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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, a calming,

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Speaker 2: scripture centered devotional podcast designed to help you end each

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Speaker 2: day with God's word in your mind and on your heart.

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Speaker 2: Right after this short word from our sponsors, we'll reflect

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Speaker 2: on tonight's scripture Psalm ninety two. Tonight's scripture reflection is

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Speaker 2: written by Amber Winter and read by Lea Gerard. Psalm

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Speaker 2: ninety two. It is good to praise the Lord and

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Speaker 2: make music to your name, Oh Most High, proclaiming your

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Speaker 2: love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, to

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Speaker 2: the music of the ten string lyire and the melody

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Speaker 2: of the harp. For you make me glad by your deeds. Lord,

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Speaker 2: I sing for joy at what your hands have done.

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Speaker 2: How great are your works, Lord, How profound your thoughts?

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Speaker 1: Senseless people do not know.

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Speaker 2: Fools do not understand that though the wicked spring up

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Speaker 2: like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

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Speaker 2: But you, Lord, are forever exalted. For surely your enemy's Lord,

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Speaker 2: surely your enemies will perish, all evildoers.

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Speaker 1: Will be scattered.

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Speaker 2: You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox.

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Speaker 2: Fine oils have been poured on me. My eyes have

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Speaker 2: seen the defeat of my adversaries, My ears have heard

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Speaker 2: the rout of my wicked foes.

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Speaker 1: The righteous will flourish like a palm tree. They will

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Speaker 1: grow like a.

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Speaker 2: Cedar of Lebanon planted in the house of the Lord.

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Speaker 2: They will flourish in the courts of our God. They

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Speaker 2: will still bear fruit in old age. They will stay

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Speaker 2: fresh and green, proclaiming the Lord is upright. He is

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Speaker 2: my rock, and there is no wickedness in him. A

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Speaker 2: few years ago, when I was leading worship, I came

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Speaker 2: across Psalm one forty one to two. May my prayer

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Speaker 2: be set before you like incense. May the lifting up

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Speaker 2: of my hands be like the evening's sacrifice. As I

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Speaker 2: sang the song worthy of it. These lyrics stood out

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Speaker 2: to me day and night, night and day. Let incense arise,

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Speaker 2: day and night, night and day, let incense arise. In

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Speaker 2: Psalm ninety two one through five, we see that it's

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Speaker 2: good to sing to the Lord, to praise his name

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Speaker 2: with rejoicing and shouts, to make music before our God.

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Speaker 2: But the beauty of this verse is that our praise,

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Speaker 2: our worship. The act of our lives is to glorify

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Speaker 2: and honor his name. Our prayers are like incense, and

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Speaker 2: day and night, He's the one we can trust day

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Speaker 2: and night. He's faithful always. If you don't know much

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Speaker 2: about incense, I encourage you to read the Old Testament.

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Speaker 2: Sacrifices were needed because we couldn't pay the price for

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Speaker 2: our sins. Incense, the smell or aroma, therefore, represents holy worship,

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Speaker 2: honoring God.

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Speaker 1: Obeying his commands.

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Speaker 2: And according to these scriptures, the prayers of God's people

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Speaker 2: ascending to heaven are a sweet aroma pleasing to God.

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Speaker 2: Because of Jesus's sacrifice on the cross. We don't need

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Speaker 2: the blood of bulls or animals to make us write

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Speaker 2: with Him, but we can dedicate our lives to Him

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Speaker 2: through the surrender of our lives. And that, my friends,

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Speaker 2: is a beautiful incense that meets His presence in heaven.

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Speaker 2: How do you praise the Lord? Do you sing? Do

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Speaker 2: you shout?

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Speaker 1: You dance?

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Speaker 2: Get out of your comfort zone and praise God in

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Speaker 2: a way that feels right for you today.

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Speaker 1: Psalm ninety two reminds us.

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Speaker 2: That our lives are worshiped to Him and it's a

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Speaker 2: pleasing aroma to him. You don't have to have the

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Speaker 2: perfect voice, the most brilliant speaking notes, or musical talents

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Speaker 2: to praise and worship him. You can worship Him right

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Speaker 2: where you are, as you are, as you prepare for rest.

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Speaker 2: Ask yourself, do I worship God for his faithfulness in

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Speaker 2: every season? If you don't, ask the Lord to help

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Speaker 2: you worship Him day and night, in any and every season.

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Speaker 2: Dear Jesus, as this day comes to a close, I

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Speaker 2: want to praise you with all that I am. Please

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Speaker 2: show me what this should look like in my life,

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Speaker 2: and help me to honor you, bringing glory to your name.

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Speaker 2: I can trust you day and night. Lord, let our

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Speaker 2: incense arise.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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