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Speaker 1: Hey friends, Jennifer Slattery here thanking you for a wonderful year.

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Speaker 1: Your support means the world to us. I also wanted

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Speaker 1: be taking a two week break in January to regroup

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Speaker 1: and refuel spiritually. During that time, will we air some

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Speaker 1: of our most popular episodes if you've already listened to them.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps consider this an opportunity to prayerfully reflect on the

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Speaker 1: truce anew. May you encounter the Lord in a personal

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Speaker 2: Hello, 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. I'm your host,

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Speaker 2: will dive into today's Bible verse, Psalm one hundred and nine,

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Speaker 2: verse twenty six. Today's Bible verse counstim Psalm one hundred

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Speaker 2: and nine, verse twenty six, and it says, help me, Lord,

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Speaker 2: my God, save me, according to your unfailing love. Well.

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Speaker 2: A couple of years ago, my ability to climb stairs

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Speaker 2: became a daily challenge. After months of putting off the inevitable.

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Speaker 2: I began physical therapy, and this new experience certainly came

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Speaker 2: with a new kind of anxiety. Each visit reminded me

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Speaker 2: of something I didn't like. To focus on my weakness.

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Speaker 2: The first few therapy sessions only seemed to highlight my struggle.

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Speaker 2: But friend, avoiding our challenges doesn't make them go away.

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Speaker 2: And as I delayed the therapeutic option, I told myself

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Speaker 2: Malig would get better with time. Well it didn't, but

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Speaker 2: I sensed God inviting me to participate in the healing process. Now,

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Speaker 2: of course, He alone is our source and our strength,

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Speaker 2: but we must believe, receive, trust, obey, and abide, and

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Speaker 2: the Lord as our help. And in today's Bible verse

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Speaker 2: we learn just that it was written by King David,

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Speaker 2: and many Bible scholars consider Psalm one hundred and nine

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Speaker 2: to be the most in tents of what is called

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Speaker 2: the inpregatory psalms. Now, these are David's songs that call

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Speaker 2: down curses upon his enemies. Well that's pretty intense. But

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Speaker 2: in verse twenty six of one hundred and ninth Psalm,

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Speaker 2: David asks for God's help. He asked not based on

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Speaker 2: his own merit. David asks for help based on God's mercy,

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Speaker 2: his unfailing love, and dear listener, what could you use

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Speaker 2: help with today? Maybe you're seeking forgiveness of a sin,

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Speaker 2: or you're starting a new task. Perhaps you're overwhelmed by

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Speaker 2: what feels demanding or what looks impossible. If so, we

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Speaker 2: can depend on God's unfailing love too. And yet I've

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Speaker 2: learned receiving help is often a process, and so using

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Speaker 2: the letters H E L P, here's an acronym that

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Speaker 2: can give us an idea of where we are in

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Speaker 2: the receiving health process. So for h honestly express how

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Speaker 2: we've feeled or how frail we are. Our ability to

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Speaker 2: own our sins as well as our weaknesses, impacts our

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Speaker 2: ability to rise above with holes that's down and sadly,

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Speaker 2: our biggest hindrance and receiving help is often rooted in

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Speaker 2: our fear of change. I know it certainly was for

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Speaker 2: me when I began the physical therapy journey. Because as

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Speaker 2: we receive help, particularly as we receive God's help, our status,

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Speaker 2: our relationship with others, or our desire to control what's

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Speaker 2: an controllable will go through major adjustments. So H honestly

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Speaker 2: then e and eliminate feelings of pride and self sufficiency. Now,

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Speaker 2: depending on what we need help with, this is not

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Speaker 2: always easy to do. I felt vulnerable lemping into the

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Speaker 2: physical therapy department for the first time, but when I

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Speaker 2: met with my physical therapist, he did an assessment, and

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Speaker 2: slowly I began to accept the value of having a

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Speaker 2: treatment plan. I was getting help, and after several weeks,

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Speaker 2: the stranger who did my initial assessment became my friend.

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Speaker 2: I learned several exercises that led to renewed strength, but

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Speaker 2: I also learned to be patient as the improvements took

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Speaker 2: time to surface. And now we have the letter L

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Speaker 2: lean on God and his grace as our helper. Now

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Speaker 2: I find that sometimes He uses someone or something to

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Speaker 2: usher in our rescue, and then other times there is

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Speaker 2: a deep work God does over time where we are

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Speaker 2: changed from the inside out. Because even when we don't

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Speaker 2: know what kind of help we need, God knows, which

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Speaker 2: brings us to the letter P Place what you need into

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Speaker 2: God's hands. Nothing is too small, too big, too hard,

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Speaker 2: us to experience His victory. Now is there at least

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Speaker 2: one aspect of the help acronym that is getting your attention? Well,

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Speaker 2: here it is again selfly stated. And see if you

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Speaker 2: what you need into God's hands. Ultimately, as we place

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Speaker 2: her faith in Christ. He gives us the helper, the

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. And we read about that in John fourteen,

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Speaker 2: verses twenty five and twenty six, and he leads us

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Speaker 2: in God's truth about who he is, how much We're loved,

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Speaker 2: and how powerful it is to embrace our dependency on Christ,

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Speaker 2: our redeemer. Let's pray about it. Dear God, we all

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Speaker 2: need your help. Show us how we need to respond

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Speaker 2: to your deliverance. May we believe, receive, trust, obey, and

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Speaker 2: abide in You always. Lord, Thank you for saving us

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Speaker 2: according to your unfailing love. In Jesus' name, Amen,