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May 17 - Psalm 116 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here it is another Friday.
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  You have reached the end of the week.
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  Congratulations. We are going to do together what
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  we do every Friday, which is read another song together.
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  And this one, well, it's of significance because this is
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  actually the same sum. 116 was the text that was preached on
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  and the very first Christian service held in Australia on
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  Australian soil. That's right.
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  When the First Fleet arrived with those convicts, the
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  Reverend Richard Johnson also stepped off that boat because he
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  was there to look after those people.
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  What legend good on your Reverend Johnson?
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  And there he was in February 3, 1788.
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  What a cracker. So you might not be convicts,
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  and I might not be the first Reverend in Australia, but
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  together today, friends, we are going to once again read through
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  this Sum together some 116. I love the Lord because he hears
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  my voice and my prayer for mercy because he bends down to listen.
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  I will pray as long as I have breath.
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  Death wrapped its ropes around me.
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  The terrors of the grave overtook me.
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  I saw only trouble and sorrow. Then I called on the name of the
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  Lord. Please, Lord, save me how kind
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  the Lord is, how good he is, so merciful.
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  This God of ours, the Lord, protects those of childlike
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  faith. I was facing death, and He saved
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  me. Let my soul be at rest again,
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  for the Lord has been good to me.
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  He has saved me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from
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  stumbling. And so I walk in the Lord's
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  presence as I live here on earth, I believe in you, So I
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  said. I'm deeply troubled, Lord, in my
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  anxiety, I cried out to you. These people are all liars.
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  What can Ioffer the Lord for all He has done for me?
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  I will lift up the cup of salvation and praise the Lord's
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  name for saving me. I will keep my promise to the
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  Lord and the presence of all His people.
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  The Lord cares deeply when His loved ones die.
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  I'll Lord I am your servant. Yes, I am your servant.
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  Born into your household. You have freed me from my
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  chains. I will offer you a sacrifice of
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  Thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord.
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  I will fulfil my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his
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  people, in the House of the Lord in the heart of Jerusalem.
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  Praise the Lord, ah Lord.
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  It does not matter what the context of our lives are,
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  whether we are bound by chains of suffering or debt or
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  incarceration or persecution, because you have set us free.
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  You have claimed our soul, you have freed us, You have wiped us
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  clean. And it is in your freedom that
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  you invite us to live in your Kingdom here on earth, and then
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  forever in bliss with you in paradise.
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  Ah, thank you. That you free us.
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  That those chains are forever broken and no longer holding our
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  souls in captivity. You are a merciful, loving God
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  who gave up everything so that we could be free, so that we
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  could be able to come close to you, our holy and perfect and
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  loving Father. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for
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  continuing to remind us of that. Thank you, Jesus, for freeing
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  us. And thank you, Father, for
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  opening your arms and welcoming us into your family.
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  We pray all of this in the sacrifice of Jesus.
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  Ah man.