WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:06.500 spiritually, I was in a desert. This is the LifeSpring One Year Bible Rewind, 00:00:06.580 --> 00:00:12.620 and coming to you from Riverside, California, podcasting since 2004, I'm your OG Godcaster, 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:17.060 Steve Webb. This is the podcast that comes to you seven days a week, and we're reading the entire 00:00:17.340 --> 00:00:23.540 Bible together. I'm so glad you're here. Welcome. The website is lifespringmedia.com. It's 00:00:23.700 --> 00:00:29.240 International Lego Day, because who hasn't stepped on one of those confounded plastic bricks? 00:00:29.580 --> 00:00:30.400 Man, that hurts. 00:00:30.840 --> 00:00:31.940 This is Psalms Wednesday. 00:00:32.230 --> 00:00:34.480 We'll read Psalms 42 through 44. 00:00:34.980 --> 00:00:37.080 I'll have some commentary on what we've read. 00:00:37.180 --> 00:00:40.600 We'll find out what happened on this date in church history, and we'll have a time of 00:00:40.820 --> 00:00:40.900 prayer. 00:00:41.140 --> 00:00:41.940 So let's begin. 00:00:42.310 --> 00:00:46.160 Our Heavenly Father, we love you so very much, and we thank you so much for your word. 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:49.460 We pray, God, that as we read today, you would touch our hearts. 00:00:49.710 --> 00:00:51.000 We pray this in Jesus' name. 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:51.780 Amen. 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:58.840 Psalm 42 is the first psalm of Book 2 of the Book of Psalms. 00:00:59.100 --> 00:01:01.920 And there are certainly differences between Books 1 and 2. 00:01:02.460 --> 00:01:04.420 One difference is the Hebrew word for God. 00:01:05.199 --> 00:01:07.320 Commentator James Montgomery Boyce wrote, 00:01:07.820 --> 00:01:14.740 According to Franz Delick, in Book 1 the name Jehovah occurs 272 times and Elohim only 15. 00:01:15.430 --> 00:01:21.220 But in Book 2, Elohim occurs 164 times and Jehovah only 30 times. 00:01:22.160 --> 00:01:28.420 In Book 1, David is the author of all but four of the 41 Psalms, with those four having no attributions. 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:36.540 In Book 2, which contains 31 chapters, David wrote 18, Asaph and Solomon each wrote 1, 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:41.340 the sons of Korah authored 7 or 8, and 3 have no attribution. 00:01:42.180 --> 00:01:47.920 The title of Psalm 42 is, To the Chief Musician, a Contemplation of the Sons of Korah. 00:01:48.740 --> 00:01:50.260 So who were the sons of Korah? 00:01:51.300 --> 00:01:55.980 Well, they were Levites from the tribe of Kohath, and according to 1 Chronicles 20.19, 00:01:56.100 --> 00:02:01.900 they stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with voices loud and high. They did this in the 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.660 temple so it appears that they were part of what we might call the worship band. 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:13.820 Psalms chapter 42. Like a deer drinking from a stream, I reach out to you, my God. 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:20.300 My soul thirsts for the living God. When can I go to meet with Him? Instead of food, 00:02:20.420 --> 00:02:25.660 I have only tears day and night, as my enemies laugh at me and say, Where is your God? 00:02:26.300 --> 00:02:32.120 My heart breaks as I remember the pleasant times in the past when I walked with the crowds as I 00:02:32.260 --> 00:02:38.380 led them up to God's temple. I remember the happy songs of praise as they celebrated the festival. 00:02:39.380 --> 00:02:46.740 Why am I so sad? Why am I so upset? I tell myself, wait for God's help. You will again 00:02:46.880 --> 00:02:52.940 be able to praise Him, your God, the One who will save you. In my sadness I say, 00:02:53.480 --> 00:02:58.340 I will remember you from here on this small hill where Mount Hermon and the Jordan River meet. 00:02:59.140 --> 00:03:02.300 I hear the roar of the water coming from deep within the earth. 00:03:03.100 --> 00:03:06.020 It shouts to the water below as it tumbles down the waterfall. 00:03:06.860 --> 00:03:11.300 God, your waves come one after another, crashing all around and over me. 00:03:12.200 --> 00:03:18.840 By day the Lord shows his faithful love, and at night I have a song for him, a prayer for the God of my life. 00:03:19.260 --> 00:03:22.680 I say to God, my rock, why have you forgotten me? 00:03:23.340 --> 00:03:26.560 Why must I suffer this sadness that my enemies have brought me? 00:03:27.580 --> 00:03:29.420 Their constant insults are killing me. 00:03:30.140 --> 00:03:32.560 They never stop asking, Where is your God? 00:03:33.480 --> 00:03:34.620 Why am I so sad? 00:03:35.140 --> 00:03:36.100 Why am I so upset? 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.100 I tell myself, Wait for God's help. 00:03:39.720 --> 00:03:43.800 You will again be able to praise Him, your God, the one who will save you? 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:50.540 Psalm 43 has no title, and there's no indication of who the writer is. 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:52.540 G. Campbell Morgan wrote, 00:03:53.100 --> 00:03:57.320 This psalm is either part of the previous one or is closely connected with it. 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:03.620 As a matter of fact, many ancient Hebrew manuscripts have Psalms 42 and 43 combined 00:04:03.810 --> 00:04:05.280 into just one psalm. 00:04:06.620 --> 00:04:07.820 Psalms chapter 43 00:04:08.940 --> 00:04:13.040 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. 00:04:13.740 --> 00:04:16.700 O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:18.959 For you are the God of my strength. 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:20.980 Why do you cast me off? 00:04:21.500 --> 00:04:24.340 Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.000 O send out your light and your truth. 00:04:27.580 --> 00:04:28.280 Let them lead me. 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.960 Let them bring me to your holy hill and to your tabernacle. 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:36.680 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy. 00:04:37.320 --> 00:04:40.280 And on the harp I will praise you, O God, my God. 00:04:40.900 --> 00:04:42.780 Why are you cast down, O my soul? 00:04:43.220 --> 00:04:45.000 And why are you disquieted within me? 00:04:45.820 --> 00:04:51.180 Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God. 00:04:52.660 --> 00:04:59.240 The title of Psalm 44 is, To the Chief Musician, a Contemplation of the Sons of Korah. So this was 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:05.020 written by the sons of Korah, and they speak of a time of defeat for the nation, and they ask God 00:05:05.020 --> 00:05:10.520 to deliver them, to rescue them. We don't know the specific time this was written, so it could apply 00:05:10.660 --> 00:05:14.740 to any of them. Psalms chapter 44 00:05:15.960 --> 00:05:20.860 Our God, our ancestors told us what wonders you worked, and we listened carefully. 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:25.400 You chased off the nations by causing them trouble with your powerful arm. 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:28.760 Then you let our ancestors take over their land. 00:05:29.420 --> 00:05:32.800 Their strength and weapons were not what won the land and gave them victory. 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:37.340 You loved them and fought with your powerful arm and your shining glory. 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:42.200 You are my God and King, and you give victory to the people of Jacob. 00:05:43.180 --> 00:05:46.840 By your great power we knocked our enemies down and trampled on them. 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:52.900 I don't depend on my arrows or my sword to save me, but you saved us from our hateful enemies, 00:05:53.440 --> 00:05:58.480 and you put them to shame. We boast about you, our God, and we are always grateful. 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:04.160 But now you have rejected us. You don't lead us into battle, and we look foolish. 00:06:05.260 --> 00:06:10.760 You made us retreat, and our enemies have taken everything we own. You let us be slaughtered, 00:06:11.060 --> 00:06:16.540 like sheep, and you scattered us among the nations. You sold your people for little or nothing, 00:06:16.820 --> 00:06:23.320 and you earned no profit. You made us look foolish to our neighbors. People who live nearby insult us 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:29.960 and sneer. Foreigners joke about us and shake their heads. I am embarrassed every day, and I 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:35.860 blush with shame. But others mock and sneer as they watch my enemies take revenge on me. 00:06:36.540 --> 00:06:42.339 All this happened to us, though we didn't forget you or break our agreement. We always kept you in 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:48.020 mind and followed your teaching. But you crushed us, and you covered us with deepest darkness 00:06:48.500 --> 00:06:53.920 where wild animals live. We did not forget you or lift our hands in prayer to foreign 00:06:54.220 --> 00:06:59.700 gods. You would have known it because you discover every secret thought. We face death 00:06:59.910 --> 00:07:05.520 all day for you. We are like sheep on their way to be slaughtered. Wake up! Do something, 00:07:05.760 --> 00:07:11.420 Lord! Why are you sleeping? Don't desert us forever. Why do you keep looking away? 00:07:12.280 --> 00:07:14.480 Don't forget our sufferings and all our troubles. 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.460 We are flat on the ground, holding on to the dust. 00:07:18.980 --> 00:07:19.520 Do something. 00:07:19.990 --> 00:07:20.460 Help us. 00:07:21.100 --> 00:07:23.480 Show how kind you are and come to our rescue. 00:07:25.440 --> 00:07:27.080 I'll comment on Psalm 42. 00:07:27.900 --> 00:07:31.420 More years ago than I care to remember, I was an apprentice carpenter. 00:07:31.690 --> 00:07:36.200 And the first job I worked on was building condominiums in Palm Desert, right here in 00:07:36.270 --> 00:07:37.000 Southern California. 00:07:37.740 --> 00:07:40.180 Palm Desert is just next door to Palm Springs. 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:45.400 so as you might think from the name of the town, Palm Desert is indeed in the Southern California 00:07:45.660 --> 00:07:52.220 Desert. And as luck would have it, this project I was working on was in the summer. I looked up to 00:07:52.300 --> 00:07:57.540 see what the temperatures were in July and August of 1978, the year I had this job, and most every 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:03.400 day the temperature reached 110 degrees. We'd usually begin our day's work, if I remember right, 00:08:03.410 --> 00:08:08.719 at about 5 o'clock in the morning, when the temperature was only about 85, but once the sun 00:08:08.740 --> 00:08:14.800 came up, the mercury would quickly rise. Verse 1 and 2 in the New Living Translation more accurately 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:20.160 captures the author's meaning than our translation today, the easy-to-read version. The New Living 00:08:20.380 --> 00:08:27.700 Translation says, As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, 00:08:28.080 --> 00:08:34.759 the living God. In my mind, this verse is inextricably tied to my time as a carpenter's 00:08:34.780 --> 00:08:40.900 apprentice in Palm Desert. I know what it's like to long for fresh, cold water. And there have been 00:08:41.020 --> 00:08:46.940 times in my life where I felt that, spiritually, I was in a desert, separated from God. And, of 00:08:46.940 --> 00:08:53.380 course, when I feel apart from God, it's my fault, because God doesn't change. If someone is drifted 00:08:53.500 --> 00:09:00.199 away, it's me that does the drifting. But God is faithful. He lets me do what I do, and, as a good 00:09:00.220 --> 00:09:06.480 Father, He lets me feel the consequences of my wandering ways, and without fail, I begin to thirst. 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:12.660 I begin to long for His presence again. And can I tell you something, beloved? This Christmas 00:09:12.870 --> 00:09:17.780 season I'm feeling a bit heartbroken. There's someone in my life who has wandered away from God, 00:09:18.300 --> 00:09:24.820 someone I love very, very much. They think that they no longer believe in God, so my fervent prayer 00:09:24.940 --> 00:09:29.620 for them is that they would experience this same longing for Him that the authors wrote about, 00:09:30.060 --> 00:09:36.280 and that I myself have experienced. The deer is driven by thirst to that cool stream of water, 00:09:36.680 --> 00:09:41.960 and my prayer is that my loved one will be driven to the refreshing arms of a loving God. 00:09:43.420 --> 00:09:48.980 Is there someone in your life like this? Don't give up praying for them. I prayed for my dad for 00:09:49.160 --> 00:09:54.720 many, many years. I began praying for him when I became a Christian as a teenager, and it wasn't 00:09:54.740 --> 00:09:59.860 until about thirty years later that my dad finally surrendered to the Lord, just before he died. 00:10:00.340 --> 00:10:03.500 So don't ever give up praying for your loved ones who don't know the Lord. 00:10:05.060 --> 00:10:05.980 I'd love to know your thoughts. 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:08.440 We'll be back in the book of Job tomorrow. 00:10:08.780 --> 00:10:10.680 We'll read chapters 29 and 30. 00:10:16.280 --> 00:10:20.480 Today's verse of the day is actually two verses, Psalms 42, 1 and 2. 00:10:20.940 --> 00:10:24.560 Like a deer drinking from a stream, I reach out to you, my God. 00:10:24.900 --> 00:10:26.860 My soul thirsts for the living God. 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:28.640 When can I go to meet with Him? 00:10:37.660 --> 00:10:41.280 Beloved, just as Psalm 42 speaks of the deer thirsting for water, 00:10:41.420 --> 00:10:43.680 I hope this show quenches your thirst for the Word. 00:10:44.180 --> 00:10:45.660 If you've found refreshment here, 00:10:45.810 --> 00:10:49.520 please consider a value-for-value donation of time, talent, or treasure. 00:10:50.100 --> 00:10:50.880 Pray for the show. 00:10:51.050 --> 00:10:51.660 Tell a friend. 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:54.540 Stream Satoshis, boost, or donate dollars. 00:10:54.800 --> 00:10:57.580 However you feel led, in proportion to the value you've received, 00:10:58.000 --> 00:10:59.260 Here's a place to do that. 00:11:00.920 --> 00:11:03.340 Lifespringmedia.com slash support 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:13.700 Well, what do a dying king and a legendary island missionary have in common? 00:11:14.400 --> 00:11:17.060 They both left a mark on the world on this very day. 00:11:17.620 --> 00:11:20.280 It's January 29th, and history is shifting. 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:23.700 First, let's go back to 1547. 00:11:24.500 --> 00:11:28.380 A massive, controversial King Henry VIII has just died. 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:33.100 For years, Henry played a tug-of-war with the Pope, but it was mostly about power. 00:11:33.680 --> 00:11:40.400 When he died, the crown went to his nine-year-old son, Edward VI, and that's when the real fire started. 00:11:41.100 --> 00:11:43.560 Edward's advisors didn't just want a new boss. 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:45.160 They wanted a new church. 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:53.000 This transition flipped the switch, moving England from a political dispute into a full-blown Protestant Reformation. 00:11:53.520 --> 00:11:57.060 The Bible was finally coming to the people in their own language. 00:11:57.900 --> 00:11:59.860 But history isn't just made in palaces. 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:01.420 Jump to 1907. 00:12:01.900 --> 00:12:04.580 Today we remember the death of John G. Patton. 00:12:05.140 --> 00:12:07.500 This Scotsman didn't just preach the gospel. 00:12:08.020 --> 00:12:12.000 He lived it in one of the most dangerous places on earth, the New Hebrides. 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:15.720 We're talking about a man who stood his ground among cannibals, 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:19.300 lost his family to disease, and he kept digging. 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:24.160 He famously told his critics that he didn't fear being eaten by cannibals because he'd 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:25.920 be resurrected just the same. 00:12:26.520 --> 00:12:31.520 By the time he passed away on this date, he had seen thousands trade fear for faith. 00:12:32.400 --> 00:12:33.200 Think about that. 00:12:33.640 --> 00:12:35.520 One day, two massive legacies. 00:12:36.140 --> 00:12:37.880 One changed the laws of an empire. 00:12:38.250 --> 00:12:40.660 The other changed the soul of a people group. 00:12:41.100 --> 00:12:46.280 Whether it's a throne room or a tropical beach, God is always at work in the timing of history. 00:12:46.520 --> 00:12:46.700 Amen? 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:47.460 Amen. 00:12:49.660 --> 00:12:55.000 Every now and then we come across a Bible verse we think we know so well that we stop really hearing it. 00:12:55.500 --> 00:12:59.020 Be still and know that I am God is one of those verses. 00:12:59.820 --> 00:13:05.180 On the newest episode of Verses We Missed, I take a closer look at Psalm 46.10 00:13:05.620 --> 00:13:08.320 and discover that God isn't whispering comfort here. 00:13:08.900 --> 00:13:10.300 He's speaking into chaos. 00:13:11.340 --> 00:13:13.600 This verse isn't just about calming your heart. 00:13:14.060 --> 00:13:18.140 It's about recognizing who truly reigns when everything feels like it's shaking. 00:13:19.070 --> 00:13:22.200 Join me for Verses We Missed, Be Still Is Not a Whisper, 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:26.820 available now at VersesWeMissed.com or wherever you get your podcasts. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:33.240 Praises and Prayer Requests 00:13:34.100 --> 00:13:36.980 Joy Kurtz sent in this note along with a prayer request. 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:42.720 Steve, please remind the lovely Lady Leanne that we walk by faith and not by sight. 00:13:42.900 --> 00:13:45.820 And she put a laughing emoji there. 00:13:46.400 --> 00:13:47.400 Yeah, very funny, Joy. 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:48.240 That's good. 00:13:48.660 --> 00:13:50.840 Then she said that's 2 Corinthians 5, 7. 00:13:50.930 --> 00:13:52.620 And verse 8 reads in the Net Bible, 00:13:53.130 --> 00:13:57.160 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 00:13:58.120 --> 00:13:59.200 Amen to that, Joy. 00:13:59.390 --> 00:13:59.500 Amen. 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:00.900 And she says, 00:14:01.530 --> 00:14:04.240 Even though I'm not living with my parents in Mayville, New York, 00:14:04.560 --> 00:14:07.580 please pray for my father's diabetes and my mother's blood pressure, 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.380 which causes her to see black circles in her vision. 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:16.120 She said, I'm praying for the outreach of the one-year Bible, Steve, and thank you for your clear, smooth-speaking voice. 00:14:16.310 --> 00:14:18.600 Well, Joy, I can't take any credit for that. 00:14:19.340 --> 00:14:20.700 That is just something from God. 00:14:20.860 --> 00:14:21.700 But thank you very much. 00:14:21.880 --> 00:14:22.420 God bless you. 00:14:23.100 --> 00:14:26.880 We'll definitely pray for your parents as we do continue to pray for you as well. 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:30.800 And I have a very personal praise today. 00:14:31.300 --> 00:14:34.660 I have a family member that I have not spoken to in about nine years. 00:14:35.180 --> 00:14:39.360 Without getting into the details, this is a person who hurt me very badly. 00:14:40.060 --> 00:14:44.800 and though I forgave them years ago, I felt it was best just to avoid them, 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.780 knowing that their relationship with the Lord was non-existent, 00:14:47.900 --> 00:14:52.020 and I saw no need to invite them in to hurt me or my family again. 00:14:53.280 --> 00:14:59.820 But over the past several months, I began to feel like perhaps the Lord was calling me to re-establish contact with them. 00:15:00.680 --> 00:15:05.000 At first, I just thought it was my own mind telling me to call them, so I pushed it off. 00:15:05.740 --> 00:15:07.300 I tried to put it out of my mind. 00:15:08.060 --> 00:15:11.080 But then I began waking up in the middle of the night with it. 00:15:11.650 --> 00:15:14.840 It was then that I started thinking that this might be the Lord. 00:15:15.510 --> 00:15:17.820 After all, He has spoken to me like that before. 00:15:18.900 --> 00:15:22.480 That's actually how He told me to start the LifeSpring podcast in 2004. 00:15:23.300 --> 00:15:25.700 You can read all about that at LifeSpringMedia.com. 00:15:25.900 --> 00:15:27.360 Just look at the About Steve page. 00:15:27.740 --> 00:15:30.480 But I want to get back to this story. 00:15:31.400 --> 00:15:34.200 This time, though, I really argued with God about it. 00:15:34.620 --> 00:15:36.220 I wrestled with Him a lot. 00:15:37.020 --> 00:15:41.260 I'm not proud of it, but it's the truth, and I only want to tell you the truth on this show. 00:15:42.160 --> 00:15:46.800 I thought that I would only reopen some very bad wounds if I contacted this person, but 00:15:47.520 --> 00:15:51.160 a couple of days ago, again in the middle of the night, he woke me up again. 00:15:51.980 --> 00:15:56.620 And again, at first, I tried to put it out of my mind, but he kept insisting. 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:01.000 And I need to tell you that all this time I never mentioned it to the lovely Lady Leanne, 00:16:01.260 --> 00:16:03.560 because she too was hurt by this person. 00:16:04.460 --> 00:16:09.820 But at the end of this last wrestling session, I told the Lord that I would call this person. 00:16:10.800 --> 00:16:17.240 So in the morning, I told Leanne what I had been going through and that I was going to obey the Lord and make the call that day. 00:16:17.780 --> 00:16:22.160 And as she always does, she said, if the Lord is telling you to do it, do it. 00:16:22.900 --> 00:16:25.040 So she had to go visit her mom that morning. 00:16:25.790 --> 00:16:30.020 And if you've been listening to the show very long, you know her mom as Grandma Noni. 00:16:30.920 --> 00:16:34.200 So when she left, I very nervously dialed the phone. 00:16:34.520 --> 00:16:38.680 hoping that they wouldn't pick up. But they did. And I said, 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:43.300 Hello, this is Steve. And with some hesitation they said, 00:16:44.130 --> 00:16:48.720 Hello, Steve, with a bit of hesitation and almost suspicion in their voice. 00:16:49.510 --> 00:16:52.180 To which I said, God told me to call you. 00:16:53.780 --> 00:16:58.280 And then we went on to have about a ninety-minute very cordial and friendly conversation. 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:01.480 Nothing was said about what happened all those years ago. 00:17:01.560 --> 00:17:05.100 we just sort of got caught up on what's been going on in our lives. 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:10.860 And I now have a basis to, in God's timing, tell this person about the Lord. 00:17:11.560 --> 00:17:16.459 They're still very far from Him, but at least now the lines of communication are open. 00:17:17.140 --> 00:17:22.140 And I know that, as hard-headed as I can sometimes be, I did what God told me to do. 00:17:22.939 --> 00:17:25.920 The fears I had about being badly hurt again were all for naught. 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:29.480 And I gotta tell you, I am so glad that He was patient with me. 00:17:30.140 --> 00:17:34.960 If this revelation about my, what I consider to be a spiritual weakness on my part, 00:17:35.740 --> 00:17:37.760 if this disappoints you, I'm sorry, 00:17:38.360 --> 00:17:43.300 but I want you to know that God still has an under-construction sign on my head. 00:17:44.220 --> 00:17:44.700 Let's pray. 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:47.800 Our Heavenly Father, we love you, Lord, 00:17:48.140 --> 00:17:50.820 and we thank you for loving us even before we were born 00:17:51.300 --> 00:17:53.860 and even when we're stubborn and slow to obey. 00:17:54.740 --> 00:17:56.160 You have a plan for each of us, 00:17:56.260 --> 00:18:02.160 and you want us to know you, to love you, and to be with you in eternity. Thank you, Lord, 00:18:02.190 --> 00:18:08.900 for making all of that possible through Jesus. Father, right now we lift up Joy and her parents. 00:18:09.540 --> 00:18:14.680 Joy needs your healing touch for her brain injury. We're thankful that she has clarity of thought, 00:18:15.360 --> 00:18:20.680 but the connection between her brain and her body is broken. In Jesus' name, we ask you to 00:18:20.860 --> 00:18:26.200 reestablish the communication lines there, and we pray that her father's diabetes and her mother's 00:18:26.220 --> 00:18:31.040 blood pressure would be corrected. You can do these things, Lord, because You are the great physician. 00:18:32.340 --> 00:18:37.680 And, Lord, I confess my sin of putting off obeying You, and I thank You for not giving up on me. 00:18:38.420 --> 00:18:44.300 You kept after me, and I am so very grateful that You did. Truly, a heavy weight has been lifted, 00:18:44.760 --> 00:18:49.020 and I am thankful to really begin the healing process between this family member and me. 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:54.380 I pray that You would be in the middle of it all, and that You would use me to reintroduce them to 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:59.620 you. And if not me, that you would bring someone into their life that they would trust and listen 00:18:59.820 --> 00:19:06.020 to. It would be truly wonderful to see them give their life to you. And I thank you, Lord, for the 00:19:06.100 --> 00:19:11.840 Lifespring family. Lord, bless each one today and help us to walk close to you today. We want to 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:17.940 please you. Speak to us and lead us. For those who are sick, we ask that you would heal them. 00:19:18.520 --> 00:19:23.220 For those who are depressed or struggling with loneliness, fill their hearts and encourage them. 00:19:23.820 --> 00:19:27.220 For those that are going through hard times financially, be their supply. 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:33.380 Lord, you know every need and every situation, and you have an answer and a solution for each one. 00:19:34.060 --> 00:19:36.240 We rely on and we trust in you, Lord. 00:19:37.180 --> 00:19:39.420 We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. 00:19:40.580 --> 00:19:42.760 Beloved, our next time of prayer together will be Sunday. 00:19:43.380 --> 00:19:46.200 Send in your praise reports and prayer requests, and do it here, 00:19:46.540 --> 00:19:50.740 prayer.lifespringmedia.com or email me at steve at lifespringmedia.com 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.340 or send a text or record a voicemail here. 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:11.940 Beloved, never give up hope for those that you care about. 00:20:12.410 --> 00:20:13.540 As long as there is breath, 00:20:14.020 --> 00:20:15.780 there is the opportunity to trust in 00:20:15.860 --> 00:20:18.600 or return to the refreshing arms of our loving God. 00:20:19.420 --> 00:20:21.680 Until tomorrow, may God bless you richly. 00:20:22.360 --> 00:20:23.600 Thank you so much for being here. 00:20:24.220 --> 00:20:25.300 My name is Steve Webb. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:26.480 Bye. 00:20:28.560 --> 00:20:34.360 All the programs in the Lifespring Media family are made possible by your value-for-value support. 00:20:34.950 --> 00:20:35.440 Thank you. 00:20:37.120 --> 00:20:44.620 The Lifespring One Year Bible Rewind is a Lifespring Media production hosted by Steve Webb, the OG Godcaster since 2004.