We're back.
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We are using
Psalm 23 as a pattern
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for pray for our spouse
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and we have found out
that there are two petitions
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that we have covered this
far, seven in the entire Psalms.
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But the first two
petitions are to be my God
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and give me rest.
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And so I pray for you
that He will be your God,
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be your shepherd,
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and that He will grant you rest.
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But now what's
the third petition?
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Well, let's pick up
with verse 3 at Psalms 23,
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it says, "He restores my soul."
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This version actually
says, "He restores my life."
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Yeah, and that basically
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that next request
is simply heal me.
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That's the first
part of verse 3, heal me.
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You know, if you
are ill physically,
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you feel like your
life has been taken,
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your life has been stolen.
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Chronic illness is
especially, severe illnesses.
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You don't have the
ability to get out and do things
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and to be active
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and to interact
with other people,
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you don't have the ability
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some times to
care for yourselves,
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and you feel like
your life is gone.
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So if I pray for
you, restore his life,
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Lord, heal him,
give him the healing
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that he needs
in a spiritual ways
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and in physical ways.
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And some of the
healing is physical
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as we have just mentioned,
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but some of it is
emotional healing,
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psychological healing.
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But there is also a need
for spiritual healing as well.
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And I don't know exactly
what that means for everyone,
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it's a different
story for every person,
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may be that they need
forgiveness for their own,
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their own lives,
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or may be they need an
infusion of God's grace
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so that they can forgive others.
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But God knows what's best,
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and so here this
doesn't tell God how to heal,
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it just says,
Lord, restores life.
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Restore his life, you know,
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heal him from
resentment, from fear,
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from physical
ailment, from any thing
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that may keep
him from being whole.
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Right.
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Give him his life. Right.
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Now, next petition is found
on the second half of verse 3,
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read that for us.
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It says, "He leads me in
the paths of righteousness,"
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or "He leads me
in correct paths",
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according to this version,
"For the sake of his name."
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All right, now again, we
are asking now for guidance.
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So the petition is
guide me, or guide my spouse,
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be my spouse's guide.
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Now, in the east
shepherds lead their sheep
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and in the west we drive them.
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Behind them with whistles
and dogs or whatever else,
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you know, we drive the sheep.
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But in the east the
shepherd leads the sheep
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and the sheep know
the shepherd's voice,
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he sings to them,
he speaks to them,
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and they follow
him wherever he leads.
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And even if they go
along a narrow pathway,
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they will trust him
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and they will go
wherever he follows
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because the know the shepherd
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as their are best good at heart.
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And he will sing,
he will call to them
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and they will come.
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It's described that
when he walks the sheep will,
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its especially when
there is a narrow pathway,
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they'll push ahead and
get up and nuzzle his leg,
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and he will reach down and
pet and call that sheep by name,
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because he knows
each one by name.
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Thus being reassured
that they fall back in line
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and the next one will
come up for attention as well.
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There's an intimate picture
of the shepherd and the sheep;
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he leads.
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And if God is leading you,
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if you are being led
by the master shepherd
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by Jesus himself,
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wherever He lead
you are goanna be okay.
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That's right.
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And you only develop that
by time with the shepherd.
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Yes, yeah.
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So that's part of a prayer too,
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it's this my spouse can
be with the shepherd enough,
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that he knows him, you know.
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But the last
part of this petition,
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"He leads me in
paths of righteousness
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for His name sake."
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Now that's
important because of this,
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the reason He will lead you
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when you ask for it
is not because of you,
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not because you
are of your merit,
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not because you are good
enough to deserve being led,
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or not because you pleased Him.
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He will lead you
because He has promised you,
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and He will always
be faithful to His name.
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He will respect His own name.
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And so it's saying lead
me not because I deserve it,
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but for the
honor of your own name,
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be faithful to your name.
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I have people come to me
say, Pastor, please for me.
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So I'll be
happy to pray for you.
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Now you are
praying for yourself?
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Well, yes, but
you are closer to God,
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he will hear your prayer.
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Well, that's just
a misunderstanding.
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It is.
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God will answer your prayer
not because of my goodness
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or because of your goodness,
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He will answer
for His own name sake,
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and that's something
is far more dependable
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then my goodness, your goodness,
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because either one of us,
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the best way are
is not all that good.
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No, it's not that good.
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It's not that good.
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But God is always good.
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And if we depend upon His name,
which He will always honor,
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He will always
honor His own name,
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then we can trust
Him and He will lead us,
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He will answer our prayers.
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I think another beautiful
part of that is that it says
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that He will lead us in
the paths of righteousness,
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and when you study
the word righteousness
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in the original language,
its is a word of relationship.
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Right relationship.
Right relationship.
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So it's saying that
He is goanna lead you
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not just into doing
all the right things,
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with good behavior,
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we tended to think
righteousness is good behavior.
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No, He's going to lead you
into relationship with Him.
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And for His name
sake He will do that,
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because that's what
He has promised to do,
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because He loves you so dearly
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and He want you to be
close to Him in relationship.
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And by the way,
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that's where genuine
good behavior comes from.
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Oh, yeah.
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It's right relationship. It is.
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That's where the
changes are made.
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The next one is in verse
4, he says, "Keep me safe.
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Even though I walk
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through the valley
of the shadow of death
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I will fear no evil
for you are with me,
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your rod and your
staff, they comfort me."
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The valley and the shadow.
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Yeah, you know, in the summers,
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the shepherds in the
East would take their sheep
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up to the high mesas.
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It was cooler,
there was plenty of grass,
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there is no large vegetation
or boulders or anything
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for predators to hide behind.
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The days were long,
there were no shadows
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because it was on
the top of the mesa,
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so nothing to cast
a shadow, long days,
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plenty of
light, plenty of grass,
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and it was cool,
it was sheep heaven.
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Sheep heaven.
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That's right, that's
where they wanted to be.
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Yeah, but winter was not heaven.
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No.
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And it seems odd that in
winter instead of staying up
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where it might be
warmer, they actually came down,
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and they came
down because you know,
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they couldn't be
up there in the cold
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where there was
nothing to eat up there either.
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The grass was thin up there,
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they had to come down to
the valleys where could eat.
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They could eat down there.
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But you have
shorter days in the winter.
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And there are
mountains on either side,
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there is larger
vegetation and boulders,
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place is for predators to hide.
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It was called by
shepherds the valley,
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the shadow of death,
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the valley, of shadow of death.
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And so that's where
you would loose the sheep,
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not on the high mesa,
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but every sheep had
to go through the valley,
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the shadow of death.
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I think we need
to hear that. Yes.
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Every sheep had
to go through that,
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every couple is
going to go through times
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when it feels like the
valley of the shadow of death,
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whether it's because they
feel distance from each other,
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or may be the two of them
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are going through a
circumstance of life
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that it's just very difficult.
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Right.
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May be there is an illness,
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may be there is
a death of a child,
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may be there is, you know,
who knows what, financial ruin.
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Doesn't matter.
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It is always the
valley of shadow,
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the shadow of death.
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And he is...
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we have no need to fear
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when we are in the
valley of the shadow of death
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because He is with us.
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It says His rod, yours rod
and your staff they comfort me.
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You got the rod and the staff,
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the rod was usually
either a straight stick
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or else it was a stick
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with a kind of a
gnarled part of wood on it,
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and it was used
mainly for protection
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and it would fend off
wild animals, you know.
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And if it was a
longer, just straight stick,
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sometimes that was used
for correction for the sheep.
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You know, to get
them back in line
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sort of thing, you know.
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So protection and correction.
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But the staff with
the shepherds crook,
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and they would use for rescue,
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pull the sheep out
underneath those front legs
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if it and pull up
to safety of some sort,
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fall in a ravine or something.
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So we have protection,
correction, and rescue,
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I need all of those.
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All of those,
all of the time. Yes.
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You know, so, Lord, give Mike
what he needs in that record,
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you can pray
that for your spouse,
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give my spouse what
they need, correction,
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you know,
protection, all of those things.
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A rescue if he
needs to be rescued.
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Oh, and how many times
do we need to be rescued?
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Constantly.
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So you can pray for your spouse,
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you can pray for
yourselves as a couple
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who need to be rescued.
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Right.
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Sometimes we are just
rescued from ourselves.
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Whatever it is.
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But we need to be rescued,
do we not, from our own pride,
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our own arrogance, our
own feeling of sufficiency?
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And we can't do it,
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that's the thing,
we are not sufficient
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and so we put it in the
hands of the one who is.
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There is only one who
has the power to rescue me,
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to redeem me, to see me
through to the other side.
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That's right.
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The next petition, it
is provide for me, verse 5,
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you wanna read that?
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Verse 5 says,
"You prepare a table
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in the presence
of my oppressors"
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or "in the
presence of my enemies,
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You anoint my head with
oil, my cup runs overflowing."
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Wow.
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"You prepare a table for me."
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Now, before a shepherd
wouldn't allow his sheep
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to graze in a field that
he was not familiar with,
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he would cause them to lie down,
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and then he would
go through that field
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on his hands and knees.
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And he would
remove sharp stones,
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he would remove a sharp briers,
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and pull out noxious weeds,
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and basically he
would get this area
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ready for his
sheep to graze safely.
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And that process of
removing those things
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was known by the shepherds
as preparing the table.
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Preparing the table.
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So the picture is of the
Savior going before you...
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On his hands and knees.
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Yeah, preparing the way for you
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so that you can
have that what you need.
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God prepare the
way for my spouse,
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I know he may be
coming into something
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that may be
difficult, but, Lord,
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prepare the way, get
rid of all the obstacles,
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get rid of anything
that might harm him.
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That's a beautiful prayer.
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You know, I want
you praying that for me.
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Absolutely.
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Anything that might
harm me would be taken away
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because of the love of my God.
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And what a
comfort for me to know
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that my wife is
praying that for me,
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what a comfort, and
what a privilege for me
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to be able to pray
that prayer for you.
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Prepare the
table for Gayle, Lord.
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Take those things out of
her way that could hurt her,
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that could stand as an
impediment to her best good.
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So it says, You
prepare a table for me,
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you have
anointed my head with oil.
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The anointing oil
was used to signify
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that someone was set
aside for special purposes,
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and so you have set aside for...
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set my spouse aside
for special purposes,
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and let that oil be
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the representation
of the Holy Spirit
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that is just covering my spouse,
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so that they are enabled, novel,
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and quick and for service.
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And my cup overflows, we
have more than what we need.
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More than what we need,
if we would recognize that,
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you know, and just
acknowledge to God,
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surely we are
asking for a lot of things.
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But I think the
acknowledgement to Him
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that we realize He has
given us more than we need,
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we are over flowing
with gifts from His hand,
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and yet we're
asking for few more.
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We don't wanted to ever stop,
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but we were
grateful that we have it.
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A father doesn't mind
when his child ask for a lot.
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He does not.
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Verse 6 is the last petition,
and that is take me home,
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"Surely goodness and
loving kindness will follow me
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all the days of my
life" some translations say
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"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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Take Me Home.
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Now dwelling the
house of Lord forever,
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few grow up in the home
with father who loved you,
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and nurtured you,
and cared for you.
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Spending eternity
in that home was good.
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If you grew up with an
absentee or a violent father
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or an abusive father,
that's not a picture for you.
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But if indeed, you can imagine
the father of your dreams
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and multiply that by
about a billion times
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you have scratched the
surface of just how good God is,
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and how good it would
be to live in His house.
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And I think
anyone who has grown up
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in this difficult
situation has had that dream,
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you know that, imagine what it
would be like to have a father.
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The father who is
perfect, who loves me.
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The first part of
this is surely goodness
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and loving kindness
or mercy will follow me.
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The word loving
kindness and our mercy
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is translated
from the Hebrew word
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"hesed" or
"chesed" depending upon
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who is translating it.
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So word origin meaning it takes
26 English words to translate.
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It refers to a
love of fanaticism.
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And so intense is
this fanatical love that,
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that word is
never used to describe
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a man's love for a women,
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because that love is
not fanatical enough,
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it's never used to describe
a women's love for a man
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because even though you have
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a greater innate
capacity for love,
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it's not strong
enough for chesed.
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It's not used to describe a
women's love for her children
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because that's
not stronger enough.
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The only time it's used is
to describe God's love for you.
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His fanatical
love will follow me,
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and even the word follow
is not a good translation.
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Yeah. What should it mean?
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Well, it should mean
to stalk. That's, right.
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That's the words what it mean.
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That's the scary
idea, to being stalk
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but to be stalk by perfect love.
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By perfect love, fanatical love.
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Perfect love is not
going to overwhelm you,
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perfect love is
going to just lift you up
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and draw you in,
that's what being stalked by.
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I wanna be stalked
by God. Absolutely.
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I don't want Him to ever give up
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because so many times
I'm going the wrong way,
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I want Him to continue,
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and I want Him to
continue to stalk you,
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I wanna know that He is
always drawing you close to Him.
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I want to know the
same thing for you as well,
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the fanatical love the
father will bring you home.
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And that's what
I want for you too,
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I want you to be able to
be with him in the paradise.
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Well, that's just a
pattern of how to pray.
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We encourage you
to take scripture,
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use this Psalm,
use any other Psalm,
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or any other pray
you find in scripture,
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pray for each other,
pray for your spouse,
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pray for your children.
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It's going to make
difference in your family.
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We want you to do this
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because we want you to
be madly in love forever.
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