310: David Bailey – The Word and Prayer

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Hi everyone, it’s Jason Hensley.
For this week’s episode, we are

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going to listen to a class by
Brother David Bailey that has

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come highly recommended.
And what I mean by that is it’s

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actually been recommended to us
by multiple people, at least

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this series has.
So this series is a series

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specifically on prayer, and we
are going to be listening to

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class #5 Class five, I think, at
least for me, was probably the

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most profound concept that
Brother David brings up.

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I loved the whole series, but
Class 5, the word and prayer is

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really beautiful.
And not just beautiful, but it

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really opened up my own personal
understanding.

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And I hope that you have a
similar experience.

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Have you ever wondered when you
read in scripture that people

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spent hours or an entire night
praying?

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Have you ever wondered how did
they do that?

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You know, when I’ve tried to do
it before, I’ve just fallen

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asleep or things like that.
You know, sometimes we can get

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overwhelmed when we look at
Scripture and we see the

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examples of people there and how
much they prayed.

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What Brother David does in this
class that I absolutely love is

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he explains the connection
between Scripture and prayer.

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And he posits that it’s not just
that people were praying all

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night, but in fact, it was more
like a meditation.

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There was a going back and forth
between thinking on Scripture

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and praying, and that that is
sort of like a mindset of

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prayer.
I absolutely love the idea

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because I think it’s really what
Scripture conveys and what we

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should be doing.
Not only so, but it’s

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attainable.
I think we can meditate, pray

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all of these things together,
think on Scripture, and in doing

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so, we can have this attitude of
prayer.

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So this is class #5 The Word and
Prayer by Brother David Bailey

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in his series on prayer, and I
hope you find it helpful.

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It’s interesting how the studies
tend to dovetail in subjects as

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we shall see.
The daily tending of the the

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Tabernacle with the replenishing
of the incense for the the altar

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of incense and also the the oil
for the lampstand was by design.

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The word of and prayer go
together Is this intimacy that

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that exists between those two.
God talks with us through His

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word.
It’s sort of a cliche to say

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that.
And we, we, we, we say that

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often, but it’s less contrived
than we may think.

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There is a living person behind
these words, the words of

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Scripture.
God spoke those words.

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If you come with me to to Psalm
119, Psalm 119 and we begin in

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verse 13 with my lips, have I
declared all the judgments of

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thy mouth.
Verse 72 The law of thy mouth is

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better unto me than thousands of
gold and silver.

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Verse 88 Quicken me after thy
loving kindness, so shall I keep

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the testimony of thy mouth.
It’s obvious God spoke these

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words and this expression is not
sort of a poetic device used in

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the Psalms.
It’s it’s through the word.

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Once you see it, you see it
everywhere that these words were

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spoken out of the mouth of God.
Consider how the word of our

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Father can speak to us.
Look at this in Proverbs chapter

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6, verse 20.
It’s up on the screen here.

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My son, keep thy father’s
commandments, and forsake not

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the law of thy mother.
Bind them continually upon thine

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art, and tie them about thy
knee.

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When thou goest, it shall lead
thee, when thou sleepest it

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shall keep thee, and when thou
awakest it shall talk with thee.

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His words talk with us.
John Chapter one, verse one.

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Those famous words in the
beginning was the Word, and the

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Word was with God, and the Word
was God.

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That expression tells us that
the Word is Him.

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It expresses who He is, His
purpose, what He wants.

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So the Bible and Bible study is
coming to know Him and His Son

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whom He has sent.
Now look at what the psalmist

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says in Psalm 119.
Again, come back to to verse 2.

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Blessed are they that keep His
testimonies and that seek Him

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with the whole heart.
Verse 10 With my whole heart

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have I sought Thee.
Oh, let me not wander from Thy

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commandments.
Now we know Psalm 119 is all

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about the Word of God, and the
seeking of Him is through His

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Word.
But look at it, it’s personal.

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We’re seeking Him through the
pages of that word.

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We’re trying to find him, his
personality, who he is, how he

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thinks, how he feels.
There’s a personality that spoke

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these words about himself.
Now, this is what problem Bible

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study and meditation is about.
We seek Him as a living person.

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But it goes further because you
see, we involve God personally

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in our study of this word.
Look at verse 27.

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Make me or cause me to
understand the way of Thy

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precepts.
So shall I talk of thy wondrous

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words.
The psalmist is praying to God

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and asking him to show him that
God help him to see these

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things.
It’s again in verse 33.

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Teach me, O Yahweh, the the, the
way of thy statues is not just

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his statues, it’s the way of his
statutes.

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And he’s asking God to see that
that way, and I shall keep it

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unto the end.
Verse 35 Make me cause me to go

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in the path of thy commandments,
for therein do I delight incline

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my heart.
He’s asking God to incline my

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heart unto thy testimonies and
not to covetousness.

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Now, each of these passages is a
prayer, and the psalmist asks

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for help not only to understand
the Scripture, to understand the

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way of that Scripture.
The precepts have a way, a path,

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and it’s the path of God’s
precepts and statutes and his

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commandments that he wishes to
understand.

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It’s not just the precept, it’s
the way and the principle, how

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it works in all its avenues,
really.

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As he meditates upon God’s Word,
the psalmist asked God to become

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involved with him personally in
his Bible study.

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So Bible study isn’t about
getting just the gems and, and

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the, and the, you know, the
points and so on.

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Bible study is about coming to
know him personally.

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That’s a lifetime’s worth.
And the psalmist is asking God

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to become involved in teaching
him that that happens through

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his hand at work in our lives.
So Bible study is more than just

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academic.
It’s involving ourselves with a

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personality whose voice is heard
through the pages of this book.

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But what about the word of God
in our prayers?

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Going to come back to this
concept soon that we’ve just

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been looking at.
But what about the word of God

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in our praise?
People in Bible times cited

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Scripture in their praise.
And you just look at the prayers

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of Moses, Jeremiah, Daniel,
David, his car, all the faithful

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whose prayers are recorded in
the Bible.

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They they cite, they allude to
Scripture continuously, as it

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were.
Jonah, they’re full of

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citations.
But brothers and sisters, they

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didn’t do this to show off their
Bible knowledge.

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They didn’t do it to sound
spiritual.

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Jonah didn’t pull out a pocket
Bible in the whale’s belly to

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pick out the passages that might
impress God.

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These passages came out of their
heart from their inner being

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because it was there that
Scripture was part of them.

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It came out automatically from
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Their minds were full of these
things.

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Our brother in our previous
session, Brother Tim, he he made

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in his points at the end there
serves the scriptures to be to

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be able to apply them to the
challenge, challenging choices

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of life.
And that’s what they did.

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They used the scriptures, but
they didn’t have a dedicated

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room for doing their Bible
study.

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They had to commit the
scriptures to memory because

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there’s only the Levites that
had had the scriptures.

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There were very few scriptures
available or copies of the

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scriptures, so they had to
commit these things to memory.

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So it was there, it was in them.
Now I want to demonstrate what

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I’ve been talking about with a
couple of examples.

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I’m going to use Moses and
Daniel and we’re going to turn

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to Numbers 14.
Numbers 14.

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When Israel murmured against God
at the border of the promised

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land, Yahweh declared unto
Moses, I will make a smite them

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with the pestilence and
disinherit them, and will make

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of thee a greater nation and
mightier than they.

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Numbers 14 verse 12 Now this is
the second time that God offered

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Moses this this new beginning to
start off through Moses and he

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could have kept the promises to
to Abraham if he did this.

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But we know what Moses did on
the first time.

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He appealed on the God and said
no look you, you will be look an

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idiot in the eyes of the nations
because what you started you

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haven’t completed.
And so is he was concerned with

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God’s honor.
Well, he does the same again.

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Why?
Because it worked the first

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time.
Now on the previous occasion as

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part of the reconciliation
process and in Exodus chapter 32

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onwards, God declared His name
to Moses as part of that.

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And he he gave the the virtues
of His name in Exodus 34, six

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and seven.
So what does he do this time?

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Look at Numbers 14 and verse 17.
And now I beseech thee, let the

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power of my Lord be great,
according as thou hast spoken,

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saying Yahweh is long-suffering
and of great mercy, forgiving

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iniquity and transgression, and
by no means clearing the guilty,

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visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children unto

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the 3rd and 4th generation.
Pardon, I beseech thee, the

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iniquity of this people,
according unto the greatness of

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thy mercy, as thou hast forgiven
this people from Egypt even

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until now.
See what he’s done.

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He’s appealed to God’s own
words.

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Let the power of my Lord be
great, according as thou hast

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spoken.
And then he cites the

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declaration that God made to
him, back to God.

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And from Exodus 34, six and
seven, now in effect, Moses said

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to God, you declared unto me
that this is what you’re like,

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and now is the time to give
power to your words and your

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character.
And it worked because in verse

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20 it says, I have pardoned
according to thy words.

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Now how powerful was that?
God heard Moses prayer because

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of what Moses said, and what
Moses said was what God had said

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about himself.
But God wasn’t merely chuffed

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that Moses cited God’s words
back to him as if he’s vain like

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man is.
Simply quoting God’s words in

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prayer don’t make them spiritual
or acceptable.

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Moses didn’t recite Exodus 34
verses 6 and seven verbatim.

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A lot of it is, but it’s not all
you compare.

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Here it is on the screen.
I’m sorry, I forgot about that

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emphasis.
Right, Exodus 34, Here it is on

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the screen.
And notice the words I’ve given

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Emphasis to long-suffering and
goodness, that all that he said

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of God is covenant mercy which
forgives.

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It’s the mercy that forgives.
Those are the two qualities he’s

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picked out of God’s name and
give an emphasis to because

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those are the two he
specifically mentions.

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He selects part of Yahweh’s
declaration that were

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appropriate to this occasion.
So he called upon Yahweh’s

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virtues of long-suffering, His
slowness to anger, and he said

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His covenant mercy.
So Moses drew upon those

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attributes because he understood
Israel’s situation and he

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understood how God thinks, His
personality.

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And God accepted Moses request
because that is how God thinks

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and how he feels.
Now we have here 2 very powerful

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principles that God will respond
to Belief in what God says.

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And more than that, thinking
about what he says and finding

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out how he feels or thinks.
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back to him, but you hear his
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And secondly, searching further,
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and how that that that what he
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It’s accepting those things and
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How many faithful in the
scriptures have followed Moses

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example and they’ve used these
attributes of God that they’re

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all the way through Scripture
and they’ve used them in their

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praise.
They’ve thought upon my name, as

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Malachi says, they did Bible
study on God’s name as a very,

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very good exercise for anyone is
to think upon those virtues of

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His name, to do a Bible study on
His name, get to know Him

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because that’s His declaration
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That’s why they’re often used in
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Now the second example is in
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Come with me to Daniel in
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Now Daniel had been studying
God’s word that had been given

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to Jeremiah, and he discovered
that Jerusalem’s desolation

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would last for 70 years.
That’s in Daniel 9, verses two

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to three.
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years were almost up.
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Now he didn’t just launch
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of excitement first, he prepared
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And he prepared his prayer, he
studied the whole situation and

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he can tell this from his
prayer, even how he addressed

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God in Daniel 9 in verse four it
says, And I prayed unto Yahweh

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my God, and made my confession
and said, O Lord, the great and

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dreadful God, keeping the
covenant and mercy to them that

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love them, and to them that keep
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And so he described God as the
great Gadol and the dreadful

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Yahweh God Ale.
Now I’m giving emphasis to those

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words because he is in fact
alluding to a whole passage and

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Deuteronomy 7 verse 21 is not
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He’s citing the spirit of
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among you, a mighty Gadol ale
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And Deuteronomy 7 verse nine
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He is God, the faithful ale,
which keeps covenant and mercy

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with them that love them and
keep his commandments to 1000

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generations.
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but this is where his mind was
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He didn’t simply live some nice
sounding phrases, but instead he

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used expressions because of
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He next admitted their guilt and
justified God for their current

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situation in in Japan, Daniel 9
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But again, look at how he does
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He was guided by God’s Word, and
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Deuteronomy, Kings, and Psalms,
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In other words, he did an awful
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sisters, to prepare for this
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It was a special prayer.
Now look at the strong things

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and language in his prayer,
because I mentioned several

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times some of these expressions
that we have sinned, we have

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committed iniquity in
trespasses, we rebelled and

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departed from God’s precepts and
judgements.

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Look at how He’s acknowledging
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Neither have we obeyed the voice
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Therefore, the promised curses
of the law of Moses have come

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upon us, and God is absolutely
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Righteousness belongs to God.
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in verses 5 to 15 to acknowledge
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God as being right.
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following a special passage that
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That’s what you have to do
because it’s in Leviticus in

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chapter 26, verses 40 to 42.
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If they shall confess their
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their fathers with their
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against me, and that they also,
and that also they have walked

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contrary to me, and that I also
have walked contrary unto them,

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and have brought them into the
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If then their uncircumcised
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accept the punishment of their
iniquity, then what?

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I remember the covenant under
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So Daniel does exactly what that
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He isn’t cited.
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His prayer is a confession.
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He confessed precisely in the
same spirit as he read it in

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Leviticus.
Now Daniel wouldn’t have known

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what God required unless he had
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there’s more.
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words of another prayer, the
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We’ve already looked at it of
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of the temple, 1 Kings 8.
And it’s evident from Solomon’s

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prayer that Solomon also had
studied his Bible because he was

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drawing from the same passages.
God accepted Solomon’s prayer,

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so Daniel knows that that’s how
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those passages.
Now notice the language and the

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ideas in this comparison.
Now we don’t have time to go

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through it.
You can just see at a glance

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that Daniel was borrowing from
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So he’s got that prayer in mind.
So see how careful Daniel was in

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preparing his prayer when he
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He was genuinely affected by
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He was genuinely involved,
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And how do you think God felt
about a prayer like that?

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Well, we know because at the
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Gabriel was ordered to respond
to Daniel’s prayer in verses 20

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to 23.
So the faithful not only

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searched God’s Word to prepare
for their previous, they studied

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other people’s prayers as well.
Now we’ve already seen Daniel

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drew upon Solomon’s prayer when
he came to his in the end of

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this prayer.
But what we find then when

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Solomon comes to asking for
forgiveness, he didn’t just have

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Solomon’s prayer in mind, he had
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Come with me to verse 18.
Verse 18.

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Oh my God, incline or bow down
thine ear and hear.

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Open thine eyes, and behold our
desolations in the city which is

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called by Thy name.
For we do not present our

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supplication before thee for our
righteousnesses, but for thy

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great mercies.
O Lord, here, O Lord, forgive, O

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Lord, hearken, and do defer not
for thine own sake, Oh my God,

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for thy city and thy people are
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And Daniel’s appeal here alludes
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prayer in Second of Chronicles
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But he also draws upon
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Sennacherib’s letter in his
hand, because here is is are

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those words.
And 2nd of Kings 19 and verse

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16.
Yahweh bow down thine ear and

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hear, open Yahweh thine eyes,
and see and hear the words of

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Synacrab, which hath sent him,
which hath sent him to reproach

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the living God.
He cites just that little bit

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there.
It is not just because that nice

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sounding, it’s because he he
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He doesn’t even quote them
verbatim, but it’s clearly

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alluding to them and he invokes,
invokes the spirit of Hezekiah’s

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prayer because Daniel saw the
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Their prayers were over the
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totally different circumstances.
Now he’s the guy too was a man

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of prayer and a man of the word.
And he too was alluding to

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Solomon’s prayer and also to
David in Psalm 31 verse 2 and

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Psalm 71 verse two.
Now there was another man who

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based his prayer on Daniel’s
prayer that come with me to

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Nehemiah.
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Then Nehemiah heard the report
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broken down in the gates thereof
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Nehemiah reacted very similarly
to to Daniel.

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He sat down and wept and mourned
certain days, and fasted and

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prayed before the God of heaven.
He prepared himself, and He

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clearly prepared his prayer.
Look at how he opens his prayer.

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Verse 5I beseech the O Yahweh
Elohim of heaven, the great and

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terrible ale that keeps covenant
and mercy for them, that love

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them, and observe His commands.
Those are Daniel’s expressions

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and his sentiments.
And then look in verse 6, Let

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thine ear now be attentive, and
thine eyes open, that thou must

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hear the prayer of Thy.
Those are Hezekiah’s expressions

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and sentiments.
And then he continues in the

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spirit of Daniel, which I pray
before thee now day and night,

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for the children of Israel, thy
servants, and confess the sins

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of the children of Israel, which
we have sinned against Thee.

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Both I and my father’s house
have sinned as precisely the

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same confession based upon the
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But look how he is thinking for
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The word that Daniel directed
him to.

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Verse 8.
Remember, I beseech thee, the

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word that that has commanded
that that commanded thy servant

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Moses, saying, If ye transgress,
I will scatter you abroad among

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the nations.
But if you turn unto me and keep

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my commandments, and do them,
though they they were of you

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cast out into the uttermost part
of heaven, yet will I gather

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them from things, and will bring
them unto the place that I have

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chosen to set my name.
There, now he cites the the the

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phrases of Daniel’s passages,
and yet he more directly cites

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Leviticus 26, verse 33,
Deuteronomy 425 to 27, third

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chapter 30, verses 2 to 8, and
chapters 12.

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This is Deuteronomy 12/5 to
seven and 1423 to 24.

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Now you have a hope of copying
all that down, but that’s

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where’s mine went.
He’d gone there.

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That’s the point.
He’d studied that for himself.

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Daniel directed him there, and
he studied it for himself.

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See, these people wanted to make
sure that what they said to God

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was in tune with how he thought
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So they learned from the prayers
of the faithful, and they saw

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how God responded to them, not
just the words, but the thoughts

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behind them, and they went to
the word itself to discover for

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themselves.
So they were, they prayed and

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they were heard.
They studied their Bibles to be

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able to do this, brothers and
sisters, and they built up this

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kind of relationship with God.
Now, I mentioned earlier to the

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Hebrews, Bible study wasn’t a
thing where you could go into a

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room full of lexicons and, and
dictionaries and, and all your

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reference materials and, and sit
there studying.

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They had to have the Bible in
here for the common photo.

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It meant sitting at the feet of
the Levites and memorizing.

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It was an oral society so that
they had to listen and they

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heard and they had very good
memories and then they could

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think upon those passages.
That’s meditation, brothers and

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sisters.
Now, meditation is not the navel

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gazing, emptying of the mind of
the Hindus and the Buddhists,

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the New Ages and the therapists.
Look at what the Bible says.

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That meditationist come with me
to our reading in Psalm 1

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concerning the blessed or happy
man of verse one.

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He says in verse 2, but his
delight is in the law of Yahweh

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and in His law doth he meditate
day and night.

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And the word meditate there is
Hagar and it means to mutter,

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talk, meditate or muse.
His delight is in the law of

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Yahweh.
His His happiness comes because

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he meditates in the law day and
night.

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So that cannot mean that he sits
at a desk with his Bible open

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and studying day and night.
So what does it mean?

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Well, it’s in the next verse,
verse three.

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And he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water

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that Brenneth pours his fruit
and his season, his leap also

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shall not wither, and whatsoever
he doeth shall prosper.

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You see, the tree is the key.
A person who meditates in the

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Lord day and night is like a
tree that’s planted right by the

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rivers of the waters of the word
and he’s the roots are drawing

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up from that water constantly,
constantly as he goes about his

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life and his life throws things
at him.

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He’s constantly drawing from
that word in response.

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That’s what the Lord did, didn’t
he?

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In the temptation, He just drew
upon the word in answer.

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And that’s what Brother Tim was
talking about, using example of

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of Josiah, how he would have
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And that’s what they did.
They had that as the basis for

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the things that they did.
Now, Exodus 30 shows that there

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were set times for replenishing
the incense and the oil.

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And we’ve seen that what that
means for prayer, but it’s the

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same for Bible study.
That expression morning and

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00:36:36,520 –> 00:36:42,800
evening we have seen to be also
not just set times, but

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idiomatic for constantly day and
night.

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00:36:51,800 –> 00:36:57,880
So Psalm one is expressing what
that means to draw upon the word

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constantly.
Rather, it renders Psalm one

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00:37:02,120 –> 00:37:08,680
verse two this way and in his
law Duffy talk with himself day

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00:37:09,200 –> 00:37:13,360
and night.
Meditation is about talking with

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ourselves about the word.
It’s really talking to the word

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00:37:18,360 –> 00:37:21,640
in ourselves.
So as we go about our daily

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00:37:21,640 –> 00:37:25,600
lives, as we assess those things
that happen in our lives, but we

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00:37:25,680 –> 00:37:29,880
we discuss with ourselves or
with the word that we have, we

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00:37:29,880 –> 00:37:33,760
have knowledge of and we think
about the issues and then apply

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it.
That’s what it’s really saying.

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And this makes sense.
You see, if God’s word is in our

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heart and we, when we ask of
that word, answers to those

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00:37:43,480 –> 00:37:46,240
issues, the word gives an answer
back.

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That’s what it said in Proverbs
6, didn’t it?

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00:37:49,400 –> 00:37:53,880
When our awakest it shall talk
with thee and the words that

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were spoken by our heavenly
Father.

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00:37:59,120 –> 00:38:01,080
It’s like a conversation with
God.

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Now there are several words for
meditation in the Old Testament.

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Here’s a list of them and I
think there there are others

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that are used as synonyms as
well.

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But here’s words that are used
for meditation.

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Hagar, Hagiks, siak, suag,
zakah, and generally they all

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00:38:22,240 –> 00:38:25,280
mean the same thing, thinking or
talking about something.

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The word Zika and zakah have the
idea of recalling.

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00:38:32,760 –> 00:38:37,120
It’s still talking about
something that you’re recalling

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00:38:37,120 –> 00:38:42,840
in your mind.
Now the sounds are made-up of

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00:38:42,840 –> 00:38:49,360
two basic types.
They are either meditations or

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00:38:49,360 –> 00:38:55,240
they are prayers, or a
combination of both.

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Come with me to Psalm 143.
Let’s have an example of a

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prayer, Psalm 143.
Now look through the Psalm.

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Who is David speaking to all the
way through the sun?

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God.
Yeah, this one.

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00:39:31,480 –> 00:39:34,360
He opens with an appeal to
Yahweh to hear his prayer.

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And throughout the Psalm, David
addresses God.

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It’s clearly a prayer.
Now, it’s the personal pronouns

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for a little bit of grammar
again, but it’s not too hard.

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The personal pronouns are the
key to whether it’s a meditation

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or a prayer.
It’s, it’s like this, the

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speaker is in the first person,
I, me, my and we ourselves and

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so on.
That’s the first person.

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The second person is those that
are spoken to you, your and so

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on.
You’re speaking directly to

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someone and in the the third
person are those spoken about.

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Now prayers are spoken to.
That’s in the second person to

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00:40:21,320 –> 00:40:25,720
Yahweh.
Meditations are spoken about

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00:40:25,920 –> 00:40:30,440
Yahweh in the third person, and
that’s the key.

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So in the Psalm it’s always the
thy, thy well in the AV.

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That’s what it is.
It’s a it’s a prayer spoken to

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God.
It’s in the second person.

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Now notice how a meditation
speaks about God, not to him.

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Come with me to Psalm 103.
Now notice how he’s speaking

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first of all to himself.
This one.

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00:41:05,640 –> 00:41:09,280
Bless Yahweh, O my soul and all
that is within me.

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Bless His holy name.
Bless Yahweh, O my soul, and

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00:41:12,520 –> 00:41:15,360
forget not all His benefit.
He’s talking to himself.

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That’s meditation and all the
way through the sun, you you

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00:41:23,960 –> 00:41:26,600
skim through and you’ll see it’s
all in the third person he’s

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00:41:26,600 –> 00:41:31,440
speaking about.
He is all the way through until

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00:41:31,440 –> 00:41:35,640
you get to verse 20, and then
he’s speaking directly to not

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God, but to others.
In fact, it’s the angels in

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verses 20 to 22, and he calls
upon others to bless Young.

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Now, meditations often do that.
Meditations speak to oneself,

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00:41:51,920 –> 00:41:59,280
one’s soul, or they call out to
the congregation, to their

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enemies, to angels to also join
with him.

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And that’s what meditations are
like.

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00:42:09,360 –> 00:42:15,360
It’s like a real conversation
with either oneself or with

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00:42:15,360 –> 00:42:17,680
others.
Now let’s have a look at another

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00:42:17,680 –> 00:42:21,240
example.
Psalm 105, verses one to four

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00:42:21,760 –> 00:42:25,600
calls The seed of Abraham is
there in verse six, because he

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says, O give thanks unto Yahweh,
call you upon his name.

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Who’s he speaking to?
Well, he tells us in verse six,

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00:42:31,120 –> 00:42:34,120
O ye seed of Abraham, his
servant, ye children of Jacob

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00:42:34,120 –> 00:42:38,560
has chosen.
So he’s calling upon his people

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to give thanks unto God.
And then you look through the

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00:42:44,000 –> 00:42:49,680
rest of the sun all the way
through.

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It’s about God.
It’s all in the third person.

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He is all the way through.
But notice at the end of this

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20.
I’m sorry, it’s in verse.

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00:43:00,480 –> 00:43:06,440
No, I’m getting mixed up here.
What we’ve got is in verse five

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00:43:06,600 –> 00:43:10,920
he says remember his marvellous
works that he had done his

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00:43:10,920 –> 00:43:13,200
wonders and the judgments of his
mouth.

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00:43:14,280 –> 00:43:18,360
So he calls upon the people to
think upon what God has done and

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00:43:18,360 –> 00:43:22,960
the rest of the Psalms notice
that would remember that’s that

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00:43:22,960 –> 00:43:25,800
word Zacchar.
It means to bring to

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00:43:25,800 –> 00:43:28,000
remembrance, to to Mull over in
the mind.

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00:43:28,720 –> 00:43:32,280
And so he’s remembering the
things stored in the mind about

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00:43:32,280 –> 00:43:37,920
the history of the people, about
God and his history.

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00:43:41,080 –> 00:43:43,400
This is typical of Israel’s
meditations.

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00:43:43,400 –> 00:43:48,160
Their history, creation, God’s
character, his works are all

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00:43:48,160 –> 00:43:51,160
significant themes for their
meditations.

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00:43:51,440 –> 00:43:55,320
And they’re drawing upon the
word in connections through the

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00:43:55,320 –> 00:43:59,040
word on these matters.
Now, other meditations are more

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00:43:59,200 –> 00:44:04,560
personal now dealing with
observations of life, of trials,

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00:44:04,800 –> 00:44:09,280
and of one’s need for God or
others simply cut our

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00:44:09,280 –> 00:44:16,520
contemplations about God.
Psalm 100.

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00:44:18,720 –> 00:44:24,320
I just want you to notice the
superscription because Psalm 100

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00:44:24,320 –> 00:44:29,200
is a Psalm of praise or
Thanksgiving as it is, but it’s

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00:44:29,200 –> 00:44:32,720
a Psalm.
And it’s interesting that that

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00:44:32,720 –> 00:44:40,080
these meditations are psalms.
They were meditations set to

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00:44:40,080 –> 00:44:42,840
music.
And if you think about it,

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00:44:42,840 –> 00:44:50,400
psalms contemplate and discuss a
particular theme, and so do our

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00:44:50,400 –> 00:44:54,200
hymns, and many of which are
meditations.

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00:44:55,360 –> 00:45:01,000
Both psalms and hymns can also
be prayers.

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00:45:03,080 –> 00:45:06,280
They’re thinking about the
person, and sometimes it’s to

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00:45:06,280 –> 00:45:10,360
the person or to Yahweh, our
heavenly Father.

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00:45:10,840 –> 00:45:14,320
Now most psalms, I mentioned
earlier that some are

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00:45:14,320 –> 00:45:19,440
combinations of, in fact, most
are combinations of prayer and

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00:45:19,440 –> 00:45:21,720
meditations.
And I want to just give you an

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00:45:21,720 –> 00:45:28,760
example of this Psalm 93.
Now we don’t have time.

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00:45:28,760 –> 00:45:32,320
I’m really skipping through
this, I know, But and I’ve sort

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00:45:32,320 –> 00:45:36,480
of made it simple.
This is how it goes in.

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00:45:36,480 –> 00:45:40,120
Verse one is a meditation
because it speaks about God.

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00:45:40,840 –> 00:45:45,120
Verses two to three are a prayer
because they speak directly to

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00:45:45,120 –> 00:45:47,600
God.
Verse four is another

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00:45:47,640 –> 00:45:51,560
meditation.
And verse five closes the Psalm

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00:45:51,680 –> 00:45:56,000
with a prayer, and notice how it
drifts from meditation into

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00:45:56,000 –> 00:45:59,760
prayer and then back again.
The the the psalmist meditation

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00:45:59,760 –> 00:46:04,800
in verse one is about God’s
majesty and his strength and the

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00:46:04,800 –> 00:46:08,800
surety of God’s word that the
earth or the land will not be

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00:46:08,800 –> 00:46:14,160
moved.
And that thought spawned his

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00:46:14,160 –> 00:46:18,480
prayer in verses two to three,
which mentions the floods, which

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00:46:18,720 –> 00:46:23,280
leads to his meditation in verse
four about Yahweh being mightier

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00:46:23,280 –> 00:46:28,480
than many waters.
And then his meditation becomes

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00:46:28,840 –> 00:46:32,120
a prayer at the end.
And you can see how natural this

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00:46:32,120 –> 00:46:35,080
is.
Can you see how this works?

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00:46:36,560 –> 00:46:41,600
There’s a certain informality
and yet a very deep reverence,

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00:46:43,200 –> 00:46:52,080
even an intensity here in these
times spent with God and His

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00:46:52,080 –> 00:46:55,960
Word, and it’s all taking place
in the mind.

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00:46:57,400 –> 00:47:11,030
We’ll look at one more, Psalm
16, Psalm 16, and once again

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00:47:11,030 –> 00:47:15,150
I’ll put it up here.
The breakdown, verse one this

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00:47:15,150 –> 00:47:20,150
time opens with the prayer, and
then verses 2 to halfway through

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00:47:20,150 –> 00:47:23,510
verse 5 is a meditation.
And then there’s this little

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00:47:23,510 –> 00:47:27,320
prayer, the second part of verse
five as he quickly gives a

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00:47:27,320 –> 00:47:31,040
prayer to God based on his
meditation and then immediately

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00:47:31,040 –> 00:47:35,560
in verses 6 to 9 goes back into
his meditation.

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00:47:36,000 –> 00:47:39,600
And then verses 10:50, he closes
with prayer.

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00:47:42,960 –> 00:47:46,640
Now often what’s happening here
as they move from one to the

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00:47:46,680 –> 00:47:53,240
other, that it’s their
reflection, their meditation is

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00:47:53,240 –> 00:47:58,680
usually about convincing
themselves, adding to what

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00:47:58,680 –> 00:48:01,560
they’ve asked in their prayer or
said in their prayer.

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00:48:03,160 –> 00:48:05,760
Have you ever noticed this,
brothers and sisters?

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00:48:05,880 –> 00:48:14,760
You know, often in our prayers
our minds will drift off onto

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00:48:14,760 –> 00:48:19,400
the subject we’ve been thinking
about in our prayers, our

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00:48:19,400 –> 00:48:23,320
thoughts, sort of wonders and
thoughts about what you’ve just

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00:48:23,320 –> 00:48:26,800
said.
We view this as a lack of

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00:48:26,800 –> 00:48:32,200
concentration.
But the faithful in Israel did

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00:48:32,200 –> 00:48:35,200
this on purpose and they
practised it.

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00:48:37,920 –> 00:48:43,840
It’s how they meditate.
And sometimes it was how they

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00:48:43,840 –> 00:48:46,360
prayed and they meditated.
Can you see?

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00:48:46,560 –> 00:48:52,160
You see, they are intimately
involved together, the two the

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00:48:52,160 –> 00:48:57,600
Word of God and prayer.
There’s more to this than we may

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00:48:57,840 –> 00:49:00,200
realize.
Notice how the transition from

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00:49:00,200 –> 00:49:02,560
meditation into prayer in verse
9.

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00:49:02,560 –> 00:49:08,200
Here he’s meditating in verse 9.
Therefore my heart is glad, and

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00:49:08,200 –> 00:49:12,480
my glory rejoiceth, my flesh
also shall rest and hope, for

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00:49:12,480 –> 00:49:15,160
thou will not leave myself for
that.

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00:49:15,160 –> 00:49:18,040
See, He’s just just slid into a
prayer.

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00:49:20,400 –> 00:49:23,680
It’s as if the meditation was
part of his prayer.

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00:49:25,480 –> 00:49:30,160
Now I want to show you just how
close come with me to Psalm 19.

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00:49:33,200 –> 00:49:37,600
Now Psalm 19 is a meditation on
the word of God, but it

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00:49:37,600 –> 00:49:40,440
concludes with a prayer, verse
14.

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00:49:40,640 –> 00:49:45,440
Let the, and this is the prayer,
Let the words of my mouth and

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00:49:45,440 –> 00:49:51,400
the meditation of my heart be
acceptable in Thy sight, O

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00:49:51,400 –> 00:49:53,480
Yahweh, my strength and my
redeem.

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00:49:57,600 –> 00:50:03,920
He’s asking God to consider His
meditation in His prayer.

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00:50:05,560 –> 00:50:09,640
Is He here A prayer and the word
of God put together intimately,

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00:50:09,880 –> 00:50:16,160
Both are done before God for His
consideration.

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00:50:17,320 –> 00:50:22,480
Now this is significant.
Just come back to Psalm 18.

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00:50:24,440 –> 00:50:30,600
Look at verse one.
I will love thee, O Yahweh, my

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00:50:30,600 –> 00:50:33,840
strength.
That’s a prayer.

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00:50:34,800 –> 00:50:38,360
Verse two, Yahweh is my rock and
my fortress.

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00:50:38,360 –> 00:50:42,640
Third person, it’s a meditation.
So there’s this little prayer at

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00:50:42,640 –> 00:50:46,920
the beginning and then from
verse two right through to verse

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00:50:46,920 –> 00:50:48,920
48, it’s all on the third
person.

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00:50:49,000 –> 00:50:51,880
It’s a meditation is spoken
about Yahweh.

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00:50:53,080 –> 00:50:56,720
It’s a meditation on how Yahweh
saved David out of the hand of

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00:50:56,720 –> 00:50:58,800
his enemies.
And it right runs right through

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00:50:58,800 –> 00:51:04,120
to verse 48 and then he breaks
into another prayer in verse 49

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00:51:04,120 –> 00:51:06,960
and then back to meditation in
verse 50.

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00:51:08,280 –> 00:51:14,760
Now we have a record of when
this son was first written.

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00:51:15,440 –> 00:51:19,080
Now I want you to hold your hand
here, and compare with that

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00:51:19,080 –> 00:51:32,310
occasion and 2nd of Samuel and
chapter 22, Second Samuel

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00:51:32,310 –> 00:51:39,150
chapter 22 and verse one.
And David spake unto Yahweh the

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words of this song in the day
that Yahweh had delivered him

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00:51:42,550 –> 00:51:45,110
out of the hand of all his
enemies, and out of the hand of

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00:51:45,110 –> 00:51:47,710
Saul.
And he said, Yahweh is my rock,

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00:51:47,710 –> 00:51:49,390
and my fortress, and my
delivery.

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00:51:49,390 –> 00:51:51,430
He goes straight to verse two of
Psalm 18.

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00:51:51,430 –> 00:51:58,160
He does not open with the word
of prayer, but look at how it

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00:51:58,160 –> 00:52:07,520
was delivered.
David spake unto Yahweh the

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00:52:07,520 –> 00:52:11,200
words of this meditation, the
song.

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00:52:13,480 –> 00:52:25,640
This means his meditation about
God was still uttered to him as

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00:52:25,640 –> 00:52:28,600
this is pretty powerful stuff.
This is how they thought,

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00:52:28,600 –> 00:52:31,040
brothers and sisters.
This is how they did their Bible

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00:52:31,040 –> 00:52:38,230
study.
It’s incredible really, isn’t

631
00:52:38,230 –> 00:52:40,430
it?
Now we’ve labored the point that

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00:52:40,430 –> 00:52:45,270
God spoke His Word and He speaks
to us through His Word.

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00:52:45,950 –> 00:52:49,630
But here it says that we should
do our Bible study and

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00:52:49,630 –> 00:52:53,150
meditations in the presence of
God.

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00:52:55,360 –> 00:53:01,080
It’s like a real conversation.
And so as we’re doing our Bible

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00:53:01,080 –> 00:53:04,040
study, we also talk with him
about it.

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00:53:05,640 –> 00:53:07,840
That’s meaningful Bible study,
isn’t it?

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00:53:12,160 –> 00:53:16,120
We view Bible study as studying
about God, don’t we?

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00:53:18,800 –> 00:53:22,120
But this is how they did it.
It should be done in his

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00:53:22,120 –> 00:53:24,280
present.
We should include Him in our

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00:53:24,280 –> 00:53:28,120
thinking about him and talk to
Him about it.

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00:53:28,120 –> 00:53:31,560
It is this intimacy in the
communication.

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00:53:31,600 –> 00:53:35,240
It is this is a relationship.
Because He’s real, we believe he

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00:53:35,240 –> 00:53:38,200
exists and he’s talking to us.
This is real.

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00:53:40,200 –> 00:53:44,160
Now, because of this close link
between meditation and prayer,

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we often find that the words
translated meditation are often

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also used or prayed because
they’re closely linked.

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Look at this example, Psalm 5,
verse one.

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Give ear unto my words, O
Yahweh, consider my meditation,

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Hagi.
How can unto the voice of my

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cry, my King and my God, For
unto thee will I pray my, my

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voice shall shall thou hear in
the morning, O Yahweh, In the

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morning will I direct my prayer
unto Thee, and will will look up

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so clearly.
He’s talking really primarily

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about prayer here.
And even the word meditation

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here means mutterings, but
they’re mutterings of much

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thought in prayer.
And here look at this one, Psalm

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55, verses 16 to 17.
As for me, I will call upon God

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and Yahweh shall say to me
evening and morning, and at noon

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will I pray and cry loud, and he
shall hear my voice.

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And he’s clearly speaking about
prayer here.

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But the word pray is seer, a
word for meditation.

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And it, it obviously is
referring to the kind of prayer

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that we’ve been talking about, a
meditative prayer.

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And so here we have both the
word and prayer brought together

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at the times of prayer.
Morning, evening, morning at

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noon, they go together.
Really, brothers and sisters,

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meditation is a form of prayer.
Now I’ve really got to conclude,

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and I wanted to give you a
fantastic example.

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I’ll leave you with that.
Just to let you know you’ve

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missed out on something amazing
in Psalm 77 and you’ve got all

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these words for for prayer.
Brother Daniel, Am I able to

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finish right on 11?
Is that OK?

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Or should I finish now?
I don’t mind finishing right

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now.
All right, let’s do this at

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super speed.
Psalm 77 and we’ve got several

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of our words for meditation that
all in this, this the sun.

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It’s clearly a meditation about
meditation, but it also includes

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prayers.
Psalm 77 and in verse 1 I cried

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unto Yahweh with my voice, even
unto God with my voice, and I

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gave, and he gave ear unto me.
In the day of my trouble I

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sought the Lord.
My soul ran in the night and

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ceased not.
My soul refused to be comforted.

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I remembered zakah God and was
troubled.

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I complained seer he meditated
and my spirit was overwhelmed

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Sina that why was he troubled
when he meditated upon God’s

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word?
Well, he was so distressed, he

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00:57:01,720 –> 00:57:05,440
says, and there’s four thou
wholest my eyes waking and I’m

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so troubled I cannot speak.
His meditation caused his

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sleeplessness and he finds it
difficult to continue with his

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meditation.
Why?

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Well, this is what he had done.
This far I have considered,

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counted, reckoned, thought upon.
He meditated, meditated upon the

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days of old, the years of
ancient times.

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I called to remembrance my song.
This was a meditation he had

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written and he’d made into a
song and and he recalled that

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song in the night I commute.
See ya.

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He talked with my own heart and
my spirit made diligent search

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and he searched the scriptures
in his mind.

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This is part of what meditation
is.

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What was it then that disturbed
him?

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Well, he says verse seven, will
the Lord cast off forever?

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And will He be favourable no
more?

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Is his mercy clear?
God forever Does his promise

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fail forever?
Lord, hath God forgotten to be

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00:58:12,920 –> 00:58:15,800
gracious?
Hath he in anger shut up his

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tender mercies?
Sealer?

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00:58:18,360 –> 00:58:22,800
And he searches the Scriptures,
He searches the Word, and he

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00:58:22,800 –> 00:58:26,280
can’t find anywhere that God has
cast off forever.

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But the circumstances he’s in
seem to deny this.

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It’s like that at times, isn’t
it, Brothers and sisters, what

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the Word says in our own
circumstances at times seem like

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God has forsaken us.
That’s how the psalmist felt.

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And then he pulls himself
together in in verse 10.

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And I said this is my infirmity,
but I will remember the years of

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the right hand of the Most High.
He’s strengthening himself now.

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I will remember the works of
Yahweh, third person about

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Yahweh, surely I will remember
thy wonders about.

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He’s turned into a prayer now.
He’s trying to strengthen

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himself.
He speaks directly to God, and

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so he now meditates, but not
only is he speaking to himself,

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he’s speaking to God because
he’s wanting to strengthen

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himself in God and the reality
of God.

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Verse 13 Thy way, O God, is in
the sanctuary, and to himself he

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says, Who is so great?
A God is our God.

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And then he continues his
prayer.

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Thou art the God that doest
wonders.

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Thou hast declared thy strength
among the people.

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00:59:42,640 –> 00:59:45,600
Thou hast with thine own arm
redeemed thy people.

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The sons of Jacob and Joseph
sealer.

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The water saw thee of God, the
water saw thee.

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They were afraid.
The depths also were dropped.

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And so he goes on meditating,
and he’s just filling his mind

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to encourage himself.
It’s magnificent, isn’t it?

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It’s so helpful.
The thing is, brothers and

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sisters, this is how the
faithful of old thought upon

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God’s Word.
That’s why Christ broke into

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prayers and then continued on
talking.

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That’s why Nehemiah in his his
diary is writing along his diary

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of the facts of the day, and he
includes his prayers dotted all

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the way through it.
That’s why Paul in his letters

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just breaks into prayers,
because that’s how they thought.

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Now we can do this, brother and
sisters, and we can start

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practicing it because Christ
gave us a meditation, the Lord’s

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Prayer, so easy to remember.
Meditate upon it.

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I need to conclude, and I’ll
leave on the screen, the fact

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that God loves us to do this.
It’s those who speak one to

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another who think upon his name
that He looks to.

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