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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 Center 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: will reflect on tonight's scripture Psalm thirty four. Tonight's scripture

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Speaker 1: reflection is written by Meg Butcher and read by Carrie Iberger.

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Speaker 1: Psalm thirty four. I will extool the Lord at all times.

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Speaker 1: His praise will always be on my lips. I will

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Speaker 1: glory in the Lord. Let the afflicted hear and rejoice.

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Speaker 1: Glorify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his name together.

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Speaker 1: I sought the Lord, and he answered me. He delivered

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Speaker 1: me from all my fears.

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Speaker 2: Those who look to.

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Speaker 1: Him are radiant. Their faces are never covered with shame.

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Speaker 1: This poor man called, and the Lord heard him. He

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Speaker 1: saved him out of all his troubles. The Angel of

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Speaker 1: the Lord and camps around those who fear him, and

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Speaker 1: he delivers them. Taste and see that the Lord is good.

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Speaker 2: Blessed is the one.

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Speaker 1: Who takes refuge in him. Fear the Lord, you his

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Speaker 1: holy people. For those who fear him lack nothing. The

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Speaker 1: lions may grow weak and hungry, But those who seek

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Speaker 1: the Lord lack no good thing. Come, my children, listen

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Speaker 1: to me. I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: If ever of you loves life and desires to see

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Speaker 1: many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your

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Speaker 1: lips from telling you lies. Turn from evil and do good.

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Speaker 1: Seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord

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Speaker 1: are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to

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Speaker 1: their cry. But the face of the Lord is against

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Speaker 1: those who do evil, to blot out their name from

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Speaker 1: the earth. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them.

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Speaker 1: He delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is

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Speaker 1: close to the broken hearted and saves those who are

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Speaker 1: crushed in spirit. The righteous person may have many troubles,

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Speaker 1: but the Lord delivers him from them all. He protects

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Speaker 1: all his bones. Not one of them will be broken.

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Speaker 1: Evil will slay the wicked. The foes of the righteous

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Speaker 1: will be condemned. The Lord will rescue his servants. No

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Speaker 1: one who takes refuge in him will be condemned. Our

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Speaker 1: talent erupts in the summertime, and the shore line lights

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Speaker 1: up with fireworks on the fourth of July. It's a

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Speaker 1: sight to see from the water as the entire town

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Speaker 1: puts on its own firework show. But for my sweet

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Speaker 1: doggo every pop causes her to shake and anxious fear.

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Speaker 1: Fireworks don't have the same effect on me, but anxious

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Speaker 1: thoughts sure do. I can feel the uneasiness grow as

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Speaker 1: each one pops into my mind, explodes, and spreads like

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Speaker 1: a firework bursting in the sky. Praising the Lord immediately

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Speaker 1: begins to relieve my anxiety. Verse one and the NLT

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Speaker 1: translation reads, I will praise the Lord at all times.

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Speaker 1: I will constantly speak his praises. It's hard for me

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Speaker 1: to concentrate on things momentarily, let alone at all times

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Speaker 1: or constantly. But when I choose to consciously bring my

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Speaker 1: thoughts back to who God is and repeat his rich

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Speaker 1: truth over my life, my worries begin to fade. Just

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Speaker 1: as soon as I start to drift again into the

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Speaker 1: worn out, worried tracks of my mind, the anxiety persists.

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Speaker 1: It takes constant effort in prayer for me to wade

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Speaker 1: through days when I feel deeply drenched and worry. This

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Speaker 1: is different from diagnosed anxiety, which requires professional steps to battle.

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Speaker 1: I know I've been down that road too, but oftentimes

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Speaker 1: I am simply overwhelmed with everything I have set before

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Speaker 1: me for the day, when what I really need to

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Speaker 1: do is focus on what the Lord has said before

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Speaker 1: me and no more. It's a difficult task, but we

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Speaker 1: aren't left to our own devices to conquer it. We

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Speaker 1: have encouragement from God's word. As in this Psul. We

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Speaker 1: are meditating on this evening, reading through Psalm thirty four

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Speaker 1: line by line and meditating on the rich reminders in

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Speaker 1: its verses calms our weary, worried hearts. It takes effort

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Speaker 1: search for peace and work to maintain it, whether with

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Speaker 1: our own state or in our relationships. Peace takes the

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Speaker 1: partnership of our effort and the Holy Spirit strength to

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Speaker 1: accomplish in our lives. The result is refuge. Father helped

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Speaker 1: me to seek refuge in You when I am worried,

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Speaker 1: when I am unsettled, remind me of your peace, promises

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Speaker 1: and presence. I love you so much God. Without the

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Speaker 1: constant companionship of You, Jesus, I would be tied in

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Speaker 1: knots of worry. Some of the things I am worried

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Speaker 1: about our blessings I have prayed for in my mind.

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Speaker 1: I turn them into worries and worries case scenarios that

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Speaker 1: may never come to pass. Save me from my own mind.

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Speaker 1: Oh God, glory to you, the only one able to

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Speaker 1: unravel my uneasiness. Bless the condition of my heart and

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Speaker 1: mind to align with your will and Jesus' name. Amen.

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