1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Studyheadquarters dot com. 3 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm 4 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Psalms one O three 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: and one oh four, and we'll be reading from the 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: New American Standard Bible. Psalm one O three a psalm 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: of David. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all 8 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: that is within me. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, 9 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: oh my soul, and forget none of his benefits. Who 10 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: pardons all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who 11 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with 12 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: loving kindness and compassion, Who satisfies your years with good things, 13 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: so that your is renewed Like the eagle. The Lord 14 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 1: performs righteous deeds and judgments for all who are oppressed. 15 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to 16 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: the sons of Israel. The Lord is compassionate and gracious, 17 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,479 Speaker 1: slow to anger, and abounding in loving kindness. He will 18 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: not always strive with us, nor will he keep his 19 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 1: anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to 20 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For 21 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: as high as the heavens are above the earth, so 22 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. 23 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: As far as the east is from the west, so 24 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: far has he removed our transgressions from us. Just as 25 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord 26 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: has compassion on those who fear him. For he himself 27 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: knows our frame. He is mindful that we are but 28 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: dust as for man. His days are like grass as 29 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: a flower of the field, So he flourishes. When the 30 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: wind has passed over it, it is no more, and 31 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: its place acknowledges it no longer. But the loving kindness 32 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, on those 33 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, to 34 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: those who keep his covenant and remember his precepts to 35 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: do them. The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, 36 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: and his sovereignty rules overall. Bless the Lord, you his angels, 37 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: mighty in strength, who perform his word, obeying the voice 38 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: of his word. Bless the Lord, all you his hosts, 39 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: you who serve him doing his will. Bless the Lord, 40 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: all you works of his in all places of his dominion. 41 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: Bless the Lord, oh my soul, Psalm one O four, 42 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: Bless the Lord, oh my soul. O Lord, my God, 43 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: you are very great. You are clothed with splendor and majesty, 44 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:22,679 Speaker 1: covering yourself with light as with a cloak, stretching out 45 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: heaven like a tent curtain. He lays the beams of 46 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: his upper chambers in the waters. He makes the clouds 47 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: his chariot. He walks upon the wings of the wind. 48 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: He makes the winds his messengers, flaming fire his ministers. 49 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: He establishes the earth upon its foundations, so that it 50 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: will not totter forever and ever. You covered it with 51 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: the deep, as with a garment. The waters were standing 52 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: above the mountains. At your rebuke, they fled at the 53 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: sound of your thunder, they hurried away. The mountains rose, 54 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: the valleys sank down to the place which you established 55 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: for them. You set a boundary that they may not 56 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: pass over, so that they will not return to cover 57 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: the earth. He sends forth springs in the valleys. They 58 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: flow between the mountains. They give drink to every beast 59 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 1: of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst beside them. 60 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: The birds of the heavens dwell. They lift up their 61 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: voices among the branches. He waters the mountains from his 62 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: upper chambers. The earth is satisfied with the fruit of 63 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:41,239 Speaker 1: his works. He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, 64 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: and vegetation for the labor of man, so that he 65 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: may bring forth food from the earth, and wine which 66 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 1: makes man's heart glad, so that he may make his 67 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: face glisten with oil and food which sustains man's heart. 68 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: The trees of the Lord drink their fill of lebanon, 69 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: which he planted, where the birds build their nests, and 70 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: the stork, whose home is the fir trees. The high 71 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: mountains are for the wild goats. The cliffs are a 72 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: refuge for the chefonine. He made the moon for the seasons. 73 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: The sun knows the place of its setting. You appoint darkness, 74 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 1: and it becomes night, in which all the beasts of 75 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: the forest prowl about. The young lions roar after their 76 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: prey and seek their food from God. When the sun rises, 77 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: they withdraw and lie down in their dens. Man goes 78 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,239 Speaker 1: forth to his work and to his labor until evening. 79 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: Oh Lord, how many are your works? In wisdom you 80 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: have made them all. The earth is full of your possessions. 81 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 1: There is the sea, great and broad, in which are 82 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: swarms without number, animals, both small and great. There the 83 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 1: ships move al and Leviathan, which you have formed to 84 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 1: sport in it. They all wait for you to give 85 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: them their food. In due season, you give to them, 86 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: They gather it up. You open your hand. They are 87 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: satisfied with good. You hide your face. They are dismayed. 88 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 1: You take away their spirit. They expire and return to 89 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: their dust. You send forth your spirit. They are created, 90 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: and you renew the face of the ground. Let the 91 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: glory of the Lord endure forever. Let the Lord be 92 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: glad in his works. He looks at the earth and 93 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke. I 94 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: will sing to the Lord as long as I live. 95 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: I will sing praise to my God while I have 96 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: my being. Let my meditation be pleasing to Him. As 97 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: for me, I shall be glad in the Lord. Let 98 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,799 Speaker 1: sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked 99 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul, praise 100 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: the Lord. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your 101 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: word and we thank you for the privilege to be 102 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: able to look at it together today, and we thank 103 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: you for the things that are contained and the Psalms 104 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: that we looked at, and we see the Psalmist giving 105 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: you praise for who you are and how you're at 106 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: work in your creation. Lord, we know from your word 107 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: that all things in creation were created through and are 108 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,559 Speaker 1: sustained by your son, Jesus Christ. That's what your word 109 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: reveals to us. So we thank you, Lord that we 110 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: are part of your creation, that you created us and 111 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: you sustain us, and you invite us to have a 112 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: relationship with you through faith in Jesus Christ. And we 113 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: pray Lord that by your grace that you would make 114 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: that so, Lord, we pray that throughout the course of 115 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: every day that we'd give you the honor and the 116 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: glory that you deserve. And we're grateful, Lord for your 117 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: presence with us today. And we're grateful Lord that when 118 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: we look at this beautiful creation that you have made, 119 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: that when we look at it, we would give you praise, 120 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: and that we would be reminded of who you are, 121 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: your great power, and the fact that you love us 122 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: in the midst of all the things that you've created, 123 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: so we're grateful for all of these things, and we're 124 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: grateful for the reminders of your presence, and we pray 125 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: this all in Jesus' name. Amen.