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January 17 - Psalm 149 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Shaun here on this Friday the 17th of
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  January. Welcome to the end of the week.
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  Well done you for making it through another week.
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  Ah, this has been my first week back at work after some weeks
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  away. Yeah, you know when you have
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  those weeks hanging out with your friends and your family and
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  seeing some beautiful things and swimming in the ocean and having
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  a wonderful break and then you get back into life.
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  I hope as you get back into life this year, it is a good thing
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  and that you look forward to the year ahead getting to do all
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  those things that have been laid out before us to do.
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  Well, that is my experience, and I hope it is yours too.
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  But today, today we are reading the second last Psalm.
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  That's right, today we are up to Psalm 149.
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  And these Psalms, as the ones we've read previously, are
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  wonderful, pithy little praise Psalms, little only in their
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  length, not in their power and in their sentiment.
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  And today's Psalm speaks about praising God for his judgement
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  yet to come. So the psalmist really is just
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  worshipping and praising God for all his actions, those which
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  have been and those which are yet to be.
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  So, friends, join me today as we sing together this Psalm of
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  praise, as our hearts are opened with a posture of worship and
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  praise to our wonderful, majestic God, as we celebrate,
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  as we read, as we share these words of Psalm 149, Praise the
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  Lord. Sing to the Lord a new song.
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  Sing his praises in the assembly of the faithful.
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  O Israel, rejoice in your Maker. O people of Jerusalem, exalt in
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  your king. Praise his name with dancing,
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  accompanied by tambourine and harp.
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  For the Lord delights in his people.
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  He crowns the humble with victory.
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  Let the faithful rejoice that he honours them.
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  Let them sing for joy as they lie on their beds.
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  Let the praises of God be in their mouths, and a sharp sword
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  in their hands. To execute vengeance on the
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  nations, and punish on the peoples.
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  To bind their kings with shackles and the leaders with
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  iron chains to execute the judgement written against them.
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  This is the glorious privilege of his faithful ones.
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  Praise the Lord our Lord.
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  While it's true that most of us don't envisage yourselves taking
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  up sharp swords to enact your vengeance against the royalty,
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  thank you for the posture of praise from the psalmist that
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  says you will have your way and that I am willing to step
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  forward and be a part of your Kingdom.
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  Come. So Lord, I pray that You would
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  prepare our hearts to step out in faith with you, and not just
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  a burden of faith and a burden of activity for Your Kingdom,
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  but with praise leaping from our lips as we take up our tools to
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  step forward and serve You with our whole hearts and our whole
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  lives. We love you and we love your
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  rule, Your justice, and Your righteous rule that in all
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  things You would draw them together in Your way to be as
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  You want them to be. So we just stand in awe of your
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  majestic plans and pray that You use us in whatever small ways
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  You have for us to be used. Ah, we praise you, our
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  wonderful, mighty ruler, our loving God, in the name of
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  Jesus, Amen.