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This program is made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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My name is Rick Renner.
Today I'm with a big flock
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of sheep just not far from
my home, outside of the city
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of Moscow, Russia,
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and I was watching the
shepherd of these sheep.
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And as long as these sheep
are with their shepherd,
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they fear no evil, and that's
what the Lord does for us.
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The Bible tells us in Psalm 23:4: Yes though I walk
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through the valley of the shadow of death,
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I will fear no evil.
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When Jesus is with us, he protects us
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and gives us confidence,
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and that is what I'm going
to talk to you about today.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the word
is the anchor in uncertain
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times and doctrine
doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to the program my
friends, I've been waiting
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for you and today you
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and I are going to
return to the 23rd Psalm
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to see the next benefit that
our great shepherd promises
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to you and to me, and it is
going to be amazing. Today,
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you need a pad of paper.
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I want you to write down all
the references that I'm going
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to give you and I'm going
to be giving you a lot
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of references today,
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but I want you to order the entire series,
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which is called, Psalm 23 -
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The Lord is My Shepherd.
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I'm so thankful Jesus is my shepherd.
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Are you grateful that he is your shepherd?
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Well as our shepherd, he
makes 10 promises to us
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and they're all covered
in this 10 part series
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called the 23rd Psalm.
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The Lord is My Shepherd, my friend.
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You need to get it, see it
or listen to it over and over
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and over and over so you'll really know
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what Jesus guarantees he will do for you.
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And it comes with a marvelous study guide.
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Please be sure to order the study guide
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because when you read it while you see it
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or hear it, it really reinforces the teaching down deep
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inside you.
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And right now we're also
offering you the book
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by my friend Tony Cook, which is called,
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Because the Lord is My Shepherd, The Blessings
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of an Empowered Life.
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This may look small, it's an easy read,
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but you will read it very quickly
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and it will feed your spirit
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and it's a great little book
that you can put in your purse
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or in your jacket, carry with you
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to read when you have time,
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and I want you to remember
that if you need prayer,
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we are waiting for the
phone to ring right now
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or for your email to show up in our inbox
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and our very committed pastoral partner care department
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along with me and Denise, we
will begin to pray for God
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to mightily move in your situation.
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But hey, reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in our program
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and today we're going to
return to the 23rd Psalm
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and I want us to review verse 1.
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It says, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
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Verse 2: he maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
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He leads me beside still waters.
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Verse 3: He restores my soul.
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He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness
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for his namesake.
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Verse 4: Yea though I walk through the valley
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of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil
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for thou art with me.
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That's what we're going to see today.
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Then in verse 4, he continues to say, thy rod
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and thy staff they comfort me.
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That's what we're going to see tomorrow.
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Verse 5: thou preparest a table
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before me in the presence of my enemies,
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thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over.
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Finally verse 6: Surely goodness
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and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life
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and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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And in these verses,
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God makes 10 promises to his people.
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No.1: we are promised God's supernatural provision.
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No.2: God's supernatural protection.
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No.3: God's supernatural peace.
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No.4: God's supernatural restoration.
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No.5: God's supernatural guidance.
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No.6: today's theme, God's supernatural confidence.
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No.7: God's supernatural correction.
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No.8: God's supernatural prosperity.
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No.9: God's supernatural anointing.
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And No.10: God's supernatural promise.
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But today we're going to see
God's supernatural confidence
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that he guarantees to you
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and to me if we will
embrace it and believe it.
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And in the 23rd Psalm verse 4, David says, Yea,
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though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death,
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I will fear no evil for thou art
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with me. In life we encounter all kinds
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of dark moments.
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Sometimes we have a dark
moment in our family:
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just difficult relationships
that can be very dark.
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We can have a dark moment in
our marriage, very difficult
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to walk through that. Sometimes people have dark moments in
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their health dealing with
illness and sickness,
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or maybe someone has a dark
moment in their finances
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that can be so very troubling
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or a dark moment in
some other relationship
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or maybe they even feel some kind
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of a threatening circumstance.
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But notice David does not say
he camps down in the valley
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of death or he settles there.
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He says, I'm walking through it
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and my friend, you walk through it too.
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And the reason the 23rd Psalm is probably such a loved verse
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is because in this verse we are promised that we do not need
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to fear evil because the Lord is with us.
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That is the confidence we have.
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It is God's supernatural confidence that he gives to you
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and he gives to me.
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But when you read the
Book of Psalms, you find
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that David knew a lot
of difficulties in life,
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but he always knew the Lord was with him.
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And over the years, I have
found the Book of Psalms
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to be such a book of strength
and confidence for me.
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And today I wanna read
to you some scriptures
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that have meant a lot to me
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that I believe will mean a lot to you.
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Listen to this in Psalm 5:12, David says,
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For thou Lord will bless the righteous; with favor
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wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
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Do you feel you need a shield around your life?
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You see, that's the confidence
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that you can have in the Lord.
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This scripture says God will be a shield
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to you against evil and against attacks.
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In Psalm 17:8 and 9
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and 13, David says, Keep me as the apple
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of thine eye; hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
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I've had those moments when I've said, Lord,
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please hide me under the shadow of your wings.
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In verse 9, he said, From the wicked
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that oppressed me, from deadly enemies
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who compass me about. If you've ever felt
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that you've been compass about by deadly enemies,
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this is a verse for you.
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And then in verse 13, he says, Arise,
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Oh Lord, disappoint him; cast
him down, deliver my soul.
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Denise and I have meditated on that verse
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so many times we even made
a song up to go with it.
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Keep me, Oh keep me as the apple
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of thy eye. Hide me,
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Oh hide me, under the shadow
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of thy wing.
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This is our psalm and it can be yours too.
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Then in Psalm 18:1 - 3,
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the Bible tells us this Psalm was written
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to the chief musician.
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It is a Psalm of David,
the servant of the Lord
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who spake unto the Lord the words
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of this in the day the Lord
delivered him from the hand
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of all of his enemies
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and from the hand of Saul
who is trying to kill him.
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And in that moment, David wrote in verse 1
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and he said, I will love thee, oh Lord, my strength.
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He is your strength. Listen
to the confidence in that.
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Then he said in verse 2: The Lord is my rock, my fortress,
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my deliverer my God my strength in whom I trust. My buckler
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and the horn of my salvation
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and my high tower.
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Have you ever noticed in the Psalms
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that David often says, Lord, set me up on a rock,
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Lord, you are my rock.
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Do you know why? Because when
you're set on top of a rock,
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even though your enemies try
to reach you, they can't get
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to you because you're set so high above them.
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And when David says, You are my rock, you are my high tower,
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he was literally saying - God, you have put me out
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of the reach of my enemy.
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Then he says in verse 3: I will call upon the Lord
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who is worthy to be praised,
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so shall I be saved from my enemies.
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Listen to the confidence in that.
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Then in Psalm 18:6, David said, In my distress,
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I called upon the Lord
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and cried unto my God. He heard my voice out of his temple
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and my cry came
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before him even unto his ears: the confidence
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that God hears us when we pray in faith.
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Then in Psalm 18:19, David continued
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to say He brought me forth
also into a large place.
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He delivered me because
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When David wrote that he felt
he was in a very entrapped
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place, but God's deliverance came
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and God brought him into a large place,
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and that's what God will do for you.
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Then in Psalm 18:36, a verse that I've quoted many,
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many times, David said,
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thou has enlarged my steps under me
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that my feet did not slip.
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If you feel like you're walking
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through a very slippery place
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and you're about to lose your
footing, this is your verse.
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Listen to this verse.
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Thou has enlarged my steps under me
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and my feet did not slip.
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Or how about Psalm 21:11 which says - oh, listen
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to this: For they intended evil against me,
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they imagined a mischievous
device which they were not
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able to perform.
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When God is working on your behalf,
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he will frustrate all the evil
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that's trying to come against you.
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And David said they even imagined a mischievous device which
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they were not able to perform.
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Or how about Psalm 22:19:
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Be not thou far from me,
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Oh Lord, O strength, make haste to help me.
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He will make haste to help you.
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Or how about Psalm 27:1;
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The Lord is my light and my salvation.
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Whom shall I fear.
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The Lord is the strength of my life?
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Of whom shall I be afraid?
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Listen to the confidence we
can have when the Lord is our
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light and our salvation and
the strength of our life.
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Or how about Psalm 31:1 -
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4. Verse 1 says; In the, oh Lord,
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do I put my trust.
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Let me never be ashamed.
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Deliver me in thy righteousness.
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Very often people are
afraid when they're fearful
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that they're going to
be ashamed of something.
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But in verse 2, David says, bow down thy an ear to me.
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Deliver me speedily.
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Be thou my strong rock for a
house of defense to save me.
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Verse 3: For thou ark my rock
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and my fortress. Again, he's saying - God, you're the one
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that puts me out of the reach of my enemies.
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Therefore, for thy namesake,
lead me and guide me.
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Pull me out of the net that they have laid privilege for me,
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for thou art my strength.
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Do you hear the confidence in that?
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Or how about Psalm 31:20, where David says,
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Thou shalt hide them in the secret place
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of thy presence from the pride of men.
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Thou shalt keep them secretly
in a pavilion from the strife
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of tongues, which means when
you feel tongues are wagging
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about you, God will put
you in a secret place
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where he will protect you
from the strife of tongues.
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Thou art my hiding place.
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Thou shalt preserve me from trouble.
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I have quoted this verse over and over and over
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and found my hiding place in Jesus who is my great shepherd.
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He always protects us from trouble.
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Or how about Psalm 37:23
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and 24; The steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord
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and he delighteth in his way:
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which means even when you're
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God is working to straighten your path.
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Then he says in verse 24; Though he fall,
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he shall not be utterly
cast down for the Lord,
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upholdeth with him, with his hand.
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Even if we slip, God is upholding us with his hand
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and he'll put us back on track again.
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Then in Psalm 56:2
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& 4, David says, My enemies would daily swallow me up.
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Have you ever felt that way?
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Maybe it's not a person,
maybe it's a situation,
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but you feel it is swallowing you up.
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David says, for they be many
that fight against me, oh,
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thou most high.
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Then in verse 3, he says,
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and what time I am afraid
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I will trust in thee.
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Verse 4: In God I will praise his word.
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In God I have put my trust.
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I will not fear what
flesh shall do unto me.
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We're gonna come back to
that verse in just a moment.
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Then in Psalm 57:1-7, David says,
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Be merciful unto me
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Oh God, be merciful unto me.
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For my soul trusts in thee; yea, in the shadow
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of thy wings, will I make my refuge.
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I've made my refuge my friends in the shadow of his wings.
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David says, until these calamities be passed.
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They're going to pass,
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and until that time you can trust in the
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shadow of his wings.
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In verse 2, he said,
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I will cry unto God most high unto God
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that performs all things for me.
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Verse 3: He shall send from Heaven
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and save me from the reproach of him
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that would swallow me up.
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He will send forth his
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Then in verse 4, he says, My soul is among lions.
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Maybe you have felt that way.
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You're just surrounded by
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and devour you.
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David says, And I lie even among them that are set on fire,
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the sons of men - he's talking about their wagging tongues
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whose teeth are spears and arrows
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and their tongue, a sharp sword.
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Verse 5: Be thou exalted
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Oh God, above the heavens;
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let thy glory be above all the earth.
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Verse 6: They have prepared a net for my steps.
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My soul is bowed down,
but they have dig a pit
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before me into the midst
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whereof they are fallen themselves.
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God confidently tells us,
even if your enemy digs a pit
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for your feet, they are the
ones that will fall into it.
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And then in verse 7, David says, my heart is fixed
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Oh God, my heart is fixed.
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David was determined he was going
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to trust in God's confident promise to him.
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Then in Psalm 61:1-4, David says,
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Hear my cry,
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Oh God, attend unto my prayer.
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Verse 2: From the ends of the earth,
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will I cry unto thee. When my heart is overwhelmed,
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lead me to the rock
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that is higher than I. Put me on a rock.
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Make sure I'm put in a position
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where my enemies cannot reach me.
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Then he says in verse 3: for thou has been a shelter
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for me and a strong tower from the enemy.
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Verse 4: I will abide in thy tabernacle forever.
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I will trust in the covert of thy wings.
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Then in Psalm 71:1-3, a verse
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that I have claimed and claimed and claimed,
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David says in verse 1: In thee oh Lord, do I put my trust.
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Never let me be put to confusion.
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Verse 2: Deliver me in thy righteousness
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and cause me to escape.
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Incline thy ear to hear me and save me.
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Now listen to this amazing promise in verse 3:
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Be thou my strong habitation
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where unto I may continually resort;
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thou has given commandment to save me for thou art
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my rock and my fortress.
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But notice David says, Where unto I may continually resort -
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when I feel that I'm under attack, I go to this verse
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and I often say to Denise, I'm
going to my resort, my resort
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where I rest and where I find
safety is in the habitation
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of the Lord.
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And in Psalm 112:7, David said,
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He shall not be afraid of evil tidings.
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My heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
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Get your eye off of what is around you.
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Put your eye on the Lord.
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Make sure that your heart is
fixed, trusting in the Lord.
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And finally in Psalm 34:19, David boldly declares,
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
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but the Lord delivers them out of them all.
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That is the promise of God.
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Do you hear the confidence in all of these amazing verses?
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David says - Though I walk through the valley of the shadow
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of death - again, he does not say,
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I'm gonna set up camp there
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or I'm going to settle down there.
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David says, I'm going to walk
through it, I'm going to walk
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through it - and I wanna read
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to you again from Psalm 56:3 & 4.
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He says, What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
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And then in verse 4 he says;
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In God I will praise his word.
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In God I have put my trust.
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I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
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And in this verse, David acknowledges he has times of fear,
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but in those moments, he puts his trust in God.
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David tells us he doesn't
focus on the problems,
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but he puts his focus on God.
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And I want to tell you, my friend, this verse says, you need
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to trust the word of God.
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Take your mind off of your enemies,
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get your eyes off of yourself.
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Put your eyes on God
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and all of his power
that is available for you
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and you will feel your
faith growing stronger
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and stronger and stronger.
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We're told in Proverbs 3:5, Trust in the Lord
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with all your heart.
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And a verse that I claim every night
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before I go to bed is Psalm 4:8, which says,
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I will both lay me down in peace
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and sleep for thou Lord, only makest me
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to dwell in safety.
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You see, when you know
the Lord is your shepherd
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and he's hovering over you,
it gives you such confidence
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that according to Psalm 4:8,
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you can both lay down in peace
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and sleep knowing
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that the Lord is gonna keep
you safely the whole night
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and he's going to be with you
when you wake up the next day.
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Now my friend, I've read a
lot of verses to you today,
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but these are verses
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that have been very important in my life
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and you need to hear them
and hear them and hear them
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and get them down deep inside you
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and understand even though
you walk through the valley
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of the shadow of death,
whatever valley of the shadow
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of death that may be,
the Lord is with you.
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And there's no reason you to
fear anything; it's gonna pass
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and you're gonna walk through
it and get to the other side.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
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Someone asked the question,
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what does the Bible say about monsters?
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Monsters? That's a very interesting question,
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but in fact, it seems Jesus did say something about monsters
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in Luke 21:11, where he's describing events
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that will transpire at the end of the age just
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before the rapture of the church.
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And listen to what Jesus said; he said,
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there'll be great earthquakes
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and divers places there'll
be famines, pestilence,
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and fearful sights.
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That word, fearful sights has never been properly translated
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because translators didn't know what to do with it.
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It is the Greek word, phobetron, from the word phobos,
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which means fearful.
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But when it becomes the word phobetron, it is the Greek word
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for monsters.
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And every Greek would've seen
this word as meaning monsters.
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And it seems that Jesus really prophesied at the very end
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of the church age, there will be the manifestation
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of monstrous events were some kind of monsters in
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society.
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Hey, this is Rick Renner
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and I'm standing in one
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of the long corridors in the
Tulsa headquarters building
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and these corridors are
lined with photography
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of our past ministry.
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For example here, it's amazing.
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You see a picture of me and
Denise first starting our
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ministry as we're traveling
in the car with Paul
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and Philip on her lap,
and there's little Joel,
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but then you look over here
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and you see our Russian ministry.
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Here's Golden Stars with some of the Russian movie stars
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who came to help us. At that event,
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we had more than 16,000 senior citizens show up.
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That is amazing. Then you see the youth ministry
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and us working with members of the government.
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And here you see again, me and Denise in
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our first little church
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we started in Arkansas many, many, many years ago.
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And then you look over here
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and you see us filming TV programs.
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I mean there's just so much.
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And when you walk through these hallways
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and look at all these pictures, you're just surrounded with
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what God has done throughout our ministry and it is amazing.
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And now every day in this facility,
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ministry is taking place.
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Oh, I wish you could hear the phone calls.
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And when our team begins
to pray, it is like a roar
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of prayer that you can hear when you walk
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through our Partner Care Ministry
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or the letters that are going out or the resources
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and resources or books and USBs
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and all kinds of video and audio.
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And it's going to the ends of the earth.
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And we're able to do all of that
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because we have a facility
where we can do it.
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And paying off this facility
is our current goal.
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You know, when we started the
Ministry Expansion Project,
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it was quite large.
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70% of it is already finished
and I want to say thank you
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and now we need to keep it up
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until we knock out the remaining 30%.
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Please help us continue
until we finish it.
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And if you're not a part of the team yet,
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please pray about becoming a part
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of our Ministry Expansion Project - giving team
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so we can pay off all of this
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and then liberate all that
money to take the gospel
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to the ends of the earth
and that's our desire.
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So I wanna say "thank you" in advance for helping us.
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Today
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we have covered so many scriptures,
especially from the Book
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of Psalms, but look at
the supernatural promise
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of confidence that God gives to us.
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He says He will be with us
in any situation in life.
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That's the kind of shepherd he is.
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And I want you to order the whole series,
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which is called Psalm 23,
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The Lord is My Shepherd,
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and it comes with a marvelous study guide.
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Please order these rightnow by going online
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or give us a call.
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And remember that we're
offering you Tony Cook's book,
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which is called, Because the Lord is My Shepherd,
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The Blessings of an Empowered Life.
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Father, I thank you that you are with us.
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You promise us that. Thank you for the confidence
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of your word, that even if we walk
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through very difficult times, you are with us.
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And I thank you that you have
not called us to settle there
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or to camp there in the
valley of the shadow of death.
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But with your help, we're
gonna walk through it
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and get to the other side: in Jesus' marvelous name -
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Amen.
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Well, when we come back tomorrow,
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we're gonna see the next promise
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that God makes in the 23rd Psalm.
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But until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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"Where the word of a king is there's power."
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If you've never received Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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Renner Ministries is
proclaiming the gospel
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of Jesus Christ through
every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.