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November 15 - Psalm 140 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's a Friday, it's the 15th of
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  November and happy Friday to your friends.
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  I hope you're doing well. I hope that this week has been a
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  good one for you and that here you are at the end of it all,
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  feeling well, still in ship shape, ready to take on the
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  weekend and maybe even have a bit of time to yourself as we
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  do. Of course, on Fridays.
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  We will read a Psalm today and well, there are only 150 Psalms
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  in the book of Psalms. And today we're up to a Psalm
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  140, which means there is only 10 more weeks as we read through
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  the Psalms on a Friday. And then friends, we're going to
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  dive into Proverbs on Fridays, which is going to be a whole lot
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  of fun. We read through the first
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  section of Proverbs earlier in the year, and now we are up to,
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  well, we will be up to that section where we read those
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  wonderful sayings of Solomon, but that's still to come today.
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  Today we have got a classic Psalm of King David following
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  the pattern that so many of his psalms do.
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  This is a prayer for deliverance from enemies where he complaints
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  about something going wrong, praise to God for help and that
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  is confident that God will indeed send him help.
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  And this is probably actually scratch that.
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  This is definitely a fantastic model for us to use as we
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  encounter challenges in our lives.
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  Have a complaint, vent to God, ask for His help, and then move
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  forward with assuredness that God is on our side.
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  How good is that? Thank you, King David, We'll cop
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  that. We'll take it on the shoulder
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  and use it as an example. So this is a Psalm for the choir
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  director, a Psalm of David, Psalm 140.
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  Oh Lord, rescue me from evil people.
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  Protect me from those who are violent, those who plot evil in
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  their hearts and stir up trouble all day long.
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  Their tongues sting like a snake.
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  The venom of a Viper drips from their lips.
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  Oh Lord, keep me out of the hands of the wicked.
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  Protect me from those who are violent, for they are plotting
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  against me. The proud have said a trap to
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  catch me. They have stretched out a net.
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  They have placed traps all along the way.
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  I said to the Lord, You are my God.
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  Listen, O Lord, to my cries for mercy.
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  Our Sovereign Lord, the strong one who rescued me, You
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  protected me on the day of battle.
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  Lord, do not let evil people have their way.
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  Do not let their evil scheme succeed, or they will become
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  proud. Let my enemies be destroyed by
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  the very evil they have planned for me.
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  Let burning coals fall down on their heads.
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  Let them be thrown into the fire or into watery pits from which
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  they can't escape. Don't let liars prosper here in
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  our land. Cause great disaster to fall on
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  the violent. But I know the Lord will help
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  those they persecute. He will give justice to the
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  poor. Surely righteous people are
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  praising your name. The godly will live in your
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  presence. Ah Lord, like King David, we too
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  have things go wrong in our lives every day.
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  Sure, we may not have enemies plotting to kill us, well
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  hopefully we don't. But we do have things go wrong
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  where our plans go sideways, people get hurt, relationships
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  fall down. And Lord, we need your help.
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  We need your Holy Spirit to change the way that we see the
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  world and to give us eyes that see things in Your kingdom's
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  way. We need your help to remind us
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  that this is not our goal, but our goal lies beyond this life.
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  In an eternity spent with You. Ah, we need your help every day.
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  So just as King David cries out, Lord, may we always be quick to
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  fall to our knees in prayer to You, to invite you into being a
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  part of every day, the highs and the lows, the glorious moments
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  and the hard challenges, because you are God of all of them and
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  you are God of all of us. So we praise you now, our loving
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  God, now and always. Amen.