Steve Webb: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord.
It's the Lifespring! One Year Bible coming to you from
Riverside, California and podcasting since 2004. My name
is Steve Webb. I'm your OG Godcaster. Today is Psalms
Wednesday, our last Psalms Wednesday, we'll close this the
longest book of the Bible with chapters 149 and 150. We'll also
have our last time of prayer together. The website is
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let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for your
word, and we thank you for the richness in the blessing of the
Psalms. As we close out that book today. I pray you would
touch our hearts. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. All right,
are you ready? Let's begin.
Remember, I told you last week that the last five psalms are
known as the Hallelujah Psalms, each one begins and ends with
either the words hallelujah or praise the Lord, like the others
in this group of five Psalm 149 is given no title.
Psalms chapter 149. Praise the Lord, sing a new song to the
Lord sing his praise in the meeting of his people. Let the
Israelites be happy because of God their maker. Let the people
of Jerusalem rejoice because of their king. They should praise
him with dancing. They should sing praises to Him with
tambourines and harps. The Lord is pleased with his people, he
saves the humble. Let those who worship Him rejoice in his
glory. Let them sing for joy even in bed. Let them shout his
praise with their two edged swords in their hands. They will
punish the nations that defeat the people. They will put those
kings in chains in those important men and iron bands.
They will punish them as God is written. God is honored by all
who worship Him, praise the Lord.
Psalm 150 is the final Psalm in the book of Psalms which itself
has five sections or divisions. The first division ends with
Psalm 41. The second with Psalm 72, the third with Psalm 89. The
fourth was Psalm 106. and now we end with Psalm 150, which closes
the fifth division and indeed, the entire book. Each of the
five divisions in with a doxology or an expression of
faith in Psalm 150 tops them all. It is truly a fitting way
to close this most precious book. Commentator Alexander
McLaren wrote, The 150th Psalm is more than an artistic close
of the Psalter. It is a prophecy of the last result of the devout
life and in its unclouded sunniness, as well as in its
universality. It proclaims the certain end of the weary years
for the individual and for the world.
Psalms chapter 150. Praise the Lord. Praise God in his temple.
Praise Him in His mighty heaven. Praise him for his strength,
praise him for his greatness. Praise him with trumpet blasts,
praise him with harps and liars. Praise him with tambourines and
dancing. Praise him with stringed instruments and flutes,
praise him with loud cymbals. Praise him with crashing
cymbals. Let everything that breathes praise the Lord, praise
the Lord.
Beloved, what is your idea of what heaven is like? What do you
think we'll be doing? Of course, we really have no way of knowing
everything. But the Bible gives us some idea of at least part of
what life will be like. As we recently read in the book of
Revelation, chapter five, verse 13, John tells us, then I heard
all creatures in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and
in the sea, saying to the one who sits on the throne, and to
the land be praise and honor and glory and power forever and
ever. and in Revelation seven, verses nine and 10, there was a
great number of people John wrote, so many that no one could
count them. They were from every nation, tribe, people and
language of the earth. They were all standing before the throne
and before the Lamb wearing white robes and holding palm
branches in their hands. They were shouting in a loud voice.
Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the
Lamb. Revelation 19 five through eight says, then a voice came
from the throne saying, praise our God, all you who serve Him
and all you who honor him both small and great. Then I heard
what sounded like a great many people, like the noise of
flooding water, and like the noise of loud thunder. The
people were saying, Hallelujah, our Lord God the Almighty rules,
let us rejoice and be happy and give God glory. Because the
wedding of the Lamb has come, and the lambs bride has made
herself ready, fine linen, bright and clean was given to
her to wear. Beloved, I think we're going to be spending a
great deal of time praising God the Father, God, the Son and God
the Holy Spirit. Have you ever been to a concert where one of
your favorite bands or musicians played? My son Stephen and his
wife recently took the lovely lady Liana nice to see Norah
Jones at the Greek theatre in LA a beautiful outdoor venue. It
was a great show. and what do you think happened at the end of
the show? Sure. Everybody's stood up and applauded. Well,
Nora and her band took their bows and left the stage while
the applause continued. and after this went on for several
minutes, guess what? Nora in the band came back out to do an
encore. and of course, their entrance was met with even more
applause and cheering. Now, imagine, at the end of time as
we know it when everything here is wrapped up, and God has made
all things right. He's wiped every tear. and the enemy has
been finally and eternally sent to his final destination, never
to bring heartbreak and havoc again. Don't you think we'll all
just break out in praise and celebration of the Lamb. and
since we'll have eternity to do it, it won't be a problem to
spend 1000 years or even 10,000 years singing Hallelujah is and
rejoicing at what he has done. Today's closing chapters of
Psalms were just a small warm up for what awaits us when we see
God face to face. Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb. Hallelujah,
great is He Who is the King of kings and Lord of lords. I'd
like to hear from you. What did you think about the Psalms this
year? Have they been a blessing to you as they have been to me,
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tell you how to do those things at the end of the show. Tomorrow
will be poetry Thursday, and we'll close that section of the
Bible with chapters seven and eight of the Song of Solomon.
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producer James in Norway who came in with his monthly $20
donation. Thank you so much, James, God bless you, my
brother, and anonymous sent in a $33.33 cent donation in memory
of PG Chris, and they sent a prayer request in with that
which we'll talk about in a moment. Thank you anonymous and
God bless you. and Daniel Terrell Leo came in with $150.
In this note, thank you for helping me become a better
Christian. It was no agenda who helped me realize I was focusing
my faith in the wrong place. I know that's not the goal of the
show, but that's what happened. It was your donation last year
that spoke directly to me. You brought me closer to Christ
through the daily reading. I have lots more work to do. May
God bless you now and forever. Well, oh my goodness, Daniel,
thank you. Yeah, I love the no agenda show too. and Adam and
John's approach to media deconstruction, as they call it
really does help to put current events in perspective. But it's
most important in all that to remember that God is still on
the throne and no human on the planet is going to fix things.
Our faith has to remain in the Lord. and Daniel as far as
having lots more work to do. Join the club, my brother, each
of us is a work in progress. But we have this promise from
Philippians one six, and I am sure of this, that He who began
a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of
Jesus Christ. Amen. Daniel. Amen. Thank you so much for your
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Beloved, this is our last time to pray together here on the
show. I have loved our times of praising God for His goodness
this year to so many in the Lifespring family and I have
been honored to pray with you in for you. Thank you for sharing
with the Lifespring family. Okay, now we have several prayer
requests today. Here is anonymous, his prayer request
that we mentioned a few minutes ago, anonymous wrote Steve this
is a request for prayers in remembrance of former no agenda
social member PG Chris. Her brother PG Kelly wrote a tribute
to her and I think the first two paragraphs help us to know Chris
better. Here they are. So this part is what PG Chris's brother
PG Kelly wrote. Recently I lost my sister Chris. She passed
unexpectedly on August 11. After hip surgery. Many of you know
her as PG Chris, a name she adopted from her email address,
as well as being known in Pacific Grove as Chris Pacific
Grove. PGx. You get that part? Okay. She was he continues, she
was a member of shine a local small church in Monterey,
California. She spent 10 years working at the Carmel mission
and was a photographer of the kids that hung around downtown
Monterey. Her artwork was featured around the Monterey
area, and she took care of these kids as if they were her own and
watched over them in return for being photographed. Chris did
some work for her friend art, who had a show on public access
TV, and was credited as PG Chris. Prior to this, we grew up
in Southern California. Chris studied acting in Hollywood at
Lee Strasberg acting Academy alongside Ed Begley Jr. When the
school was located on Hollywood Boulevard. We would frequent the
original farmer's market where she worked as a teen Paramount
Studios together many visits to Disneyland and Knott's Berry
Farm. She even worked at home savings and loan for my father.
and he says Home savings alone is now Chase Bank. She banked at
Chase Bank, the block my dad bought and turned over to Howard
Amundsen to build their landmark bank on the corner of sunset and
Vine. She was a true Hollywood brat. Her work continued with
Hoag Hospital, Woodbridge walking in Irvine and Irvine
Medical Center in Orange County. She worked at buffets department
store and Harriman Jones clinic in Long Beach. The best of all,
we grew up on the peninsula in Long Beach right on the sand.
Chris found Christianity back in the early 70s, along with her
cousin Debbie, both became born again. Chris was a loyal
follower of Christ, she made sure all her T's were crossed
and all her eyes were dotted every minute of every day. She
did not miss a beat. We did daily readings together as well
as attending church services and functions. So that's what PG
Kelly said about his sister. and thanks anonymous for sharing
that as a Southern California native, I'm familiar with just
about all those places, and I've been to most of them. As a
matter of fact, our son Steven was a patient at Irvine Medical
Center after his terrible illness. and then LeeAnn's
grandparents lived in Long Beach for decades until they went home
to be with the Lord. Sounds like Chris was a great lady. I'm so
glad to know that she loved the Lord and it makes saying goodbye
a lot easier when we know that we will pray for her family. and
then a different anonymous set this in. Number one, I
appreciate your devotion to the one year Bible even though I
only started this season. I plan to go back as it has brought a
lot of learning for me even though I am a longtime
Christian, although sometimes not a great one. So thank you.
Number two, prayers for my friend Matt in his family as
they have been enduring a terrible tragedy. Number three,
prayer from my friend Mark who was the cause of the terrible
tragedy. I pray that Mark can find salvation. and then
anonymous continues I guess praise report for you helping me
get better acquainted with God's word. I've tried to read the
Bible and have failed but this format has helped me immensely.
Thank you and keep up the good fight. Well, anonymous, thank
you for sending that nodia and we will be praying. Next, James
in Norway sent this in. Hi, Steve. praise report. I got a
note from my dad today he writes, Apple Watch reported 5%
AFib events last week, which was to be expected given how busy I
was. overall feeling great. James in Norway says Dad is
definitely on the mend, and he put his smiling emoji. and then
James says thanks for leading us in prayer over the past years,
Steve, on that note, some of us will need to lead ourselves in
prayer now seeing is how the podcast will be retired in a few
days. Would you mind giving us a quick Steve's Practical Guide to
quiet time with the Lord? Well, James, I will do that, though
not on this episode. I will probably do that on Friday show.
How's that? and then James says more praise. Thank God for
telling you to do this podcast. By the end of the week. I'll
have read the entire Bible for the first time. Next week. I'll
start reading it for the second time with a great big smiley
emoji. I'm glad to hear that James. and then he continues
I'll be leaving my monthly donation active in the hope that
it'll keep the back catalogue available for many years to
come. Well, thank you for that, James very much. That's very
kind of you. God bless you for that. and then James signs off
with this. Enjoying your retirement hobby. and greetings
to the lovely lady Leanne, and hurray for Jesus. Yes, hurray
for Jesus. Indeed. Thank you, James. He says PS I thought he
was signing off P S. What was the name of that other
Lifespring media feed that we could point our podcasters at in
case you publish a show now and then now thanks for asking
James. It's called Lifespring. All shows. If you subscribe to
that Lifespring. All shows, any show that I produce in the
future will show up there. Thank you again for asking. And then
this one came in from Lily of the Valley. He said, Steve,
hopefully this makes it in under the wire. Would you please pray
for my wife, Lily. She is struggling with depression.
Please use my online handle Lily the valley in the show. God
bless. and then he signed his name. So yes, Lily, the valley
your request did did just make it in as as matter of fact, it
came in at two minutes past the deadline. But we believe in
grace around here, don't we? Seriously though, I am sorry to
hear about your wife's depression. That's certainly no
laughing matter. We'll add her to the list. and thank you, Lily
of the Valley for sending it in. and then Roy from Poland asked
for prayer for his family. There were no other details. But of
course, the Lord knows them. and that's really all that matters,
isn't it? So yes, Roy, we will add your family to the prayer
list. and then one more. I've mentioned my friend Mark on the
show a few times this season. Mark has been in my life since I
was about eight years old when we were on our city's swim team.
We've been there for each other all these years. So that's about
61 years now. Mark married Karen in 1976. If I remember right,
now get this she lived literally directly across the street from
Mark when they were growing up. So they've known each other
their entire lives. How amazing is that? They're both wonderful
people. and Mark told me today that Karen was concerned about a
mole on her thigh. Well, it turns out that the Mole was a
melanoma. They did surgery to remove it, I think just this
past week, and they found that the melanoma has spread beyond
the mall. So now they're going to have to do further tests and
biopsies to see if it has spread to any of the lymph glands, or
any other parts of her body. Melanoma, as you probably know,
can be a very aggressive, deadly cancer. So as we pray today,
please do remember Karen and the others in our prayer requests
list in your own prayer time. Okay, so let's pray. Our
heavenly Father, Lord, we do praise you, we worship you. We
lift up your name, the name above all names, you are worthy,
You're mighty, you are our Savior, our shield, our
strength, our rock, our provider, there is none like
you. Hallelujah. We praise you, Lord. and we look forward to the
day when we will see you and join our voices with all of
creation to sing your praises. Father, we thank you for Chris
for the fact that she knew you and for the life that she shared
with so many people. We pray for those that she knew. We pray for
her family and friends and those whose lives she touched. We pray
that they would remember the special times that they shared
with Chris, and that Chris's relationship with you would
encourage them to know you too. We pray for her brother Kelly
Lord, I know that he misses her and I pray that you would
comfort him. and now Lord, we pray for anonymous his friend
Matt in his family. Lord, you know what the trash God is and
we lift them up to you. and ask that you show yourself even
through the pain. Help them Lord, we pray that the Holy
Spirit would comfort them, strengthen them, and draw them
to you. Fill them with your peace father. and we lift up
anonymous, his friend Mark to you, the one that anonymous says
caused the tragedy that Matt and his family are experiencing. We
pray that you would bring someone into Mark's life that
will point the way to Jesus. Help mark to find a way to you,
Lord, to a relationship with you. Show mark that in you is
forgiveness in wholeness. and I thank you for bringing anonymous
to this podcast. I pray that you would continue to teach him
through your word, Lord. We thank you now for the good AFib
report from James's Dad, thank you for continuing the healing
in his heart. We just asked you to continue that as you have in
mind. and we thank You, Lord, for bringing James to the
Lifespring family. He's been an encouragement to me and I pray
that you will bless him. Father, we now lift Lily up to you who
was suffering with depression. Lord for us, this can be a hard
thing to deal with. But for you all it takes is your touch your
word, we pray that you would fill Lily's heart with your
peace and your joy. We pray that the Holy Spirit would be with
her in a very special and powerful way. He is called the
comforter in Scripture. That's one of his ministries to
believers. So we asked him to comfort and encourage Lily now,
help her to see how much you love her and even cherish her.
You made her you formed her, you have a purpose for her. We pray
that you would show that to her, we pray that you would lift her
depression now. and now Father, we pray for Roy in Poland and
his family. We have no idea what's going on in Roy's family,
but you do. and we pray that you would be there for them.
Whatever it is, you can bring healing of hearts and
relationships. You created the family and you are the ultimate
healer of families. So we ask you to work in Roy's family in
your own loving and perfect way. and Father we pray now for Karen
and Mark. We pray that the doctors are wrong about the
melanoma having spread beyond the mole that if they're not
wrong about that, we pray you to stop the cancer now and remove
it from her body. We pray that you would heal her miraculously
or through the hands of the doctors, we pray that there
would be no place for this disease in her body. Mark tells
me it's going to be almost two weeks before they have any word
from the doctors on some tests that they've already taken. and
we pray that you would calm Karen and marks hearts and
minds. Let them find rest in comfort in you, Lord, they love
you. Be with him now as they look to you. and father again, I
thank you for each Lifespring family member. You brought them
here. and I thank you for answering our prayers to teach
us as we read. These people have been such a blessing to me,
Lord, and I'm grateful. I pray that You would bless them, Lord,
we pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Well, beloved, it has been
such a privilege this year to pray with you and for you. Thank
you for praying with me and for me this season. I will miss this
time for sure. God bless each of you. Please remember to keep
those we've prayed for today in your own prayers. Lift them up
to the Lord as you think of them throughout the days.
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Thanks to the team Sister Denise Michael Haner Scott Snider,
Jason Paschall and sister Brittaney for their generous
donations of time and talent. Jason Paschall did today show
our thanks Jason. Thanks to James in Norway anonymous and
Daniel Terrell yo for helping to make this episode possible. I'm
so glad we got to spend this time together again today. Let's
do it again tomorrow. Until then, may God bless you richly.
My name is Steve Webb.
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