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This program is made
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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My friend, my name is Rick Renner
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and I wanna say thank you for joining me
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and all of these wonderful
sheep today as I reflect
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and teach on the 23rd Psalm.
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And when you come to the last verse of Psalm 23:6
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it says, 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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This promises that
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because the Lord is our shepherd, goodness
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and mercy will follow me and
you all the days of our life.
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What does that mean? It's wonderful.
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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
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
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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 today's program, my friends,
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I have been waiting for you
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and today we're gonna wrap up the teaching
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that I've been doing called the 23rd Psalm.
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We've been diving into the promises of God in the 23rd Psalm
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and we've seen that God
makes 10 spectacular promises
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to you and to me, they are ours.
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We need to know them, embrace
them, claim them, declare them
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and enjoy them because they are for us.
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and it's called Psalm 23,
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The Lord is my Shepherd.
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and really begin to get the promises
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because in this program
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we use the Bible and we're
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of the Bible in people's lives.
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And today I want us
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to review all the verses in
the 23rd Psalm beginning in
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verse one, where David writes,
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The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want.
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And we've seen that we
need to personalize this.
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The Lord is my shepherd.
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You should just say that
the Lord is my shepherd,
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not a shepherd, not their shepherd.
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The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want.
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And I quoted the little girl
who misquoted this verse.
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She said, the Lord is my
shepherd. That's all I want.
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But maybe she had it right
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because when you have the
Lord, you lack nothing.
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But the verse actually says,
the Lord is my shepherd;
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I shall not want.
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Verse 2: He makes me to
lie down in green pastures.
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And we've seen that
when the Lord is nearby,
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we can lie down, we can
rest and not be afraid
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because the Lord is watching over us.
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He leads me beside the still waters.
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He promises that he will give us guidance.
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Verse 3: He restores my soul.
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Almost everyone that I know needs a little soul restoration.
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And in this verse, the great
shepherd promises He will go
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to work to restore our souls.
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He leads me in the path of righteousness
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for his name's sake.
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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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There are moments in life
when we have dark seasons,
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but according to this
verse, the Lord is with us
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and there's no reason for us to fear evil.
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Then David says, thy rod and
thy staff, they comfort me.
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And here we find God's protective hand
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and God's corrective hand in our life.
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And I told you that there
is protection in correction.
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God uses his staff to beat the enemies off
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and he uses his staff to correct us and keep us on track.
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Thank God for his rod and his staff.
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They truly comfort us.
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Then we saw in verse 5: thou preparest to table
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before me in the presence of mine enemies.
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An enemy represents a threat.
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It could be a situation, it
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It could even be a person,
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but it doesn't matter what you're facing,
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God will set a table for
you even in the presence
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of a threatening situation.
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But you have to open your
eyes to see the table.
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Then he said, thou anointest my head with oil,
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my cup runneth over.
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We saw this in the last program
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that God gives us multiple anointings in life.
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We have to qualify for each of them.
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But if we'll be faithful where we are,
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another anointing is coming and another anointing is coming.
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And when it says my cup runneth over, it is a picture
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of us being lavishly, welcomed into the house of God.
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And today we're gonna wrap it up in verse 6:
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where David says, 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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But let me summarize again,
all 10 of these promises.
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No.1: 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: God's supernatural confidence
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that he gives to us.
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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 blessing in our life.
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And finally, today, God's
supernatural promise,
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which we find in verse 6, which again says,
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surely goodness
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and mercy shall follow me all the days
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of my life and I will dwell in the house
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of the Lord forever.
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But I really like how David begins, verse 6,
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he says, Surely -
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and notice in David's voice,
there's no hesitation.
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There's no uncertainty.
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He is absolutely certain
of what he is saying.
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He is fully persuaded.
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This is God's promise
to him and my friends,
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it is God's promise to you.
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He declares that goodness and
mercy are going to follow him
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and hunt him down all
the days of his life.
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He declares definitely,
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certainly, absolutely, indisputably, categorically,
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undoubtedly, unquestionably
that the blessings
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of God are his
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and they're gonna chase him
down as long as he lives.
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And my friend, I declare it to you - goodness
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and mercy are going to follow
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after you all the days of your life;
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say - Amen.
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Now you might think, well,
I wish I had that kind
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of confidence.
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Hmm. Sometimes I struggle
with uncertainty.
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Well, you might think
that somebody like David
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who wrote the book of Psalms
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and who just wrote this psalm,
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it may sound like he's
always on the mountaintop
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or always full of faith,
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but if you just go back 10
Psalms earlier, you find
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that David was in a much
less confident frame of mind.
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For example, in Psalm 13:1-3, listen to
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what David said.
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How long, oh Lord, will you forget me forever?
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How long will you hide your face from me?
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How long shall I take counsel
in my soul having sorrow in my
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heart daily?
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How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
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Consider and hear me
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oh Lord, my God, enlighten my eyes lest I sleep the
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sleep of death.
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He didn't sound too
confident in those verses,
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but my friend is tremendous
when our faith is soaring.
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But there are moments when we may wrestle
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and struggle with our faith.
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David was having one of those moments,
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but I find a lot of strength in the fact
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that biblical characters
were very real people
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with a lot of weaknesses.
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For example: James in the last chapter
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of James when he was
writing about the powerful
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and effective prayers of Elijah
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first said this, James 5:17
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in the new living translation; Elijah was as human
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as we are. We tend to glorify biblical characters.
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But in fact, if you look at their stories,
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they're very frail and
they're very, very human.
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And if you look at the story of Elijah,
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he was a powerful prophet,
but it could be very moody.
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He was moved by his emotions.
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And in fact, it seems he was
given to bouts of depression.
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We're talking about Elijah,
the great prophet of God.
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But let's go back to David.
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After David expresses his concerns in Psalm 13,
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which we just read, he began to transition into
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what I would call the
victory side of the equation.
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He transitions into a
declaration of faith.
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And sometimes you transition into faith.
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You may not immediately
arrive in a place of victory,
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but you may be in
transition to that place.
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And when you come to Psalm 13:5 &
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and 6, David transitioned to a point
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where finally he declared,
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But I have trusted in your mercy,
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my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
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I will sing to the Lord
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because he has dealt bountifully
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with me.
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in the 23rd Psalm said, goodness and mercy will follow me.
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The Hebrew really means it's gonna hunt me down all the days
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of my life.
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But in a low moment, David had to speak
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to his own soul and tell his soul to think
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right. And we find that low moment in Psalm 103,
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a glorious psalm.
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Listen to what David said in Psalm 103:1: listen.
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Bless the Lord, oh my soul
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and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
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Now, don't get in a hurry.
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When you read that verse,
David is speaking to his soul.
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The soul is where your emotions are.
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David wasn't thinking of much good.
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In fact, he was tempted to
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and now David begins to speak to himself.
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He's telling himself to shape up
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and he says, bless the Lord soul.
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He's speaking to his soul,
telling it what to do.
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Bless the Lord, oh my soul
and all that is within me.
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Get into alignment. It's time
for you to bless his name.
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Then in verse two, bless
the Lord, oh my soul.
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He's speaking to his soul,
telling to to shape up
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and to get into alignment.
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Bless the Lord's soul
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and forget not all his benefits.
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At that moment, David was tempted
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to forget all the benefits of the Lord.
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So now he begins to
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Who forgives all thine iniquities.
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Think about that.
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God forgives all of our iniquities.
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The word forgive means
to permanently dismiss
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to send it away without
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to retrieve it ever again.
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When God dismisses our
iniquities, they are dismissed
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and sent away forever.
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And then he adds who healeth all thy diseases:
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not some - all thy diseases.
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Verse 4: who redeems thy life from destruction.
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Think about your own life
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and how God has redeemed
your life from destruction.
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What if God had not saved
you? Where would you be today?
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But he redeemed your
life from destruction.
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Who crowns thee with loving kindness
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and tender mercies?
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Look at the loving, kindness
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and tender mercies of God in our life.
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Verse 5: Who satisfies thy mouth with good things:
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that even includes material things, food to eat,
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God gives us the things that we need in life
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and satisfies us with them.
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And then David adds - So
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that thy youth is renewed like the eagles,
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which means you don't have to get old.
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God wants to renew your
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That is a benefit of being a child
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of God if you'll embrace it by faith.
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Verse 6: The Lord executeth righteousness
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and judgment for all that are oppressed.
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Verse 8: the Lord is merciful and gracious
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and slow to anger and plentious in mercy.
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Thank God that he's
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Thank God that he is slow to anger
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and so plentiful in mercy.
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Then look at the following verse.
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He will not always chide and he will not,
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and he neither will he keep his anger forever.
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God is not upset with people
forever. Eventually it passes.
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God wants to deal with all
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of us like sons and like daughters.
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And verse 10 says, he has not dealt with us
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after our sins nor rewarded us
according to our iniquities.
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Which means when you're a child of God,
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you don't get what's coming to you.
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God deals with us mercifully. Wow.
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Verse 11: For as the heaven
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so great is his mercy toward them that fear him -
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which means - we cannot even begin to fathom
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how much mercy God has for us.
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Verse 12: As far as the east is from the west,
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so far has he removed our
transgressions from us.
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Verse 13: Like a father pitieth his children,
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So the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
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Verse 14:4: he knows our frame.
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He remembers that we're dust,
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which means we're harder on
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God understands who we are
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and what we're made out of. Verse 17:
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But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting
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to everlasting upon them that fear him
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and his righteousness unto children's children -
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which means - God's goodness are going to your kids
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and to your grandkids.
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And in verse 18 it says to
such as keep his covenant
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and to those that remember
his commandments to do them,
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which means all of these
promises belong to those
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who are in covenant with God.
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So in Psalm 103:1,
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we find there are benefits
when you serve God.
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In verse 3: we find that in God there is forgiveness.
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In verse 3, we find there is healing.
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In verse 4, we find there is redemption.
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Verse 4, we find loving kindness and tender mercies.
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Verse 5: that God satisfies our mouth with good things.
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In verse 5: he renews our youth like the eagle.
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Verse 6: he extends righteousness to us and justice.
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In verse 8: we find that God extends his mercy
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and his grace to us.
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In verse 10: God has patience toward us.
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In verse 11, God is forbearing with us.
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In verse 11, God is forgiving of us.
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In verse 12, he is forgetting of our sins.
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In verse 13, he feels pity toward us.
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In verse 14, he is understanding of our human condition.
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And in number 18, he is a
covenant keeper with those
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that are in covenant with him.
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That is amazing.
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And David forgot all of that
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Bless the Lord's soul. Forget not.
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He had to put himself
in remembrance of all
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of these good things.
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And then when we come to Psalm 23:6,
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which is wrapping up the 23rd
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emphatically, unquestionably,
categorically, it is
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for certain goodness
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and mercy shall follow me
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all the days of my life, and the Hebrew literally means they
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will hunt me down just like a hunter
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that is hunting an animal.
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Goodness and mercy are on our trail following us,
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hunting us down,
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and David says, I will dwell in the house
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of the Lord forever.
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David believed, and David
envisioned that goodness
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and mercy were on his trail
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and he said, I will dwell in
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which means David knew this was
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a forever relationship.
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And my friends, it is a forever relationship
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for you and for me.
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God was in it for the
long haul with David,
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and God is in it for
the long haul with me,
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and he's in it for the long haul with you.
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David knew this was forever.
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He was going to spend
eternity with his shepherd
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and my friends we're
going to spend eternity
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with the Lord as well.
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Wow, it's so powerful, so
powerful. But now listen.
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Psalm 23:1, The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want.
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Verse 2: He makes me to
lie down in green pastures.
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He leads me beside the still waters.
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Verse 3: he restores my soul
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and lead me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake.
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Verse 4: 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 with me.
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Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
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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;
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my cup runneth over.
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Verse 6: Surely goodness
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and mercy will 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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Those verses are packed with 10 promises
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of the great shepherd,
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and that includes you.
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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's 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
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and Denise in 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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It has been such a pleasure to share
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with you the 10 promises that God makes
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to his people in the 23rd Psalm.
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If this series has been a blessing to you,
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would you please let me know?
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I would love to hear from you.
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And please remember, today is the last day
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that we're offering the
series called Psalm 23.
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The Lord is my Shepherd,
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and it comes with a great study guide
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and today is the last day
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that we're offering
Tony Cook's book called,
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Because the Lord is my Shepherd: The Blessings of
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and Empowered Life.
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You can order all of this by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And remember that when you
become a partner, we're going
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to send you Denise's book called The Gift of Forgiveness,
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and we're going to send
you my book called Life
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in the Combat Zone.
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We always send this to
anyone who becomes a partner
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with our ministry, but I want to pray with you.
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Father, I thank you that
your plans for us are good.
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You intend for goodness
and mercy to hunt us down
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and to be on our trail
for the rest of our life.
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And Lord, by faith we embrace
it and declare goodness
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and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life
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and when life is over, I
will dwell in the house
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of the Lord forever.
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Lord, I thank you that you're
in this for the long haul
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with every one of us in Jesus' name.
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Amen. I'll see you Monday,
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but until then, please remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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"Where the word of a king is there is 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. If you just prayed
the prayer of salvation
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with us, would you please
let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ
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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.
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This program was made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.