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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Psalm 37 (Part 1) | June 12, 2025
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- - praise the lord, friends, and welcome to the broadcast.
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- I'm sharing today from a live service
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- Where i'm teaching in psalm 37.
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- The scripture says, "if you will delight yourself
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- In the lord, he will give you the desires of your heart."
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- God has a good plan, he has a good plan for you.
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- And when you walk in it, you're gonna love it.
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- So stay tuned.
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- Receive the good word of god.
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- I believe you're going to be blessed today.
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- Praise the lord.
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- Well, i'm gonna share on psalm 37,
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- And just a couple things have come up, people talking to me,
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- And i felt like, you know, i gave them this scripture.
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- People are like, well, we need counsel.
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- I'm like, well, here's the counsel of the scripture, amen?
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- In psalm 37:4, "delight yourself in the lord
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- And he will give you the desires of your heart," amen?
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- And we're gonna talk a little bit
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- About what this means tonight,
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- But we're gonna go through the first seven verses here
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- Of psalm 37,
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- And we're gonna get some positive encouragement.
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- But the first thing he says here, and really in psalm 37,
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- What david is talking about, he is talking about the fate
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- Of the wicked and the fate of the righteous, right?
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- He's talking about the end result.
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- You know, the bible talks about the lord.
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- The lord knows the end from the beginning.
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- He declares the end from the beginning.
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- But sometimes when we're in the midst of something,
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- We have a hard time seeing through to the end.
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- So he says, the very first thing he says here,
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- And i want to talk about this a minute in verse one
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- And verse two, he says,
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- "fret not yourself because of evil doers."
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- Do you know there's a lot of corruption in the world.
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- There's a lot of sin, there's a lot of junk,
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- There's a lot of stuff that you deal with.
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- And sometimes even after you've dealt with it,
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- You know, you're just like, well, it's still there, right?
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- You're like, well, praise god.
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- God delivered me from it, i've forgiven him.
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- It's all gone, it's all in the back.
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- But you still, when you think about it,
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- It's kinda like, man, that's really crazy.
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- How much crazy can we deal with in one life?
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- So he says this, he says, "fred, not yourself
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- Because of evil doers."
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- He says, "neither be envious
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- Against the workers of iniquity."
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- Don't envy wicked people, don't envy 'em.
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- He says, "for they shall soon be cut down," right?
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- Just like the scripture that we shared on, it's so powerful.
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- You know, i was preaching two sundays ago on 2 peter 2:9.
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- "the lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trouble,
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- Out of trial, out of difficulty,
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- And reserves the unjust to the day of judgment," right?
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- I preached on that sunday,
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- And then monday i was supposed to go to one appointment
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- And i was gonna go on the early flight,
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- And my flight was delayed by 11 hours.
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- No other flight was delayed that day,
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- But that flight was delayed.
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- Then i got to the meeting, right?
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- I finally got to alexandria.
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- I was supposed to leave at five in the morning,
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- Got up at four in the morning, right?
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- To fly out after five.
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- And then i got to alexandria,
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- Finally got to the hotel a little bit after midnight.
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- So i got to the first meeting.
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- In the first meeting, patsy cameneti was preaching,
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- And guess what she was preaching on?
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- "the lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial,
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- Out of trouble, out of difficulty,
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- And reserve the unjust of the day of judgment."
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- And she talked about in her message
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- How sometimes god uses the weather,
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- And she used biblical examples.
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- And sometimes how he used animals.
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- And some people told me, the lord is protecting you.
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- And then when i flew back friday,
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- I had a little delay in dallas.
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- And so pastor ben daley called me
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- And we were talking on the phone like an hour and visit,
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- And he said, "listen, god protected you." (chuckles)
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- Yeah, hallelujah.
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- So sometimes, you don't ever know what the lord is doing.
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- And he gave me a good example
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- How the lord protected me in that.
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- And i thought, well, that's what i thought.
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- Actually, when patsy was preaching, i thought,
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- Well, that was the lord's doing, amen?
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- Hallelujah.
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- How many of you know the lord directs our steps?
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- And he protects us sometimes, and we don't even realize it.
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- But he says, listen, "don't fret because of evil doers,
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- Don't be envious against the workers of iniquity."
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- Their day is coming, they're soon gonna be cut down.
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- There is a day of reckoning, right?
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- Unless they repent, right?
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- Like the grass and wither as the green herb.
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- But then he tells us four things.
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- He says in verse three, "trust in the lord."
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- Trust in the lord, trust in the lord.
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- Then he says, "delight yourself in the lord."
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- That is the answer to so many questions that people have.
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- "delight yourself in the lord
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- And he will give you the desires of your heart."
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- The third thing, "commit your way to the lord."
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- You know, the bible says, "commit your works to the lord,
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- And your thoughts will be established,"
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- In the book of proverbs.
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- Commit your ways to the lord.
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- And finally, he says this, "rest in the lord."
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- I love the new song tonight, it really fits this message.
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- I thought it's so good.
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- We rest in the lord.
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- We rest in the finished work of the cross.
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- We rest in what the blood has already accomplished for us.
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- Our confidences in what jesus has already done.
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- So these four words, trust, delight, commit.
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- We'll talk more about what they mean, and rest.
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- Encouragement to believers.
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- This is the way to true joy and fulfillment,
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- Our relationship with the lord.
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- All of these four things have to do
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- With our relationship with the lord.
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- So positive encouragement.
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- Let's look at this first one in verse three,
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- "trust in the lord and do good.
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- And you will dwell in the land and verily you shall be fed."
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- Trust in the lord and do good.
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- So the hebrew word for trust here is, "batah."
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- I'm trying to say it like they say it in hebrew, okay?
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- Trust, be confident or sure, be bold.
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- Be confident, be secure, be sure.
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- Have a have a carelessness, hope and trust.
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- Put your confidence in him right?
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- And hide in him for refuge.
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- Now, what is the result of trusting in the lord?
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- He said, "we will dwell in the land and be fed."
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- I love psalm 34:10 just before this.
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- It says, "the young lions do lack, and they suffer hunger.
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- But they who seek the lord shall not want any good thing."
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- Hallelujah.
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- How many of you are glad
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- We don't have to want any good thing?
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- Hallelujah.
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- I love psalm 23:1 and 2, "the lord is my shepherd.
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- I shall not want."
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- Jesus is the good shepherd.
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- He's taking care of the sheep.
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- He's the shepherd, i'm the sheep.
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- We're his people and sheep of his pastor.
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- He said, "he leads me in green pastures."
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- He takes care of me.
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- I'm gonna be glad that the lord takes care of me.
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- "he leads me in paths of righteousness for his name sake."
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- He goes on and says this later,
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- "he prepares a table before me
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- In the presence of my enemies."
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- I've had that happen.
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- Hallelujah.
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- "he prepares a table before me
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- In the presence of my enemies.
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- He anoints my head with oil, and my cup runs over.
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- Surely goodness and mercy are following me."
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- How many of you are glad goodness and mercy
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- Are following us?
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- "all the days of my life.
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- And i'm gonna dwell in the house of the lord forever."
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- Trust in the lord and do good,
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- And you'll dwell in the land and you'll be fed.
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- You know, barbara and i, when we got married,
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- I was making $800 a month.
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- And then i changed the way i got paid,
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- And i got $5 an hour, you know?
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- And i was giving $200 a month to the church, right?
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- And i got $5 an hour, and then i made commission.
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- And you know, the lord took care of me.
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- But my pastor told me this, and his words have been so true.
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- My pastor said, "lawson, you're a tither and you're a giver.
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- And god's always gonna take care of you.
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- You don't have to worry about,
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- He's always gonna take care of..."
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- And you know what?
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- I've been a tither, i've been a giver my whole life.
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- My daddy taught me when i was a little boy to tithe.
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- Hallelujah.
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- When i was like four years old,
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- My daddy told me about tithe.
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- "we might drink beer, we might smoke, we might cuss,
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- But we go to church and we pay our tithe."
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- I mean, that's how i was raised.
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- So my daddy taught me about tithing,
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- But i've tithe my whole life through.
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- And you know what?
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- The lord has always taken care of me,
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- And he takes care of me in grand style.
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- He says, "trust in the lord and do good.
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- And you're gonna dwell in the land."
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- Hallelujah.
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- You're gonna dwell in the land, and you're gonna be fed.
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- You're gonna be taken care of.
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- You're gonna be taken care of well.
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- Hallelujah.
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- Isn't it glad the lord takes, say the lord takes care of me.
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- - [congregation] the lord takes care of me.
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- - say, i know my father loves me.
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- - [congregation] i know my father loves me.
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- - and he always takes care of me.
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- - [congregation] and he always takes care of me.
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- - in grand style.
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- He takes care of me in grand style.
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- It's just amazing the lord's care for us,
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- How i cares for us.
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- Then he goes to the next one, "delight yourself in the lord,
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- And he will give you the desires of your heart."
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- Now, i learned a little bit about this
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- When i studied this word for delight in the hebrew,
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- It's, "anog."
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- Like you got a old horse, you got a old neck, "anog."
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- That's what it's in the hebrew.
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- And it means to be soft, to be pliable, to be delicate,
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- To delight as in a love relationship.
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- So i have this question, are you still in love with jesus?
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- Are you still in love with jesus?
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- Hallelujah.
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- Do you know you need to stay in love with jesus?
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- Don't ever fall outta love with jesus.
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- I don't know how people do that.
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- You know, we used to sing this song years ago.
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- ♪ every day with jesus is sweeter than the day before ♪
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- ♪ every day with jesus, i love him more and more ♪
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- ♪jesus saves and keeps me, and he's the one i'm waiting for♪
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- ♪ every day with jesus is sweeter than the day before ♪
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- How many of you are glad that every day with jesus,
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- Every day with jesus.
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- Do you know, i was really excited about jesus
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- When i got saved, when i was just eight years old,
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- When we lived in a little old trailer park over here, amen?
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- In penrose, colorado.
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- Did you know i brought almost every kid
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- From that trailer park to church with me?
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- I was in love with jesus.
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- And did you know, and then i got baptized in the holy spirit
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- When i was 14 years old.
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- And do you know, that love has never grown old to me?
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- (upbeat music)
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- Hi friends, thanks so much for being part
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- Of the broadcast today.
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- I have a lot more to say about this subject,
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- He says, "delight yourself in the lord.
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- He'll give you the desires of your heart."
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- This word desire is request, or petition, or desire.
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- I think about these different aspects.
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- Isaiah 26:3, "you'll keep him in perfect peace,
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- Whose mind is stayed upon you."
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- Fix your mind on the lord, fix your mind, right?
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- Fix your mind on the lord, don't take your eyes off jesus.
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- Don't get your mind on the wind, on the waves,
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- On the world around you, on the problems,
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- On the difficulties on all those, keep your eyes on jesus.
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- He's gonna bring you through.
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- Hallelujah.
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- And he'll bring you through, he'll take good care of you.
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- But just delight,
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- Take pleasure in your love relationship with jesus.
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- He'll keep you in perfect peace.
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- I love romans 8:6,
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- "to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
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- You know, if we're not experiencing life and peace,
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- It's 'cause we got our mind on the wrong things.
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- But to be carnally minded, be focused on the flesh is death.
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- 2 chronicles 16:9 says this, "the eyes of the lord
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- Run to and fro throughout the whole earth."
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- And they're looking, god is looking.
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- He is just looking for somebody
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- That he can show himself strong on their behalf.
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- "the eyes of the lord run to and fro
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- Throughout the whole earth."
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- He says this, "to show himself strong on the behalf
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- Of those whose heart is perfect towards him."
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- You keep your heart in the right place, right?
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- It's the heart that matters, it's your heart issues.
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- God wants to show himself strong on your behalf.
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- I'm glad he wants to show himself strong.
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- Hallelujah.
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- Isn't that good?
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- I think of this one, zephaniah 3:17.
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- "the lord your god, in the midst of you is mighty.
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- He will save, he will rejoice over you with joy."
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- Hallelujah.
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- "he will rest in his love.
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- He will joy over you with singing."
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- Can you think about the lord singing over you?
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- Rejoicing in you, you rejoice and in him, amen?
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- I love this verse, psalm 37:23, "the steps of a good man."
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- It's right down here in verse 23, "are ordered by the lord
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- And he delights in his way."
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- Now i think there's a couple sides to that, right?
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- When your steps are being ordered by the lord,
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- Number one, god is delighting in you.
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- He, the lord thy god in the midst of you is mighty,
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- He'll save, he'll rejoice over you with joy.
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- But not only is he delighting himself in you,
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- You're delighting yourself in him.
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- "the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord
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- And he delights."
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- You can have joy, you can have pleasure
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- In your relationship with the lord.
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- Hallelujah.
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- So stay in love with jesus, trust in the lord.
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- Delight yourself in the lord,
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- And he will give you the desires, the request,
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- The petition of your heart, of your spirit, right?
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- Your spirit.
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- I'm not talking about just your emotional thing,
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- But i'm talking about your spirit, right?
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- And that can affect your soul, right?
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- But your inward desires, your inward desires,
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- Your requests, your petitions, the cry of your heart.
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- Now, he goes on and he says this, number one, trust.
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- Number two, delight.
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- Number three, commit your way to the lord.
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- Now, when it says, "commit your way to the lord,
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- Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass."
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- As we read through this in verse six.
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- Then he says, "and he will bring forth your righteousness
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- As the light and your judgment as the noonday."
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- Commit, that word commit in the hebrew, "galal," roll away.
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- We were singing that song.
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- You know, this battle is the lord's.
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- This battle is not mine, the lord is my confidence.
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- Praise god.
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- And so he says, "commit your way to the lord.
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- Commit your way to the lord, trust him also.
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- He'll bring it to pass."
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- That word means to roll away or remove, commit it to him.
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- Give it to him, let go of it.
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- 1 peter 5:7 says,
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- "cast all your care upon him for he cares for you."
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- Now, think about fishing.
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- How many of you casting it in?
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- But we have too many people,
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- It's like they're lure fishermen, right?
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- They're always reeling it back in, right?
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- You need to be a bait fisherman. (chuckles)
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- Cast it out there and leave it a while.
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- Hallelujah.
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- You know, one of the biggest fish i ever caught,
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- I was up at upper quin,
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- And so we lived north of thurston lake, about a half a mile.
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- And my granddad had about a half a mile of that lake shore
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- And i loved to fish when i was a kid.
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- But two miles north of our house was lower quin.
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- And then above that was upper quin.
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- Then above that was (indistinct).
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- (indistinct) a big old lake,
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- But they're all pretty big lakes.
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- But once in a while, they run these canals
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- And they fill those lakes.
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- They come across the dryland, fill those lakes with water,
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- And then they use them
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- To let the water out later to irrigate.
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- But anyway, one of the biggest fish i ever caught,
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- They were running water in that lake,
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- And i put my tent up and i was staying the night
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- In the summer, you know, as a little kid.
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- But i took a chicken liver
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- And i put it on this, and i casted it out there.
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- And i left it like all night.
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- And in the morning i felt like i had a log on there,
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- When i dragged it in i had a three foot catfish.
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- Channel cat, that's one of the biggest fish.
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- You know, sometimes you gotta cast it out there to the lord
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- And leave it there, praise god.
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- But the problem with a lot of people,
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- They cast their cares on the lord
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- Then they're bringing back, lord, we gotta check this out.
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- No, let it rest a little while.
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- Hallelujah.
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- "cast all your care upon him for he cares for you."
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- Now, jesus talks about this and let's go over here
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- And read in matthew 6.
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- I love matthew 6, we'll start reading in verse 25.
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- He says, "therefore i say to you,
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- Take no thought for your life.
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- Don't worry about what you're gonna eat,
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- What you're gonna drink, yet for your body,
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- What you're gonna put on.
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- Isn't the life more than what you're gonna eat
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- And your body more than reignment?"
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- You know, men are pretty connected to our belly, right?
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- We get up in the morning, what's for breakfast, you know?
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- We're leaving, what's gonna be for dinner
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- Or what's gonna be for lunch?
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- Dr. summerall said, "everybody's belly people."
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- Jesus said, "my meat is to do the will of my father
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- And to finish his work."
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- Lift up your eyes and look, for the harvest is white.
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- And i was praying in the night, god give us harvest.
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- You know, the harvest is white.
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- Jesus said, "the harvest is what motivates me."
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- Hallelujah.
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- Now we're fishing in some different ways
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- And we're learning some new things, praise god.
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- And i believe we're gonna get more
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- And more harvest as we go forward, right?
- 00:21:36.604 --> 00:21:39.273
- But he says this, he says, "take no thought for your life.
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- What you'll eat, what you'll drink for your body,
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- What you will put on," this is the basics of life.
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- "isn't your life more than food
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- And your body more than your clothes?
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- Look at the birds.
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- They sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns.
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- Yet your heavenly father feeds them."
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- Man, look at the birds, you know birds can eat a lot.
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- I used to have these grainery that i'd fill up with semis
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- When i had a little feedlot.
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- And if i didn't hurry up,
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- You know, you have a little pile of grain left on the ground
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- And it might be 10 or 15 gallon, right?
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- That didn't get in the augur
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- And didn't make it in the grain bin.
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- But you know what?
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- If you don't pick up that 10 or 15 gallon,
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- It doesn't take the black birds and the crows very long
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- To clean it up for you
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- Because they eat a lot of food, right?
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- Hey, it would amaze me.
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- So i'd go up there and get it up.
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- But you know what?
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- Those birds are well taken care of, they're always fed.
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- You know, we feed the birds at our house,
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- But you know, there's times they don't come in.
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- Now when we get a lot of snow and stuff like that,
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- They come in more.
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- 'cause maybe some of the feed
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- Out in the field's covered up or something.
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- But the birds don't worry about what they're gonna eat.
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- He said, "they don't go plant a harvest.
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- They don't reap the harvest.
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- They don't store up in grainery, in barns.
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- Yet your heavenly father feeds them.
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- Aren't you much better than they?"
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- You don't need to, how many of you know
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- You don't need to worry about what you're going to eat?
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- Hallelujah, we're so blessed.
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- We don't have to worry about that.
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- "aren't you much better than they?
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- Which of you, by taking thought
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- Can add one cubit to his stature?"
- 00:23:34.722 --> 00:23:37.625
- You know, can you make yourself grow a foot and a half?
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- You can't do anything about that, right?
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- And, "why do you worry about your clothes?
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- Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.
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- They toil not, neither do they spin."
- 00:23:53.574 --> 00:23:55.276
- Listen, i got so many clothes.
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- When i get something, i try to give something away, right?
- 00:23:57.645 --> 00:24:00.581
- Well, guess what happens when you give stuff away,
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- It multiplies, right?
- 00:24:05.086 --> 00:24:07.154
- Proverbs 11:25, "there's he that scatters
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- And yet increases," right?
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- "and there's he that withholds more than he should
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- And it decreases."
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- So i give it away, i give it to people.
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- If it's not, i take it to salvation army.
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- I take it to goodwill.
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- I'm always like, you know, just like i got this rule,
- 00:24:25.239 --> 00:24:28.576
- I can only keep so much in the closet.
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- So something comes in, something has to go out.
- 00:24:30.111 --> 00:24:34.582
- But when you scatter, it comes back.
- 00:24:35.349 --> 00:24:38.319
- But he says this, he says, "don't worry about your clothes.
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- Consider the lilies of the field.
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- Consider the flowers how they grow.
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- They don't toil, they don't spin."
- 00:24:50.398 --> 00:24:52.099
- They're not out there going, (screams)
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- I gotta grunt and groan and make this happen.
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- They don't worry, they don't toil, they don't spin.
- 00:25:01.943 --> 00:25:05.846
- "yet i say that even solomon in all his of his glory
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- Was not arrayed like one of these."
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- So he says, "if god so closed the grass of the field,
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- Which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven,
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- Shall not he much more clothe you o little faith?"
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- To charis camp meeting 2025 here at charis christian center,
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- Where we have great things for the whole family.
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- We have great teaching with pastor mark hankins.
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- We have great teaching with pastor ben daly.
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- We have philip renner with worship,
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- And we have great ministry for your children
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- And for your youth.
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- We have great things for the whole family, so come.
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- Blessings.
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- - [announcer] thanks for watching grace for today.
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- This broadcast has been made possible
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- By our faithful partners.
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- If you would like to become a partner, need prayer,
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- Or have a question, please call us at 719-418-4000.
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- Or to partner online, go to charischristiancenter.com/give.
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- You can ride us at po box 63733, colorado springs,
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- Colorado, 80962.
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- See you next time on, "grace for today."
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