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Love Letters from God Be Happy Lone Warrior · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  To love letters. Welcome to Love Letters from
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  God. We're going to talk about
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  loneliness today. I'm wondering, I don't know who
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  all listens to this, but I'm reasonably sure that there's
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  some lonely people out there and they're wondering just what life
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  is all about. It's pretty tough.
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  And we want to look at some of that situation here today,
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  Loneliness. Is there anything in God's love
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  letters that has anything to do with loneliness?
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  Now, some of you here too, who are expressing this loneliness,
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  our warriors, you've been fighters for your country and
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  you've given the best you had. And then you wonder if anybody
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  really cares. When we are depressed, we often
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  feel lonely and we feel that nobody cares what happens to us.
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  And the immense opposition that we sometimes face in a community
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  where where God isn't really honored much and we live in, in
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  that kind of a case, that kind of a community, when we face a
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  community like that, sometimes it can make us feel isolated and
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  foolish if we haven't stand for God, for instance, it feels like
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  the whole world is against us and we feel that we're fighting
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  a losing battle for what we believe in.
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  And the people that once stood with us, maybe they just don't
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  seem to be there anymore. Now in God's love letter, he
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  covers all kinds of situations. And there are some examples of
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  individuals in that love letter of individuals that felt just
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  like that. Elijah is one of them.
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  He had been very successful in standing for God and then all of
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  a sudden he was afraid that they were going to kill him.
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  And he ran off, found himself in a cave all by himself.
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  And he thought he was the only one that cared.
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  But God had to remind him that there were a whole lot of other
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  people that cared just like he did.
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  He just didn't know who they were.
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  He had to remind them of who they were.
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  When you and I have situations like that in our own lives, it's
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  it's such times like that that the Lord wants to open our eyes
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  to the community of other people around us who do feel the same
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  way we do. The Lord told Elijah that there
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  were 7000 people who cared for the Lord as much as he did, and
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  now that that's a lot of people and Elijah had to had to be
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  reminded of that fact. He wasn't alone.
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  He wasn't the only one either that had those kind of
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  experiences there. There's just people everywhere,
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  you and I don't know where they are.
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  Just like, I don't know, I don't know how far this, this radio
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  program goes. I don't know who's listening and
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  who's not. But I know that I know that the
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  Lord's message is true and it'll get where it needs to go.
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  So we're going to look at some Psalms now.
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  They're short psalms, and we're going to notice some of these
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  same ideas. Let's turn to Psalm #99 The Lord
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  reigns. Let the peoples tremble.
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  He dwells between the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.
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  The Lord is great in Zion, and He is high above all the
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  peoples. Let them praise your great and
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  awesome name. He is holy.
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  The King's strength also loves justice.
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  You have established equity. You have executed justice and
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  righteousness. In Jacob exalt the Lord our God,
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  and worship at his foots. To you he is holy.
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  Moses and Aaron were among his priests, and Samuel was among
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  those who called upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and
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  he answered them. He spoke to them in the cloudy
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  pillar. They kept his testimonies and
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  the ordinances that he gave them.
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  You answered them, O Lord our God.
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  You were to them the God who forgives, though you took
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  vengeance on their deeds. Exalt the Lord our God and
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  worship at his holy heel, for the Lord our God is holy.
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  So is Psalm 99. Notice in that Psalm that the
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  Lord's always listening. He's always there.
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  He wants to hear what we have on our mind, but at the same time
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  that He wants to hear that, He wants us to know that He's going
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  to be there to back us as long as we are backing Him.
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  Let's jump over to Psalms 100 and 101.
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  I will sing of mercy and justice to you.
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  Oh Lord, I will sing praises. I will behave wisely in a
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  perfect way. Oh, when will you come to me?
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  I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
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  I will set nothing wicked before my eyes.
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  I hate the work of those who fall away.
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  It shall not cling to me. A perverse heart shall depart
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  from me. I will not know wickedness.
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  Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy.
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  The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, him I will
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  not endure. My eyes should be on the
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  faithful of the land that they may dwell with me.
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  He who walks in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
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  He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house.
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  He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence early.
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  I will destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all
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  the evil doers from the city of the Lord.
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  Again, this is a short Psalm one O 1 telling the Lord is there as
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  long as we're there with him as well.
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  Let's jump over to Psalms 110. Now I notice another short
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  Psalm, that is David is is talking about there.
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  Psalms 110 The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand, till
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  I make your enemies your foot steal.
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  The Lord shall send me the rod of your strength out of Zion
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  ruled in the midst of your enemies.
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  Your people should be volunteers in the day of your power, in the
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  beauties of holiness. From the womb of the morning you
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  have the dew of your youth. The Lord has sworn, and He will
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  not relent. You are a priest forever.
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  According to the order of Melchizedek.
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  The Lord is at your right hand. He shall execute kings in the
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  day of His wrath. He should judge among the
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  nations. He shall fill the places with
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  dead bodies. He shall execute the heads of
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  many countries. He should drink of the brook by
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  the wayside. Therefore he should lift up his
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  head. Another short Psalm that tells
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  us the Lord is always going to be there.
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  Don't feel like you're by yourself.
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  The Lord is always going to be there.
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  Let's jump over to Psalms 140. 149, or rather 144, is the one
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  I'm looking for. Blessed be the Lord my rock, who
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  trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.
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  My loving kindness and my fortress, my high tower and my
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  deliverer, my shield and the one in whom I take refuge, who
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  subdues my people under me. Lord, what is man that you take
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  knowledge of him, or the Son of Man that you are mindful of him?
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  Man is like a breath. His days are like a parting
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  shadow. Bow down your heavens, O Lord,
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  and come down. Touch the mountains, and they
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  shall smoke. Flash forth lightning and
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  scatter them. Shout out your arrows and
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  destroy them. Stretch out your hand from a
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  bone. Rescue me and deliver me out of
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  great waters from the hand of foreigners.
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  Whose mouth speak lying words, and whose right hand is a right
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  hand of falsehood. I will sing a new song to you, O
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  God, on a harp of 10 strings. I will sing praises to you, the
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  one who gives salvation to kings, who delivers David his
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  servant from the deadly sword. Rescue me, deliver me from the
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  hand of foreigners whose mouth speaks lying words and whose
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  right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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  That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth.
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  That our daughters may be as pillars, sculptured in palace
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  style. That our barns may be full,
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  supplying all kinds of produce. That our sheep may bring forth
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  thousands and 10 thousands in our fields.
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  That our oxen may well be well laden.
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  That there be no breaking in or going out.
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  That there be no outcry in our streets.
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  Happy are the people who are in such a state.
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  Happy are the people whose God is the Lord, and so was Psalm
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  #144 The peace of God is a state of genuine, meaningful
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  happiness. Peace and happiness are not one
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  on the same thing. No one can be happy in a deep
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  and meaningful way if you don't also have peace.
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  So look for peace with the Lord, and as you have peace with the
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  Lord, happiness will come. The apostle Paul is another
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  example of one who experienced peaceful happiness as well as
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  having met and embraced the the risen Christ.
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  Paul knew that he had been forgiven for all of the people
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  that he had imprisoned and had killed and everything else, and
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  he could affirm that the words of this Psalm in 144.
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  Happy are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and who are
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  covered. Happy is the man to whom the
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  Lord shall not impute sin. Does God the desire for you and
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  me to be happy? Absolutely.
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  But the happiness that we experience derives from the
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  unshakable truth that we have been forgiven and we live in a
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  state of peace with God through Jesus Christ.
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  Biblical happiness comes from being in the right relationship
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  and fellowship with our God, and He tells us in His love letter
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  how to come into that relationship.
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  Shall we pray our Father in heaven?
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  We do get lonely sometimes. We pray for your peace.
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  We pray for your understanding that there are a lot of others
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  all over the world who are just like us.
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  And we need you. We all need you.
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  We're happy that you are there, and we're happy that in your
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  love letter you remind us of that fact.
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  We're happy that your Son Jesus came and made everything
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  available to us. And we pray this in his name.
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  Amen. And that's it for today.
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