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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hi, this is Jamie and I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: you decided to join us for our Wednesday Prayer through

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Speaker 1: the Psalms. If you're tired of being spiritually weary, you've

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Speaker 1: come to the right place. Join us each Wednesday for

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Speaker 1: a time of prayer, reflection on scripture and meditation. Leave

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Speaker 1: the baggage of your day behind, and come away refreshed, renewed,

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Speaker 1: and reconnected to God as we explore the Psalms. Hey, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another Prayer through the Psalms episode of the

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Speaker 1: Praying Christian Women podcast. I'm Jamie and I'm very excited

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Speaker 1: to be here with you to talk about and pray

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Speaker 1: through Psalm forty eight. Before we get started, let's just

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Speaker 1: open up with a word of prayer. Father God, we

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Speaker 1: just thank you so much much for another Wednesday. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for a new year. Thank you for just time

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Speaker 1: out of our busy day to focus on You, to

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Speaker 1: stop all of the busyness and to just lay all

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Speaker 1: of our distractions, all of our anxieties, all of our frustrations,

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Speaker 1: your feet and just focus on your word. Lord. We

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Speaker 1: just pray that as we continue in this new year,

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Speaker 1: that we would not be discouraged or troubled. If we

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Speaker 1: fallen short, It's bound to happen. We live busy lives,

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Speaker 1: and the enemy would love to derail us through our

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Speaker 1: failures or perceived failures. God, we just lay them before

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Speaker 1: have grace with ourselves, that we would not be frustrated.

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Speaker 1: Though the righteous fall seven times, they get back up,

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Speaker 1: but the wicked are crushed by calamity. We are the righteous.

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Speaker 1: We are your sons and daughters, and we are able

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Speaker 1: to persevere. We are able to move beyond our failures

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Speaker 1: because of Jesus. So let us just fix our eyes

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Speaker 1: on Jesus, the author, the perfector of our faith. Let's

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Speaker 1: just move forward and just be thankful that we have

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Speaker 1: together today and just set aside time every Wednesday to

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Speaker 1: that you would give us a desire to spend time

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Speaker 1: and that in meeting with you, we would feel connected

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Speaker 1: in a way that makes us want more, makes us

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Speaker 1: want to come back. We invite you into our lives

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Speaker 1: and into this time. Amen. All right, let's jump into

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Speaker 1: our psalm. We're going to be reading through Psalm forty eight,

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Speaker 1: which is going to be from the New American Standard

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Speaker 1: Bible nineteen ninety five as usual, and the title of

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Speaker 1: this one is the Beauty and Glory of Zion, a

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Speaker 1: song a psalm of the Sons of Korra. Great is

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Speaker 1: lo The kings assembled themselves, they passed by together. They

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Speaker 1: guide us until death. So, just like most psalms, this

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Speaker 1: And so for me, this psalm is definitely just a

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Speaker 1: And it's a reminder of who I am and whose

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Speaker 1: it again. When Alana and I studied Ephesians and we

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Speaker 1: one and nothing can be against us. When we do that,

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Speaker 1: we just thank you so much for desiring to have

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Speaker 1: we knew before through the reading of your word through prayer.

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Speaker 1: To pray for ground that has been taken over by

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Speaker 1: just ask that you would help make us spirit minded,

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