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Love Letters from God Episode Theme_ The Power of Prayer · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  Welcome to. Love
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  through Welcome to Love Letters from God.
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  Today we're going to read several Psalms and then we're
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  going to look at a little different situation on how we
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  pray for other people. So let's start out reading Psalm
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  49. Hear this.
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  All peoples give ear, all inhabitants of the world, both
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  low and high, rich and poor. Together My mouth shall speak
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  wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall give understanding.
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  I will incline my ear to a proverb.
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  I will disclose my dark saying on the harp.
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  Why should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity at my
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  heels surround me? Those who trust in their wealth
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  and boast in the multitude of their riches, none of them can
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  by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for
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  him. For the Redeemer of their souls
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  is costly, and it shall cease forever that he should continue
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  to live eternally and not see the pit, for he sees wise men
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  die. Likewise the fool and the
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  senseless person perish, and they leave their wealth to
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  others. Their inner thought is that
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  their houses will last forever, their dwelling places to all
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  generations. They call their lands after
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  their own names, and nevertheless man, though in
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  honor, does not remain. He's like the beasts that
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  perish. This is the way of those who are
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  foolish and of their posterity, who approve their sayings Like
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  sheep there laid in the grave. Death shall feed on them.
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  The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and
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  their beauty should be consumed in the grave far from their
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  dwelling. But God will redeem my soul from
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  the power of the grave, for He should receive me.
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  Do not be afraid when one becomes rich and when the glory
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  of his houses increase, For when he dies he should carry nothing
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  away. His glory shall not descend
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  after him, and though while he lives he blesses himself.
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  For men will praise you when you do well for yourself.
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  He shall go to the generation of his fathers.
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  They shall never see the light. A man who is in honour yet does
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  not understand is like the beast that perish.
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  Now in that particular Psalm, David is saying that, you know,
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  it really doesn't matter what you have when you die, you're
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  not going to take it with you anyway.
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  So you might as well bless the Lord with what you have, when
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  you have it, and use it for God's glory and not just for
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  yourself. Let's jump over to Psalms 84
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  now. How lovely is your Tabernacle, O
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  Lord of hosts, my so longs, yes, even faints for the courts of
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  the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out
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  for the living God. Even the Sparrow has found a
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  home, and the swallow in this for herself, where she may lay
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  her young. Even your altars, O Lord of
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  hosts, my King and my God, blessed are those who dwell in
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  your house. They will still be praising you.
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  Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, whose heart
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  is set on pilgrimage. As they pass through the valley
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  of Bacca, they make it a spring. The rain covers it with pools.
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  They go from strength to strength.
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  Each one appears before God in Zion, O Lord, God of hosts, Him
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  give ear, O God of Jacob. O God, behold our shield.
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  Look upon our face if you're anointed for a day in your
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  courts is better than 1000. I would rather be a doorkeeper
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  in the House of God, and dwell in the temps of the wickedness.
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  For the Lord God is a Son and His shield.
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  The Lord will give grace and glory.
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  No good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
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  O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
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  Such was Psalms 84, a short Psalm.
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  But notice how David is saying it's so great to be in the House
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  of the Lord. Now, in order to be in the House
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  of the Lord, of course you have to live the way the Lord wants.
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  But the blessings that the Lord provides are so great.
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  They're so much greater than whatever we possess here.
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  If we live for him, if we appreciate His love letters here
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  and apply them to our lives, our home later is really going to be
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  special. Let's just continue on with
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  Psalms 85 here. Lord, you have been favorable to
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  your land. You have brought back the
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  captivity of Jacob, You have forgiven the iniquity of your
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  people, You have covered all their sin, You have taken away
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  all your wrath, and you have turned from the fierceness of
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  your anger. Restore us, O God, of our
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  salvation, and cause your anger toward us to cease.
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  Will you be angry with us forever?
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  Will You prolong your anger to all generations?
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  Will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in
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  you? Show us in your mercy, Lord, and
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  grant us your salvation. I will hear what God the Lord
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  will speak for. He will speak peace to His
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  people and to His Saints, but let them not turn back to folly.
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  Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that glory
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  may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth have met
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  together, righteousness and peace have kissed.
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  Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall
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  look down from heaven. Yes, the Lord will give what is
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  good and our land will yield its increase.
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  Righteousness will go before him and shall make his footsteps our
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  pathway such as Psalms 85. In that particular Psalm, David
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  is saying, OK, so you, so you blew it.
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  You made some mistakes, but change your life, repent, turn
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  around. When you do that, the Lord,
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  yeah, he's a he's a forgiver. He will forgive you.
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  Let's jump over now to Psalms 87.
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  His foundation is in the holy mountains.
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  The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of
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  Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of
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  you, O city of God. I will make mention of Rahab and
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  Babylon to those who know me. Behold, O Felicia and Tyre with
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  Ethiopia, this one is born there, and of Zion it will be
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  said, this one and that one were born in her, and the Most High
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  himself shall establish her. The Lord will record when he
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  registers the peoples. This one was born there.
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  Both the singers and the players on instruments say, and my
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  strings are in you there. You know, God pays attention to
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  where you're from, where you live in.
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  You see, He's very, he's very interested in you and he wants
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  you to be interested in him too. Now I've got one other little
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  thought that I want to leave with you today while we're
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  thinking about how wonderful the Lord he is and how he does
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  everything he can to help you and me.
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  This is a story about two men who landed on a barren island
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  after a after a shipwreck. They divided the island and they
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  decided to pray for the same things to see whose prayers
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  would be answered. One man received everything and
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  the other received nothing, and eventually the man who received
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  everything was saved. And when he left, God asked him
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  why he left his friend behind. He said that he deserved the
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  rescue because God favored his prayers.
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  Then God said that the man who received nothing had only one
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  prayer, and that prayer was that the other person's prayers
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  should be answered. You know our prayers are often
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  very self-centered. Yes, God does answer our
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  prayers, but very often, however, the blessings we
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  experience in life are the result of the prayers of others.
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  Like maybe our parents could be our children could be friends
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  who pray for God's blessings and healing in our lives.
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  To pray for others is to share in God's work.
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  When we bring people before God, we expose them to the love of
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  God, the walls and distance that separate us fall down.
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  We're bound together as one big intimate family, and there's no
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  greater intimacy than we pray for somebody else.
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  It's such a blessing that you and I can pray for our children
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  and our grandchildren. We can pray for our friends, we
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  can pray for other Christians, and while we're thousands and
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  thousands of miles away from them, we're all bound together
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  in an intimate family when we pray together.
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  And shall we do that? Now let's have a prayer.
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  Our Father in heaven, we thank you for all you dear, thank you
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  for what you've done for us. And we pray right now for all
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  those other people we know, those who are sick, those who
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  are afflicted, those who are bothered, bless them.
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  And if any way that we might be able to help them, show us what
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  we might do and help us to do that as well.
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  We pray this all in Jesus name, Amen.
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  And that's it for today. Hi, I'm Beaker with Military
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