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Speaker 1: I'm John Stangey, and today we're in Psalms seventy and
Speaker 1: seventy one, and we'll be reading from the New American
Speaker 1: Standard Bible. For the choir director a Psalm of David
Speaker 1: for a memorial. Oh God, hasten to deliver me. Oh God,
Speaker 1: hasten to my help. Let those be ashamed and humiliated
Speaker 1: who seek my life. Let those be turned back and
Speaker 1: dishonored who delight in my hurt. Let those be turned
Speaker 1: back because of their shame, who say aha aha. Let
Speaker 1: all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you,
Speaker 1: and let those who love your salvations say continually. Let
Speaker 1: God be magnified. But I am afflicted and needy. Hasten
Speaker 1: to me. Oh God, you are my help and my deliverer.
Speaker 1: O Lord, do not delay Psalm seventy one. In you,
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, I have taken refuge. Let me never be
Speaker 1: ashamed in your righteousness. Deliver me and rescue me. Incline
Speaker 1: your ear to me and save me. Be to me
Speaker 1: a rock of habitation, to which I may continually come.
Speaker 1: You have given commandment to save me, for you are
Speaker 1: my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, Oh my God,
Speaker 1: out of the hand of the wicked, out of the
Speaker 1: grasp of the wrongdoer and ruthless man. For you are
Speaker 1: my hope, O, Lord God, you are my confidence from
Speaker 1: my youth. By you, I have been sustained from my birth.
Speaker 1: You are he who took me from my mother's wound.
Speaker 1: My praise is continually of you. I have become a
Speaker 1: marvel to many, for you are my strong refuge. My
Speaker 1: mouth is filled with your praise and with your glory
Speaker 1: all day long. Do not cast me off in the
Speaker 1: time of old age. Do not forsake me when my
Speaker 1: strength fails. For my enemies have spoken against me, and
Speaker 1: those who watch for my life have consulted together saying
Speaker 1: God has forsaken him. Pursue and seize him, for there
Speaker 1: is no one to deliver. Oh God, do not be
Speaker 1: far from me, O my God, hasten to my help.
Speaker 1: Let those who are adversaries of my soul be ashamed
Speaker 1: and consumed. Let them be covered with reproach and dis honor.
Speaker 1: Who seek to injure me. But as for me, I
Speaker 1: will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more.
Speaker 1: My mouth shall tell of your righteousness and of your
Speaker 1: salvation all day long, for I do not know the
Speaker 1: sum of them. I will come with the mighty deeds
Speaker 1: of the Lord God. I will make mention of your
Speaker 1: righteousness yours alone. Oh God, You have taught me from
Speaker 1: my youth, and I still declare your wondrous deeds. And
Speaker 1: even when I am old and gray, Oh God, do
Speaker 1: not forsake me until I declare your strength to this generation,
Speaker 1: your power to all who are to come. For your righteousness,
Speaker 1: Oh God, reaches to the heavens, You who have done
Speaker 1: great things, Oh God, who is like you, You who
Speaker 1: have shown me many troubles and distresses, will me again
Speaker 1: and will bring me up again from the depths of
Speaker 1: the earth. May you increase my greatness and turn to
Speaker 1: comfort me. I will also praise you with a harp,
Speaker 1: even your truth, Oh My God, to you, I will
Speaker 1: sing praises with the leer, Oh Holy One of Israel.
Speaker 1: My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises
Speaker 1: to you and my soul, which you have redeemed My
Speaker 1: tongue also will utter your righteousness all day long, for
Speaker 1: they are ashamed, for they are humiliated who seek my hurt.
Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, we thank you for your word, and
Speaker 1: we thank you for the privilege to be able to
Speaker 1: look at these psalms together today. And we thank you,
Speaker 1: Lord that as we look at these things, we're reminded
Speaker 1: of the fact that your love for us is steady,
Speaker 1: and you are present with us in every season of life,
Speaker 1: when we're young, when we're old, and all the years
Speaker 1: in between. Lord, we're grateful for the fact that you
Speaker 1: teach us what it means to follow you. And during
Speaker 1: this particular season of our lives, Lord, we pray that
Speaker 1: we would be completely in tune with your will. Lord.
Speaker 1: We know that it's your desire that we bring glory
Speaker 1: to the name of your son Jesus Christ, who has
Speaker 1: rescued and redeemed us in the shedding of his blood
Speaker 1: and in his resurrection from the grave. And we pray
Speaker 1: Lord that these would be truths that we would apply
Speaker 1: to our lives and live out and display in every
Speaker 1: context that you place us in, that we have been rescued,
Speaker 1: that we have been redeemed, that we have been adopted
Speaker 1: into your family through faith in your son Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: And we're grateful, Lord for the reminders of these things
Speaker 1: that we see in your word, particularly as we look
Speaker 1: at these psalms that speak of your deliverance and speak
Speaker 1: of your faithfulness to your children in every season of life.
Speaker 1: So we thank you Lord for all of these things.
Speaker 1: We thank you for your presence with us today, and
Speaker 1: we commit ourselves to your care and pray this all
Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Amen.