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June 13, 2026 - Numbers 24 & Psalm 119:89-96 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with help of our heart, soul, mind, and strength with God's word letting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Saturday, June 13th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Numbers 24.
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  SPEAKER_00: Numbers 24 details the third and final, uh, the third really and fourth and final oracle or prophecy of Balaam.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now again, Balak has hired Balaam to curse Israel, but of course, God is protecting them and preserving them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see the third oracle and the fourth and final oracle, where really Balaam just says uh that Israel is being blessed and that this is a spiritual victory that God is giving them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if God has given them a spiritual victory, then of course he's going to give them a military physical victory because God is with his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we see that here in Numbers 24.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Psalm 119, verses 89 through 96.
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  SPEAKER_01: Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your faithfulness endures to all generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have established the earth, and it stands fast.
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  SPEAKER_01: By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.
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  SPEAKER_01: If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am yours.
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  SPEAKER_01: Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
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  SPEAKER_01: The wicked lie and wait to destroy me, but I consider your testimonies.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, today we officially kicked off the National Equipped Conference on strengthening our resolve and our reliance really on prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Tyler, we went to a plenary, the opening plenary with Pastor Bobby, and then we each went to a breakout, you with Pastor Johnny, and I went with Pastor Josh Petras of Compass Long Beach.
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  SPEAKER_00: Talk to me just about tonight.
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  SPEAKER_00: What were you encouraged by?
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  SPEAKER_00: What were you challenged by?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are you kind of thinking about in terms of just prayer?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm thinking about the uh the opportunity that our student ministry has at Compass Bible Church South Valley to invest into the lives of teen students and the ways that we pray for them, the ways that we are helping them understand how to pray.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Pastor Johnny Broadworth did a great job of walking us through James chapter four and into into chapter five and the ways that we can go and approach the Lord and uh and pray like we are in a fight because we are.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're in a spiritual dog fight.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are uh a people that have access to the Lord of salvation, and and we should be able to show our teens, you know, prayer starts with a humble heart, a heart that is in submission to the Lord, a heart that is looking to God who hears us, and we want to align our hearts, align our prayers uh with his word.
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  SPEAKER_01: So those are a couple of the things that can stood out to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and the ways that we can model uh praying for our students and and showing them how to pray uh shows us that sometimes a shorter prayer, a prayer that is just simple and sincere, uh is one of the one of the greatest ways that we can just show you you don't have to brew up this four-minute long prayer to be sincere and to have the attention of God because he is waiting, he is listening, he's leaning in to hear uh from the hearts of his people, uh, and he knows what's on the tips of our tongues before it even leaves our mouth.
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  SPEAKER_01: He knows our hearts.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that is a great encouragement for for me and uh for our student ministry leaders and and for our students alike.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I went to Pastor Josh Petras's breakout that really focused on prayer in the life and ministry of the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he just did a fantastic job of walking all throughout the New Testament as well as the Old Testament and showing the significance and prominence of prayer uh in the life of the people of God and in the ministry of the people of God, particularly, of course, in the New Testament, in the book of Acts, with the starting of the church upon the sending of the Spirit after Pentecost, and uh just showing that this has been something that the people of God have devoted themselves to and have seen as primary in their ministry focus from the very beginning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we are we're just really encouraged and challenged uh by uh those passages and just by Pastor Josh, just really focusing on the need for us, uh all of us as Christians, to be devoted to prayer for the betterment of our church and to see that as part of the ministry that we are all being equipped for by the leaders of the church, as Paul talks about in Ephesians 4, that we are to be equipping the saints for the work of ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you were gonna ask and answer, well, what is that ministry?
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  SPEAKER_00: In part, and I would say uh just maybe in a large part if we were gonna talk percentages, uh, that ministry is prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it's just such an encouraging uh topic in one that I hope again is something that we see kind of flourishing in the early days of our church.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got our first prayer meeting coming up in five days, or four days rather from now, on Wednesday, this coming Wednesday, June 17th.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we'd love to see you there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'd love to see you devote yourself to that important ministry for the overall health and vibrancy of our church community.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Psalm 119 is really all we'll have time to focus on as we record this right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's almost 11 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: California time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so we're it we're past we're getting close to midnight, I should I should say, uh Idaho time, if I'm doing my math right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it's a little bit late, so we're gonna try to make this quick, but we want to make sure that we uh are looking to the passages for today, specifically in Psalm 119.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thought of verse 94 here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, I am yours, save me, for I have sought your precepts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this, of course, uh is a prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a plea from the psalmist.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am yours, save me.
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  SPEAKER_00: This made me think of Pastor Bobby's session tonight through Psalm 130, where he really kind of focused on uh the reality of our sin, driving us to seek forgiveness from the Lord and finding it and having great confidence that God will give it and uh really seeking it through prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I thought of Psalm 119, 94.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am yours, save me, for I have sought your precepts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is someone that's going to the Lord, uh, not necessarily perhaps in a salvific way, of course.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think that is probably already true for this individual, whether it's David or someone else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but even if it's something from a from an affliction, which seems to be more the immediate context here, uh, in verse 92, specifically, if your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there seems to be some sort of prayer, some sort of urgency of a rescue of some kind from some type of affliction.
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  SPEAKER_00: But nevertheless, this is a prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a cry of the heart for the Lord to intervene, for the Lord to provide, for the Lord uh to protect.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even in verse 95, the wicked lie and wait to destroy me, but I consider your testimonies.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh even just encouraged by uh Pastor Bobby's opening plenary session on Psalm 130, and even seeing some of those things echoed here in Psalm 119, uh, that we are to cry out to the Lord and just have great confidence that he hears us and that he cares for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's a great encouragement, Pastor Josiah and I'm thinking about the encouragements that we received this evening uh from the Psalms and uh from Psalm 27, waiting on the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Something that stood out to me uh from Pastor Bobby Blakey was waiting, is it's not passive, it's active.
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  SPEAKER_01: Waiting on the Lord, continuing to lift our our cares and our requests and our pleas for help to him is and and waiting for a response is active.
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  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes we can feel that if a prayer isn't answered on our timeline uh in the way that we would want, uh in a timeline that we would want, we can be discouraged and and shrink back from praying.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh I would just want to for my own life grow comfortable in the waiting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes that could be uncomfortable, but uh in a in a season of this church plant, there's gonna be some seasons ahead that are a little bit uncomfortable, and we'll need to be waiting for God to answer prayers.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, we've said this a handful of times on the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: As we were preparing to plant the church in South Valley, there was a list, and we would go and visit the different uh church plants uh in Texas and California, and we were praying all along the way for God to provide uh the right location to meet, the right leaders, the right people, uh, the right facilities.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we can reflect and look back and see a long list of answered prayers, and they didn't all come at once.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had to wait.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had to wait for things to unfold.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh weeks go by, months go by, and uh and God continues to provide for us and and will continue to lift our prayers and our our thoughts and our our even lifting our our sins and just confessing them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh we have a God that's gracious and is ready to forgive, quick to forgive, and uh we wait on the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we don't delay, well we don't delay to go and and meet with him.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's leaning in, he's always wanting to hear from his children like a like a good father would.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if we have a good representation of a father figure in our lives, and we ask for for bread, and our our father here would not give us a stone.
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  SPEAKER_01: How how much more uh good and generous and gracious gifts would our heavenly father just pour out and lavish upon us?
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  SPEAKER_01: So we need to grow comfort comfortable in the waiting, and and that takes some practice.
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  SPEAKER_01: So keep on praying and keep on waiting, Compass Bible Church South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And please keep on praying for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pray for just rich times of learning as we've got more plenary sessions and more breakouts to attend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pray for just great encouragement.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's already been some good connections that we've made here, some encouraging, even just reconnections of people that we've known from previous churches, both of course at Treasure Valley and in other contexts as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so just keep praying for us and um we're excited to be back uh in South Valley soon, Lord willing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compass Bible sv dot org.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.