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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crossbock devotional. We're glad to have you

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Speaker 2: listening with us. Today's topic is why it's important to

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Speaker 2: run to God for security. We'll return with the devotional

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Speaker 2: after a brief message from our sponsors. Run to God

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Speaker 2: for Security written and read by Whitney Hoppler. The name

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Speaker 2: of the Lord is a fortified tower. The righteous run

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Speaker 2: to it and are safe. Proverbs eighteen ten NIV. While

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Speaker 2: my husband Russ and I drove home from watching the

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Speaker 2: musical seventeen seventy six at Ford's Theater in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: We were surprised to see that many streets we had

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Speaker 2: planned on taking were blocked by a massive police presence.

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Speaker 2: We found ourselves caught in a maze of detours trying

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Speaker 2: to get around the White House. The war we drove,

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Speaker 2: the more alarmed we became. Police officers were everywhere, racing

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Speaker 2: by in cruisers with sirens blaring and red and blue

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Speaker 2: lights flashing. They were also standing outside with their guns

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Speaker 2: in full view, talking urgently on radios. I checked the

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Speaker 2: news on my phone while Rust drove and discovered that

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Speaker 2: a man armed with guns and knives had breached security

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Speaker 2: at the Washington Hilton and opened fire during the White

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Speaker 2: House correspondence dinner. That was the same hotel where President

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Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan had been wounded in an act of violence

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Speaker 2: decades before. Earlier in history, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

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Speaker 2: in the same theater where we had just seen the show.

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Speaker 2: Despite all the armed officers surrounding us, I didn't feel protected. Instead,

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Speaker 2: the abundance of weapons and the high speed maneuvers made

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Speaker 2: me feel insecure and unsafe. So I prayed for protection

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Speaker 2: for us in our car, for all the officers and

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Speaker 2: people at the correspondence dinner, and for everyone else in

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Speaker 2: the area. Then I felt a strong sense of peace

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Speaker 2: settle on me. I finally felt secure because I knew

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Speaker 2: I could trust God for my ultimate safety, and I

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Speaker 2: experienced Goot's peace. Proverbs eighteen ten points out that calling

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Speaker 2: on God's name through prayer is a powerful way to

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Speaker 2: find safety. It compares God to a fortified tower we

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Speaker 2: can run to. In Biblical times, fortified towers were at

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Speaker 2: the core of a city's defense. Those towers were built

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Speaker 2: with fixed stones and placed on the highest ground. When

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Speaker 2: an enemy invaded, the people would abandon their vulnerable houses

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Speaker 2: and run to the tower for protection. The verse says,

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Speaker 2: the name of the Lord is like one of those

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Speaker 2: strong towers. When we run to God by calling on

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Speaker 2: his name through prayer, we're connecting with the source of

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Speaker 2: all power. There is no limit to God's power, so

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Speaker 2: God is much stronger than any dangerous situation will ever

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Speaker 2: face in this fallen world. You can run to God's

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Speaker 2: protection anytime, in anywhere you need it, just by calling

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Speaker 2: on God's name when you pray. When you're facing a

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Speaker 2: scary circumstances in your life, like an alarming health diagnosis

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Speaker 2: or conflict in a relationship that's important to you, you

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Speaker 2: may feel trapped in a dangerous place, like I did

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Speaker 2: in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: That night.

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Speaker 2: But when you pray, you can run through the doors

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Speaker 2: of God's protection. Notice that the verse says the righteous

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Speaker 2: run to it and are safe. That doesn't mean that

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Speaker 2: the danger around you will stop, But God, who is

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Speaker 2: much more powerful than the danger, will be present with

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Speaker 2: you right in the middle of danger. All you have

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Speaker 2: to do is call on the name of the Lord,

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Speaker 2: and God will answer your prayer by helping you. God

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Speaker 2: gives you the ultimate security. It doesn't depend on how

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Speaker 2: many police officers are in your neighborhood or how many

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Speaker 2: locks are on your door. God's security is based on

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Speaker 2: the reality that God has unlimited power, so nothing can

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Speaker 2: break through his protective barriers. Whenever you feel unsafe, run

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Speaker 2: to God in prayer, just like you would run to

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Speaker 2: a strong power for protection. Then you'll find the security

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Speaker 2: that only God can give you. Intersecting faith in life,

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Speaker 2: as you consider why it's important to run to God

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Speaker 2: for security, reflect on these questions. When you feel afraid

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Speaker 2: or anxious. What's the very first thing you usually do

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Speaker 2: to try to feel safe. Why do you think human security,

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Speaker 2: like money, locks, or even the police, sometimes fails to

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Speaker 2: give us true peace of mind? What does it mean

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Speaker 2: to you to run to God's name in the middle

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Speaker 2: of a challenging or dangerous situation? When has God answered

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Speaker 2: your prayers for protection in the past. How did you

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Speaker 2: experience God's peace of those situations? What circumstances are you

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Speaker 2: facing right now where you need God's protection? Further reading

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Speaker 2: Psalm forty six', One psalm sixty one to, Three psalm

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Speaker 2: ninety one to, Two Second samuel twenty two to, Three

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Speaker 2: nahem one. Seven thanks for listening to today's.

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