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February 23 - Psalm 105 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here. It is Friday, it's the 23rd of
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  February and here we are at the end of another week.
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  Good on you. You've made it.
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  I've made it back to the end and we are in for a treat.
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  Today we read the wonderful Psalm 105.
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  This is far from the shortest Sam.
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  This summer just has so much praise and Thanksgiving for our
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  wonderful God. In fact, so seminal are these
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  statements of thankfulness that so many traditions, the Jewish,
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  the Orthodox, Anglican, Catholic, Lutheran, they have
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  all used these words, put them to music and made them part of
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  their liturgy because they are just so beautiful and lyrical.
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  And so you might hear some of these verses and think, oh, that
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  rings a bell. I recognise that, yes, they have
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  become part of the rhythm of many of our Fate liturgies, So
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  that is wonderful. And as I prepare myself for my
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  ordination tomorrow, this, does that mean that today is the last
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  time I get to be irreverent? Because then tomorrow I'm
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  reverend. I I don't know.
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  I hope not. Surely not.
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  I can still be little irreverent.
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  I guess we'll find out next week.
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  No, no, it's nothing like that. But today, or whatever is going
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  on in your lives in your hearts as you prepare for today, your
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  Friday and the weekend to come, I just pray that we can put that
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  all down had come before our incredibly worthy God with
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  hearts full of thankfulness. This together with the Sarmast,
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  we read these words. We celebrate these words of
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  Psalm 105. Give thanks to the Lord and
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  proclaim His greatness, that the whole world knows what He has
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  done. Sing to Him.
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  Yes, sing his praises. Tell everyone about his
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  wonderful deeds. Exult in his holy name.
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  Rejoice, you who worship the Lord.
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  Search for the Lord and for his strength.
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  Continually seek him. Remember the wonders he has
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  performed, his miracles and the rulings he has given you.
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  Children of his servant Abraham, you descendants of Jacob, his
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  chosen ones. He is the Lord our God.
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  His justice is seen throughout the land.
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  He always stands by his covenant, the commitment he made
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  to 1000 generations. This is the covenant he made
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  with Abraham and the oath he swore to Isaac.
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  He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree and to the people of
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  Israel as a never ending covenant.
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  I will give you the land of Canaan as your special
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  possession. He said this when there were few
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  in number. A tiny group of strangers in
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  Canaan. They wandered from nation to
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  nation, from one Kingdom to another.
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  Yet he did not let anyone oppress them.
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  He warned kings on their behalf. Do not touch my chosen people
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  and do not hurt my prophets. He called for a famine on the
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  land of Canaan, cutting off its food supply.
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  Then it sent someone to Egypt ahead of them Joseph, who was
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  sold as a slave. They bruised his feet with
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  fetters and placed his neck in an iron collar until the time
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  came to fulfil his dreams. The Lord tested Joseph's
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  character, then Pharaoh sent for him and set him free.
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  The ruler of the nation opened his prison door.
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  Joseph was put in charge of all the King's household.
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  He became ruler over all the King's possessions.
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  He could instruct the King's aides as he pleased and teach
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  the King's advisers. Then Israel arrived in Egypt,
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  Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham, and the Lord
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  multiplied the people of Israel until they became too mighty for
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  their enemies. Then he turned the Egyptians
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  against the Israelites, and they plotted against the Lord's
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  servants. But the Lord sent his servant
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  Moses along with Aaron, whom he had chosen.
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  They perform miraculous signs among the Egyptians and wonders
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  in the land of Ham. The Lord blanketed Egypt in
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  darkness, for they had defied his commands to let his people
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  go. He turned their water into
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  blood, poisoning all the fish, then frogs over around the land
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  and even invaded the King's bedrooms.
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  When the Lord spoke, flies descended on the Egyptians and
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  gnats swarmed across Egypt. He sent them hail instead of
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  rain, and lightning flashed over the land.
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  He ruined their great vines and fig trees and shattered all the
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  trees he spoke, and hordes of locusts came, young locusts
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  beyond number. They ate up everything green in
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  the land, destroying all the crops in their fields, that he
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  killed the oldest son in each Egyptian home, the pride and joy
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  of each family. The Lord brought his people out
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  of Egypt, loaded with silver and gold, and not one among the
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  tribes of Israel even stumbled. Egypt was glad when they were
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  gone, for they feared them greatly.
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  The Lord spread a cloud above them as a covering, and gave
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  them a great fire to light the darkness.
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  They asked for meat, and he sent them quail.
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  He satisfied their hunger with manna.
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  Bread from heaven, he split open a rock and water gushed out to
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  form a river through the dry wasteland.
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  For he remembered his sacred promise to his servant Abraham.
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  So he brought his people out of Egypt with joy, his chosen ones
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  With rejoicing, he gave his people the lands of Pagan
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  nations, and they harvested crops that others had planted.
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  This all happened so they would follow his decrees and obey His
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  instructions. Praise the Lord,
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  Lord, We are part of a long story of you walking with your
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  people. For thousands and thousands of
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  years you have loved us and our ancestors where we are.
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  You have shaped the world around us for our good and for your
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  glory. And here we stand today, Lord,
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  we are your people. We are your chosen ones, and we
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  just offer our lives to you, use us, mould us, lead us.
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  Thank you for the the land of Canaan that you give us in our
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  lives, whatever that looks like, the blessings that are abundant
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  and so good, and fill our hearts with joy and fulfil so many
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  needs that we have, some that we don't even know that you are the
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  one who fulfils them. You are a good God, a faithful
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  God, and we give you our thanks, just as the Psalmist did.
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  We pray all of this in the saving name of your son, Jesus
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  oh man.