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Love Letters from God_ Lee Wright · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  US. Welcome to Love letters from
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  God. Welcome to Love Letters from
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  God. We have been looking for quite a
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  while now at Psalm 23 and picking up different ideas that
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  have been brought out from that particular Psalm.
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  We've come down to a statement that David makes.
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  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
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  life. He's talking about what is
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  following him as a result of his own activities and situations.
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  One thing to remember in your own life is that a singing
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  stream makes no sound without the rocks over which it flows.
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  Let me mention that again. A singing stream makes no sound
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  without the rocks over which it flows.
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  So this statement that David makes here in Psalms 23 is it's
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  another one of those Jolter statements in the 23rd Psalm.
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  Every home in every community, every veteran that's listening
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  to this broadcast right now has felt hurts in their lives and
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  has also had hopes in their lives.
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  And David is making this particular statement as a
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  certainty. It's definite and not just some
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  passing thought. I want to read from two
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  different Psalms today, and then we're going to make a few
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  comments when we're through reading the second one.
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  The first Psalm that I want to read from is Psalm 13.
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  So if you have your Bibles handy or what not, join with me as we
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  look at this Psalm, Psalm 13. How long, O Lord, will you
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  forget me forever? How long will you hide your face
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  from me? How long must I take counsel in
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  my soul, and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
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  How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
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  Consider and answer me, O Lord my God, light up my eyes, lest I
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  sleep the sleep of death, lest my enemy say I have prevailed
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  over him, lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
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  But I have instead I have trusted in your steadfast love.
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  My heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
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  I will sing to the Lord because He has dealt bountifully with
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  me. Now that was Psalm #13 Jump over
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  to Psalm #22 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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  Why are you so far from saving me from the words of my
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  groaning? Oh my God, I cry by day, but you
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  do not answer and by night, and I find no rest.
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  Yet You are holy, enthralled on the praises of Israel.
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  And you, our fathers, trusted, and they trusted, and you
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  delivered them to you. They cried and were rescued.
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  In you they trusted and were not put to shame.
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  But I'm a worm, and not a man scorned by mankind and despised
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  by the people. All who see me mock me.
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  They make mouths at me, and they wag their heads.
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  He trusts in the Lord. Let him deliver him.
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  Let him rescue him, or he delights in him.
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  Yet You are he who took me from the womb.
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  You made me trust you at my mother's breast.
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  On you was I cast. From my birth and from my
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  mother's womb You have been my God.
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  Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to
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  help. Many bowls encompass me.
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  Strong bowls of basin surround me.
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  They open wide, their mouths at me like a ravening and roaring
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  lion. I am poured out like water and
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  all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax.
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  It is melted within my breast. My strength is dried up like a
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  potsherd. My tongue sticks to my jaws.
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  You lay me in the dust of death, for dogs encompass me.
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  A company of evil doers encircles me.
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  They have pierced my hands and my feet.
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  I can count all my bones. They stare and they gloat over
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  me. They divide my garments among
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  them, and for my clothing they call lots.
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  But you, O Lord, do not be far off.
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  Oh, you my help. Come quickly to my aid.
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  Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power
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  of the dog. Save me from the mouth of the
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  lion. You have rescued me from the
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  horns of the wild oxen. I will tell your name to my
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  brothers in the midst of the congregation.
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  I will praise you, you who fear the Lord, praise him, and you,
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  all you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of
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  him, all you offspring of Israel.
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  For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the
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  afflicted. He has not hidden his face from
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  him, and he is heard when he cried to him.
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  From you comes my praise in the great congregation.
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  My vows will perform before those who fear him.
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  The afflicted shall eat and shall be satisfied.
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  Those who seek him shall praise my Lord.
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  May your hearts live forever. All the ends of the earth shall
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  remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the
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  nations shall worship before you, for kingship belongs to the
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  Lord, and he rules over the nations.
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  All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship.
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  Before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one
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  who could not keep himself alive.
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  Posterity shall serve him. It should be told of the Lord to
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  the coming generation. They shall come and proclaim His
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  righteousness to a people yet unborn, until He has done it.
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  Such as the reading of Psalm 22. But you can see in both of these
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  Psalms, David was kind of on a downer.
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  You know, this is the same guy that wrote the Lord is my
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  shepherd. I shall not want.
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  David knew turmoil, he knew emotion, he knew danger and he
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  knew distress. Scriptures bring out as you read
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  in the history in the Bible of David's life, he found himself
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  hiding more than once. His own son Absalom tried to
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  overthrow him, his daughter was raped by her brother, one of the
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  brothers killed another one of the brothers, his key adviser
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  betrayed him, and three of his sons die Bathsheba's baby, Amnon
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  and Absalom. So let me ask you yourself, is
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  your glass half empty or half full?
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  How does it taste? Life itself?
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  Problems can bring on a lot of trouble.
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  Problems can become like a wicked thief if we'll let them
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  do so. But our joy, the joy that you
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  and I have, and if you notice in those Psalms, they both end with
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  glory to the Lord, and the Lord is really the one who wins.
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  Our joy begins in anticipation of our future.
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  Think of your own trail. My grandfather used to tell me
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  if you want to follow somebody, look at the trail they leave
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  behind them. Do I leave behind peace in the
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  lives of people or turmoil? Do I leave behind forgiveness or
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  bitterness? Do I leave behind contentment or
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  conflict? Do I leave behind flowers of joy
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  or frustration? Do I leave behind love or
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  rancor? You know our shepherd, the
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  shepherd that David's talking about in Psalm 23.
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  He wants us to pass the same back to Him that He gives to us.
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  And again, remember, Remember again, that a singing stream
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  makes no sound without the rocks over which it flows.
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  Shall we pray, Father in Heaven, help us through these troubles
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  in life? We all have them, and we know
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  that you're there to help us get through them.
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  We know that you very much want to bring goodness and mercy into
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  our lives, and we pray that you will help us as we read your
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  love letter to see that when we think we have lots of problems,
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  let's note that all other people have too, and you got them
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  through the problems. You'll help us also with ours.
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  We're so thankful for your Son who came to make all of this
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  possible, and we pray this in his name.
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  Amen. And that's it for today.
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