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September 8 - Psalm 81 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it is Sean here and it is Friday and I am here
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  to say to you, well done and you have made it to the end of
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  another week. Did this week go fast for anyone
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  else or is that just me? Here we are and it's Friday and
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  we get to read a Psalm together. And this is a happy Psalm.
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  This is a Psalm of praise. This is a Psalm for the choir
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  director. A Psalm of ASAP to be
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  accompanied by a stringed instrument.
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  Isn't that interesting. A stringed instrument, Just one.
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  And it doesn't even tell you which one.
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  So you can choose which stringed instrument you like playing in
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  the background. As I read this Fascinating,
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  fascinating This is a song. Try again.
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  This is a Psalm, which is a song which is an appeal from God to
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  Israel. So as we round out our weeks, we
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  say, come, Holy Spirit, move us and shape us by your words that
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  we might become more like you. All right, friends, let us read
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  together. Psalm 81.
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  Sing praises to God our strength.
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  Sing to the God of Jacob. Sing.
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  Beat the trampoline. Play the sweet liar in the harp.
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  Blow the Rams horn at new moon and again at full moon to call
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  the festival, for this is required by the decrees of
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  Israel. It is a regulation of the God of
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  Jacob. He made it a law for Israel when
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  he attacked Egypt to set us free.
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  I heard an unknown voice say. Now I will take the load from
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  your shoulders. I will free your hands from the
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  heavy tasks. You cried to me in trouble, and
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  I saved you. I answered out of the
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  thundercloud and tested your faith where there was no water
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  at Meriba. Listen to me, oh people, while I
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  give you stern warnings. Oh, Israel, if you would only
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  listen to me. You must never have a foreign
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  God. You must not bow down before a
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  false God, for it was I, the Lord your God who rescued you
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  from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will
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  fill it with good things. But no, my people wouldn't
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  listen. Israel did not want me around,
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  so I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living
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  according to their own ideas. All that my people would listen
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  to me. All that Israel would follow me,
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  walking in my paths. How quickly I would then subdue
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  their enemies, how soon my hands would be upon their foes.
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  Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him.
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  They would be doomed forever. But I would feed you with the
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  finest wheat. I would satisfy you with wild
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  honey from the rock. Thank you for just waiting on
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  the sidelines. Abundant blessings in your arms,
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  waiting to just shower us with everything that you have for us.
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  Thank you that you are a good, good father and that you love us
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  so dearly. All we need do is turn to you
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  and say yes. And so we do that we turn to you
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  and we say yes. Yes, we choose you.
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  Yes, we choose to live your way. Yes, we choose to believe that
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  it's not what we do, but it's everything that Jesus did for us
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  that saves us. Yes, we want to be your
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  children. Yes, we will take your generous
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  forgiveness. Yes, we are loved.
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  Thank you for being a God of abundant blessing.
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  And we thank you for all the blessings that we will enjoy
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  from you even today. We love you so much and we are
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  so grateful for how kind you are to us, Our Heavenly Father, I'm
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  in.