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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture,

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Speaker 1: a calming, scripture centered devotional podcast designed to help you

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Speaker 1: end each day with God's word in your mind and

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Speaker 1: on your heart. Right after this short word from our sponsors,

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Speaker 1: we'll reflect on tonight's scripture Psalm ninety five. Tonight's scripture

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Speaker 1: reflection is written by Lynette Kittle and read by Lea Gerard.

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Speaker 1: Psalm ninety five. Come, let us sing for joy to

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Speaker 1: the Lord. Let us shout aloud to the Rock of

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Speaker 1: our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and

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Speaker 1: extol him with music and song. For the Lord is

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Speaker 1: the great God, the great King above all gods. In

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Speaker 1: his hand are the depths of the earth and the

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Speaker 1: mountain peaks belonged to him. The sea is his, for

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Speaker 1: he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

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Speaker 1: Come let us bow down in worship. Let us kneel

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Speaker 1: before the Lord, our maker, for he is our God,

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Speaker 1: and we are the people of his pasture, the flock

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Speaker 1: under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice,

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Speaker 1: Do not harden your hearts as you did at Marabah,

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Speaker 1: as you did that day at Masa in the wilderness

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Speaker 1: where your ancestors tested me. They tried me though they

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Speaker 1: had seen what I did for forty years. I was

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Speaker 1: angry with that generation. I said, they are a people

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Speaker 1: whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.

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Speaker 1: So I declared on oath in my anger, they should'll

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Speaker 1: never enter my rest. Listen, are we hearing his voice?

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Speaker 1: If not, maybe we're in our own wilderness time and

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Speaker 1: it seems like God is distant, like he isn't interested

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Speaker 1: in what's going on in our lives. It can seem

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Speaker 1: that way to us at times we don't seem to

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Speaker 1: be hearing his voice. During those times, we need a

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Speaker 1: heart checkup so we don't soon find ourselves in a

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Speaker 1: desperate situation, a critical nine to one one kind of

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Speaker 1: place with no time to spare, when it seems we

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Speaker 1: can't hear God. It's vital to check our hearts because

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Speaker 1: hardness of heart has a way of creeping in unknowingly.

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Speaker 1: It's so difficult to detect within ourselves, too, especially if

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Speaker 1: we're not looking for it. Meanwhile, it takes over Moore's

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Speaker 1: in our hearts, developing a hard shell that eventually mutes

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Speaker 1: the voice of God in our lives. Just what we

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Speaker 1: need at most tonight and this coming week, we can

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Speaker 1: take steps to reach out and listen for God's voice.

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Speaker 1: By reading his word, spending time in prayer, and opening

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Speaker 1: up our hearts to hear him. We can ask him

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Speaker 1: to shine his bright light into our hearts, to cleanse, soften,

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Speaker 1: and expose hidden things that have welcomed hardness in us.

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Speaker 1: Because God searches the earth from one end to the

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Speaker 1: other looking for hearts turned toward him, it's not too

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Speaker 1: late for hardened hearts. We can purposely turn our hearts

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Speaker 1: toward Him in repentance, away from the hardness, asking him

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Speaker 1: to forgive us and cleanse us from all unreprighteousness. God,

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Speaker 1: I want to hear your voice in my life. Open

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Speaker 1: my spiritual ears to hear you speaking to me. Shine

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Speaker 1: your light into my heart, cleansing and softening it to

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Speaker 1: listen for your voice. Free me from the dulness of hearing,

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Speaker 1: and tune my heart and mind to hear your voice.

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Speaker 1: Strengthen me to humble myself and to be willing to

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Speaker 1: release the hardness of my heart. Teach me to know

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Speaker 1: your ways. Fill my heart, mind and lips with joy,

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Speaker 1: to praise, worship, and to kneel down before you amen.

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