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Today, we're reading 2 Samuel 10, 1 Chronicles 19, and Psalms 20, 65, and 66. We'll ask how we balance the Scriptures that we "believe the best" about others with the fact that we're called to be "as wise as serpents and innocent as doves".
Today's Reading: 2 Samuel 10, 1 Chronicles 19, Psalm 20, 65, 66
Scripture Read or Referenced:
1 Chronicles 19:1-5, 13
1 Corinthians 13:7
Matthew 10:16
James 1:19, 1:5
Psalm 20 (all)
Psalm 65:1-4
Psalm 66 (all)
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Commentaries Most Referenced: Moody Commentary, MacArthur Commentary, Spurgeon's Treasury of David
Transcripts
This is The Dwelling Place from Entrusted Ministries.
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:I'm Stephanie Hickox, and I hope you
had a wonderful Mother's Day yesterday.
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:We absolutely believe that the Lord sees
all you do and that He is glorified by it.
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:Today, we're reading 2 Samuel
chapter 10, 1 Chronicles 19,
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:and Psalms 20, 65, and 66.
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:We'll ask how we balance the scriptures
that we believe the best about others
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:with the fact that we're called to be as
wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
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:2 Samuel chapter 10 and 1 Chronicles
19 tell the same story, and we'll read
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:from the account in 1 Chronicles 19.
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:" Now, after this, Nahash, The
king of the Ammonites died, and
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:his son reigned in his place.
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:And David said, ' I will deal kindly
with Hanun, the son of Nahash, for
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:his father dealt kindly with me.'
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:So David sent messengers to
console him concerning his father.
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:And David's servants came to the land of
the Ammonites to Hanun to console him.
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:But the princes of the Ammonites said
to Hanun, ' Do you think because
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:David has sent comforters to you
that he is honoring your father?
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:Have not his servants come to
you to search and to overthrow
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:and to spy out the land?'
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:So Hanun took David's servants and
shaved them and cut off their garments
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:in the middle at their hips and
sent them away, and they departed.
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:When David was told concerning the
men, he sent messengers to meet them,
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:for the men were greatly ashamed.
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:And the king said, ' Remain
at Jericho until your beards
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:have grown, and then return.'"
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:I'll summarize this next portion of
the David is rightfully angry at the
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:way that they have dishonored his men
and misunderstood his pure intentions.
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:And when the Ammonites realize
that they haven't operated on
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:the highest level of diplomacy,
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:They hire thousands of chariots
and horsemen from Mesopotamia.
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:they've assembled all of their
men and are ready for battle.
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:When David hears of it, he
sends Joab and his mighty men,
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:And now they're ready to
do battle at two locations.
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:You know, Scripture doesn't always
give us the motivation of people's
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:hearts, but we know that David had
a pure intent to encourage Hanun.
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:If you're needing to remember
who the Ammonites are, They began
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:with Lot and his daughter after
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed.
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:And they haven't always been
hospitable to the Israelites.
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:But David and Nahash, Hanun's
father, had peace, so he was
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:trying to do an honorable thing.
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:if we look at history, it seems
no one gets more paranoid than a
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:king, and perhaps rightfully so.
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:So you can't completely blame
the guy for being skeptical.
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:However, he took the good intent of
David, and he completely shamed them.
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:He sent them back exposed, and now
instead of just grieving the passing of
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:his father, he has to engage in battle.
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:I can't help but think of 1 Corinthians
13 when it says that love bears all
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:things, believes all things, hopes
all things, endures all things.
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:I'm not saying that Hanun
needed to love David.
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:We don't even know if
they knew each other yet.
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:But any life where we believe the worst
about people doesn't sound great to me.
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:We need to balance that with the fact
that Jesus told us to be as wise as
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:serpents and as innocent as doves.
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:It's okay to have discernment and to
be cautious about people's motives,
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:but Hanun's advisors went too far.
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:Speaker 20: I can think of some
circumstances that have happened
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:with some of my friends lately
where a teacher wronged their
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:child, like legit, it wasn't fair.
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:Speaker 21: I so respect the way my
friend handled it as she patiently
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:waited to collect all the information,
and then in a good-natured way, tried
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:to get the teacher's perspective.
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:Ultimately, I think this story can teach
us is that as we're training our kids to
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:work through conflict and to have wisdom,
we can think about James and our command
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:to be slow to speak and quick to listen.
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:We might not know if we can
trust, but we can try to get
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:to the heart of an issue first
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:before we overreact and regret it.
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:Have you ever heard of the 24-hour
email rule where you wait 24
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:hours before you send something?
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:It's just a good guideline.
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:And as Hanan was grieving, he probably
wasn't in the most neutral position
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:to make a good decision anyway, and
sometimes we need our friends to guide
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:us in moving forward in a righteous way.
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:Joab is sent out to battle by David,
and let's give him credit for the
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:way that he has faith as he says to
his brother, "Be strong, and let us
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:use our strength for our people and
for the cities of our God, and may
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:the Lord do what seems good to Him."
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:These brothers have frequently
engaged in battle together, and they
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:don't know if they're gonna survive.
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:But they'll give it
their all for the Lord.
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:And there's a connection from
this story to Psalm twenty.
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:Listen and see if you can hear it.
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:It's probably the verse
that you've heard the most.
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:" May the Lord answer you
in the day of trouble.
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:May the name of the God
of Jacob protect you.
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:May He send you help from the sanctuary
and give you support from Zion.
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:May He remember all your offerings and
regard with favor your burnt sacrifices.
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:May He grant you your heart's
desire and fulfill all your plans.
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:May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.
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:Now I know that the
Lord saves His anointed.
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:He will answer him from His holy heaven
with the saving might of His right hand.
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:Some trust in chariots and
some in horses, but we trust in
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:the name of the Lord our God.
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:They collapse and fall, but
we rise and stand upright.
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:Oh Lord, save the king.
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:May He answer us when we call."
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:Did you hear it?
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:In this battle, the Ammonites
had chariots and horsemen.
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:And I'll acknowledge that there was a
discrepancy between 1 Chronicles and 2
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:Samuel about how many chariots it was,
So one may have been due to a copying
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:error, but they left both in scripture
because the original translators
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:wanted to make sure that whichever
one was the truth was preserved.
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:Regardless, Israel was up
against an intimidating enemy.
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:Horses are absolutely beautiful and
majestic, but can you imagine them
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:stampeding towards you in chariots,
feeling the ground quake with the
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:thunder of their approach when all you
have is a little sword and a shield?
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:It's something consistent that these
enemies could rely on every time in
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:battle, their chariots and their horses.
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:But the God of the Bible is
so creative and so powerful.
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:He chose to defeat the enemies of
Israel in a different way nearly
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:every time, and they couldn't rely on
what they could see with their eyes.
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:They had to stand firm on their God.
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:I don't know what you would say
your horses or your chariots are
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:that you long to cling to, or the
things you're tempted to trust in.
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:Maybe it's a consistent paycheck, and
the Lord has you in a season where
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:He's providing in a new way every
month to meet your mortgage some trust
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:in chariots, some trust in horses,
but you have an opportunity to trust
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:in the name of the Lord your God.
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:Psalm 65 is also written by David.
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:" Praise is due to You, O God, in Zion,
and to You shall vows be performed.
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:O You who hear prayer, to
You shall all flesh come.
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:when iniquities prevail against me,
You atone for our transgressions.
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:Blessed is the one You choose and
bring near to dwell in Your courts.
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:We shall be satisfied with the goodness of
Your house, the holiness of Your temple."
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:See, in the beginning,
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:we hear that even- When we are
sinful, God chooses to bring
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:us near to dwell with Him.
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:And the rest of the Psalm
beautifully recounts God's
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:faithfulness to His creation.
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:And then Psalm 66: Shout for
joy to God all the earth.
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:Sing the glory of His name.
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:Give to Him glorious praise.
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:Say to God, "How awesome are Your deeds.
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:So great is Your power that Your
enemies come cringing to You."
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:All the earth worships You
and sings praises to You.
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:They sing praises to Your name, Selah.
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:Come and see what God has done.
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:He is awesome in His deeds
toward the children of man.
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:He turned the sea into dry land.
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:They passed through the river on foot.
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:There did we rejoice in Him who
rules by His might forever, whose
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:eyes keep watch on the nations.
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:Let not the rebellious
exalt themselves, Selah.
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:Bless our God, O peoples.
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:Let the sound of His praise be heard,
who has kept our soul among the
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:living and has not let our feet slip.
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:For You, O God, have tested us.
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:You have tried us as silver is tried.
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:You brought us into the net.
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:You laid a crushing burden on our backs.
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:You let men ride over our heads.
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:We went through fire and through
water, yet You have brought us
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:out to a place of abundance.
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:I will come into Your
house with burnt offerings.
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:I will perform my vows to You.
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:That which my lips uttered and
my mouth promised when I was in
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:trouble, I will offer to You burnt
offerings of fattened animals with
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:the smoke of the sacrifice of rams.
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:I will make an offering of
bulls and goats, Selah.
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:Come and hear, all you who
fear God, and I will tell you
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:what He has done for my soul.
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:I cried to Him with my mouth and
high praise was on my tongue.
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:If I had cherished iniquity in my
heart, the Lord would not have listened.
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:But truly, God has listened.
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:He has attended to the voice of my prayer.
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:Blessed be God because He has
not rejected my prayer or removed
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:His steadfast love from me.
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:This is a God that lets us go
through difficult times and seasons
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:but He is ever faithful and
truly worthy of our praise.
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:Lord, we thank you for your steadfast
love and that you do not reject us.
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:Thank you that you faithfully forgive
our transgressions, but also that you
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:call us to something higher and holier.
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:You never fail, but you often
act in creative and unique ways
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:to rescue us, giving us an
opportunity to build our faith.
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:You are the same God that defeated
horses and chariots and provides
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:for His creation, and we know that
you're the same God that cares for us.
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:Lord, would you convict each of
us if there's something we're
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:trusting in other than you?
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:as we try to throw off all that the world
promises will help us parent and produce
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:talented, capable, self-assured children,
help us to choose instead to follow your
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:Word, and I pray that we would see the
fruit and blessing of those decisions
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:Teaching our children to not
trust in the things of this world,
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:but to look to your goodness.
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:Thank you, Jesus, for the way
that you guide us in wisdom.
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:It's in your name we pray, amen.
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:Speaker 23: Sometimes I wish we had
a little bit more time to meditate on
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:scripture and to memorize it together.
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:And this is one of those verses I think
can bring us so much encouragement.
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:Psalm 20:7.
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:" Some trust in chariots and
some in horses, but we trust in
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:the name of the Lord our God."
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:Let's say it again.
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:Psalm 20:7.
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:" Some trust in chariots and
some in horses, but we trust in
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:the name of the Lord our God."
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:meditate on.
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:Psalm 66:20.
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:" Blessed be God, because He has
not rejected my prayer or removed
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:His steadfast love from me."
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:Let's say it again.
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:Psalm 66:20.
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:" Blessed be God, because He has
not rejected my prayer or removed
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:His steadfast love from me."
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:His heart for you is all
throughout the pages of scripture.
