1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, 2 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: a calming, scriptured center devotional podcast designed to help you 3 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: end each day with God's word in your mind and 4 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: on your heart. Right after the short word from responsors, 5 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: we will reflect on Tonight's scripture. Psalm one hundred. Tonight's 6 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: reflection is written by Brit Mooney and read by Kyle Norman. 7 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: A psalm for giving, grateful praise. Shout for joy to 8 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: the Lord. All the earth. Worship the Lord the gladness. 9 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: Come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord 10 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: is God. It is he who made us, and we 11 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 12 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise. 13 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: Give thanks to him and praise his name. For the 14 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: Lord is good, and his love endures forever. His faithfulness 15 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: continues through all generations. We open locked doors with keys. 16 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: I need the fob in my pocket to start the car. 17 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: These days, a website requires more than a password. It 18 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: sends me a special code. God often feels far away, elusive, 19 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: Yet some one hundred gives us the key, the fob, 20 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: the password, and the code, all to enter His presence. 21 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 1: Praise and thanks. Gratitude allows us entry into His presence 22 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: in the heavenly places symbolized here by the courts and gates. 23 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: The Samas likely wrote this about worshiping in Solomon's temple, 24 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: complete with gates and courts both inner and outer. Revelation 25 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: gives us a vision of God's throne room surrounded by 26 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: praising angels Revelation four, verse eight. To reach God, we 27 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: must pass through those magnificent beings, lifting up his name. 28 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 1: There is no other way. Some one hundred gives us 29 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: reasons to praise. He made us. We didn't make ourselves. 30 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 1: We are the sheep of his pasture. The Lord is good, 31 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: and his mercy is everlasting. All these eternal things exist 32 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: beyond our current temporary situation. God is worthy to be 33 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: praised simply because of who he is and who he's 34 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:15,959 Speaker 1: made us, even when we don't feel like it. He 35 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: alone is worthy of thanks and praise. As we long 36 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: to enter his presence, the place of blessing in life, 37 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: let us lift up his name and experience his love. 38 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, I come to you with praise and thanksgiving 39 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: the key you have given us to enter your presence. 40 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: I lift up your name above my feelings and circumstances. 41 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: You made me. I belong to you. You paid for 42 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: me with your living blood to redeem me. We are 43 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: the sheep of your pasture. You are good and your 44 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: mercy and dearers forever my heart to see beyond what 45 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: is temporary and fix my eyes on your eternal truth. 46 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: Teach me to walk through your gaze with gratitude and 47 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: stand in your court with joy. Let my praise join 48 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: in with the angels in heaven, declaring that you are 49 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: Holy Father. I draw near to you with worship. Even 50 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: when you feel distant, draw near to me. I choose 51 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: to thank you, to worship you, and to rest in 52 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: your presence today in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen. How 53 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: did tonight scripture speak to you? 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