WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.359 many are rising against me many are saying of my soul there is no salvation for him in God and so on 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:20.460 I think one of the most painful experiences that any family can go through is where there 00:00:20.460 --> 00:00:31.060 becomes division and where there was deep love it now has turned to to hatred and that's what we find 00:00:31.060 --> 00:00:38.780 in in the the experience of David where we read there in second Samuel and also what this psalm is 00:00:38.780 --> 00:00:47.320 about and that has been an incredibly difficult experience for David where within his own family 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:54.340 and here's this son a son whom he loved and we do know that if we were to carry on reading through 00:00:54.340 --> 00:01:01.899 in second Samuel and eventually see how Absalom is killed the incredible grief the fearful display 00:01:01.899 --> 00:01:08.539 of anguish and brokenness in the heart of David even though Absalom was trying to kill him kill David 00:01:08.539 --> 00:01:14.379 yet when Absalom is killed David is absolutely devastated and broken-hearted 00:01:14.379 --> 00:01:23.259 so we can see that Absalom was a son that that David loved but we know that Absalom was a schemer we 00:01:23.259 --> 00:01:31.560 read about that he was the most two-faced person on the that we could ever meet he pretended to his 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:39.299 father that he was a loving loyal son and yet on the other hand he was working behind his father's back 00:01:39.299 --> 00:01:46.659 all the time for years he was scheming and he was trying to win the hearts of the people which he 00:01:46.659 --> 00:01:53.060 was doing and in fact it tells us that he stole the hearts of the people we read there of how he would 00:01:53.060 --> 00:01:59.400 when any person came and had a dispute he would meet him and say if I was in charge I would sort this 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:04.920 dispute there's nobody ready to listen and when people are going to bow to him to salute him because 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:10.560 he was a royal prince he would take them by the hand and he would kiss them and people would say we've 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:19.199 never seen the like of this and so Absalom by deceit he had no interest in these people all he was doing 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:25.599 was trying to take the hearts of the people away from his father so that they would eventually when 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:30.659 that's right when he felt the time was ripe that they would come and they would follow him 00:02:30.659 --> 00:02:38.479 and so we find that this is the background to what has taken place here but we know that 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:44.960 Absalom's scheming and his deceitfulness is never ultimately going to win it never does it cannot 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:53.060 because God sees everything God knows everything and these are the injustice and the deceitfulness that 00:02:53.060 --> 00:02:58.639 is so often and we see it at all levels even in our own society today and people think they're going 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:04.419 to get away with it people think that they can what God is not mocked and there will always come a time 00:03:04.419 --> 00:03:14.919 when there is a when God will will deal with this and so often in life we have seen this happening well 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:22.500 it was going to be so for Absalom as well so Absalom leads this revolution against his father 00:03:22.500 --> 00:03:31.000 and what is incredible really to to read is that here is this king king David a man that the that Israel 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:40.159 really as a as a nation they loved him as a king and yet Absalom manages to take their hearts 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:48.539 after himself and turn their hearts against his father and well let us be quite clear this was not going 00:03:48.539 --> 00:03:54.799 to be a bloodless revolution because Absalom was David knew that that's why David says we've got to 00:03:54.799 --> 00:03:59.899 get out of Jerusalem as fast as we can because everybody will die by the edge of the sword if we 00:03:59.899 --> 00:04:06.039 stay here he knew that Absalom wasn't going to just say well we've got the numbers we've got the people 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:13.060 it's up it's over he knew that Absalom wouldn't rest till he had killed all the opposition 00:04:13.060 --> 00:04:21.839 and so these were these were dangerous these were were were frightening times and we see how quickly 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:28.180 the people switched loyalty and you know that happens so often in life I suppose the great example 00:04:28.180 --> 00:04:34.740 the greatest example of all is in the time of Christ because remember when Jesus rode into Jerusalem 00:04:34.740 --> 00:04:40.560 the crowds were crying Hosanna Hosanna and they were throwing the palm branches down and there were 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:49.579 there was this great sense of adoration and adulation of King Jesus and yet in a matter of days 00:04:49.579 --> 00:04:58.439 the crowd are no longer shouting Hosanna they're crying crucify her crucify her that's where the mob were 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:06.319 and that's the clearest picture I think we've ever seen of the fickleness and the changeableness 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:13.420 of human nature of how one moment they can be going this way another moment going that way we see it in 00:05:13.420 --> 00:05:19.439 John's gospel they were going to in John chapter 6 they were going to make Jesus king there was nobody 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:26.039 like Jesus by the end of the chapter they're leaving him in droves to the point where Jesus turns and he 00:05:26.039 --> 00:05:33.079 says to his own are you going away as well and that just shows us how fickle human nature really is 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:41.620 now this must have been an excruciating painful experience David went through highs and lows in his 00:05:41.620 --> 00:05:48.620 life but I reckon this must have been one of the most painful of all because David knew 00:05:48.620 --> 00:06:00.500 you see deep down that he in many ways had brought this upon himself you see on in a previous occasion 00:06:00.500 --> 00:06:07.259 when David was on the run and he was on the run for years David was on the run purely because of the 00:06:07.259 --> 00:06:14.439 jealousy of Saul Saul was determined to get him but at that time we could almost say that the slate was 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:21.420 clean and in David's life of course he was a sinner in such life but this what has happened here has 00:06:21.420 --> 00:06:28.459 come on the back if we had gone a wee bit further back we were reading in chapter 15 of 2nd Samuel but if 00:06:28.459 --> 00:06:36.079 we had gone to 2nd Samuel chapter 12 after David sinned with Bathsheba and then subsequently what he 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:45.159 did what he murdered had Bathsheba's husband murdered Uriah we find the prophet Nathan saying this to David 00:06:45.159 --> 00:06:55.060 now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house because you have despised me and I've taken the 00:06:55.060 --> 00:07:02.339 wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife thus says the Lord behold I will raise up evil against you 00:07:02.339 --> 00:07:12.019 out of your own house and David knows full well as he's on the run that this is part of God's judgment 00:07:12.019 --> 00:07:19.819 on him God told him at the time that he was going to forgive him his sin because David repented we see of 00:07:19.819 --> 00:07:27.680 that in Psalm 51 and probably part of Psalm 32 as well we see that God forgave him the sin but God 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:35.480 said because of what he had done how he had so dishonored his name before him and the people that 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:42.100 that this is what was going to happen so here we have David and you can imagine the fear and the pain 00:07:42.100 --> 00:07:50.760 that's in his heart as he's as he's on the run and thousands have joined up with him that's what it 00:07:50.760 --> 00:07:57.600 says at the beginning oh Lord how many are my foes many are rising against me and then when we go to 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:04.980 verse 6 it tells us I will not be afraid of many thousands of people so at this point in time there are 00:08:04.980 --> 00:08:14.180 thousands and thousands and thousands that are up against David now you and I know that the moment 00:08:14.180 --> 00:08:21.620 that we become Christians straight away we face enemies it is impossible to be a Christian and not 00:08:21.620 --> 00:08:28.660 to face opposition in this world one way or another sometimes our enemies are external in the face of by 00:08:28.660 --> 00:08:37.560 that I mean the world other times the enemies are internal by the flesh by what is within us and then 00:08:37.560 --> 00:08:43.660 we have one that is external but works internally within us the devil so the world the flesh and the 00:08:43.660 --> 00:08:50.600 devil the moment you become a Christian these forces are against you and you have all experienced 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:57.960 these things at different levels different degrees but you all have one way or another sometimes you 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:05.200 feel flattened by them sometimes you feel overcome by them but still you go on but they are powerful 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:14.160 enemies so Satan is of no doubt he is speaking through David's enemies trying to undermine David's faith 00:09:14.160 --> 00:09:21.960 because that's what he's saying what are the enemies saying many are saying of my soul there is no salvation 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:30.440 salvation for him in God now that's what they were saying that was a word that's a word that that's a 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:36.840 temptation that's what they were saying of David David you're finished you're washed up you're a has-been 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:44.660 your history yes you were God's man once but you're no longer you're you're you're a finished man 00:09:44.659 --> 00:09:51.319 your end is here and God is not there for you anymore you have dishonored God can you imagine 00:09:51.319 --> 00:09:57.379 the field day Satan is having with David at this moment if you had been can you put yourself in 00:09:57.379 --> 00:10:03.639 David's shoes and what you've done and you've heard God's word against you it would be very easy to 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:10.439 say and agree with what's being said and say I'm finished there's no way back I've had it 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:16.740 that this is it and what an awful way for me to end my life being put to death by my own son 00:10:16.740 --> 00:10:21.080 and that there we are it'd be a fearful the temptations would be powerful 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:28.400 but you know the wonderful thing is that David actually didn't sink as low as that 00:10:28.400 --> 00:10:36.140 he knew that what was happening was as a result of what God had said but he didn't for one moment 00:10:36.139 --> 00:10:42.139 really believe that God was finished with him he exercised hope that one day he'd be back in 00:10:42.139 --> 00:10:47.799 Jerusalem to see the ark and to see the God's dwelling place but if not but I know that David 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:54.299 from this psalm that he believed God was not done with him that God hadn't washed his hands of him 00:10:54.299 --> 00:11:00.620 and you know it's the same for you and me tonight and I'll tell you something you have not gone as low 00:11:00.620 --> 00:11:07.460 as David you have not been you may have done many things wrong in your life but I'm all I can say 00:11:07.460 --> 00:11:15.960 you have not been where David was what David did is really quite extraordinary how he murdered that man 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:24.100 in order to try and cover his guilt and we find that God God spoke so powerfully against him for that 00:11:24.100 --> 00:11:29.060 that that added which was which made the whole thing 10 times worse 00:11:29.060 --> 00:11:36.720 and yet David knew God wasn't finished with him and wherever you've been and whatever you've done 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:41.379 and however low you sometimes feel and however much you might be battered by that by Satan 00:11:41.379 --> 00:11:48.580 God isn't finished with you either tonight and he is still with you he's still for you he's still 00:11:48.580 --> 00:11:54.940 upholding you and I'm sure enemies often come and say the very same thing to you many are saying of my 00:11:54.940 --> 00:12:03.680 soul there's no salvation for him or for her now you and I know it would be the most awful thing 00:12:03.680 --> 00:12:13.700 that could happen to us if we really felt that God was finished with us can you imagine if a messenger 00:12:13.700 --> 00:12:19.540 came from an angel came from heaven and said by the way I know it says in the words all that it does 00:12:19.540 --> 00:12:26.200 say but here's a message from God he's given up on you how would you feel you'd be distraught 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:33.960 you would be on you you feel you would feel your life was over why this is a mark of grace because 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:39.540 you know you say to yourself to whom else can we go because you have the words of eternal life 00:12:39.539 --> 00:12:46.079 whom have I in the heavens I but the O Lord alone and in the earth whom I desire besides thee there is 00:12:46.079 --> 00:12:54.679 none that's where you've come to as a Christian and that's why there is nobody when push comes to shove 00:12:54.679 --> 00:13:03.360 you know that there is nobody who fills your heart like the Lord and so here is David and 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:11.320 the the great thing with David as he has shown over and over and over again irrespective of how low the 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:19.560 situation appears to be David always turns eventually to the Lord and that's a lesson to us we're hearing 00:13:19.560 --> 00:13:26.860 about that on on Sunday of just how important it is to have the Lord as our focus so often we're not 00:13:26.860 --> 00:13:35.100 our focus is shifted off the Lord and that's why it is that's what David does here he he turns his 00:13:35.100 --> 00:13:43.240 focus upon the Lord and that's what he says but you oh Lord are a shield about me my glory and the 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:50.180 lifted up of my head and then he says I cried aloud to the Lord and he answered me from his holy hill 00:13:50.180 --> 00:13:56.560 it's not wonderful that's what the Lord did he answered him David cried aloud to the Lord and he 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:05.379 answered and I am sure all of you here could could tell about times when you cried to the Lord cried 00:14:05.379 --> 00:14:10.000 aloud I don't know how good we are at actually crying aloud it's interesting how often in the Psalms 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:19.739 and the Word of God we find this that both praising and prayer it's often loud that there is a loud cry 00:14:19.739 --> 00:14:25.819 given well David David cried aloud to the Lord and you know God hears and answers prayer 00:14:25.820 --> 00:14:33.740 and God was in control of David's life and David knew that in fact very interestingly David says 00:14:33.740 --> 00:14:41.440 but you oh Lord are a shield about me and my glory and the lifted up of my head a shield 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:49.600 the idea here is one who covers and that's what the Lord does as we sang in Psalm 91 that they are about 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:57.360 how he is a shield and how he is a shield and he covers us with faithfulness covers us like like a hen 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:06.120 gathers her brood and there's the warmth of the love there's the protection the tenderness of the wing 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:14.519 and yet the strength in it and so the Lord the Lord covers us and he covers us in different ways because 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:22.340 there's a triune covering by God to every believer we're covered by God the Father's decrees God is a decree 00:15:22.340 --> 00:15:29.279 there's an eternal decree for your life and mine and we mustn't lose sight of that God has a purpose for 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:36.059 your life and he's going to fulfill his purposes through you there is a decree governing your life 00:15:36.059 --> 00:15:45.979 and you're also covered by the imputed righteousness of Christ that cannot be taken from you and sometimes 00:15:45.979 --> 00:15:52.519 we forget what an absolutely incredible covering that is that Christ's righteousness is covering us 00:15:52.519 --> 00:16:01.000 all the time wherever we go day or night as long as we live all our lives into death and beyond 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:09.879 covered by Christ and we're covered by the Holy Spirit who is ministering within us working within us 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:19.940 so we have the triune God covering us and David is aware of this and so David cries to the Lord 00:16:19.940 --> 00:16:28.059 because he knows the Lord is the deliverer and protector I read of a man in America John Bethune 00:16:28.059 --> 00:16:35.479 and he stayed in Buffalo this was a long long time ago he was a sailor and he was on the boats on the lakes 00:16:35.479 --> 00:16:45.219 see long long long time ago and he was a really fine Christian and he lived amongst a crew who were 00:16:45.219 --> 00:16:55.239 anything but they were hard very very religious men but he did over the period lead two or three of them 00:16:55.240 --> 00:17:02.919 to Christ because he lived in such a wonderful Christ like way and although there were many of 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:08.039 the sailors despised him because he was a Christian every single one of them respected him 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:16.660 and the captain was amongst those captain was a very religious man and he kind of despised John but he also 00:17:16.660 --> 00:17:24.160 hugely respected him because they knew that there was something about him and they were traveling 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:31.640 in the winter and the ice the wind had dropped it was a day of sails the wind had dropped 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:39.300 and the ice was beginning to come around the boat and they knew that if they got trapped by the ice the ice 00:17:39.299 --> 00:17:46.619 would crush them and they would be they'd be lost that would be it and so the the the were the the there 00:17:46.619 --> 00:17:52.019 was a narrow straight going through but it was getting less and less as if the ice was closing in 00:17:52.019 --> 00:17:57.579 and John said to the captain could I get permission to go down to my cabin to pray 00:17:57.579 --> 00:18:04.000 and the captain said all right because he knew the kind of man John was 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:10.880 so John went to his cabin and a few people joined him including the captain who was still an 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:17.079 irreligious man and John prayed and John pleaded and he said to the Lord Lord we're in a terrible 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:24.140 situation and we're all going to die but I'm asking you Lord that you will change that you will bring a 00:18:24.140 --> 00:18:32.039 wind that you will bring even a warm wind a wind that will enable us to catch the sail and that we'll be 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:38.240 able to make our way through that the ice will begin to part for us and he prayed and prayed like 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:43.519 that and they went back and as they went out on the boat they could all of a sudden out from the cabin 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:49.339 they could feel that the wind had started up and when they got to the wheel the man said at the wheel 00:18:49.339 --> 00:18:56.220 boy I said don't know what's happened here but there's a warm wind has come and he said we're going 00:18:56.220 --> 00:19:03.440 to make it and he said will I order that more canvas will go out so the sails will be inferred more and 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:10.700 the captain said no he said for the first time ever I realize I'm not in control someone else is in 00:19:10.700 --> 00:19:16.799 control and we'll leave it to him because he's going to take this ship through of course that was the Lord 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:26.279 and that's these stories are multiplied over and over and over again God hears and God answers prayer 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:35.019 and David's life was a constant reminder to us of that very thing and so we find that David is here 00:19:35.019 --> 00:19:42.500 saying but you oh Lord are a shield about me my glory and the lifter up of my head and David knew by saying 00:19:42.500 --> 00:19:49.160 that the Lord was that David was a servant of the Lord he was king but he was a servant king 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:56.420 and David was always conscious that he was serving the Lord here on earth wish that all our leaders 00:19:56.420 --> 00:20:02.440 would think likewise but he knew that he was serving the Lord and he knew that while he was still on the 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:12.359 run he believed that he was serving the Lord and so we find David it also says that he is the lifter up 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:22.979 of my head isn't that wonderful you see God God lifts us up again and then we find that David 00:20:22.979 --> 00:20:30.779 he says my glory lift it up of my head because when you think about it David is looking there's a lot 00:20:30.779 --> 00:20:35.539 of faith in this psalm because remember how David we read about how David left and he's going up the 00:20:35.539 --> 00:20:40.619 Mount of Olives and he's crying and his head is covered he's barefoot 00:20:40.619 --> 00:20:46.719 that that doesn't count the Lord is going to lift him up and then we see in verse five 00:20:46.719 --> 00:20:54.099 I lay down and slept I woke again for the Lord sustained me I will not be afraid of many thousands 00:20:54.099 --> 00:21:02.079 of people who have set themselves against me all around you know sleep is one of the great blessings 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:10.299 that's given to us and so often we we're at no more that's the most helpless moment in our experience 00:21:10.299 --> 00:21:16.399 is when we're asleep every night we go to sleep and we're utterly helpless in these hours while 00:21:16.399 --> 00:21:23.399 we're asleep because we can't do in these moments as we're out of it we can't do anything for 00:21:23.399 --> 00:21:30.680 ourselves we are utterly vulnerable and there's so often we remember us as a child being who and I'm 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:36.659 sure so many of you but as I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep if I should die 00:21:36.660 --> 00:21:42.320 before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take we used to pray used to pray that as a as a little 00:21:42.320 --> 00:21:49.340 child and I'm sure a lot of you have done done the same because you knew that in sleep you're out of 00:21:49.340 --> 00:21:56.840 control and you know sleep of course as we know is so therapeutic but the one thing that we find 00:21:56.840 --> 00:22:02.840 difficult to do is to sleep when we're absolutely beside ourselves with worry well here's David thousands 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:09.480 thousands chasing him to put him to death what does he do he lies down and he goes to sleep 00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:16.799 why because it says in scripture so he gives his beloved sleep what a token for good that must have 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:25.579 been to David to to find that that he was able to able to sleep that's what he says in verse 8 of of 00:22:25.579 --> 00:22:34.079 of the next psalm in peace I will both lie down and sleep for you alone oh Lord make me dwell in safety 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:42.439 and so David here he's surrounded by the thousands but he's in perfect peace why because his focus 00:22:42.439 --> 00:22:50.179 is back on the Lord and that's what the Lord says those who have their minds stayed upon the Lord will 00:22:50.180 --> 00:22:57.420 experience perfect peace I will not be afraid though of many thousands of people it's like Elisha 00:22:57.420 --> 00:23:04.039 remember when he Elisha and the city was surrounded and the servant was so anxious and oh he says 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:12.100 master we're done look look at the huge army all around us and Elisha says oh it's okay there's more 00:23:12.099 --> 00:23:19.359 with us than with them and probably at that moment the servant thought oh Elisha's losing it here but 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:25.919 Elisha said Lord open the young man's eyes that he may see and he prayed that's what he prayed and the 00:23:25.919 --> 00:23:34.359 servant's eyes were open to see that the whole hillside was covered was surrounded by horses chariots 00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:43.099 there was a fire there was a huge angelic presence all around them that's why we need not be afraid 00:23:43.099 --> 00:23:50.399 even though the though there are forces of thousands against you as has often been said one with the Lord 00:23:50.399 --> 00:23:56.959 if you have the Lord on your side you have a majority even supposing the whole world is against you 00:23:56.959 --> 00:24:04.099 if you have the Lord you're in a majority arise oh Lord says David verse 7 save me oh my God for 00:24:04.099 --> 00:24:10.500 you strike all my enemies on the cheek and break the teeth of the wicked David often looks on his 00:24:10.500 --> 00:24:16.859 enemies like animals and I think this is kind of that idea because if you're a wild animal and you 00:24:16.859 --> 00:24:22.219 get hold of it and break its cheek and break its teeth you're more or less taking away what's going to 00:24:22.219 --> 00:24:30.799 do you the damage because you you you take it take the whether it's a lion or a tiger or whatever 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:37.899 whatever you take out the teeth break the teeth and break the cheek and all of a sudden they won't 00:24:37.899 --> 00:24:43.819 pose the same threat and I think this is what the idea that David has in in his thinking and then 00:24:43.819 --> 00:24:51.720 finally he says salvation belongs to the Lord your people your blessing be on your people David moves 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:56.779 all the time it's personal it's me it's my but then he goes beyond as he so often does Lord 00:24:56.779 --> 00:25:05.579 all your people not just me but all your people your blessing the blessing of privilege you know 00:25:05.579 --> 00:25:11.839 this you and I tonight are the most privileged people in the world to have the Lord sometimes we 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:17.139 look around and say oh I wish I had this wish I had that we have the Lord we have we have all we 00:25:17.139 --> 00:25:24.779 really need we have protection that you read this psalm again and again sometimes it's good when the 00:25:24.779 --> 00:25:32.200 when things come on top of you and you're under the cosh and the pressures grow and things because 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:38.500 life life is so uncertain sometimes sometimes all kinds of difficulties coming away that's why I keep 00:25:38.500 --> 00:25:44.940 going back and I love the psalms because it doesn't matter where you are you find something there well 00:25:44.940 --> 00:25:51.660 here's David and what a predicament and yet his faith shines through we pray that this will be an 00:25:51.660 --> 00:25:58.320 encouragement to ourselves as well let us pray Lord our God we give thanks for reflecting just for a few 00:25:58.320 --> 00:26:05.640 moments in your word we pray that that word will be a blessing to us we all have our own issues and 00:26:05.640 --> 00:26:12.640 needs and worries whether they're within the family whether they're with regard to financial things but 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:20.040 whatever it is whether it's illnesses the salvation of people's souls there's a thousand and one things 00:26:20.039 --> 00:26:27.619 that can weigh down upon us oh Lord be near to us Lord help us Lord do us good part us with your 00:26:27.619 --> 00:26:36.200 blessing we pray for giving your sin in Jesus name amen we conclude singing in this actual psalm itself 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:36.700 you