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Love Letters from God: Lee Wright · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  Web Welcome to love letters from God.
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  Welcome to Love Letters from God.
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  We are reading from the 119th Psalm.
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  I mentioned to you last week that this Psalm is written in
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  little 8 verse segments and there are 22 of these segments.
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  It's a good little way of reading the Bible every day.
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  If you just read one of the segments every day in 22 days
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  you would have read the complete Psalm and I would encourage you
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  to do that. It's just an idea to get you
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  started in reading God's love letter because He wants you to
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  read it. He loves you a great deal, and
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  it's important that you know what He wants you to no.
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  So we're going to start reading from verse 41.
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  That's how far we got last week. And we'll take these little 8
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  segments and we'll make a comment or two after we get
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  through each one. Let your steadfast love come to
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  me, Your salvation according to your promise.
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  Then shall I have an answer for Him who taunts me, For I trust
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  in Your word and take not the word of truth utterly out of my
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  mouth, For my hope is in Your rules.
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  I will keep Your law continually, forever and ever,
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  and I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought Your
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  precepts. I will also speak of Your
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  testimonies before kings and shall not be put to shame, for I
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  find my delight in your commandments, which I love.
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  I will lift up my hands toward your commandments which I love,
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  and I will meditate on your statutes.
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  OK, that's one of these little 8 verse segments.
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  You know, we are reading this in accordance with Psalm 23 where
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  the the David has written thy rod and thy staff.
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  They comfort me, OK, And that and that's the direction for
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  living. And that's how we're getting off
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  on reading this particular Psalm.
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  I wanted to make a comment here. Way back in the 4th century, a
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  long, long time ago, there was a fellow by the name of
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  Athanasius. He lived in Alexandria, Egypt.
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  He made a statement that the Psalms have a unique place in
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  the Bible because most of Scripture speaks to us while the
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  Psalms speak for us. And that's interesting because
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  what is happening here in this 119th Psalm, David is talking
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  about how wonderful this love letter is and how valuable it
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  is. So let's continue reading the
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  next 8 verse segment. Remember your word to your
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  servant in which you have made me hope.
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  This is my comfort, my comfort in my affliction, that your
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  promise gives me life. The insolent utterly deride me,
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  but I do not turn away from your law.
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  When I think of your rules from your old from of old, I take
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  comfort. O Lord, Hot indignation seizes
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  me because of the wicked who forsake your law.
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  Your statutes have been my songs in the House of my sojourning.
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  I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and I keep your
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  law. This blessing has fallen to me
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  that I have kept your precepts. Another one of these 8 segments
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  which like if you would read it, you know every day.
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  That just gives you a start to get going on what the day is all
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  about. There's another little quote I
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  thought that I would give you about Psalms, period.
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  And in a letter from this Athanasius guy to his friend on
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  the interpretation of the Psalms, this is what he wrote.
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  No matter what you ask, whether it be repentance and confession,
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  or help in trouble and temptation or under persecution,
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  whether you've been set free from plots and snares or On the
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  contrary, or sad for any reason, or whether seeing yourself
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  progressing and your enemy cast down, you want to praise and
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  think and bless the Lord. Each of these things the divine
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  Psalms show you how to do, and in every case, the words you
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  want are written down for you, and you can say them on your
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  own. An interesting statement
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  concerning the value of just what we're reading here in
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  Psalms 119. Let's take the next section
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  here. The Lord is my portion.
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  I promise to keep your words. I entreat your favor with all my
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  heart. Be gracious to me according to
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  your promise. When I think on my ways, I turn
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  my feet to your testimonies. I hasten and do not delay to
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  keep your commandments. Though the cords of the wicked
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  ensnare me, I do not forget your law.
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  At midnight I rise to praise you because of your righteous rules.
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  I am a companion of all who fear You, of those who keep your
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  precepts. The earth, O Lord, is full of
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  your steadfast love. Teach me your statutes.
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  God really loves everybody who is listening here and these
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  little segments are positive values to get your day started
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  and thinking about something that's going going to get your
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  day started. Keep your thoughts positive
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  folks, because your thoughts become words.
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  Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
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  Keep your behavior positive because your habits become your
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  values. Keep your values positive
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  because your values become your destiny.
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  That was that was a statement that was made by Mahatma Gandhi.
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  Let's take another one of these little 8 verse sections.
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  You have dwelt well with your servant, O Lord, according to
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  your word. Teach me good judgment and
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  knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments.
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  Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your
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  word. You are good and do good.
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  Teach me your statutes. The insolence smear me with
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  lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts.
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  Their heart is unfeeling like fat.
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  But I delight in your law. It's good for me that I was
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  afflicted, that I might learn from your statutes.
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  The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and
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  silver pieces. I'm going to read one more and
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  that'll be all. We'll go for it today.
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  Your hands have made and fashioned me.
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  Give me understanding that I may learn Your commandments.
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  Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice because I have hoped
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  in Your Word. I know, O Lord, that Your rules
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  are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted
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  me. Let Your steadfast love comfort
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  me according to Your promise to Your servant.
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  Let Your mercy come to me that I may live, for Your law is my
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  delight. Let the insolent be put to shame
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  because they have wronged me with the falsehood.
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  As for me, I will meditate on Your precepts.
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  Let those who fear you turn to me that they may know your
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  testimonies. May my heart be blameless in
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  your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
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  Read your bibles folks. Read it every day.
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  Going to close with a with a prayer, and that prayer is going
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  to actually be a poem for a song.
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  When peace like a river attended my way.
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  When sorrows like sea billows row.
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  Whatever my lot thou has taught me to say, it is well, it is
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  well with my soul. Though Satan should buffet, the
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  trial should come. Let this bless insurance control
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  that Christ hath regarded my helpless estate, and hath shed
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  His own blood for my soul, My sin, oh, the bliss of this
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  glorious thought, my sin, not in part, but the whole is nailed to
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  the cross, and I bear it no more.
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  Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul and Lord, haste
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  the day, and the faith shall be sight, the clouds be rolled back
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  as a scroll, the trump shall resound, and the Lord shall
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  descend. Even so, it is well with my
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  soul, it is well, it is well, it is well with my soul.
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  Amen. That's it for today.
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