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March 15 - Psalm 108 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  How life, friends. It's shown here and yes, it is a
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  Friday. It is the 15th of March.
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  Well done friend, well done. You have made it to the end of
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  another week and here we are on the precipice of the weekend
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  with nothing left to do. Well, actually everything left
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  to do, we've got to get through Friday.
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  Unless, unless you are already through it then well done to
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  you. But I'm a morning person, so
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  this is the start of the day for me and we are going to read this
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  Psalm together. We are going to enjoy it because
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  this sum is not just a sum of praise and trust in God.
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  But this is actually a little bit of a model for how we can
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  use scripture, because we're going to be reading Psalm 108.
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  And if you have a freakishly good memory, you are going to
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  notice that the first half of this sum is very similar to
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  Psalm 57, and the second half of the Sam is very similar to a
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  part of Psalm 60, except the names of the nations have been
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  changed to reflect the present struggle that the Psalmist is
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  living through. So this shows us that not just
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  you and me, but even the Samus themselves used other Psalms as
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  they were praying, as they were singing songs to their God.
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  So here we have a best of Sam, if you like.
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  You know, we we reach Sam's 107 and they think, yeah, let's
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  let's put a couple of these together and and pray these
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  psalms that we've already prayed, but pray them into a new
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  space and make a new song from the familiar ones.
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  So how wonderful for us to know that we can use these Psalms.
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  We can cry them out for our situations, For the context of
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  our daily struggles, we can swap out Felicia for parking
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  inspectors or whatever it is that that makes your life
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  tricky. I hope it's not parking
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  inspectors. And if you are a parking
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  inspector listening to this, God bless your friend.
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  We need you doing your job as well.
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  All right, enough from me. Let us share this arm together.
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  This is a song. A Psalm of David.
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  Psalm 108. My heart is confident in you.
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  Oh God. No wonder I can sing your
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  praises with all my heart. Wake up liar and harp.
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  I will wake the dawn with my song.
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  I will thank you, Lord, among all the people.
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  I will sing your praises among the nations.
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  For your unfailing love is higher than the heavens.
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  Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
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  Be exalted, oh God, above the highest heavens.
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  May your glory shine over all the earth.
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  Now rescue your beloved people, answer and save us by your
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  power. God has promised that by His
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  Holiness I will divide up Shechem with joy I will measure
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  out the valley of Succoth. Gilead is mine and Manassa too.
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  Ephraim, my helmet will produce my warriors, and Judah, my
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  sceptre will produce my kings. But Moab, my wash basin will
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  become my servant. I will wipe my feet on Edom and
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  shout triumph over Felicia, who will bring me into the fortified
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  city, who will bring me victory over Edom.
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  Have you rejected us? Oh God, will you no longer March
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  with our enemies? I'll please help us against our
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  enemies, for all human help is useless.
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  With God's help, we will do mighty things, for He will
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  trample down our foes. God, it's so easy to forget that
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  the victory is already won. You have claimed the ultimate
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  prize, and you have done that for our sake, so that we can
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  stand before you, wholly and blameless, acceptable and loved,
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  and no matter what challenge we find ourselves faced with, that
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  you are our warrior, that in you we have our victory.
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  And it's not by how clever we are or how hard we work.
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  But our eternity, so much bigger than anything else we would ever
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  be striving for, is held firm in your hands.
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  Lord, Let that be the foundation of every challenge we face today
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  and in this life, the knowledge that in you we are already
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  victorious. You are a mighty wonderful God.
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  We lift you up. We praise you.
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  We worship you and we pray this in the name of Jesus.
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  Amen.