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Psalms for Discouragement · Fifteen Minutes With Fritz - Where Scripture Meets the Sidewalk

• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Psalm seventy-three.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: But as for me my feet were almost gone, my steps had nearly slipped.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: They say, How does God know?
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: Is there knowledge in the most high?
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: Behold, these are the wicked.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocence.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: When I tried to understand this it was too painful for me until I entered God's sanctuary.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: Surely you set them in slippery places, you throw them down to destruction, how they are suddenly destroyed, they are completely swept away with terrors.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: I am continually with you.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: You have held my right hand, you will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: Whom do I have in heaven?
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: For behold, those who are far from you shall perish.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: But it is good for me to come close to God.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: I have made the Lord God my refuge that I may tell of all your works.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: My cry goes to God.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: Indeed I cry to God for help and for him to listen to me.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord, my soul refused to be comforted.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: I remember God and I groan.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: I complain and my spirit is overwhelmed.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Will the Lord reject us forever?
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: Will He be favorable no more?
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: Has His loving kindness vanished forever?
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: Does His promise fail for generations?
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: Has God forgotten to be gracious?
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: Has He in anger withheld His compassion?
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Then I thought, I will appeal to this, I will remember the Lord's deeds, for I will remember your wonders of old.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: I will also meditate on all your work and consider your doings.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: You are the God who does wonders.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: You have made your strength known among the peoples.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: Your way was through the sea, your paths through the great waters.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: Your footsteps were not known.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: I will give you thanks with my whole heart.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Before the gods I will sing praises to you.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your name for your loving kindness and for your truth.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: For you have exalted your name and your word above all.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: In the day that I called you answered me, you encouraged me with strength in my soul.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Lord, for they have heard the words of your mouth.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, they will sing of the ways of the Lord, for the Lord's glory is great.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: For though the Lord is high, yet he looks after the lowly, but he knows the proud from afar.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_00: Your right hand will save me.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord will fulfill that which concerns me.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: Your loving kindness, Lord, endures forever.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: Do not forsake the works of your own hands.