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Hey, this is Shelby and Scott, and we're in Psalms 141 through 145. We hope you enjoy this episode. We hope you comment or leave a review. Let us know what you think, what you're learning, how God is speaking to you through his Word. We are very near the end of the Psalms here, Scott. We just have today and tomorrow left reading through the Psalms. But what stood out to you in the chapters that we read today?
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There's a lot of problems and a lot of drama. I feel like in today's Psalms, like a lot of the Psalms are cries for God's deliverance. 141, for example, he asks for God to deliver him from traps set by evildoers. But I love that he also prays. David prays for his own integrity, too, that God would guard the words he speaks, that he would protect David's heart from being drawn to the evil deeds of others. I think those are just great verses to pray at the start of our days, like. Very challenged to make that a regular part of my prayer life. Psalm 142 sticks out to me because David is just striking how alone David feels in this psalm. The study points out this is possibly when he's on the run from Saul. But in verse four, he says. He says, there's no one at my right hand. No one is concerned for me. I have no refuge. No one cares for my life. But then what's beautiful, I think, is the next verse. He finds in God what he lacks from other people. People, he says, I cry to you, Lord. I say, you're my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. Incidentally, just in my own life, I've started to really, really pay attention to how often the psalmists refer to God as their refuge. Because it's just. It seems to be all over the place. And I just find that so beautiful. It's a good reminder because it's. It's in our nature to seek refuge in hard times, to seek refuge from danger. And this is a reminder that we can always find that refuge. We can always find what we need in the Lord's presence.
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Yeah, and we have seen that word refuge. I mean, really just all across, all 150 Psalms, just scattered throughout. We've referenced that many, many times. Are there any other psalms that you want to draw attention to that we read today?
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I have to talk about 145. This is such a great, great psalm. Another one of my favorites. It's another acrostic. So where each line Begins with a psalm, successive letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. It's just. It's a psalm devoted to praising God. Simply put, like, that's all it is. But first 10 verses, you've got just celebrations of God's power and his transcendence. We read, the Lord is good to all. He is compassionate, all he made. Verse 8. We get that language again from Exodus 34, that the Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. I love. In verses 11, 13, he starts to talk about God's kingdom, and specifically that this kingdom of the Lord is an everlasting kingdom that will endure through all generations, and that the one who reigns over this kingdom is trustworthy and faithful in all he does. Like, that's great news. To be ruled by a very good and powerful ruler. My personal favorite part of this Psalm, though, is 14 through 21. David's just singing of the way that God cares for his creatures. And God opens his hands, he satisfies them, he watches over his people, he fulfilled their desires. Verse 18 in particular, is a promise I often cling to in my prayer life, which says that the Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him. In truth, I love that because God. What this reminds us of, I think, is that God is not in the habits of turning away people who come to him in faith. They're welcome in his presence. God welcomes them. And I especially need that reminder when, you know, in times of prayer where it may feel like God is distant or my prayers are just kind of hitting the ceiling and just. Is anything happening right now when I'm praying? This is a reminder that none of those. None of those fears are true. My prayers are heard. I am welcome in God's presence. I need that reminder a lot.
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Yeah, I mean, I think we all do. In what is an encouraging reminder, that is, I think for me, there was a couple verses in Psalm 143, particularly verse 7, that stuck out to me in. There are many places in the Psalms that when I feel like I just don't have the words, sometimes it gives me the words to pray. And this is one of those. And it just says, answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails. Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit. And it's just putting words to those moments, like you mentioned, when you're like, God, are you here? Like, I just need to know that you're here. And so maybe even very appropriate that arranged is that prayer saying, like, God are you here? Speak to me. I need to see your face. And then Psalm 48, 45, where you talked about this reassurance that God is there and God does hear. But again, some really encouraging psalms, some helpful psalms, no matter kind of where we find ourselves in life. Tomorrow we're going to wrap up this whole entire book. So that'll be an exciting day. We'll see. Everybody back to wrap up the book of Psalms tomorrow.