a section in our

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Speaker 2: grape vine and they've been getting watered vine, but there

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Speaker 2: was a section that I guess the wind had kind

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Speaker 1: Couldn't tell it first.

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Speaker 2: At first I went out there, and you know, everything

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Speaker 2: looked great. And then a few days later I look

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Speaker 2: and there's this whole like withered section, and I thought, oh,

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Speaker 2: my goodness, there must be like a pest or an

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Speaker 2: infestation of something, or a blight or I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what affects grapes. I'm new to grape vines.

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Speaker 2: And it was just that the wind had there'd been

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Speaker 2: a vine that had been like growing kind of out

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Speaker 2: of the vine had gotten blown by the wind, I.

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Speaker 1: Guess, and snapped.

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Speaker 2: It had kind of like it still was attached, but

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Speaker 2: it was crimped, and so basically it was effectively detached,

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Speaker 2: not physically, but for all intents and purposes from the

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Speaker 2: actual vine, which, if you know anything about grapes, the

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Speaker 2: vine itself is this big, gnarly like brown tree, trunky

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Speaker 2: to say that this one huge section of vine had

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Speaker 1: So this entire section was just.

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Speaker 2: Withered and gnarly and just crunchy crispy from totally dying.

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Speaker 1: And that's us.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't happen immediately, we might not even notice it.

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Speaker 2: And for us, it's not necessarily days. I think it

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Speaker 2: But it takes its toll, and I think from my experience,

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Speaker 2: get in a routine of business, it makes slowing down

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Speaker 2: seem undesirable, and it makes the act of being in

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Speaker 2: of this computer because I do have so much going

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Speaker 2: But I really hope that you're able to just take

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Speaker 2: I'm just being real about it, because if you resonate

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Speaker 1: Embrace it and take.

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Speaker 2: It to God and say God, I kind of feel

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Speaker 2: like reading your word is become a little bit boring.

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Speaker 1: Help me.

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Speaker 2: And I guarantee when you get to the place where

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Speaker 2: come alive again.

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Speaker 2: It will stoke those fires, those embers that have kind

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Speaker 2: Bible reading, into your time with Him. So I didn't

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Speaker 2: mean to go off on that tangent, but the Lord

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Speaker 2: must have had something for you just through what I've

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Speaker 2: to be talking about and praying through Psalm sixty seven.

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Speaker 1: Do I hear the parents of.

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Speaker 1: With you know, six seven.

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Speaker 2: I know that we've passed that, but I can't hear

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Speaker 1: Psalm sixty seven.

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Speaker 2: We're in it, and now we can focus.

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Speaker 1: Let's pray.

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Speaker 2: God, we just thank you for giving us your word.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the relationship that you extend to each

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Speaker 2: granted all the time, and I'm sorry. Thank you for

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Speaker 2: taking us back with open arms when we take time

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Speaker 2: and praying. I know there's a time for surface prayers,

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Speaker 2: for the shout out prayers when we need you desperately,

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Speaker 2: always time for reading your word and spending time slowing

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Speaker 2: Teach us how to do that better. Lord, I just

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Speaker 2: pray for the body of Christ in this incredible, amazing

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Speaker 2: with grace, protect us from lasting damage. I look at

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Speaker 2: and I'm burdened and scared. Frankly, I see what it's

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Speaker 2: your mercy you would protect the body of Christ, protect

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Speaker 2: and won't let go. The busyness that can be an

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Speaker 2: and we could trade because of what it gives us.

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Speaker 2: slowing down, that doesn't give us instant gratification, but is

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Speaker 2: Take them off of ourselves, Take them off of our children,

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Speaker 2: our grandchildren, generations to come. Help your people to see clearly,

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Speaker 2: and to know how to do that. It's hard, it's

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Speaker 2: not easy, it's not straightforward. In Jesus' name, Amen, all right, Well,

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Speaker 2: this is Psalm sixty seven the Nations exhorted to pray

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Speaker 2: God for the choir director with stringed instruments, a psalm

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Speaker 2: a song. And I have read that this is often

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Speaker 2: what I read. This is a very short psalm, and

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Speaker 2: it kind of touches on what I said in my prayer.

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Speaker 2: It touches on God being a god not of a

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Speaker 2: and the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was the

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Speaker 2: speak of a greater kingdom, and I love it. It's beautiful.

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Speaker 2: So the nations are exhorted to praise God. God be

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Speaker 2: The Lord make his face shine upon you, And it

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Speaker 2: intentionally adapts this blessing and takes it beyond Israel. God

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Speaker 2: be gracious to us collective, and bless us collectively, and

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Speaker 2: cause his face to shine upon us, that your way

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Speaker 2: may be known on the earth, your salvation among all nations.

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Speaker 2: Let the peoples praise you, Oh God, Let all the

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Speaker 2: can be translated as tribes, nations, ethnic groups. So the

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Speaker 2: Hebrew word is amim, and it means tribes, nations, and

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Speaker 2: ethnic groups, not just Israel, very clearly, not just Israel.

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Speaker 2: Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for

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Speaker 2: you will judge the peoples with uprightness and guide the

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Speaker 2: nations on the earth. Selah, let the peoples praise you,

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Speaker 2: Oh God, Let all the peoples praise you. The earth

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Speaker 2: has yielded its produce. God, our God blesses us. God

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Speaker 2: blesses us that all the ends of the earth may

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Speaker 2: fear Him. And how beautiful is this. There's this whole

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Speaker 2: big picture of God blesses everyone. And then it goes

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Speaker 2: to in verse seven. God blesses us Israel, that all

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Speaker 2: the ends of the earth may fear Him, and not

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Speaker 2: fear like tremble in trepidation and turning away from but

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Speaker 2: fear revere like every nieshell bow, every tongue confess. So

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Speaker 2: our blessing is not just for us, but it will

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Speaker 2: be for all nations. And God promised that to Abraham too.

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Speaker 2: He said, you will be blessed, so that the world

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Speaker 2: may in turn be blessed. Some of that blessing is

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Speaker 2: But I firmly believe that it is a universal not universalism,

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Speaker 2: And that transfers to us as Christians. We are blessed,

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Speaker 2: And do that not just with the stuff that we

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