1 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Life audio. 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: Hi there, and welcome to another Prayer through the Psalms 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 2: episode of the Praying Christian Women podcast. I'm Jamie, and 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 2: today we are going to be talking about and praying 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 2: through Psalm sixty six. So this psalm is called praise 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: for God's mighty deeds and his answer to prayer. And 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 2: it does not say that it's a psalm of David. 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 2: It says for the choir director, a song a psalm. 9 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,279 Speaker 2: So commentators and scholars think that it could have been 10 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: written by David, It could have been written by maybe 11 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 2: a later temple worship leader, and it could have been 12 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 2: used because of the content and the context. It could 13 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: have been used during a time of national deliverance or 14 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 2: military victory, or just post exile worship in general. But 15 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 2: it has themes of remembrance, and it has themes of 16 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:06,199 Speaker 2: remembering God's goodness but also remembering that God allows catastrophe, 17 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 2: he allows difficulty, and the psalm writer likens this to 18 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 2: refining silver. So kind of the idea that the trials, 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 2: the tribulations, the difficulties that actually in the psalm are 20 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 2: attributed to God, Like you laid the net, you allowed 21 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 2: us to be trapped. You allowed us to go through 22 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 2: suffering because you were refining us. You were bringing us 23 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 2: through the fire and then through the water, and then 24 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 2: into a purification and then remembering God's deliverance into what 25 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 2: we would consider abundance. The refining process is not something 26 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 2: that we would consider abundant. It's something we would consider 27 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: painful and difficult. So it's kind of a both. And 28 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,559 Speaker 2: so if you find yourself right now in a time 29 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 2: where you're going through something, and I'm going to interject 30 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 2: because I don't always believe, and this is jaming the 31 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 2: non theologian, just from what I read, what I've experienced, 32 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 2: how I perceive God in the Bible. I believe that 33 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 2: there are times when God absolutely either invites calamity, causes calamity, 34 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 2: or allows calamity for a purpose of refinement. But it 35 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 2: seems to me that there are also times when we 36 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 2: just are reaping the sinful world we live in. I 37 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 2: don't think every sickness is sent by God or allowed 38 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 2: by God for a specific purpose to test us or 39 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: to beat us into submission. I think sure there are 40 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:48,239 Speaker 2: times and biblical examples that job sickness, death, tragedy were 41 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 2: all allowed, They were caused by Satan, but they were 42 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: allowed by God to reveal Job's faithfulness, not necessarily to 43 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 2: beat him into submission, but to kind of just be like, 44 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 2: I know this man will be faithful no matter what, 45 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 2: so go ahead, do your worst. And Job was faithful. 46 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 2: But I think there are times when we're just basically 47 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 2: living a life that's hard because sin is in the world, 48 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 2: and we have a choice of whether to lean into 49 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 2: God and find the peace and the comfort and the 50 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 2: healing that comes from him, or to go the other 51 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 2: way and to rebel against him, to curse him for 52 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 2: allowing these things, and to live a terrible life. I 53 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 2: don't know that He always intends for some of the 54 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: things that we endure. I think sometimes he does. Sometimes 55 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 2: he doesn't. But that's me, and maybe that's me coming 56 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: to terms with not wanting to think that everything bad 57 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: is specifically allowed by God. 58 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: I don't know. 59 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 2: Some people say everything happens for a reason. I don't 60 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 2: know if I adhere to that. I don't know if 61 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 2: everything happens for a specific reason and purpose. I know 62 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 2: that in all things God works for the good of 63 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 2: those who love him, absolutely, I don't know if everything 64 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 2: happens specifically for a purpose. There are some terrible tragedies 65 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 2: that I don't know if they are meant to produce 66 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 2: a certain outcome, but without God they're impossible to weather. 67 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 2: If that makes any kind of sense at all to anyone. 68 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 2: That's my philosophy. It's not carved in stone. It doesn't 69 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 2: have to be yours. But this particular psalm is celebrating 70 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 2: that God is a God who can be both rescuer 71 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 2: and gift giver and also refiner. And I love that 72 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 2: and I embrace that for sure. So that was kind 73 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 2: of a long way to say, welcome to Psalm sixty six. 74 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: Let's pray other God, we just give you thanks for 75 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 2: your word, and as always we just come before you 76 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 2: with complete love and adoration, with complete humility and just 77 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 2: mindfulness that we are so unworthy of your love and 78 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 2: of your fellowship and of your invitation to be sons 79 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 2: and daughters. And so we just thank you and praise 80 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 2: you for your goodness and love and for that invitation, 81 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 2: and we welcome that, we embrace it, we accept, we 82 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 2: take that offer, that olive branch in the form of 83 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, who literally was the bridge between us and 84 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 2: you and fellowship. 85 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: When we were broken. 86 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 2: Because of sin, and we just pray that we could 87 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 2: come before you and just understand a little bit more 88 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 2: about who you are through this psalm. Help us to 89 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 2: see you clearly. Help this psalm to help us make 90 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 2: more sense of the lives that we're living. Help the 91 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 2: pain and the suffering and the difficulty to be a 92 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 2: little bit more bearable through acknowledgment of your goodness and 93 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 2: your work in our lives. That no pain is wasted 94 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 2: in Jesus name. 95 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: Amen. 96 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 2: All right, let's read Psalm sixty six. I'm using the 97 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 2: Nasby nineteen ninety five praise for God's mighty deeds and 98 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 2: for his answer to prayer. Love it the Praying Christian 99 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 2: Women podcast. I love that this specifically says this is 100 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,359 Speaker 2: praising God's mighty deeds and his answer to prayer. So 101 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 2: let's read this and let's try to find what prayers 102 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:57,679 Speaker 2: were answered for. The choir director a song a psalm. 103 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 2: Shout joyfully to God, all the earth, sing the glory 104 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 2: of his name, Make his praise glorious. Say to God, 105 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 2: how awesome are your works. Because of the greatness of 106 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 2: your power, your enemies will give feigned obedience to you. 107 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 2: All the earth will worship you and will sing praises 108 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 2: to you. They will sing praises to your name. Saylah, 109 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 2: Come and see the works of God, who is awesome 110 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 2: in his deeds. Towards the sons of men, he turned 111 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 2: the sea into dry land. They pass through the river 112 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 2: on foot. There, Let us rejoice in him. He rules 113 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 2: by his might forever. His eyes keep watch on the nations. 114 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 2: Let not the rebellious exult themselves. Saylah, bless our God, 115 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 2: o peoples, and sound his praise abroad, who keeps us 116 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 2: in life and does not allow our feet to slip. 117 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 2: For you have tried us, O God, You have refined 118 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 2: us as silver is refined. You brought us into the net. 119 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 2: You laid an oppressive burden upon our loins. You made 120 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 2: men ride over our heads. We went through fire and 121 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 2: through water, Yet you brought us out into a place 122 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 2: of abundance. I shall come into your house with burnt offerings. 123 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 2: I shall pay you my vows, which my lips uttered 124 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 2: and my mouth spoke when I was in distress. I 125 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 2: shall offer to you burnt offerings of fat beasts with 126 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 2: the smoke of rams. I shall make an offering of 127 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 2: bulls with male goats Selah, Come and hear, all who 128 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 2: fear God, and I will tell of what he has 129 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 2: done for my soul. I cried to him with my mouth, 130 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 2: and he was extolled with my tongue. If I regard 131 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 2: wickedness in my heart, the Lord will not hear. But 132 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 2: certainly God has heard. He has given heed to the 133 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 2: voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who is not 134 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,959 Speaker 2: turned away my prayer nor his loving kindness for me. 135 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: So there is a lot in here, I think. In 136 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: the beginning. 137 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 2: What stands out to me is this line in verse three. 138 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 2: Because of the greatness of your power, your enemies will 139 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 2: give feigned obedience to you. And I looked into this 140 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 2: a little bit into commentaries and the lexicon. The word 141 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: used here about giving feigned obedience is the same word 142 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 2: used when someone is conquered and they bow to their conqueror. 143 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that they're plotting or pretending that they're 144 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 2: not going to submit. It means that they're forced into it, 145 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 2: and their heart isn't in it, but they have to. 146 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 2: And what I see here is here we are like 147 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 2: the whole earth is shouting to God, is singing the 148 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 2: glory of his name. This is universal praise like this 149 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 2: is even the rocks will cry out. If there wasn't 150 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: a human on the planet to give praise to God, 151 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 2: even the rocks would cry out and worship because He 152 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 2: is worthy of praise. And then you've got God's people, 153 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 2: who are the ones who are singing this. Obviously this 154 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 2: is the people of Israel singing this, but they're talking 155 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 2: about all of the earth will worship you and sing 156 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 2: praises to you. And then, because of the greatness of power, 157 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 2: even your enemies will have no choice. It's that every niche, 158 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: all about, every tongue confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord. 159 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 2: It's not robotic, it's a response that's necessary when confronted 160 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 2: with the greatness of our God. And the thought that 161 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 2: came to my mind is if everyone, even God's enemies, 162 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 2: are going to have no choice but to submit to him, 163 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 2: why wouldn't we willingly turn ourselves to this great God 164 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 2: and partner with him to bring love and God's kingdom 165 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 2: here on earth as it is in heaven. Why would 166 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 2: we not be on his side? And so that contrast 167 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 2: of even your enemies are going to just be flat 168 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 2: on their faces giving glory. Sorry to you, not because 169 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 2: it's in their hearts, but because they have to. They 170 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 2: have no choice. What a gift that we can choose 171 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 2: to be in relationship with him, not to have to 172 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 2: just fall flat on our faces out of obligation or 173 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 2: because that's how things go. But the invitation, the hand 174 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 2: that is extended out to us of Jesus, why would 175 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 2: we not take that. The next section, verses five through seven, 176 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 2: it talks about come and see the works, and this 177 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 2: is remembering what He did for his people. He turned 178 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 2: the sea into dry land, so that evokes imagery of 179 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 2: the Red Sea when Moses and the people cross the 180 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 2: Red Sea, or maybe the Jordan when it was parted. 181 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 2: Also they passed through the river on foot. There let 182 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,839 Speaker 2: us rejoice him in him And this is a call 183 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 2: to remembrance. And this is a thing that I think 184 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 2: is so important. You can call him Ebenezers where you 185 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 2: place these monuments of memory on. 186 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: Ways that God was faithful. 187 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 2: There are several times in my life when God was 188 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 2: blaringly obviously faithful to me, times when I wasn't sure 189 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 2: if He was there, and a prayer was answered in 190 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 2: a way that couldn't have been explained any other way, 191 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 2: and I stand on these things. I go back to 192 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 2: them in my mind during times when things are hard, 193 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 2: and I love that they bring this up first, whether 194 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 2: it's David or someone else. The psalmist brings this up 195 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 2: and says, remember these miraculous things that God did for 196 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 2: our people, because the next section brings up God doesn't 197 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 2: allow our feet to slip. He keeps us in life. 198 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 2: But in verses ten through twelve, it talks about how, 199 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 2: even though he is faithful, let's also remember the times 200 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 2: when they were hard, times when God allowed us to suffer. 201 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 2: When God allowed us to be tried, He tried us 202 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 2: find us. As silver is refined, God brought us into 203 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,559 Speaker 2: the net or the trap. The net is used sometimes 204 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 2: in these psalms. Remember it talks about how, like David 205 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 2: will say, my adversaries have laid a net, have laid 206 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 2: a trap. Let them get caught in their own net. 207 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 2: But this is saying He brought us into the net. 208 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 2: God brought his own people into a trap. He refined them. 209 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 2: As silver is refined, which means pain and heat and fire. 210 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 2: It means turning the heat up just enough so that 211 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 2: that draws the impurities would rise to the surface, but 212 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 2: not so hot that the silver would be consumed, and 213 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 2: that language is used also, But we were not consumed. 214 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 2: And a good refiner knew the precise temperature that was 215 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 2: needed to precipitate out the impurities from the silver, so 216 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 2: it could be skimmed off, but that silver would be preserved. 217 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 2: And he's a good God and he does that. He 218 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 2: does not consume his people, He refines them. You laid 219 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 2: oppressive burden upon our loins. You made men to ride 220 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,599 Speaker 2: over our heads. This language isn't just we live in 221 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 2: a fallen world. Bad stuff happens, like I was talking about, 222 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 2: I think sometimes that does happen. This is talking about. 223 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 2: This is evidence that there are times when God makes 224 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 2: difficulties happen. And yet even though we went through fire 225 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 2: and through water, yet in verse twelve, you brought us 226 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 2: out into a place of abundance. And so that is 227 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 2: where we can say whether this trial I'm going through 228 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 2: was just something that's a result of a fallen world. 229 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 2: Whether it's a trial that God is placygone me, or 230 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: whether it's a trial God is allowing Satan to put 231 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 2: on me, it doesn't matter. I think for me, the 232 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 2: absolute worst case scenario is that God is making it happen, 233 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 2: because that's hard to take and hard to swallow. But 234 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 2: even if that that's what's happening, he is good. He 235 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 2: is at work, and he will bring us out into 236 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 2: a place of abundance. And we know that why because 237 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 2: we look back on the times when he did when 238 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,479 Speaker 2: the times that he showed himself to be all powerful, 239 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 2: to be capable of crushing enemies and making miracles happen 240 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 2: and parting waters. If he is capable of it, then 241 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 2: we can trust that he will do it when it's necessary. 242 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 2: And if he has done it, he'll do it again, 243 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: and we can praise him for being the God of 244 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 2: all power. And the Psalmist ends with I will come 245 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 2: into your house with burnt offerings. I'll pay you my 246 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 2: vows which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when 247 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 2: I was in distress. And he's saying that everyone, everyone 248 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 2: who knows that there's a god who's worthy of paying 249 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 2: attention to listen as I tell what he has done 250 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 2: for my soul, That he has listened to the cries 251 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 2: of my mouth, and he has answered my prayers. So 252 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 2: the ending of this, because it is whether you're feeling 253 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 2: it or not, today You can pray this as the 254 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 2: Psalmist praise. You can borrow the faith and the positivity 255 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 2: of this Psalmist to remember that God has certainly heard, 256 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 2: He's given heed to my cries, and he is good, 257 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 2: and he has not turned away my prayer. You can 258 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 2: know that no matter what you're going through today, and 259 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 2: no matter why you're going through it, you don't even 260 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 2: need to really know why, but no matter why it's happening, 261 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 2: you can know God is blessed. Blessed be the name 262 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 2: of the Lord. He has not turned away my prayer 263 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 2: or his loving kindness from me. He is with me, 264 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 2: He loves me. He's with you. He loves you, and 265 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 2: he hears your prayer, and your prayer will be answered. 266 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 1: Let's pray. 267 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 2: God, We praise you for being a hearer of prayers, 268 00:16:54,360 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 2: for being a good God who never leaves us. We 269 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 2: pray that the rocks wouldn't have to cry out for 270 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 2: lack of praise on this planet. Let us be the 271 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: first to lift up your voice, lift up our voices, 272 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 2: to lift up your name and praise you as the 273 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 2: creator of the universe, as the God of Abraham, Isaac 274 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 2: and Jacob, who provided a ram in the wilderness for 275 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 2: Abraham so that Isaac didn't have to be sacrificed. Who 276 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 2: provided your son, Jesus so that we could have a 277 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 2: relationship with You, Who refines us. And even though it's painful, 278 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 2: there is abundance on the other side of it that 279 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 2: could never have been attained without that pain. Who comforts 280 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 2: us in our time of need, Who meets us in 281 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 2: our deepest, darkest hour. You are close to the brokenhearted. 282 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 2: You bring healing and love and hope and peace, and 283 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 2: you hear our prayers. You are the God who sees, 284 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 2: You see us. You see the difficulties we're going through, 285 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 2: the pain, the worry, the hard work that no one 286 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 2: else sees, the frustration, the hopelessness. 287 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: We cling to you Lord in this moment, and. 288 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,679 Speaker 2: We pray that you would give us a glimpse of 289 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 2: your presence, that your Holy Spirit would be with us 290 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 2: and wrap us up in a warm blanket, that you 291 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 2: would give us God winks throughout our day, things that 292 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 2: people say, verses, we come across songs, we hear messages 293 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 2: from pastors, whatever it is to help us to just 294 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 2: know that you are with us. We pray that you 295 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 2: would just be with the person listening today, who is 296 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 2: feeling hopeless, forgotten, who is feeling like you're heaping difficulties 297 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 2: on them, that you would remind them that you love them, 298 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 2: that you are in this for their good, that you 299 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 2: have provided before and you will provide again, and even 300 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 2: now you're providing in Jesus' name. 301 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: Amen. 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