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Love Letters from God – "Lighting Up God's Word" · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  dot. Welcome to Love Letters.
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  welcome to love letters from God Today we're going to be talking
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  about lighting up God's word making it something that is
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  really alive and we want to know this set in his love letter.
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  I'm going to start out with just a few thoughts before we
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  actually do our reading today. How many of you have ever been
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  involved in a power outage? And you know when you have a
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  power outage, it's terrible. And when it happens, it's a
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  crisis. Life almost stops with Jesus.
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  Everything's different. He is the true light in the
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  darkness of our lives. There is no power outage with
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  God. God is our light and our
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  salvation says that He is the one who provides that light.
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  Jesus applies this reality to himself because he's he's God.
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  He tells a story of an adulterous woman in his love
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  letter that was brought before him.
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  And this is in the book of John chapter 8.
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  The religious people wanted Jesus to make a judgment against
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  this situation and obviously what they wanted to do was set a
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  trap for Jesus and he shames them by asking them to throw the
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  first stone if they are without sin.
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  On the other hand, this woman, this adulterous woman that
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  discovers the light of Jesus also, and he doesn't pronounce
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  judgement on her, but he gives her a fresh start through his
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  forgiving love. She discovers that her life in
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  darkness is not the only option for her.
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  Jesus opens up a new life for her.
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  When God's light breaks through, darkness disappears.
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  Everyone who encounters Jesus discovers new meaning in life.
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  Everywhere Jesus is sharing God's creative light.
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  You know, on the Irish coast there are two lighthouses, and
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  these lighthouses are about 500 meters apart at a distance.
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  The lights of both of these lighthouses, they seem to be
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  shining, but in fact, 1 is only reflecting the light of the
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  other one. And like the lighthouse on the
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  Irish coast, you and I can also reflect God's light of grace in
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  the world today. I want you to think about that
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  is we read today and God's love letter concerning his light.
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  We're going to read Psalms 43 and 44 and 45.
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  So let's start out with 43. Vindicate me, O God, plead my
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  cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from the
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  deceitful and unjust man, for You are the God of my strength.
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  Why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of
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  the oppression of the enemy? Oh, send out your light and your
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  truth. Let them lead me, and let them
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  bring me to your holy hill and to your Tabernacle.
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  Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy,
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  and on the harp I will praise you.
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  O God, my God, why are you cast down on my soul?
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  Why are you disquieted within me?
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  Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him the help of my
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  countenance and my God. That's Psalm 43.
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  It's a short Psalm, but notice how David is expressing the idea
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  that the light that see him through the dark days is God's
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  light, and that's what his love letter is telling us.
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  Let's look at Psalm 44. We have heard with our ears, O
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  God, our fathers have told us, the deeds you did in their days.
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  In the days of old. You drove out the nations with
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  your hand, but them you planted. You afflicted the peoples, and
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  they cast them out. For they did not gain possession
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  of the land by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them.
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  But it was in your right hand, your arm, and the light of your
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  countenance, because you favored them.
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  You are my king, O God, command victories for Jacob through you.
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  You will push down our enemies, though your name.
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  Through your name we will trample those who rise up
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  against us. For I will not trust in my bow,
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  nor shall my sword save me. But you have saved us from our
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  enemies, and I put to shame those who hated us.
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  In God we boast all day long and praise your name forever.
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  But you have cast us off and put us to shame.
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  And you did not go out with our armies.
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  You make us turn back from the enemy and those who hate us,
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  taking spoil for themselves. You've given us up like sheep
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  intended for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
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  You sell your people for next to nothing, and are not enriched by
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  selling them. You make us a reproach to our
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  neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those all around us.
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  You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head
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  among the peoples. My dishonor is continually
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  before me, and the shame of my face has covered me because of
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  the voice of Him who reproaches and reviles, and because of the
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  enemy and the adventure. All this has come upon us, but
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  we've not forgotten you, nor have we dealt falsely with your
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  covenant. Our heart has not turned back,
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  nor have our steps departed from your way, but you have severely
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  broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the
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  shadow of death. If we had forgotten the name of
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  our God, or stretched out our hands to a foreign God, would
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  not God search this out, for He knows the secrets of the heart.
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  Yet for your sake we are killed all day long.
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  We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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  Awake. Why do you sleep, O Lord?
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  Arise, do not cast us off forever.
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  Why do you hide your face and forget our affliction and our
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  oppression? For our soul is bowed down to
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  the dust, our body clings to the ground.
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  Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercy's sake.
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  Such as the reading of Psalms 44.
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  In that Psalm, David's kind of down on God sounds like God's
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  just against them in everything they do.
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  And David's pouring his heart out and saying, what's the
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  matter, God what? What have we done?
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  Why? Why are you causing all these
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  problems for us? But notice now in Psalm 45 how
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  things change. My heart is overflowing with a
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  good theme. I recite my composition
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  concerning the King. My tongue is the pen of a ready
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  writer. You are fairer than the sons of
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  men. Grace is poured upon your lips.
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  Therefore God has blessed you forever.
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  Gird your sword upon your thigh, Almighty One, with your glory
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  and your majesty, and in Your majesty ride prosperously
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  because of truth, humility, and righteousness, and your right
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  hand shall teach you awesome things.
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  Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies.
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  The peoples fall under you. Your throne, O God, is forever
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  and ever. A scepter of righteousness is
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  the scepter of your Kingdom. You love righteousness and hate
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  wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has
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  anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your
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  companions. All your garments are scented
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  with mirror and aloes. Kassia, out of the ivory palaces
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  by which they have made you glad, King's daughters are among
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  your honorable women. At your right hand stands the
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  Queen in gold from Ophir. Listen, O daughter, consider and
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  incline your ear. Forget your own people also, and
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  your father's house. So the King will greatly desire
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  your beauty, because he is your Lord.
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  Worship him, and the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift.
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  The rich among the people will seek your favor.
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  The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace.
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  Her clothing is woven with gold. She shall be brought to the king
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  in robes of many colors. The virgins, her companions who
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  follow her, shall be brought to you with gladness and rejoicing
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  they should be brought. They shall enter the King's
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  palace instead of your father's, shall be your sons, whom you
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  shall make Princess in all the earth.
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  I will make your name to be remembered in all generations.
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  Therefore, the people should praise you forever and ever.
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  And so is the reading of Psalm 45.
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  I've got one other little poem that I found that I want to read
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  you that kind of bears out some of this same thought here.
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  This poem is called Sun Ray. There's something inside me that
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  I don't see. Others say they are proud, proud
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  of me. I've done nothing heroic, I
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  reply, my mouth ajar. I've not cured the ill or
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  discovered A star. It's your battle through
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  journey, making this proud silver lining on board
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  Destination all Cloud. We worried and fretted with your
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  anxiety and woes. Now you're climbing as a bird in
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  vulture of crows. You wore lifeless eyes tract
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  tears on cheeks. Now it's our proud hearts that
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  quietly weep. You've not discovered A star or
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  cured the ill, though you reach to inspire with mercy and will.
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  I need to believe, believe more in me, look down the lens for
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  what others may see. I'm not fond of looking how well
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  I've done, but I'm beginning to see how far I have come.
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  So with that, we need to remember we're an important
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  person. When God put us here on earth,
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  He had a job for us to do and He's willing to give us all the
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  help that is necessary. His love letter tells us what
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  all of that is about. We need to read it, find out how
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  much He loves us, and pass that love on the others.
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  Shall we pray? Father in heaven, it's so good
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  to know you're there. It's so good to realize that You
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  are the light we need with every step we take.
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  Help us to remember that and help us to read through your
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  love letter and see how much help that you have given to so
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  many. And it's all in there for an
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  example for us to know. We're thankful that you will
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  help us in those dark times. And we pray this in the name of
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  the man who came here willingly offered his life so we could be
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  a part of that great plan you had in mind.
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  We pray this in his name, Amen. That's it for today.
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