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Guided Sleep Meditation for Insomnia on Psalms 18_ David_s Song of Deliverance · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: Find rest as you listen to this peaceful bedtime story.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to this time on Abide meditation. Would you join
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  Speaker 2: me as we invite the calm into the storms of
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  Speaker 2: life during this bedtime story. This is your moment to
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  Speaker 2: put away your demands and pressures. This is your time
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  Speaker 2: alone with God to commune in his comfort, his peace,
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  Speaker 2: and his goodness. Relax, close your eyes, get comfortable. Block
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  Speaker 2: out the distractions from the day that came between you
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  Speaker 2: and our Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Is only a prayer away, a thought away. This is
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  Speaker 2: your time with Him as you embrace a deep sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Now take a deep breath. Relax as I pray, Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for all that You've done for me.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for.
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  Speaker 2: Being with me today, even when I felt I was alone,
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  Speaker 2: surrounded by busyness and pressures of the day. I call
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  Speaker 2: upon your name. I release that chaos now, and like David,
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  Speaker 2: I sing praises to you. I call upon your name
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  Speaker 2: to calm the storms I face. I cry out to
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  Speaker 2: you for your ways to be present in my mind,
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  Speaker 2: my body, and soul. Forgive me for not always showing it.
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  Speaker 2: But I love you so very much. I give you
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  Speaker 2: all the praise and all the glory.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised.
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  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
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  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my voice,
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  Speaker 2: and my cry to him reached his ears Psalm eighteen.
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: This psalm is virtually the same as the psalm sung
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  Speaker 2: by David at the end of his life, as recorded
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: in Second Samuel twenty two. It is most likely that
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  Speaker 2: David composed this song as a younger man. Yet in
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  Speaker 2: his old age David could look back with great gratitude
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  Speaker 2: and sing this song again, looking at his whole life.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that so true? How many times have you not
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  Speaker 2: seen God's hand in your life, but only through the
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  Speaker 2: rear view mirror or on the other side of the
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  Speaker 2: mountain you saw how God guided you through a storm.
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  Speaker 2: Now put yourself in David's sandals for a moment. David
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  Speaker 2: is on his own, a fugitive running for his life,
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  Speaker 2: and yes, God will be with him during this time abundantly.
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  Speaker 2: But David is just learning to walk with the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: David is desperate and without resources to make an escape.
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  Speaker 2: When you see this fine painting, David paints.
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  Speaker 3: A practically hopeless situation.
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  Speaker 2: Where you cannot see any way of surviving with your life.
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  Speaker 2: Destruction and death is compared to a raging river or
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  Speaker 2: torrents of continual ungodliness that is pursuing David. In his desperation,
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  Speaker 2: he calls out.
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  Speaker 3: To the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: The first leg of David's flight is to the Tabernacle
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord of nab can't you just see it?
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  Speaker 2: The big stone walls the tabernacle, the center of worship
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  Speaker 2: of that day. David requests food.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The only food Amlik has to give him is some
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  Speaker 2: consecrated bread in our time, kind of like day old bread,
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  Speaker 2: loaves of the bread of the Presence that has been
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  Speaker 2: before the Lord in the tabernacle the previous week. David
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  Speaker 2: was so very hungry, yes physically and spiritually too, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus cites this incident when he is questioned about eating
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  Speaker 2: grain on the Sabbath, and then there is an image
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  Speaker 2: of the lamp. It speaks of God's grace and keeping
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  Speaker 2: David alive during those dangerous years. Now like an image
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  Speaker 2: of a candle, the light and the glow of a candle.
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  Speaker 2: Can't you just see it glowing and reflecting on those
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  Speaker 2: big stone walls, and seeing the shadows of David dancing.
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  Speaker 2: God gave him the strength to run, to leap and
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  Speaker 2: fight and defeat the enemy. Do you need that same
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  Speaker 2: kind of strength? Well, if so, invited in to imbed
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  Speaker 2: in you that same warrior spirit. Psalm eighteen seventeen reads,
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  Speaker 2: He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes
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  Speaker 2: who were too strong for me. Can't you just see
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  Speaker 2: David dancing and singing before God, thanking him for past deliverances.
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  Speaker 2: God hears David's voice just as surely as he will
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  Speaker 2: hear your voice if you call out to him, And,
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  Speaker 2: like David, may you have God's covering to scale walls
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  Speaker 2: blocking your progress. Leap like a deer up the mountainside.
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  Speaker 2: I will love you, o Lord, my strength. The Lord
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God,
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: my strength in whom I will trust, my shield and
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call
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  Speaker 2: upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised. So
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: shall I be saved from my enemies. King David is
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: one of the most important figures in Jewish history. Although
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: David does not look like a king should look, he
• 7:23
  Speaker 2: has the heart of a lion, a courageous spirit, and
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: even more, a deep, unending love for God. And like David,
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: you two can build and accomplish something on such a foundation.
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: David stood on this foundation in the days of tribulation and.
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: The challenges in his life.
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: And after looking back at God's gracious ministry to him,
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: what else could David do but praise him? To sing
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: great praises to God. It's no wonder. King David would
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  Speaker 2: sing to the Lord, I will love you, O Lord,
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  Speaker 2: my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress,
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: in my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I
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  Speaker 2: will trust my strength, and the horn of my salvation,
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  Speaker 2: my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord, who is
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  Speaker 2: worthy to be praised. So shall I be saved from
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  Speaker 2: my enemies. And while David was in the temple, God
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: heard the cries of his heart, and he hears the
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: cries of your heart. To Psalm eighteen is a resurrection
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: psalm from King David of Sorts. After several verses of thanksgiving,
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: the psalm ends by this great victory to the King,
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: the Messiah, David's descended Jesus Yeshah, your Messiah, and continuing
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  Speaker 2: to sing, David proclaims, therefore, I will praise you Lord
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  Speaker 2: among the nations. I will sing the praises of your name.
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: Now as you drift asleep. God has not changed one
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: iota during all these years. As he treated David, so
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: he treats you. He is not partial. The only thing
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: that matters is how you have it in your heart.
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: David focused on the heavens above him, the glow of
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: the sun. Can't you see the rays of the sun
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: just shining upon David, the vibrance of the sky above him,
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: the flowing waters. The entire triumphal procession started with I
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  Speaker 2: will love you, o Lord, my strength. The Lord is
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  Speaker 2: my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God,
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: my strength in whom I will trust my shield and
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  Speaker 2: the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
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  Speaker 3: I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to
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  Speaker 3: be praised.
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  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. If this
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  Speaker 2: is true in you, God will move heaven and earth
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  Speaker 2: for you. Now, as you drift into a deep sleep,
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: may you hear David playing his heart rejoicing like King David.
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: May you know God.
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  Speaker 2: Hears the cries of your heart. May your dreams take
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: you to a place where you are dam and sing
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  Speaker 2: and singing before the Lord. I will call upon the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: who was worthy to be praised. In my distress, I
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: called upon the Lord, to my God, I cried for
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: help from his temple. He heard my voice in my
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  Speaker 2: cry to him, reached his ears. May the Lord bless
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: you and keep you. May he make his face shine
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  Speaker 2: upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord
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  Speaker 2: turn his face to you and grant you peace. Ask
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  Speaker 2: the Lord to lead you to the picture in verse
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  Speaker 2: from Psalm eighteen that's especially meant for you. He reaches
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  Speaker 2: down from on high and takes hold of you. He
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  Speaker 2: draws you out of the deep water. He brings you
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  Speaker 2: out into a spacious space. Jesus rescues you because he
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: delights in you. As you fall asleep, step into David's
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: great victory. I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer,
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength in whom I will trust my
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. I pray
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: for this dear one, your child, who desperately cries out
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  Speaker 2: to you and longs for RESTful sleep in your comforting arms. O, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: protect your child and Jesus, deliver the dreams that only
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  Speaker 2: you know are needed. Speak your wisdom of truth and salvation.
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  Speaker 3: That only comes through you. Amen.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: This is your moment to put away your demands and pressures.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: This is your time alone with God, to commune in
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: his comfort, his peace, and his goodness. Relax, close your eyes,
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: get comfortable. Block out the distractions from the day that
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: came between you and.
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: Our Lord.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: Jesus is only a prayer away, a thought away. This
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: is your time with him as you embrace a deep sleep. Now,
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: take a deep breath. Relax as I pray, Lord Jesus,
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: thank you for all that you've done for me. Thank
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: you for being with me to day, even when I
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: felt I was alone, surrounded by busyness and pressures of
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: the day.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: I call upon your name.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: I release that chaos now, and like David, I sing
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: praises to you. I call upon your name to calm
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: the storms I face. I cry out to you for
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: your ways to be present in my mind, my body,
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: and soul. Forgive me for not always showing it. But
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: I love you so very much. I give you all
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: the praise and all the glory.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears Psalm eighteen.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: This psalm is virtually the same as the psalm sung
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: by David at the end of his life, as recorded
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: in Second Samuel twenty two. It is most likely that
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: David composed this song as a younger man, Yet in
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: his old age David could look back with great gratitude
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: and sing this song again, looking at his whole life.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Isn't that so true?
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: How many times have you not seen God's hand in
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: your life, but only through the rear view mirror or
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: on the other side of the mountain you saw how
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: God guided you through a storm. Now put yourself in
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: david sandals for a moment. David is on his own,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: a fugitive running for his life, and yes, God will
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: be with him during this time. Abundantly, but David is
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: just learning to walk with the Lord. David is desperate
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: and without resources to make an escape. Can you see
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: this fine painting? David paints a practically hopeless situation where
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: you cannot see any way of surviving with your life,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: destruction and death as compared to a raging river or
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: torrents of continual ungodliness that is pursuing David in his desperation,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: he calls out.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: To the Lord.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: The first leg of David's flight is to the Tabernacle
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: of the Lord of nob can't you just see it?
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: The big stone walls the tabernacle, the center of worship
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: of that day. David requests food.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: The only food Amelik has to give him is some
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: consecrated bread in our time, kind of like day old bread,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: some loaves of the bread of the presence that has
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: been before the Lord in the tabernacle the previous week.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: David was so very hungry, yes, physically and spiritually too.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: And Jesus cites this incident when he is questioned about
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: eating grain on the Sabbath, and then there is an
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: image of the lamp. It speaks of God's grace and
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: keeping David alive during those dangerous years. Now, like an
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: image of a candle, the light and the glow of
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: a candle, can't you just see it glowing and reflecting
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: on those big stone walls, and seeing the shadows of
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: David dancing. God gave him the strength to run, to
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: leap and fight and defeat the enemy. Do you need
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: that same kind of strength? Well, if so, invite it
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: in to embed in you that same warrior spirit. Psalm
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: eighteen seventeen reads, He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: from my foes who were too strong for me.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Can't you just.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: See David dancing and singing before God, thanking him for
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: past deliverances. God hears David's voice just as surely as
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: he will hear your voice if you call out to him, and,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: like David, may you have God's covering to scale walls
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: blocking your progress, leap like a deer up the mountainside.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I will love you a Lord, my strength. The Lord
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: my strength in whom I will trust my shield and
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: shall I be saved from my enemies. King David is
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: one of the most important figures in Jewish history. Although
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: David does not look like a king should look, he
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: has the heart of a lion, a courageous spirit, and
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: even more, a deep, unending love for God. Like David,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: you two can build and accomplish something on such a foundation.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: David stood on this foundation in the days of tribulation and.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: The challenges in his life.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: And after looking back at God's gracious ministry to him,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: what else could David do but praise him to sing
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: great praises to God.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: It's no wonder.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: King David would sing to the Lord, I will love you,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: my fortress, in my deliverer, my God, my strength in
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my strength, and the horn of
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: who is worthy to be praised, So shall I be
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: saved from my enemies? And while David was in the temple,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: God heard the cries of his heart, and he hears
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: the cries of your heart to Psalm eighteen is a
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: resurrection psalm from King David of Sorts after several verses
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: of thanksgiving. The Psalm ends by this great victory to
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: the King the Messiah, David's descended Jesus Yeshiah, your Messiah,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: and continuing to sing, David proclaims, therefore, I will praise
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  Speaker 2: you Lord among the nations. I will sing the praises
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: of your name. Now as you drift asleep. God has
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: not changed one iota during all these years. As he
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: treated David, so he treats you. He is not partial.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: The only thing that matters is how you have it
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: in your heart. David focused on the heavens above him,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: the glow of the sun. Can't you see the rays
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: of the sun just shining upon David, the vibrance of
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: the sky above him, the flowing waters. The entire triumphal
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: procession started with I will love you, o Lord, my strength.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength, and whom I will trust my
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. If this
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: is true in you, God will move heaven and earth
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: for you. Now as you drift in to a deep sleep.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: May you hear David playing his heart, rejoicing like King David.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: May you know God.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Hears the cries of your heart. May your dreams take
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: you to a place where you are dancing and singing
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: before the Lord. I will call upon the Lord, who
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: was worthy to be praised. In my distress, I called
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: upon the Lord, to my God, I cried for help
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: from his temple. He heard my voice in my cry
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: to him, reached his ears. May the Lord bless.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: You and keep you. May he make his face shine
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: upon you and be gracious to you.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: May the Lord turn his face to you and grant
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: you peace. Ask the Lord to lead you to the
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: picture in verse from Psalm eighteen that's especially meant for you.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: He reaches down from on high and takes hold of you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: He draws you out of the deep waters. He brings
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: you out into a spacious space. Jesus rescues you because
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: he delights in you. As you fall asleep, step into
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: David's great victory. I will love you, O Lord my strength.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength in whom I will trust my
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: will call all upon the Lord who is worthy to
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: be praised, So shall I be saved from my enemies.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I pray for this dear one, your child, who desperately
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: cries out to you and longs for RESTful sleep in
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: your comforting arms. O, Lord, protect your child and Jesus,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: deliver the dreams that only you know are needed. Speak
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: your wisdom of truth and salvation that only comes through you. Amen,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: this is your moment to put away your demands and pressures.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: This is your time alone with God, to commune in
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: his comfort, his peace, and his goodness. Relax, close your eyes,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: get comfortable. Block out the distractions from the day that
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: came between you and our Lord Jesus is only a
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: prayer away, a thought away. This is your time with
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: him as you embrace a deep sleep. Now take a
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: deep breath. Relax as I pray, Lord Jesus, thank you
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: for all that You've done for me. Thank you for
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: being with me to day, even when I felt I
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: was alone, surrounded by busyness and pressures of the day, I.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Call upon your name.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I release that chaos now, and like David, I sing
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: praises to you. I call upon your name to calm
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: the storms I face. I cry out to you for
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: your ways to be present in my mind, my body,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: and soul. Forgive me for not always showing it. But
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I love you so very much. I give you all
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: the praise and all the glory.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised.
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  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
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  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
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  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears Psalm eighteen.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: This psalm is virtually the same as the psalm sung
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  Speaker 2: by David at the end of his life, as recorded
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: in Second Samuel twenty two. It is most likely that
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  Speaker 2: David composed this song as a younger man. Yet in
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  Speaker 2: his old age David could look back with great gratitude
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  Speaker 2: and sing this song again, looking at his whole life.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that so true? How many times have you not
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  Speaker 2: seen God's hand in your life, but only through the
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  Speaker 2: rear view mirror or on the other side of the
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  Speaker 2: mountain you saw how God guided you through a storm.
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  Speaker 2: Now put yourself in david sandals for a moment.
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  Speaker 3: David is on his own a.
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  Speaker 2: Fugitive running for his life. And yes, God will be
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  Speaker 2: with him during this time abundantly. But David is just
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  Speaker 2: learning to walk with the Lord. David is desperate and
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  Speaker 2: without resources to make an escape. Can you see this
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  Speaker 2: fine painting? David paints a practically hopeless situation where you
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  Speaker 2: cannot see any way of surviving with your life, destruction
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  Speaker 2: and death as compared to a raging river or torrents
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  Speaker 2: of continual ungodliness that is pursuing David in his desperation,
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  Speaker 2: he hauls out to the Lord. The first leg of
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  Speaker 2: David's flight is to the Tabernacle of the Lord of
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  Speaker 2: nob can't you just see it? The big stone walls
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  Speaker 2: the tabernacle, the center of worship of that day. David
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  Speaker 2: requests food.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: The only food Amelik has to give him is some
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  Speaker 2: consecrated bread in our time, kind of like day old bread,
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  Speaker 2: some loaves of the bread of the presence that has
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: been before the Lord in the tabernacle the previous week.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: David was so very hungry, yes physically and spiritually too.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: And Jesus cites this incident when he is questioned about
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: eating grain on the Sabbath, and then there is an
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: image of the lamp. It speaks of God's grace and
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  Speaker 2: keeping David alive during those dangerous years. Now, like an
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  Speaker 2: image of a candle, the light and the glow of
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  Speaker 2: a candle, can't you just see it glowing and reflecting
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  Speaker 2: on those big stone walls and seeing the shadows of
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: David dancing. God gave him the strength to run, to
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: leap and fight and defeat the enemy. Do you need
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: that same kind of strength? Well, if so, invited in
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: to embed in you that same warrior spirit. Psalm eighteen
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: seventeen reads, He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: my foes who were too strong for me.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Can't you just.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: See David dancing and singing before God, thanking him for
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: past deliverances. God hears David's voice just as surely as
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: he will hear your voice if you call out to him, And,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: like David, may you have God's covering to scale walls
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: blocking your progress, leap like a deer up the mountainside.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I will love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God,
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  Speaker 2: my strength in whom I will trust my shield and
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I will call upon the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Who is worthy to be praised, So shall I be
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  Speaker 2: saved from my enemies. King David is one of the
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  Speaker 2: most important figures in Jewish history. Although David does not
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  Speaker 2: look like a king should look, he has the heart
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  Speaker 2: of a lion, a courageous spirit, and even more, a deep,
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  Speaker 2: unending love for God. And like David, you two can
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  Speaker 2: build and accomplish something on such a foundation. David stood
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  Speaker 2: on this foundation in the days of tribulation and the
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  Speaker 2: challenges in his life, and after looking back at God's
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  Speaker 2: gracious ministry to him, what else could David do but
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  Speaker 2: praise him? To sing great praises to God. It's no wonder.
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  Speaker 2: King David would sing to the Lord. I will love you,
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  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: my fortress, in my deliverer, my God, my strength in
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my strength and the horn of
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: I will call.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Upon the Lord who is worthy to be p raised,
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  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. Now, while
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: David was in the temple, God heard the cries of
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: his heart, and he hears the cries of your heart.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: To Psalm eighteen is a resurrection psalm from King David
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: of Sorts. After several verses of thanksgiving, the psalm ends
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: by this great victory to the King the Messiah David's
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: descended Jesus Yeshiah, your Messiah, and continuing to sing, David proclaims, therefore,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I will praise you Lord among the nations. I will
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: sing the praises of your name. Now as you drift asleep.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: God has not changed one during all these years. As
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  Speaker 2: he treated David, so he treats you. He is not partial.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: The only thing that matters is how you have it
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  Speaker 2: in your heart. David focused on the heavens above him,
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  Speaker 2: the glow of the sun. Can't you see the rays
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: of the sun just shining upon David, the vibrance of
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: the sky above him, the flowing waters. The entire triumphal
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: procession started with I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength, and whom I will trust my
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  Speaker 2: shield and the horn.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Of my salvation, my stronghold.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to
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  Speaker 2: be prayed. So shall I be saved from my enemies.
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  Speaker 2: If this is true in you. God will move heaven
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  Speaker 2: and earth for you. Now, as you drift into a
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: deep sleep, may you hear David playing his heart, rejoicing
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  Speaker 2: like King David.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: May you know God.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Hears the cries of your heart. May your dreams take
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: you to a place where you are dancing and singing
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: before the Lord. I will call upon the Lord, who
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  Speaker 2: was worthy to be praised. In my distress, I called
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: upon the Lord, to my God, I cried for help
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: from his temple. He heard my voice in my cry
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  Speaker 2: to him, reached his ears. May the Lord.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Bless you and keep you.
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  Speaker 2: May he make his face shine upon you and be
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  Speaker 2: gracious to you. May the Lord turn his face to
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  Speaker 2: you and grant you peace. Ask the Lord to lead
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  Speaker 2: you to the picture in verse from Psalm eighteen that's
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: especially meant for you. He reaches down from on high
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  Speaker 2: and takes hold of you. He draws you out of
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: the deep waters.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: He brings you.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Out into a spacious space. Jesus rescues you because he
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: delights in you. As you fall asleep, step into David's
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: great victory. I will love you, o Lord my strength.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength, in whom I will trust my
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. I pray
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  Speaker 2: for this dear one, your child, who desperately cries out
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: to you and longs for RESTful sleep in your comforting arms. O, Lord,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: protect your child and Jesus, deliver the dreams that only
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: you know are needed. Speak your wisdom of truth and salvation.
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  Speaker 3: That only comes through you. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: This is your moment to put away your demands and pressures.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: This is your time alone with God, to commune in
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: his comfort, his peace, and his goodness. Relax, close your eyes,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: get comfortable. Block out the distractions from the day that
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: came between you and our Lord Jesus is only a
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: prayer away, a thought away. This is your time with
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Him as you embrace a deep sleep. Now take a
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: deep breath, lax, as I pray, Lord Jesus, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for all that You've done for me. Thank you for
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: being with me today, even when I felt I was alone,
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: surrounded by busyness and pressures of the day. I call
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: upon your name I release that chaos now, and like David,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I sing praises to you. I call upon your name
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: to calm the storms I face. I cry out to
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: you for your ways to be present in my mind,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: my body, and soul. Forgive me for not always showing it.
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  Speaker 3: But I love you so very much.
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  Speaker 2: H I give you all the praise and all the glory.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears Psalm eighteen.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: This psalm is virtually the same as the psalm sung
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: by David at the end of his life, as recorded
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: in Second Samuel twenty two. It is most likely that
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: David composed this song as a younger man, Yet in
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: his old age, David could look back with great gratitude
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: and sing this song again, looking at his whole life.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Isn't that so true? How many times have you not
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: seen God's hand in your life, but only through the
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: rear view mirror or on the other side of the
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: mountain you saw how God guided.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: You through a storm.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Now put yourself in David's sandals For a moment. David
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: is on his own, a fugitive running for his life.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: And yes, God will be with him during this time abundantly.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: But David is just learning to walk with the Lord.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: David is desperate and without resources to make an escape.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Can you see this fine painting David paints a practically
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: hopeless situation. Well, you cannot see any way of surviving
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: with your life. Destruction and death is compared to a
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: raging river or torrents of continual ungodliness that is pursuing David.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: In his desperation, he calls out to the Lord. The
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: first leg of David's flight is to the Tabernacle of
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: the Lord of nab can't you just see it? The
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: big stone walls the tabernacle, the center of worship of
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: that day. David requests food.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: The only food Amlik has to give him is some
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: consecrated bread in our time, kind of like day old bread,
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: some loaves of the bread of the presence that has
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: been before the Lord in the tabernacle the previous week.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: David was so very hungry, yes physically and spiritually too.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: And Jesus cites this incident when he is questioned about
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: eating grain on the Sabbath, and then there is an
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: image of the lamp. It speaks of God's grace and
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: keeping David alive during those dangerous years. Now like an
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: image of a candle, the light and the glow of
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: a candle. Can't you just see it glowing and reflecting
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: on those big stone walls and seeing the shadows of
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: David dancing. God gave him the strength to run, to
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: leap and fight and defeat the enemy. Do you need
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: that same kind of strength? Well, if so, invited in
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: to embed in you that same warrior spirit. Psalm eighteen
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: seventeen reads, he rests, thank me from my powerful enemy,
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: from my foes who were too strong for me.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: Can't you just.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: See David dancing and singing before God, thanking him for
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: past deliverances. God hears David's voice just as surely as
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: he will hear your voice if you call out to him, and,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: like David, may you have God's covering to scale walls
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: blocking your progress, leap like a deer up the mountainside.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: I will love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: My God, my.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Strength in whom I will trust my shield and the
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: the Lord who is worthy to be praised, So shall
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: I be saved from my enemies. King David is one
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: of the most important figures in Jewish history. Although David
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: does not look like a king should look, he has
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: the heart of a lion, a courageous spirit, and even more,
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: a deep, unending.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: Love for God.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Nike, David, you two can build and accomplish something on
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: such a foundation. David stood on this foundation in the
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: days of tribulation and the challenges in his life, and
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: after looking back at God's gracious ministry to him, what
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: else could David do but praise him to sing great
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: praises to God. It's no wonder King David would sing
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: to the Lord.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: I will love you, a Lord my strength.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, in my deliverer,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength, in whom I will trust my
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: strength and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised,
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. And while
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: David was in the temple, God heard the cries of
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: his heart, and he hears the cries of your heart
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: to Psalm eighteen is a resurrection psalm from King David
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: of Sorts. After several verses of thanksgiving, the psalm ends
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: by this great victory to the King the Messiah David's
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: descended Jesus Yeshiah, your Messiah, and continuing to sing, David proclaims, therefore,
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: I will praise you Lord among the nations. I will
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: sing the praises of your name. Now as you drift asleep.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: God has not.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Changed one iota during all these years. As he treated David,
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: so he treats you. He is not partial. The only
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: thing that matters is how you have it in your heart.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: David focused on the heavens above him, the glow of
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: the sun. Can't you see the rays of the sun
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: just shining upon David, the vibrance of the sky above him,
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: the flowing waters. The entire triumphal procession started with I
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: will love you, oh Lord, my strength. The Lord is
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: my rock and my fortress, and my liverer, my God,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: my strength in whom I will trust my shield and
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised. So
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: shall I be saved from my enemies. If this is
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: true in you, God will move heaven and earth for you. Now,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: as you drift into a deep sleep, may you hear
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: David playing his heart, rejoicing like King David.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: May you know God.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Hears the cries of your heart. May your dreams take
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: you to a place where you are dancing and singing
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: before the Lord. I will call upon the Lord, who
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: is worthy to be praised. In my distress, I called
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: upon the Lord, to my God. I cried for help
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: from his temple. He heard my voice.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: In my cry to him, reached his ears. May the
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Lord bless you and keep you.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: May he make his face shine upon you and be
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: gracious to you. May the Lord turn his face to
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: you and grant you peace. Ask the Lord to lead
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: you to the picture in verse from Psalm eighteen that's
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: especially meant for you. He reaches down from on high
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: and takes hold of you. He draws you out of
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: the deep waters. He brings you out into a spacious space.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Jesus rescues you because he delights in you. As you
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: fall asleep, step into David's great victory. I will love
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: you O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: in whom I will trust my shield and the horn
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: of my salvation, my stronghold.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: I will call.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised. So
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: shall I be saved from my enemies. I pray for
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: this dear one, your child, who desperately cries out to
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: you and longs for RESTful sleep in your comforting arms.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: O Lord, protect your child and Jesus, deliver the dreams
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: that only you know are needed. Speak your wisdom of
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: truth and salvation that only comes through you. Amen, This
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: is your moment to put away your demands and pressures.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: This is your time alone with God, to commune in
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: his comfort, his peace, and his goodness. Relax, close your eyes,
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: get comfortable. Block out the distractions from the day that
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: came between you and our Lord. Jesus is only a
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: prayer away, a thought away. This is your time with
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: Him as you embrace a deep sleep. Now take a
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: deep breath. Relax as I pray, Lord Jesus, thank you
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: for all that You've done for me. Thank you for
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: being with me today, even when I felt I was alone,
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: surrounded by busyness and pressures of the day. I call
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: upon your name. I release that chaos now, and like David,
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: I sing praises to you.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: I call upon.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Your name to calm the storms I face. I cry
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: out to you for your ways to be present in
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: my mind, my body, and soul. Forgive me for not
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: always showing it. But I love you so very much.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: I give you all the praise and all the glory.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears Psalm eighteen.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: This psalm is virtually the same as the psalm sung
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: by David at the end of his life, as recorded
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: in Second Samuel twenty two. Is most likely that David
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: composed this song as a younger man, yet in his
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: old age, David could look back with great gratitude and
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: sing this song again, looking at his whole life. Isn't
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: that so true? How many times have you not seen
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: God's hand in your life, but only through the rear
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: view mirror or on the other side of the mountain
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: you saw? How God guided you through a storm. Now
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: put yourself in David's sandals for a moment. David is
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: on his own, a fugitive running for his life. And yes,
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: God will be with him during this time abundantly. But
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: David is just learning to walk with the Lord. David
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: is desperate and without resources to make an escape. Can
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: you see this fine painting? David paints a practically hopeless
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: situation where you cannot see any way of surviving with
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: your life. Destruction and death is compared to a raging
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: river or torrents of continual ungodliness that is pursuing David.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: In his desperation. He calls out.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: To the Lord.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: The first leg of David's flight is to the Tabernacle
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: of the Lord of nob can't you just see it?
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: The big stone walls the tabernacle, the center of worship
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  Speaker 2: of that day. David requests food.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: The only food Amlik has to give him is some
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: concert created bread in our time, kind of like day
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  Speaker 2: old bread, some loaves of the bread of the presence
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  Speaker 2: that has been before the Lord in the tabernacle.
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  Speaker 3: The previous week.
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  Speaker 2: David was so very hungry, yes physically and spiritually too,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus cites this incident when he is questioned about
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: eating grain on the Sabbath, and then there is an
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: image of the lamp. It speaks of God's grace and
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: keeping David alive during those dangerous years. Now like an
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  Speaker 2: image of a candle, the light and the glow of
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: a candle. Can't you just see it glowing and reflecting
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: on those big stone walls and seeing the shadows of
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: David dancing. God gave him the strength to run, to
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: leap and fight and defeat the enemy. Do you need
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: that same kind of strength? Well, if so, invited in
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: to embed in you that same warrior spirit. Psalm eighteen
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: seventeen reads, He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: my foes who were too strong for me.
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: Can't you just.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: See David dancing and singing before God, thanking him for
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: past deliverances. God hears David's voice just as surely as
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: he will hear your voice if you call out to
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: him and, like David, may you have God's covering to
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: scale walls blocking your progress, leap like a deer up
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: the mountainside. I will love you, o Lord, my strength.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength, in whom I will trust my
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. King David
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: is one of the most important figures in Jewish history.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: Although David does not look like a king should look,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: he has the heart of a lion, a courageous spirit,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: and even more, a deep, unending love for God. And
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: like David, you two can build and accomplish something on
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: such a foundation. David stood on this foundation in the
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: days of tribulation and the challenges in his life, and
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: after looking back at God's gracious ministry to him, what
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: else could David do but praise him? To sing great
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: praises to God. It's no wonder King David would sing
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: to the Lord. I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, in my deliverer,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength, in whom I will trust my
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: strength and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: I will call.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: Upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised, So
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: shall I be saved from my enemies. And while David
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: was in the temple. God heard the cries of his heart,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: and he hears the cries of your heart to Psalm
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: eighteen is a resurrection psalm from King David of Sorts.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: After several verses of thanksgiving, the psalm ends by this
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: great victory to the King the Messiah. David's descended Jesus Yeshiah,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: your Messiah, and continuing to sing, David proclaims, therefore, I
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: will praise you Lord among the nations. I will sing
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: the praises of your name. Now as you drift asleep.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: God has not changed one iota during all these years.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: As he treated David, so he treats you. He is
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: not partial. The only thing that matters is how you
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: have it in your heart. David focused on the heavens
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: above him, the glow of the sun. Can't you see
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: the rays of the sun just shining upon David, The
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: vibrance of the sky above him, the flowing waters. The
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: entire triumphal procession started with I will love you, O Lord,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: and my deliverer, my God, my strength in whom I
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: will trust my shield and the horn of my salvation.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: My stronghold. I will call upon the.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: Lord who is worthy to be praised.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. If this
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: is true in you, God will move heaven and earth
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: for you.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: Now, as you drift.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: Into a deep sleep, May you hear David playing his heart,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: rejoicing like King David. May you know God hears the cries.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: Of your heart.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: May your dreams take you to a place where you
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: are dancing and singing before the Lord. I will call
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: upon the Lord who was worthy to be praised. In
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears. May
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: the Lord bless.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: You and keep you. May he make his face.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: Shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: Lord turn his face to you and grant you peace.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: Ask the Lord to lead you to the picture in
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: verse from Psalm eighteen that's especially meant for you. He
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: reaches down from on high ti he takes hold of you.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: He draws you out of the deep waters. He brings
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: you out into a spacious space. Jesus rescues you because
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: he delights in you. As you fall asleep, step into
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: David's great victory. I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength in whom I will trust my
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. I pray
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: for this dear one, your child who desperately cries out
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: to you and longs for RESTful sleep in your comforting arms.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: O Lord, protect your child.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: And Jesus, deliver the dreams that only you know are needed.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: Speak your wisdom of truth and salvation that only comes
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: through you. Amen, this is your moment to put away
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: your demands and pressures. This is your time alone with
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: God to commune in his comfort, his peace, and his goodness.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Relax your eyes, get comfortable, block out the distractions from
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: the day that came between you and our Lord. Jesus
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: is only a prayer away, a thought away. This is
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: your time with Him as you embrace a deep sleep.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: Now take a deep breath.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: Relax as I pray, Lord Jesus, thank you for all
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: that you've done for me. Thank you for being with
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: me today, even when I felt I was alone, surrounded
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: by busyness and pressures of the day. I call upon
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: you name. I release that chaos now, and like David,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: I sing praises to you. I call upon your name
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: to calm the storms I face. I cry out to
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: you for your ways to be present in my mind,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: my body, and soul. Forgive me for not always showing it.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: But I love you so very much.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: I give you all the praise and all the glory.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: In my distress. I called upon the Lord, to my God,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears Psalm eighteen.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: This psalm is virtually the same as the psalm sung
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: by David at the end of his life, as recorded
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: in Second Samuel twenty two. It is most likely that
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: David composed this song as a younger man. Yet in
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: his old age, David could look back with great gratitude
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: and sing this song again, looking at his whole life.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: Isn't that so true? How many times have you not
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: seen God's hand in your life, but only through the
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: rear view mirror or on the other side of the mountain.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: You saw how God guided you through a storm. Now
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: put yourself in david sandals for a moment.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: David is on his own.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: A fugitive running for his life. And yes, God will
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: be with him during this time abundantly. But David is
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: just learning to walk with the Lord. David is desperate
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: and without resources to make an escape. Can you see
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: this fine painting? David paints a practically hopeless situation where
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: you cannot see any way of surviving with your life,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: destruction and death as compared to a raging river or
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: torrents of continual ungodliness that is pursuing David. In his desperation,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: he calls.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: Out to the Lord.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: The first leg of David's flight is to the Tabernacle
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: of the Lord of nob can't you just see it?
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: The big stone walls the tabernacle, the center of worship
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: of that day. David requests food.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: The only food Amelik has to give him is some
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: consecrated bread in our time, kind of like day old bread,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: some loaves of the bread of the presence that has
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: been before the Lord in the tabernacle the previous week.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: David was so very hungry, Yes, physically and spiritually too.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: And Jesus cites this incident when he is questioned about
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: eating grain on the Sabbath. And then there is an
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: image of the lamp. It speaks of God's grace and
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: keeping David alive during those dangerous years. Now, like an
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: image of a candle, the life and the glow of
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: a candle. Can't you just see it glowing and reflecting
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: on those big stone walls and seeing the shadows of
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: David dancing. God gave him the strength to run, to
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: leap and fight and defeat the enemy. Do you need
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: that same kind of strength? Well, if so, invite it
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: in to embed in you that same warrior spirit. Psalm
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: eighteen seventeen reads, He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: from my foes who were too strong for me. Can't
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: you just see David dancing and singing before God, thanking
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: him for past deliverances. God hears David's voice just as
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: surely as he will hear your voice if you call
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: out to him, And, like David, may you have God's
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: covering to scale walls blocking your progress, leap like a
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: deer up the mountainside I will love you, O Lord,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: and my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: will trust my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord who is
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: worthy to be praised, So shall I be saved from
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: my enemies. King David is one of the most important
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: figures in Jewish history. Although David does not look like
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: a king should look, he has the heart of a lion,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: a courageous spirit, and even more, a deep, unending love
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: for God. Like David, you two can build and accomplish
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: something on such a foundation. David stood on this foundation
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: in the days of tribulation and the challenges in his life,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: and after looking back at God's gracious ministry to him,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: what else could David do but praise him to sing
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: great praises to God. It's no wonder King David would
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: sing to the Lord.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, in my deliverer,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength, in whom I will trust my
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: strength and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. And while
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: David was in the temple, God heard the cries of
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: his heart, and he hears the cries of your heart.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: To Psalm eighteen is a resurrection psalm from King David
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: of Sorts. After several verses of thanksgiving, the psalm ends
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: by this great victory to the King the Messiah. David's
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: descended Jesus Yeshiah, your Messiah, and continuing to sing, David proclaims, therefore,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: I will praise you Lord among the nations. I will
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: sing the praises of your name. Now as you drift asleep.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: God has not changed one iota during all these years.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: As he treated David, so he treats you. He is
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: not partial. The only thing that matters is how you
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: have it in your heart. David focused on the heavens
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: above him, the glow of the sun. Can't you see
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: the rays of the sun just shining upon David, The
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: vibrance of the sky above him, the flowing waters. The
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: entire triumphal procession started with I will love you, o Lord,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: and my deliverer, my God, my strength in whom I
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: will trust my shield and the horn of my salvation,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord who is
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: worthy to be praised. So shall I be saved from
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: my enemies. If this is true in you, God, God
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: will move heaven and earth for you. Now, as you
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: drift into a deep sleep, May you hear David playing
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: his heart, rejoicing like King David.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 3: May you know.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: God hears the cries of your heart. May your dreams
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: take you to a place where you are dancing and
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: singing before the Lord. I will call upon the Lord
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: who was worthy to be praised. In my distress, I
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: called upon the Lord, to my God, I cried for
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: help from his temple. He heard my voice in my
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: cry to him, reached his ears. May the Lord bless.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: You and keep you.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: May he make his face shine upon.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 3: You and be gracious to you.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: May the Lord turn his face to you and grant
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: you peace. Ask the Lord to lead you to the
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: picture in verse from Psalm eighteen that's especially meant for you.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: He reaches down from on high and takes hold of you.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: He draws you out of the deep waters. He brings
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: you out into a spacious space. Jesus rescues you because
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: he delights in you. As you fall asleep, step into
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: David's great victory. I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer,
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength in whom I will trustel and
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised. So
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: shall I be saved from my enemies. I pray for
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: this dear one, your child who desperately cries out to
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: you and longs for RESTful sleep in your comforting arms.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: O Lord, protect your child and Jesus, deliver the dreams
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: that only you know are needed. Speak your wisdom of
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: truth and salvation that only comes through you. Amen. Welcome
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: to this time on abide meditation. Would you join me
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: as we invite the calm into the storms of life
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: during this bedtime story. This is your moment to put
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: away your demands and pressures. This is your time alone
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: with God to commune in his comfort, his peace, and
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: his goodness. Relax, close your eyes, get comfortable, block out
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: the distractions from the day that came between you and
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: our Lord. Jesus is only a prayer away, a thought away.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: This is your time with him as you embrace a
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: deep sleep. Now take a deep breath, relax as I pray,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, thank you for all that you've done for me.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: Thank you for.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: Being with me today, even when I felt I was alone,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: surrounded by busyness and pressures of the day.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: I call upon your name.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: I release that chaos now, and like David, I sing
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: praises to you.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 3: I call upon.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: Your name to calm the storms I face. I cry
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: out to you for your ways to be present in
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: my mind, my body, and soul. Forgive me for not
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: always showing it. But I love you so very much.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: I give you all the praise and all the glory.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears Psalm eighteen.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: This psalm is virtually the same as the psalm sung
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: by David at the end of his life, as recorded
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: in Second Samuel twenty two. It is most likely that
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: David composed this song as a younger man, Yet in
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: his old age, David could look back with great gratitude
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: and sing this song again, looking at his whole life.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: Isn't that so true? How many times have you not
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: seen God's hand in your life, but only through the
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: rear view mirror or on the other side of the
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: mountain you saw how God guided you through a storm.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: Now put yourself in david sandals for a moment.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: David is on his own.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: A fugitive running for his life. And yes, God will
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: be with him during this time abundantly. But David is
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: just learning to walk with the Lord. David is desperate
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: and without resources to make an escape. Can you see
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: this fine painting? David paints a practically hopeless situation where
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: you cannot see any way of surviving with your life,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: destruction and death as compared to a raging river or
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: torrents of continue annual ungodliness that is pursuing David. In
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: his desperation, he calls out to the Lord. The first
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: leg of David's flight is to the Tabernacle of the
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: Lord of Nab can't you just see it? The big
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: stone walls, the tabernacle, the center of worship of that day.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: David requests food, now the only food Amelik has to
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: give him is some consecrated bread in our time, kind
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: of like day old bread, some loaves of the bread
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: of the presence that has been before the Lord in
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: the tabernacle the previous week. David was so very hungry, yes,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: physically and spiritually too. And Jesus cites this incident when
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: he is questioned about eating grain on the Sabbath. And
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: then there is an image of the lamp. It speaks
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: of God's grace and keeping David alive during those dangerous years. Now,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: like an image of a candle, the light and the
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: glow of a candle. Can't you just see it glowing
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  Speaker 2: and reflecting on.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 3: Those big stone walls.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: And seeing the shadows of David dancing. God gave him
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: the strength to run, to leap and fight and defeat
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: the enemy. Do you need that same kind of strength? Well,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: if so, invited in to embed in you that same
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: warrior spirit. Psalm eighteen seventeen reads, He rescued me from
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: my powerful enemy, from my foes who were too strong
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: for me. Can't you just see David dance, sing and
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: singing before God, thanking him for past deliverances. God hears
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: David's voice just as surely as he will hear your
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: voice if you call out to him. And like David,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: may you have God's covering to scale walls blocking your progress,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: leap like a deer up the mountainside. I will love you,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: o Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength in
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my shield and the horn of
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: who is worthy to be praised, So shall I be
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: saved from my enemies. King David is one of the
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: most important figures in Jewish history. Although David does not
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: look like a king should look, he has the heart
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: of a lion, a courageous spirit, and even more, a deep,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: unending love for God. And like David, you two can
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: build and accomplish something on such a foundation. David stood
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: on this foundation in the days of tribulation and the
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: challenges in his life, and after looking back at God's
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: gracious ministry to him, what else could David do but
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: praise him To sing great praises to God. It's no
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: wonder King David would sing to the Lord. I will
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: love you, a Lord, my strength. The Lord is my
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: rock and my fortress, in my deliverer, my God, my
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: strength in whom I will trust my strength, and the
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: wi horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised. So
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: shall I be saved from my enemies. And while David
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: was in the temple, God heard the cries of his heart,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: and he hears the cries of your heart to Psalm
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: eighteen is a resurrection psalm from King David of Sorts.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: After several verses of thanksgiving, the psalm ends by this
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: great victory to the King the Messiah David's descended Jesus Yeshiah,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: your Messiah, and continuing to sing, David proclaims, therefore, I
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: will praise you Lord among the nations. I will sing
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: the praises of your name. Now as you drift asleep.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: God has not changed one iota during all these years.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: As he treated David, so he treats you. He is
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: not partial. The only thing that matters is how you
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: have it in your heart. David focused on the heavens
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: above him, the glow of the sun. Can't you see
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: the rays of the sun just shining upon David, The
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: vibrance of the sky above him, the flowing waters. The
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: entire triumphal procession started with I will love you, oh Lord,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress,
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: and my deliverer, my God, my strength, and whom I
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: will trust my shield and the horn.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 4: Of my salvation, my stronghold.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: I will call upon the.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: Lord who is worthy to be praised. So shall I
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: be saved from my enemies. If this is true in you,
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: God will move heaven and earth for you. Now, as
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: you drift into a deep sleep, may you hear David
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: playing his heart, rejoicing like King David.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 3: May you know.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: God hears the cries of your heart. May your dreams
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: take you to a place where you are dancing and
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: singing before the Lord. I will call upon the Lord
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: who was worthy to be praised. In my distress, I
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: called upon the Lord, to my God, I cried for
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: help from his temple. He heard my voice in my
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: cry to him, reached his ears. May the Lord bless
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: you and keep you. May he make his face shine
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: turn his face to you and grant you peace. Ask
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: the Lord to lead you to the picture. In verse
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: from Psalm eighteen. That's especially meant for you. He reaches
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: down from on high and takes hold of you. He
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: draws you out of the deep waters. He brings you
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: out into a spacious space. Jesus rescues you because he
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: delights in you. As you fall asleep, step into David's
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: great victory. I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength in whom I will trust my
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. I pray
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: for this dear one, your child, who desperately cries out
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: to you and longs for RESTful sleep in your comforting arms.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: O Lord, protect your child, and Jesus deliver the dreams
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: that only you know are needed. Speak your wisdom of
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: truth and salvation that only comes through you. Amen. This
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: is your moment to put away your demands and pressures.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: This is your time alone with God to commune in
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: his comfort, his peace, and his goodness. Relax, close your eyes,
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: get comfortable, block out the distractions from the day that
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: came between you and our Lord Jesus is only a
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: prayer away, a thought away. This is your time with
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: him as you embrace a deep sleep. Now take a
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: deep breath, Relax as I pray, Lord Jesus, thank you
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: for all that you've done for me. Thank you for
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: being with me to day, even when I felt I
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: was alone, surrounded by busyness and pressures of the day.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: I call upon your name.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: I release that chaos now, and like David, I sing
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: praises to you.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 3: I call upon.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: Your name to calm the storms I face. I cry
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: out to you for your ways to be present in
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: my mind, my body, and soul. Forgive me for not
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: always showing it. But I love you so very much.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: I give you all the praise and all the glory.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears Psalm eighteen.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: This psalm is virtually the same as the psalm sung
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: by David at the end of his life, as recorded
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: in Second Samuel twenty two. It is most likely that
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: David composed this song as a younger man, yet in
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: his old age David could look back with great gratitude
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: and sing this song again, looking at his whole life.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 3: Isn't that so true?
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: How many times have you not seen God's hand in
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: your life, but only through the rear view mirror or
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: on the other side of the mountain you saw how
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: God guided.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 3: You through a storm.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: Now put yourself in david sandals for a moment. David
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: is on his own, a fugitive running for his life,
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: and yes, God will be with him during this time abundantly.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: But David is just learning to walk with the Lord.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: David is desperate and without resources to make an escape.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: Can you see this fine painting? David paints a practically
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: hopeless situation where you cannot see any way of surviving
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: with your life. Destruction and death is compared to a
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: raging river or torrents of continual ungodliness that is pursuing David.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: In his desperation, he calls out to the Lord. The
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: first leg of David's flight is to the Tabernacle of
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: the Lord of nob Can't you just see it? The
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: big stone walls the tabernacle, the center of worship of
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: that day, David requests food. Now the only food Amelik
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: has to give him is some consecrated bread in our time,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: kind of like day old bread, some loaves of the
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: bread of the presence that has been before the Lord
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: and the Habernacle.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 3: The previous week.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: David was so very hungry, yes, physically and spiritually too.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: And Jesus cites this incident when he is questioned about
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: eating grain on the Sabbath, and then there is an.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 3: Image of the lamp.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 2: It speaks of God's grace and keeping David alive during
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: those dangerous years. Now, like an image of a candle,
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: the light and the glow of a candle, can't you
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: just see it glowing and reflecting on those big stone
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: walls and seeing the shadows of David dancing. God gave
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: him the strength to run, to leap and fight and
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: defeat the enemy. Do you need that same kind of strength? Well,
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: if so, invited in to embed in you that sine
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: warrior spirit. Psalm eighteen seventeen reads, He rescued me from
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: my powerful enemy, from my foes who were too strong
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: for me. Can't you just see David dancing and singing
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: before God thanking him for past deliverances. God hears David's
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: voice just as surely as he will hear your voice
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: if you call out to him, And, like David, may
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: you have God's covering to scale walls blocking your progress.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 2: Leap like a deer up the mountainside. I will love you,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: my fortress, and my deliverer, My God, my strength, in
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my shield, and the horn of
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold.
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 3: I will call.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: Upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, So
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: shall I be saved from my enemies. King David is
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: one of the most important figures in Jewish history. Although
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: David does not look like a king should look, he
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: has the heart of a lion, a courageous spirit, and
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 2: even more, a deep, unending.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: Love for God.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: Like David, you two can build and accomplish something on
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: such a foundation. David stood on this foundation in the
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: days of tribulation and the challenges in his life, And
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: after looking back at God's gracious ministry to him, what
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: else could David do but praise him? To sing great
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: praises to God. It's no wonder King David would sing
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: to the Lord. I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, in my deliverer,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength, in whom I will trust my strength,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. And while
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: David was in the temple, God heard the cries of
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: his heart, and he hears the cries of your heart
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: to Psalm eighteen is a resurrection psalm from King David
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 2: of Sorts. After several verses of thanksgiving, the psalm ends
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: by this great victory to the King the Messiah David's
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: descended Jesus Yeshiah, your Messiah, and continuing to sing, David proclaims, therefore,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: I will praise you Lord among the nations. I will
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: sing the praises of your name. Now as you drift asleep.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: God has not changed one iota during all these years.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 2: As he treated David, so he treats you. He is
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: not partial. The only thing that matters is how you
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: have it in your heart. David focused on the heavens
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: above him, the glow of the sun. Can't you see
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 2: the rays of the sun just shining upon David, the
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: vibrance of the sky above him, the flowing waters. The
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: entire triumphal procession started with I will love you, o Lord,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: and my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: will trust my shield and the horn of.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 4: My salvation, my stronghold.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 2: be praised. So shall I be saved from my enemies.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: If this is true in you, God will move heaven
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 2: and earth for you. Now, as you drift into a
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: deep sleep, May you hear David playing his heart, rejoicing
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: like King David.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 3: May you know God hears the cries of your heart.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: May your dreams take you to a place where you
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 2: are dancing and singing before the Lord. I will call
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 2: upon the Lord, Lord who was worthy to be praised.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears. May
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 2: the Lord bless.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 3: You and keep you.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 2: May He make his face shine upon you and be
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: gracious to you. May the Lord turn his face to
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: you and grant you peace. Ask the Lord to lead
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: you to the picture in verse from Psalm eighteen that's
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: especially meant for you. He reaches down from on high
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 2: and takes hold of you. He draws you out of
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 2: the deep waters. He brings you out into a spacious space.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 2: Jesus rescues you because he delights in you. As you
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 2: fall asleep, step into David's great victory. I will love you,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength in
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust, my shield and the horn of
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: who is worthy to be praised, So shall I be
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: saved from my enemies. I pray for this dear one,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: your child, who desperately cries out to you and longs
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 2: for RESTful sleep in your comforting arms.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 3: O Lord, protect your child.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: And Jesus deliver the dreams that only you know are needed.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 2: Speak your wisdom of truth and salvation that only comes
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 2: through you. Amen. This is your moment to put away
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 2: your demands and pressures. This is your time alone with
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 2: God to commune in his comfort, his peace, and his goodness. Relax,
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 2: close your eyes, get comfortable, block out the distractions from
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 2: the day that came between you and our Lord Jesus
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: is only a prayer away, a thought away. This is
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: your time with him as you embrace a deep sleep.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 2: Now take a deep breath, relax as I pray, Lord Jesus,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: thank you for all that You've done for me.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 3: Thank you for.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 2: Being with me today, even when I felt I was alone,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 2: surrounded by busyness and pressures of the day, I call
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 2: upon your name. I release that chaos now, and like David,
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: I sing praises to you.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 3: I call upon.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: Your name to calm the storms I face. I cry
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: out to you for your ways to be present in
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 2: my mind, my body, and soul. Forgive me for not
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: always showing it. But I love you so very much.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: I give you all the praise and all the glory.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 2: I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears Psalm eighteen.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 2: This psalm is virtually the same as the psalm sung
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: by David at the end of his life. As recorded
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 2: in Second Samuel twenty two. It is most likely that
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: David composed this song as a younger man. Yet in
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: his old age David could look back with great gratitude
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: and sing this song again, looking at his whole life.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 2: Isn't that so true? How many times have you not
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: seen God's hand in your life? But only through the
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: rear view mirror or on the other side of the
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: mountain you saw how God guided you through a storm.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 2: Now put yourself in david sandals for a moment.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 3: David is on his own, a.
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 2: Fugitive running for his life, and yes, God will be
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 2: with him during this time abundantly. But David is just
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 2: learning to walk with the Lord. David is desperate and
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 2: without resources to make an escape. Can you see this
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: fine painting? David paints a practically hopeless situation where you
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: cannot see any way of surviving with your life. Destruction
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 2: and death is compared to a raging river or torrents
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 2: of continual ungodliness that is pursuing David. In his desperation,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: he calls out to the Lord. The first leg of
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 2: David's flight is to the Tabernacle of the Lord of
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 2: nob can't you just see it the big stone walls,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 2: the tabernacle, the center of worship of that day.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 3: David requests food.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 2: Now the only food Amelik has to give him is
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 2: some consecrated bread in our time, kind of like day
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 2: old bread, some loaves of the bread of the presence
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 2: that has been before the Lord in the tabernacle the
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 2: previous week. David was so very hungry, yes, physically and
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 2: spiritually too. And Jesus cites this incident when he is
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: questioned about eating grain on the Sabbath. And then there
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  Speaker 2: is an image of the lamp. It speaks of God's
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  Speaker 2: grace and keeping David alive during those dangerous years. Now,
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 2: like an image of a candle, the light and the
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: glow of a candle. Can't you just see it glowing
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  Speaker 2: and reflecting on.
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  Speaker 3: Those big stone walls.
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  Speaker 2: And seeing the shadows of David dancing. God gave him
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  Speaker 2: the strength to run, to leap and fight and defeat
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  Speaker 2: the enemy. Do you need that same kind of strength? Well,
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  Speaker 2: if so, invited in to imbed in you that same
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  Speaker 2: warrior spirit. Psalm eighteen seventeen reads, He rescued me from
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  Speaker 2: my powerful enemy, from my foes who were too strong
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  Speaker 2: for me. Can't you just see David dancing and singing
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 2: before God, thanking him for past deliverances.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 3: God hears David's voice.
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  Speaker 2: Just as surely as he will hear your voice if
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: you call out to him, And like David, may you
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 2: have God's covering to scale walls blocking your progress. Leap
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 2: like a deer up the mountainside. I will love you,
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 2: my fortress, and my deliverer, My God, my strength in
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my shield and the horn of
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord
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  Speaker 2: who is worthy to be praised, So shall I be
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  Speaker 2: saved from my enemies.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 3: King David is one of the.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: Most important figures in Jewish history. Although David does not
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 2: look like a king should look, he has the heart
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 2: of a lion, a courageous spirit, and even more, a deep,
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 2: unending love for God. And like David, you two can
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: build and accomplish something on such a foundation. David stood
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 2: on this foundation in the days of tribulation and the
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 2: challenges in his life, and after looking back at God's
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: gracious ministry to him, what else could David do but
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 2: praise him to sing great praises to God.
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 3: It's no wonder.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 2: King David would sing to the Lord, I will love you,
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 2: my fortress, in my deliverer, my God, my strength, in
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my strength, and the horn of
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord
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  Speaker 2: who is worthy to be praised. So shall I be
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 2: saved from my enemies. And while David was in the temple,
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 2: God heard the cries of his heart, and he hears
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  Speaker 2: the cries of your heart to Psalm eighteen is a
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 2: resurrection psalm from King David of Sorts. After several verses
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  Speaker 2: of thanksgiving, the psalm ends by this great victory to
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 2: the King the Messiah, David's descended Jesus Yeshiah, your Messiah,
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  Speaker 2: and continuing to sing, David proclaims, therefore, I will praise
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  Speaker 2: you Lord among the nations. I will sing the praises
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  Speaker 2: of your name. Now as you drift asleep. God has
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 2: not changed one iota during all these years. As he
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 2: treated David, so he treats you. He is not partial.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 2: The only thing that matters is how you have it
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 2: in your heart. David focused on the heavens above him,
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  Speaker 2: the glow of the sun. Can't you see the rays
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 2: of the sun just shining upon David, the vibrance of
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 2: the sky above him, the flowing waters. The entire triumphal
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 2: procession started with I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer,
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength in whom I will trust my
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 2: shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 3: I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to
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  Speaker 3: be praised.
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  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. If this
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  Speaker 2: is true in you, God will move heaven and earth
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 2: for you. Now, as you drift into a deep sleep,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 2: May you hear David playing his heart, rejoicing like King David.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 2: May you know God hears the cries of your heart.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 2: May your dreams take you to a place where you
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 2: are dancing and singing before the Lord. I will call
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 2: upon the Lord who was worthy to be praised. In
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 2: my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears. May
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 2: the Lord bless you and keep you.
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 3: May he make his face.
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 2: Shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 2: Lord turn his face to you and grant you peace.
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 2: Ask the Lord to lead you to the picture in
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 2: verse from Psalm eighteen that's especially meant for you. He
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: reaches down from on high and takes hold of you.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 2: He draws you out of the deep waters. He brings
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 2: you out into a spacious space. Jesus rescues you because
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 2: he delights in you. As you fall asleep, step into
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 2: David's great victory. I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer,
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength in whom I will trust my
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 2: shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 2: will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. I pray
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 2: for this dear one, your child, who desperately cries out
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 2: to you and longs for RESTful sleep in your comforting arms.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 2: O Lord, protect your child, and Jesus deliver the dreams
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 2: that only you know are needed. Speak your wisdom of
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 2: truth and salvation.
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 3: That only comes through you. Amen.
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 2: This is your moment to put away your demands and pressures.
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 2: This is your time alone with God. To commune in
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 2: his comfort, his peace, and his goodness. Relax, close your eyes,
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 2: get comfortable. Block out the distractions from the day that
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 2: came between you and our Lord Jesus is only a
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 2: prayer away, a thought away. This is your time with
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 2: him as you embrace a deep sleep. Now take a
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 2: deep breath. Relax as I pray, Lord Jesus, thank you
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 2: for all that you've done for me. Thank you for
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 2: being with me today, even when I felt I was alone,
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 2: surrounded by busyness and pressures of the day.
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 3: I call upon your name.
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  Speaker 2: I release that chaos now, and like David, I sing.
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  Speaker 3: Praises to you.
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  Speaker 2: I call upon your name to calm the storms I face.
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 2: I cry out to you for your ways to be
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 2: present in my mind, my body, and soul. Forgive me
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 2: for not always showing it. But I love you so
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  Speaker 2: very much. I give you all the praise and all
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  Speaker 2: the glory.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised.
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 2: I cry for help from his temple. He heard my
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears. Psalm eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: This psalm is virtually the same as the psalm sung
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 2: by David at the end of his life, as recorded
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 2: in Second Samuel twenty two. It is most likely that
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 2: David composed this song as a younger man, yet in
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 2: his old age David could look back with great gratitude
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 2: and sing this song again, looking at his whole life.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 3: Isn't that so true?
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  Speaker 2: How many times have you not seen God's hand in
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 2: your life, but only through the rear view mirror or
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 2: on the other side of the mountain you saw how
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 2: God guided.
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  Speaker 3: You through a storm.
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  Speaker 2: Now put yourself in david sandals for a moment. David
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 2: is on his own, a fugitive running for his life,
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 2: and yes, God will be with him during this time abundantly.
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 2: But David is just learning to walk with the Lord.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 2: David is desperate and without resources to make an escape.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 2: Can you see this fine painting? David paints a practically
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 2: hopeless situation where you cannot see any way of surviving
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 2: with your life. Destruction and death is compared to a
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 2: raging river or torrents of continual ungodliness that is pursuing David.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 2: In his desperation, he calls out.
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  Speaker 3: To the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: The first leg of David's flight is to the Tabernacle
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 2: of the Lord of nob can't you just see it,
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  Speaker 2: the big stone walls, the tabernacle, the center of worship
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 2: of that day, David requests food.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 2: The only food Amelik has to give him is some
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 2: consecrated bread in our time, kind of like day old bread,
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 2: some loaves of the bread of the presence that has
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 2: been before the Lord in the tabernacle the previous week.
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 2: David was so very hungry, yes, physically and spiritually too.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 2: And Jesus cites this incident when he is questioned about
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 2: eating grain on the Sabbath, and then there is an
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 2: image of the lamp. It speaks of God's grace in
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 2: keeping David alive during those.
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 3: Days dangerous years.
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 2: Now, like an image of a candle, the light and
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 2: the glow of a candle, can't you just see it
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 2: glowing and reflecting on those big stone walls and seeing
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 2: the shadows of David dancing. God gave him the strength
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 2: to run, to leap and fight and defeat the enemy.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 2: Do you need that same kind of strength? Well, if so,
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 2: invite it in to embed in you that same warrior spirit.
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 2: Psalm eighteen seventeen reads, He rescued me from my powerful
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 2: enemy from my foes who were too strong for me.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 3: Can't you just.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 2: See David dancing and singing before God, thanking him for
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 2: past deliverances.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 3: God hears David's.
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 2: Voice just as surely as he will hear your voice
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 2: if you out to him, And like David, may you
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 2: have God's covering to scale walls blocking your progress. Leap
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 2: like a deer up the mountainside. I will love you,
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 2: my fortress, and my deliverer, My God, my strength in
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my shield and the horn of
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord,
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 2: who is worthy to be praised, So shall I be
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 2: saved from my enemies. King David is one of the
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 2: most important figures in Jewish history. Although David does not
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 2: look like a king should look, he has the heart
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 2: of a lion, a courageous spirit, and even more, a deep,
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 2: unending love for God. And like David, you two can
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 2: build and accomplish something on such a foundation. David stood
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 2: on this foundation in the days of tribulation and the
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 2: challenges in his life, and after looking back at God's
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 2: gracious ministry to him, What else could David do but
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 2: praise him to sing great praises to God.
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 3: It's no wonder.
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 2: King David would sing to the Lord, I will love you,
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 2: my fortress, in my deliverer, my God, my strength, in
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my strength, and the horn of
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord,
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 2: who is worthy to be praised. So shall I be
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 2: saved from my enemies.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 2: While David was in the temple, God heard the cries
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 2: of his heart, and he hears the cries of your
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 2: heart to Psalm eighteen is a resurrection psalm from King
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 2: David of Sorts. After several verses of thanksgiving, the psalm
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 2: ends by this great victory to the King the Messiah
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 2: David's descended Jesus Yeshiah, your Messiah, and continuing to sing,
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 2: David proclaims, therefore, I will praise you Lord among the nations.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 2: I will sing the praises of your name. Now as
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 2: you drift asleep.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 3: God has not.
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 2: Changed one iota during all these years, David, So he
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 2: treats you. He is not partial. The only thing that
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 2: matters is how you have it. In your heart. David
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 2: focused on the heavens above him, the glow of the sun.
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 2: Can't you see the rays of the sun just shining
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 2: upon David, the vibrance of the sky above him, the
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 2: flowing waters. The entire triumphal procession started with I will
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 2: love you, O Lord.
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 3: My strength.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer,
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength, and whom I will trust my
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 2: shield and the horn of.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 4: My salvation, my stronghold.
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 2: I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 2: be praised. So shall I be saved from my enemy.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 2: If this is true in you, God will move heaven
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 2: and earth for you. Now as you drift into a
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 2: deep sleep, May you hear David playing his heart, rejoicing
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 2: like King David.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 3: May you know God.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 2: Hears the cries of your heart. May your dreams take
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 2: you to a place where you are dancing and singing
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 2: before the Lord. I will call upon the Lord who
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 2: was worthy to be praised. In my distress, I called
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 2: upon the Lord, to my God, I cried for help
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 2: from his temple. He heard my voice in my cry
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 2: to him, reached his ears. May the Lord bless you
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 2: and keep you. May he make his face shine upon
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 2: you and be gracious to you. May the Lord turn
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 2: his face to you and grant you peace. Ask the
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 2: Lord to lead you to the picture in verse from
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 2: Psalm eighteen that's especially meant for you. He reaches down
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 2: from on high and takes hold of you. He draws
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 2: you out of the deep waters. He brings you out
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 2: into a spacious space. Jesus rescues you because he delights
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 2: in you. As you fall asleep, step into David's great victory.
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 2: I will love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 2: is my rock and my fortress, and my delight Deverer,
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 2: my God, my strength in whom I will trust my shield,
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 2: and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 3: I will call.
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 2: Upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised, So
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 2: shall I be saved from my enemies. I pray for
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 2: this dear one, your child, who desperately cries out to
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 2: you and longs for RESTful sleep in your comforting arms.
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 2: O Lord, protect your child, and Jesus deliver the dreams
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 2: that only you know are needed. Speak your wisdom of
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 2: truth and salvation that only comes through you.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 2: This is your moment to put away your demands and pressures.
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 2: This is your time alone with God to commune in
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 2: his comfort, his peace, and his goodness. Relax, close your eyes,
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 2: get comfortable. Block out the distractions from the day that
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 2: came between you and our Lord Jesus is only a
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 2: prayer away, a thought away. This is your time with
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 2: him as you embrace a deep sleep. Now take a
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 2: deep breath. Relax as I pray, Lord Jesus, thank you
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 2: for all that You've done for me.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 3: Thank you for.
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 2: Being with me today, even when I felt I was alone,
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 2: surrounded by busyness and pressures of the day, I call
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 2: upon your name. I release that chaos now, and like David,
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 2: I sing praises to you.
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 3: I call upon.
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 2: Your name to calm the storms I face. I cry
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 2: out to you for your ways to be present in
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 2: my mind, my body, and soul. Forgive me for not
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 2: always showing it. But I love you so very much.
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 2: I give you all the praise and all the glory.
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 2: I call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised.
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears Psalm
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 2: eighteen This psalm is virtually the same as the psalm
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 2: sung by David at the end of his life, as
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 2: recorded in Second Samuel twenty two. It is most likely
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 2: that David composed this song as a younger man, yet
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 2: in his old age David could look back with great
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 2: gratitude and sing this song again, looking at his whole life.
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 2: Isn't that so true? Many times have you not seen
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 2: God's hand in your life? But only through the rear
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 2: view mirror or on the other side of the mountain
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 2: you saw how God guided you through a storm. Now
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 2: put yourself in david sandals for a moment. David is
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 2: on his own, a fugitive running for his life, and yes,
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 2: God will be with him during this time abundantly. But
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 2: David is just learning to walk with the Lord. David
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 2: is desperate and without resources to make an escape. Can
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 2: you see this fine painting? David paints a practically hopeless
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 2: situation where you cannot see any way of surviving with
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 2: your life. Destruction and death is compared to a raging
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 2: river or torrents of continual ungodliness that is pursuing David.
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 2: In his desperation, he calls out to the Lord, the
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 2: first leg of David's flight is to the Tabernacle of
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 2: the Lord of nab Can't you just see it, the
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 2: big stone walls, the tabernacle, the center of worship of
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 2: that day, David requests food. Now, the only food Amelik
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 2: has to give him is some consecrated bread in our time,
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 2: kind of like day old bread, some loaves of the
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 2: bread of the presence that has been before the Lord
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  Speaker 2: in the tabernacle.
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  Speaker 3: The previous week.
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  Speaker 2: David was so very hungry, yes, physically and spiritually too.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus cites this incident when he is questioned about
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  Speaker 2: eating grain on the Sabbath, and then there is an
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 2: image of the lamp. It speaks of God's grace and
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 2: keeping David alive during those dangerous years. Now, like an
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  Speaker 2: image of a candle, the light and the glow of
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 2: a candle. Can't you just see it glowing and reflecting
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  Speaker 2: on those big stone walls and seeing the shadows of
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  Speaker 2: David dancing. God gave him the strength to run, to
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  Speaker 2: leap and fight and defeat the enemy. Do you need
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  Speaker 2: that same kind of strength? Well, if so, invited in
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 2: to embed in you that same warrior spirit. Psalm eighteen
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  Speaker 2: seventeen reads. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 2: my foes, you who were too strong for me. Can't
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  Speaker 2: you just see David dancing and singing before God, thanking
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  Speaker 2: him for past deliverances. God hears David's voice just as
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  Speaker 2: surely as he will hear your voice if you call
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  Speaker 2: out to him. And like David, may you have God's
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  Speaker 2: covering to scale walls blocking your progress. Leap like a
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  Speaker 2: deer up the mountainside. I will love you, O Lord,
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  Speaker 2: my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress,
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 2: and my deliverer, my God, my strength in whom I
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  Speaker 2: will trust my shield and the horn of my salvation,
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  Speaker 2: my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord, who is
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  Speaker 2: worthy to be praised, So shall I be saved from
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  Speaker 2: my enemies.
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  Speaker 3: King David is one of the.
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  Speaker 2: Most important figures in Jewish history. Although David does not
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  Speaker 2: look like a king should look, he has the heart
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  Speaker 2: of a lion, a courageous spirit, and even more, a deep, unending.
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 3: Love for God.
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  Speaker 2: And like David, you two can build and accomplish something
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  Speaker 2: on such a foundation. David stood on this foundation in
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  Speaker 2: the days of tribulation and the challenges in his life,
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 2: and after looking back at God's gracious ministry to him,
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 2: what else could David do but praise him to sing great.
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  Speaker 3: Praises to God. It's no wonder.
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  Speaker 2: King David would sing to the Lord, I will love you,
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  Speaker 2: a Lord my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 2: my fortress, in my deliverer, my God, my strength, in
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  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my strength, and the horn of
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold.
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  Speaker 3: I will call.
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  Speaker 2: Upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised. So
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 2: shall I be saved from my enemies. And while David
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 2: was in the temple, God heard the cries of his heart,
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 2: and he hears the cries of your heart to Psalm
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  Speaker 2: eighteen is a resurrection psalm from King David of Sorts.
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  Speaker 2: After several verses of thanksgiving, the psalm ends by this
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  Speaker 2: great victory to the King the Messiah David's descended Jesus Yeshiah,
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  Speaker 2: your Messiah, and continuing to sing, David proclaims, therefore, I
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  Speaker 2: will praise you Lord among the nation. I will sing
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  Speaker 2: the praises of your name. Now as you drift asleep.
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  Speaker 2: God has not changed one iota during all these years.
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 2: As he treated David, so he treats you. He is
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  Speaker 2: not partial. The only thing that matters is how you
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  Speaker 2: have it in your heart. David focused on the heavens
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  Speaker 2: above him, the glow of the sun. Can't you see
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 2: the rays of the sun just shining upon David, The
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 2: vibrance of the sky above him, the flowing waters. The
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 2: entire triumphal procession started with I will love you, oh Lord,
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 2: my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress,
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 2: and my deliverer, my God, my strength, and whom I
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 2: will trust my shield and the horn of.
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 4: My salvation, my stronghold.
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 2: I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to
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  Speaker 2: be praised. So shall I be saved from my enemies.
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 2: If this is true in you, God will move heaven
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  Speaker 2: and earth for you. Now as you drift into a
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 2: deep sleep, May you hear David playing his heart, rejoicing
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 2: like King David. May you know God hears the cries
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  Speaker 2: of your heart. May your dreams take you to a
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  Speaker 2: place where you are dancing and singing before the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: I will call upon the Lord who is.
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  Speaker 3: Worthy to be praised.
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God.
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 2: I cried for help from his temple. He heard my
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  Speaker 2: voice in my cry to him, reached his ears. May
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 2: the Lord bless.
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 3: You and keep you.
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  Speaker 2: May he make his face shine upon you and be
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 2: gracious to you. May the Lord turn his face to
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 2: you and grant you peace. Ask the Lord to lead
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 2: you to the picture in verse from Psalm eighteen that's
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 2: especially meant for you. He reaches down from on high
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 2: and takes hold of you. He draws you out of
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 2: the deep waters. He brings you out into a spacious space.
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 2: Jesus rescues you because he delights in you. As you
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 2: fall asleep, step into David's great victory. I will love you,
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 2: my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength in
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my shield and the horn of
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord,
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 2: who is worthy to be praised, So shall I be
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 2: saved from my enemies. I pray for this dear one,
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 2: your child, who desperately cries out to you and longs
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 2: for RESTful sleep in your comforting arms. O Lord, protect
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 2: your child, and Jesus deliver the dreams that only you
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 2: know are needed. Speak your wisdom of truth and salvation
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 2: that only comes through you. Amen, this is your moment
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  Speaker 2: to put away your demands and pressures. This is your
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 2: time alone with God to commune in his comfort, his peace,
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 2: and his goodness. Relax, close your eyes, get comfortable. Block
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 2: out the distractions from the day that came between you and.
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  Speaker 3: Our Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is only a prayer away, a thought away. This
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  Speaker 2: is your time with him as you embrace a deep sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Now take a deep breath. Relax as I pray, Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for all that you've done for me. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for being with me today, even when I felt
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 2: I was alone, surrounded by busyness and pressures of the day, I.
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 3: Call upon your name.
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  Speaker 2: I release that chaos now, and like David, I sing
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 2: praises to you. I call upon your name to calm
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  Speaker 2: the storms I face. I cry out to you for
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  Speaker 2: your ways to be present in my mind, my body,
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  Speaker 2: and soul. Forgive me for not always showing it. But
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 2: I love you so very much. I give you all
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  Speaker 2: the praise and all the glory. Amen, I call upon
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  Speaker 2: the Lord who is worthy to be praised. In my distress,
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 2: I called upon the Lord, to my God, I cried
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 2: for help from his temple. He heard my voice in
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 2: my cry to him reached his ears Psalm eighteen. This
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 2: psalm is virtually the same as the psalm sung by
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  Speaker 2: David at the end of his life, as recorded in
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 2: Second Samuel twenty two. It is most likely that David
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  Speaker 2: composed this song as a younger man, Yet in his
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  Speaker 2: old age David could look back with great gratitude and
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  Speaker 2: sing this song again, looking at his whole life. Isn't
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 2: that so true? How many times have you not seen
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  Speaker 2: God's hand in your life, but only through the rear
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  Speaker 2: view mirror or on the other side of the mountain
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  Speaker 2: you saw how God guided.
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  Speaker 3: You through a storm.
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  Speaker 2: Now put yourself in David's sandals for a moment. David
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  Speaker 2: is on his own, a fugitive running for his life,
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  Speaker 2: and yes, God will be with him during this time abundantly.
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  Speaker 2: But David is just learning to walk with the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: David is desperate and without resources to make an escape.
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 2: Can you see this fine painting? David paints a practically
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  Speaker 2: hopeless situation where you cannot see any way of surviving
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  Speaker 2: with your life. Destruction and death is compared to a
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 2: raging river or torrents of continual ungodliness that is pursuing
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  Speaker 2: David in his desperation, he calls out to the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: The first leg of David's flight is to the Tabernacle
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord of Knob can't you just see it,
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  Speaker 2: the big stone walls, the tabernacle, the center of worship
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 2: of that day. David requests food. Now the only food
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  Speaker 2: Amlik has to give him is some consecrated bread in
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 2: our time, kind of like day old bread, some loaves
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  Speaker 2: of the bread of the presence that has been before
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 2: the Lord in the tabernacle the previous week. David was
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 2: so very hungry, yes, physically and spiritually too. And Jesus
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 2: cites this incident when he is questioned about eating grain
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 2: on the Sabbath. And then there is an image of
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 2: the lamp. It speaks of God's grace and keeping David
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 2: alive during those dangerous years. Now, like an image of
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 2: a candle, the light and the glow of a candle.
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 2: Can't you just see it glowing and reflecting on.
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 3: Those big stone walls.
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 2: And seeing the shadows of David dancing. God gave him
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 2: the strength to run, to leap and fight and defeat
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 2: the enemy. Do you need that same kind of strength?
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 2: If so, invited in to embed in you that same
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 2: warrior spirit. Psalm eighteen seventeen reads, he rescued me from
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 2: my powerful enemy, from my foes who were too strong
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 2: for me. Can't you just see David dancing and singing
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 2: before God, thanking him for past deliverances. God hears David's
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 2: voice just as surely as he will hear your voice
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 2: if you call out to him. And, like David, may
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 2: you have God's covering to scale walls blocking your progress.
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 2: Leap like a deer up the mountainside. I will love you,
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 2: my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength in
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my shield and the horn of
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 2: who is worthy to be praised, So shall I be
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 2: saved from my enemies. King David is one of the
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 2: most important figures in Jewish history. Although David does not
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 2: look like a king should look, he has the heart
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 2: of a lion, a courageous spirit, and even more, a deep,
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 2: unending love for God. And like David, you two can
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 2: build and accomplish something on such a foundation. David stood
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 2: on this foundation in the days of tribulation.
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 3: And the challenges in his life.
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 2: And after looking back at God's gracious ministry to him,
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 2: what else could David do but praise him to sing
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 2: great praises to God. It's no wonder King David would
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 2: sing to the Lord, I will love you, a Lord
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 2: my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress,
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 2: in my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 2: will trust my strength, and the horn of my salvation,
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 2: my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord who is
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 2: worthy to be praised. So shall I be saved from
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 2: my enemies. And while David was in the temple, God
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 2: heard the cries of his heart, and he hears the
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 2: cries of your heart to Psalm eighteen is a resurrection
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 2: psalm from King David of Sorts. After several verses of thanksgiving,
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 2: the psalm ends by this great victory to the King
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 2: David's descended Jesus Yeshiah, your Messiah, and continuing to sing,
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 2: David proclaims, therefore, I will praise you Lord among the nations.
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 2: I will sing the praises of your name. Now as
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 2: you drift asleep. God has not changed one iota during
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 2: all these years, as he treated David so he treats you.
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 2: He is not partial. The only thing that matters is
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 2: how you have it in your heart. David focused on
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 2: the heavens above him, the glow of the sun. Can't
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 2: you see the rays of the sun just shining upon David,
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 2: The vibrance of the sky above him, the flowing waters.
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 2: The entire triumphal procession started with I will love you,
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 2: my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength in
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my shield and the horn of
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold.
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 3: I will call upon the.
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 2: Lord who is worthy to be praised. So shall I
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 2: be saved from my enemies. If this is true in you,
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 2: God will move heaven and earth for you. Now, as
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 2: you drift into a deep sleep, May you hear David
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 2: playing his heart, rejoicing like King David. May you know
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 2: God hears the cries of your heart. May your dreams
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 2: take you to a place where you are dancing and
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 2: singing before the Lord. I will call upon the Lord
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 2: who was worthy to be praised. In my distress, I
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 2: called upon the Lord, to my God. I cried for
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 2: help from his temple. He heard my voice in my
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 2: cry to him, reached his ears. May the Lord bless.
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 3: You and keep you.
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 2: May he make his face shine upon you and be
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 2: gracious to you. May the Lord turn his face to
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 2: you and grant you peace. Ask the Lord to lead
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 2: you to the picture in verse from Psalm eighteen that's
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 2: especially meant for you. He reaches down from on high
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 2: and takes hold of you. He draws you out of
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 2: the deep waters. He brings you out into a spacious space.
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 2: Jesus rescues you because he delights in you. As you
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 2: fall asleep, step into David's great victory. I will love you,
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 2: O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 2: my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength in
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 2: whom I will trust my shield, and the horn of
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 2: my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord,
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 2: who is worthy to be praised. So shall I be
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 2: saved from my enemies. I pray for this dear one,
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 2: your child, who desperately cries out to you and longs
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 2: for RESTful sleep in your comforting arms. Oh Lord, protect
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 2: your child, and Jesus deliver the dreams that only you
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 2: know are needed. Speak your wisdom of truth and salvation.
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 3: That only comes through you. Amen.
• 2:39:28
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