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January 3 - Psalm 147 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Friday, it's the 3rd of
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  January. It is the easy days.
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  I hope you are going well. Thank you for inviting me into
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  your day as we are going to do what we do every Friday and
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  every Friday for the next 4 Fridays until we finish finish
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  the book of Psalms. After three years of Friday in
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  the Psalms, we are almost at the end.
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  And then friends, we are going to enjoy Proverbs on Fridays and
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  we're not going to plough our way through a chapter of
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  Proverbs each times with a squazillion incredible sayings
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  of Solomon. No, we are going to do them just
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  a handful at a time so we can soak up the incredible wisdom
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  that God has for us in His Word. But I'm a little ahead of
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  myself. That is about a month away.
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  Today we have got a glorious Psalm of praise, a Psalm of
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  praise to Yahweh for His Providence, the way that He sets
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  things up for the people that He loves for us.
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  And so this Psalm, friends, is for you and for me.
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  So let us read it together. Let us declare it together in
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  our hearts as we share praise with our God in the words of
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  Psalm 147, Praise the Lord.
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  How good to sing praises to our God.
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  How delightful and how fitting. The Lord is rebuilding Jerusalem
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  and bringing the Exiles back to Israel.
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  He heals the broken hearted and bandages their wounds.
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  He counts the stars and calls them all by name.
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  How great is our Lord? His power is absolute.
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  His understanding is beyond comprehension.
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  The Lord supports the humble, but He brings the wicked down
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  into the dust. Sing out your thanks to the
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  Lord. Sing praises to our God with a
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  harp. He covers the heavens with
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  clouds, provides rain for the earth, and makes the grass grow
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  in mountain pastures. He gives food to the wild
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  animals and feeds the young Ravens when they cry.
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  He takes no pleasure in the strength of a horse or in human
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  might. No, the Lord's delight is in
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  those who fear Him, those who put their hope in His unfailing
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  love. Glorify the Lord, O Jerusalem.
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  Praise your God, O Zion, for He has strengthened the bars of
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  your gates and blessed your children within your walls.
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  He sends peace across your nation and satisfies your hunger
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  with the finest wheat. He sends His orders to the
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  world. How swiftly his word flies.
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  He sends the snow like white wool.
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  He scatters frost upon the ground like ashes.
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  He hurls the hail like stones. Who can stand against his
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  freezing cold? Then at his command, it all
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  melts. He sends his winds and the ice
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  thaws. He has revealed his words to
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  Jacob, his decrees and regulations to Israel.
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  He has not done this for any other nation.
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  They do not know His regulations.
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  Praise the Lord, Oh Lord, you are so mighty.
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  At your words. The world freezes and thaws and
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  blossoms and melts and begins the cycle all over again.
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  You are so mighty, our glorious, glorious God, and yet you
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  delight in US. You delight in us when we put
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  our hope in You, and not just in you generally, but in your
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  unfailing love for us. Oh Lord, how kind You are to us,
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  that you lavish not just your attention on us, not just your
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  favour and not just the rejoicing of your heart on us,
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  but you do that all in your unfailing love that you
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  desperately want us to know about.
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  And so here we are. We delight in You and we fear
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  you, Almighty God, and we celebrate your unending grace,
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  your undying favour and your unfailing love.
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  Thank you, Lord, for this love and the way that you showed us
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  this love by sending us Jesus, who gave it all for us to
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  restore us to You. And so here we are standing
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  boldly in your presence all through what Jesus has done for
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  us. So we pray all of these things
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  in His saving name, Amen.