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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - New Morning Mercies | December 29, 2024
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- There is no person that god cannot save!
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- There is no promise that god will not keep!
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- There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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- God is faithful. and the title of this message is “new morning
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- Mercies” from lamentations, chapter 3. yes, lamentations if
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- You can find it in your bible. it's next to a big book called
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- Jeremiah. it was probably, most likely written by the prophet
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- Jeremiah. and in just a moment we're going to look at one of
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- The most famed passages in all of the bible, and it is a
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- Scripture to live by every single day, every hour, every
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- Minute.
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- The prophet jeremiah, a great man, god raised him up to
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- Preach to the nation of israel in the midst of their
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- Rebellion. and they didn't listen to god's word, and so
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- God judged israel and sent them into captivity... 70 years of
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- Captivity and ... and with the babylonians. the nation itself
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- Was dying. it was devastated. all hope seemed to be gone. and
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- So jeremiah gives us a lamentation. the book of
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- Lamentation is not for the weak of heart or the faint of heart.
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- It's filled with tears and crying and grief and mourning
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- And, yes, lamentation.
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- But right in the middle of this desert of a book, really
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- Depressing in so many ways, there is an oasis, and the
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- Promises of god spring forward. verse 21 of lamentations 3:
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- 21) but this i call to mind, and therefore i have hope: 22)
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- The steadfast love of the lord never ceases; his mercies never
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- Come to an end; 23) they are new every morning; great is
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- Your faithfulness. 24) “the lord is my portion,” says my
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- Soul, “therefore i will hope in him.” 25) the lord is good to
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- Those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
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- The big question in this lamentation from jeremiah; it
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- Really speaks of the grief that everyone experiences in this
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- World is "how". it's a hebrew word that shows up multiple
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- Times qavah which means how? how? we see it in chapter
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- 2, verse 1... how? so "how is this happening?" is the
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- Question. often, we... we ask a "why" question. "why is this
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- Happening?" but jeremiah says "how is this happening?" and
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- There's a difference, isn't there? how could this happen?
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- How did we get here? how am i ever going to get through this
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- Situation in my life? how will i ever make it?"
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- As a pastor now for over five decades, i've heard the how
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- Question along with the why question numerous times. "how
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- Did we get here in the icu of this hospital?" "how did my
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- Marriage fall apart?" "how am i so sick?" and at funerals, "how
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- Is it possible that my loved one is gone?" "how is it
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- Possible that my husband... my wife is gone?" how? jeremiah,
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- As a result of the how question is very depressed because it
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- Appears to be a... a hopeless situation. and he is crying. he
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- Said, "my... my eyes are flooded with tears like a
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- River." he's lamenting. that's a word that we don't use much
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- In our vocabulary today... lamenting, or even this word
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- Lamentation.
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- But have you considered the role of lamentation... of
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- Lamenting in your own walk with god? in your own prayer life?
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- We think of our walk with god... our times of prayer as
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- Being praise, yes; and petition, but a part of our
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- Prayer life is pouring out our pain before the lord. god wants
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- Us to be so honest with him and open with him that when we
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- Hurt... when we're crying, that we bring our tears to him, that
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- We bring our troubles to him. our pain, our anguish, our
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- Distress.
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- And when we come with lamentation before the lord,
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- Pouring out our pain as jeremiah, the great prophet is
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- Doing, this is... this includes our anger and... and our
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- Depression and our despondency and our grief. and when we do
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- This, we find a caring and compassionate god, a faithful
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- Father who cares deeply for us and whose strength and
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- Everlasting arms hold us up. lamenting... it's not just
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- Whining or venting; it's the sincere desire of a believer to
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- Turn to the trustworthiness of god, to lean on him.
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- Jesus prayed like this. in israel we were just in the
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- Garden of gethsemane where there are olive trees from the
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- Ancient days where jesus prayed the night he was arrested. and
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- He's lamenting and he's pouring out this prayer and blood...
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- Sweat drops of blood are oozing from his skin. he is lamenting.
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- Same thing happens when jesus at those same hours as he stood
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- Before jerusalem having rejected him... jerusalem
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- Having rejected him, and he begins to sob. he begins to
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- Weep. and he laments the judgment that is coming upon
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- The people that he loves.
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- If we were to include lamenting in our praying, we would find
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- Ourselves drawn closer to god. we would. peter makes this
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- Point in 1 peter 5:6 and 7. “therefore, humble yourself
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- Under the mighty hand of god that he may exalt you in due
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- Time, casting all of your anxieties upon him because he
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- Cares for you.”
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- I love to sing songs like this morning of declaration and
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- Exaltation of christ, and supplication as we offer our
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- Requests to god. but there is a time and there is a place in
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- Our lives for... for lamentations.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Powerpoint ministries began over three decades ago when god
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- Placed a burden on my heart. and my wife, deb's, to use
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- Media to reach more and more people across the world.
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- And over the years, we've been blessed to receive phone calls,
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- Letters, and personal stories from people sharing how god has
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- Given them a deeper understanding of scripture
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- Through our broadcast ministry. though it's my voice you hear,
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- It's god's message that i'm proclaiming. and all the
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- Credit, all the honor goes to him. when people hear the good
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- News of jesus, that's the gospel.
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- When the bible is opened and taught, and when they explore
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- Its message, it absolutely changes lives. and that's what
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- We are here to do. we take the gospel, the word of god, and
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- The testimony of jesus, and we share it across television,
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- Radio, youtube, facebook, instagram and more. all for one
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- Singular purpose to bring the message of hope to the world,
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- The message of jesus christ to as many people as possible
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- Right now.
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- Now here's where i need you. i want more and more people,
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- Especially those who are far from god, who don't know jesus
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- To hear the right message. this message of hope at the right
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- Time, which is right now. but we can't do it without your
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- Help. will you join us today by giving a financial gift to help
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- And christ alone till the whole world hears.
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- ♪♪♪
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- In the middle of all this lamentation, comes this
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- Exhortation. verse 21: there's a mindset change. he says, "but
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- This comes to mind..." have you ever just... in times of
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- Lamentation and... and depression in your life, have
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- You ever just grabbed yourself by the scruff of the neck, if
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- You will, and spoken to yourself and changed your mind
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- About the way you're thinking? that's what happened to
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- Jeremiah. in spite of the circumstances all around him,
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- The death and the despair and the depression. he says, "but
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- When i call to mind, i have hope.
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- Jeremiah said in his book, 29, verse 11, the book of jeremiah
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- 29:11, he said, "i know the plans for you, not to harm you,
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- But to give a future and a hope." and what is this hope?
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- Hope lives in the promises of god. hope is been described as
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- Oxygen for the soul. you can't live without oxygen and you
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- Can't live without hope. and hope lives... where does hope
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- Live? hope lives in the promises of god. in god
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- Himself. it is trusting god and believing god. it's believing
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- The facts, not the feeling. it's believing what god says,
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- Not what the devil says or you say... say. and when we refocus
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- And reset and repent, then we find that we can trust god and
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- Believe him for every need in our lives because he is our god
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- Of hope.
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- Romans 15, verse 13 says: “may the god of hope fill you with
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- All joy and peace and believing that you may abound in hope.”
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- Paul said in 2 corinthians 1:3 that “our god is the father of
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- Mercies.” and we see it here, don't we? that god is faithful,
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- That he is compassionate, that his mercies are new every
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- Single day. with every new morning comes new mercies. and
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- We have this promise; we have these promises.
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- There's a promise in the bible for your every need. did you
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- Know that? for every battle you fight, for every burden you
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- Bear, for every problem you face. and all of the promises
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- Of god are, yes and amen, in jesus christ. you can
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- Persevere. you can hold on because of the hope that we
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- Have in jesus christ. so here is the truth: god is faithful.
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- Deuteronomy chapter 7 and verse 9 puts it this way: "know
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- Therefore that the lord..." you see, we don't live by what we
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- Feel; we live by what we know! "know, therefore, that the lord
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- Your god is god. the faithful god who keeps covenant and
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- Steadfast love with those who love him and keep his
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- Commandments to a thousand generations." and after all of
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- These generations... after all these mornings... after all of
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- These years, god is still faithful! he's faithful to me.
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- And every promise that he gives us in his word is unshakeable
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- And guaranteed it is unbreakable, it is infallible
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- Because he has made a covenant with us; he has given us a
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- Promise. and the character of god is at stake on his
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- Promises. god cannot lie! and when god makes a promise to us,
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- We can count on the fact that he will always come through
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- With every promise.
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- When we say god is faithful, we're talking about his
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- Integrity; we're talking about his character. we're speaking
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- Of his infallibility, his dependability. and his promises
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- Are because of this unceasing love and because of his great,
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- Mighty power to do what he says he will do.
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- God's love for you is greater than you can ever know.
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- Jeremiah once again, the prophet... he wept a lot but he
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- Also worshiped a lot. and he said, "god loves you with an
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- Everlasting love." jeremiah 31:3. so when it says his
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- Mercies are new every morning, that his compassions do not
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- Fail, that god is faithful, it means that his loving care is
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- Always for us and with us. don't rush past these words!
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- God loves you! you are his child! let that sink down deep
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- Within you! god's love, his grace is dependable; it is
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- Faithful; it is eternal and he will not allow anything in your
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- Life as his child that is not motivated by his love for you!
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- Did you hear that? god will not allow anything in your life
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- That is not motivated by his love for you!
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- And when you weep like jeremiah, and lament and cry,
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- And wonder how on earth... how am i going to get through?
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- Qavah in the hebrew. qavah.
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- How?! remember hope! remember your hope in jesus christ
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- Because god faithful. and that means that we can have
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- Confidence in christ when we pray. it means that we can be
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- Confident when we are tempted, that we can overcome
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- Temptation. for what does 1 corinthians 10:13 say? when we
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- Are tempted, "god is faithful and will not allow us to be
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- Tempted more than we can bear. and with the temptation will
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- Make a way of escape." why? because god is faithful. and
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- When you are realizing the faithfulness of god and
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- Remembering the faithfulness of god, you are courageous to face
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- Anything in front of you. your faith because of the
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- Faithfulness of god overcomes every fear.
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- The prophet's point in all of this is when you don't
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- Understand what's going on... when you say, "how?", that the
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- Question really isn't "how?"; it is him. you can live with
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- Hope in him because the future is in his hands. his compassion
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- For you, his love for you is limitless. and when you lift
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- Your thoughts from the ashes and in your mind, you throw
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- Open the windows of hope, you are strengthened with "strength
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- For today and bright hope for tomorrow."
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- Those are lines in a poem written by a man named thomas
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- Chisholm. he was a... a newspaper man, saved in his
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- Mid-twenties and ordained as a minister a few years later. but
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- He was known locally for his poems, and he wrote many poems.
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- He continues to write poems in spite of the fact that his
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- Health issues... he had major health issues and he couldn't
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- Really fulfill his calling as he desired. he couldn't really
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- Be the pastor, the preacher that he wanted to be, but he
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- Kept writing the words to these poems.
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- And he wrote a poem from lamentations chapter 3, among
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- Many. he sent it to a man by the name of thomas runyon who
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- Worked at the moody bible institute in chicago. and as
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- Runyon was looking through all these poems, he was taken by
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- This one from the words of lamentations chapter 3. and he
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- Prayed and god gave him a melody. god gave him the music
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- To this poem which you now know is the song great is thy
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- Faithfulness.
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- You think of this song, a hymn as being really old. well, it's
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- Not that old. it really came into prominence in the 1930's
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- And the 1940's. and in reality it wasn't going anywhere much
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- As a song until a young bass... baritone singer by the name of
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- George beverly shea sang it on the radio in chicago.
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- “great is thy faithfulness, o god my father, /there is no
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- Shadow of turning with thee;/ thou changest not, thy
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- Compassions they fail not;/ as thou has been thou forever wilt
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- Be.”
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- And there was a young evangelist by the name of billy
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- Graham who heard bev shea sing those words on the radio. he
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- Reached out and contacted mr. shea, asked him to join him as
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- A young evangelist in his evangelistic ministry. and the
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- Two coupled up later with others... cliff barrows,
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- Primarily. and in every crusade, they began to sing
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- Great is thy faithfulness. bev sang it; the congregation began
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- To sing it. it was sung in 1954 when billy was preaching in
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- London, and it captured the hearts of the people of britain.
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- “great is thy faithfulness! great is thy faithfulness!
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- Morning by morning new mercies i see;/ all i have needed thy
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- Hand hath provided. great is thy faithfulness, lord, unto
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- Me!”
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- “summer and winter, springtime and harvest, sun, moon and
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- Stars in their courses above/ join with all nature in
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- Manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. /
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- Great is thy faithfulness! great is thy faithfulness!
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- Morning by morning new mercies i see; / all i have needed thy
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- Hand hath provided. great is thy faithfulness, lord, unto
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- Me!”
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- “pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thy own dear
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- Presence to cheer and to guide;/ (and here's the line i
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- Love so much) strength for today and bright hope for
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- Tomorrow, blessings all mine, ten thousand besides!”
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- “great is thy faithfulness (sing it)! great is thy
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- Faithfulness! morning by morning new mercies i see; all
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- I have needed thy hand hath provided. great is thy
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- Faithfulness, lord, unto me!”
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- True! he is forever faithful. the psalmist said in psalm 37.
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- “feed on his faithfulness.” feed on the faithfulness of
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- God. when you feed on something, you desire it, and
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- Then you devour it! and then you digest it. you feed on the
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- Faithfulness of god. god's faithful love.
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- You know what we need? more of that... more of this prayer. we
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- Need more. you know, the problem with prayer? ... you
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- Know the problem with prayer? we don't do it enough! james
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- Said, "you have not because you ask not." jesus said, "ask, and
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- You will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will
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- Be opened unto you." and when you trust in god who is
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- Faithful and true, he will never break a promise. when you
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- Go to him in prayer, you can count on the fact that in his
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- Time, in his way he will answer.
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- Life is fragile. life is described in the bible as a
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- Vapor... it's a mist on morning... on the morning dew.
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- Our heart is just one heartbeat away from eternity. we're one
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- Heartbeat away from standing before god! we think we've got
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- 70 or 80 years more, maybe more to pursue our goals, to raise
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- Our families. maybe, but maybe not. we're all just one
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- Heartbeat away. and the fact is, life is brief no matter how
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- Long you live it on this earth. and eternity is long and you
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- Need hope... a hope that sustains life. "strength for
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- Today and bright hope for tomorrow." and a hope that
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- Endures beyond the grave so that you win in life.
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- This happens... the mercies of god, the love of god... because
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- Of what christ has done for us. it hadn't happened in the book
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- Of lamentations, but those mercies that are new every
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- Morning to us... they came at the cross. hope came out of the
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- Grave when jesus burst forth out of the tomb. and he is
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- Alive, and therefore, hope is alive because jesus is alive.
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