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September 29 - Psalm 84 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. It is Sean here and it is Friday
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  the 28th. Happy Friday to you my friend.
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  You have done it again. You're so clever.
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  You made it all the way through another week and here we are.
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  Ready to read a Psalm together to usher in the end of the week?
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  And welcome the weekend. And if you are a little bit
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  late, this is your lucky day. Not late as in you're running
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  late for work and you're wondering whether you should
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  speed or not. But if you are a bit late and
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  you are not listening to this on Friday but on Sunday the 30th,
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  well, bully for you. You are bang on the money
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  because today is actually the International Day of the
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  podcast. But if you're listening on
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  Friday, find another favorite podcast of yours and listen to
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  it on Sunday because, well. Let's just reflect for a moment
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  on how cool podcasts are. Here I am in my little corner,
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  reading my Bible quietly in a time that I can, And then you at
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  a time that works for you. Pick up your little device,
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  press play. And there I am reading this to
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  you in a way that works for you, in a place that works for, I
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  don't know where you are. You might be.
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  Lying in a hot bath, you might be running on a treadmill.
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  You might be out in the garden, lying in bed in the car.
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  I don't know where you are, but I'm so glad that you are where
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  you are listening to the Bible, because that is the beauty of
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  podcasting and what a glorious thing it is.
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  And I will stop ranting. I'm a fan, and I'm so glad that
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  you've joined me so that we can read God's Word together.
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  And today we read a Psalm. This is a Psalm for the choir
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  director, a Psalm of the descendants of Cora, to be
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  accompanied by a stringed instrument.
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  This is Psalm 84. How lovely is your dwelling
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  place, oh Lord of Heaven's armies.
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  I long, yes, I faint with longing to enter the course of
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  the Lord with my whole being, body, and soul.
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  I will shout joyfully to the living God.
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  Even the Sparrow finds a home, and the swallow builds her nest
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  and raises her young at a place near your altar.
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  Oh Lord of heavens, armies, my king and my God, what joy for
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  those who can live in your house, always singing your
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  praises. What joy for those whose
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  strength comes from the Lord who have set their minds on a
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  pilgrimage to Jerusalem? When they walk through the
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  valley of weeping, it will become a place of refreshing
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  springs. The autumn rains will clothe it
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  with blessings. They will continue to grow
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  stronger, and each of them will appear before God in Jerusalem.
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  Oh Lord, God of Heaven's armies, hear my prayer.
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  Listen, oh God of Jacob. Oh God, look with favor upon the
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  King our shield. Show favor to the one you have
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  anointed. A single day in your courts is
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  better than 1000 years anywhere else.
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  I would rather be a gatekeeper in the House of my God than live
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  the good life in the homes of the wicked, for the Lord God is
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  our son and our shield. He gives us grace and glory.
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  The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is
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  right. O Lord of Heaven's armies, what
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  joy for those who trust in you. You certainly are a God worth
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  praising, and we do. We praise you for in the same
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  moment you are the mighty God of heaven's armies, and the God who
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  cares for the Sparrow and the Swallow who build their nest.
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  You are enormous, bigger than the greatest stage of theater
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  that we can possibly imagine. And so small and intimate that
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  you would care for the smallest things.
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  And we are some of those little things that you care about.
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  And we thank you. We thank you for your love, your
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  care and your attention. And we pray that as we go about
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  our days today, that you would fill us with your love and your
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  grace and your peace. So that we can be beacons
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  shining your presence in this broken world around us.
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  We just lift you up our mighty God and we hold you close.
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  Our God of the intimate, and we praise you in the name of Jesus.
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  Amen.