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Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to your nightly Scripture, a calming

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Speaker 3: scripture center devotional podcast designing to help you end each

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Speaker 3: day with God's word in your mind and on your heart.

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Speaker 4: Right after this short our sponsors will reflect on Tonight's

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Speaker 4: scripture Psalm one O three. Tonight's scripture reflection is written

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Speaker 4: by Britt Mooney and read by Carrie Eichberger. Psalm one

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Speaker 4: O three Praise the Lord my soul, all my inmost being,

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Speaker 4: Praise His Holy name. Praise the Lord my soul, and

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Speaker 4: forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your.

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Speaker 3: Sins and heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life

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Speaker 3: from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,

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Speaker 3: Who satisfies your desires with good things, so.

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Speaker 2: That your youth is renewed like the eagles. The Lord works.

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Speaker 3: Righteousness and justice for all the oppressed, known his ways

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Speaker 3: to Moses, his deeds to the people and Israel. The

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Speaker 3: Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

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Speaker 3: He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his

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Speaker 3: anger forever. He does not treat us as our sins deserve,

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Speaker 3: or repay us according to our iniquities. For as high

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Speaker 3: as the heavens are above the earth, so great is

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Speaker 3: his love for those who fear him. As far as

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Speaker 3: the east is from the west, so far has he

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Speaker 3: removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion

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Speaker 3: on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those

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Speaker 3: who fear him. For he knows how we are formed.

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Speaker 3: He remembers that we are dust. The life of mortals

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Speaker 3: is slight grass. They flourish like a flower of the field.

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Speaker 3: The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and

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Speaker 3: its place remembers it no more, but from everlasting to everlasting.

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Speaker 3: The Lord's love is with those who fear him and

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Speaker 3: his righteousness, us with their children's children, with those who

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Speaker 3: keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts. The

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Speaker 3: Lord has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom

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Speaker 3: rules over all. Praise the Lord, you his angels, you

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Speaker 3: mighty ones who do his bidding, who.

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Speaker 2: Obey his word.

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Speaker 3: Praise the Lord all his heavenly hosts, you his serpents

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Speaker 3: who do his will. Praise the Lord all his works

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Speaker 3: everywhere in his dominion. Praise the Lord, my soul.

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Speaker 4: Our human nature seeks to get what we deserve.

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Speaker 3: For us, we want to get the good we've earned.

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Speaker 3: For others, we often seek punishment for their sins, their wrongs,

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Speaker 3: especially those done against us, to get what they deserve

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Speaker 3: in a negative light. Unfortunately, to seek what we and

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Speaker 3: others deserve leads us all to destruction. Fortunately, God doesn't

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Speaker 3: deal with us according to what we deserve. He forgives

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Speaker 3: and seeks to lead us to redemption through correction and repentance,

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Speaker 3: culminating in a loving relationship. This is God's mercy. Psalm

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Speaker 3: one O three gives us insight into God's mercy. He

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Speaker 3: both redeems us from destruction what we deserve and crowns

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Speaker 3: us with his great mercy and loving kindness, which we don't.

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Speaker 3: He forgives our sin. His mercy is immeasurable, as high

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Speaker 3: as the heavens above the earth. The heavens include stars

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Speaker 3: and planets. Further, he remembers our weakness, frailty, and inability,

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Speaker 3: how easily we fade away. Therefore, he translates us into

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Speaker 3: what is immortal and eternal, his mercy, which goes from

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Speaker 3: everlasting to everlasting when we intentionally remember God's great mercy

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Speaker 3: for his people. For us, the song gives us the

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Speaker 3: only proper response. Bless God, praise his name, turn our

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Speaker 3: souls to lifting up his name and glorifying him, for

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Speaker 3: he alone is worthy and has done so much for us.

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Speaker 3: Heavenly Father, I choose to bless your holy name and

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Speaker 3: praise you with all my soul. You don't treat me

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Speaker 3: as my sins and rebellion deserved, but you forgive, redeem

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Speaker 3: and restore me by your great love and mercy. You

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Speaker 3: rescue me from destruction and then crown me with compassion.

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Speaker 3: Teach me to give up my demand for what I

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Speaker 3: deserve and to trust your mercy instead. Help me extend

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Speaker 3: the same mercy to others even when I feel wronged.

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Speaker 4: Remind me of my.

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Speaker 3: Own weakness and your eternal compassion that stretches beyond what

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Speaker 3: I can measure. Turn my heart to gratitude and worship.

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Speaker 3: When people see me, may see your mercy through my repentance, love,

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Speaker 3: and relationship with You and Jesus name.

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Speaker 4: Amen. How did Tonight's scripture speak to you?

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