WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.040 So this week, we're going to wrap up these five weeks, and we're going to talk about 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:14.280 praying the Bible, which I've mentioned any number of times. 00:00:16.420 --> 00:00:28.320 And yeah, so this is a practice that, I mean, many of you are probably already doing, but 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:36.359 this is a practice that I found really revolutionary for my prayer life when I really started to 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:36.799 do it. 00:00:37.939 --> 00:00:44.939 And it solves some of the most common problems that we have when we go to prayer. 00:00:46.539 --> 00:00:53.700 So some of those problems, when we pray, we tend to kind of get into like a language rut, 00:00:53.900 --> 00:00:58.219 and we pray the same kind of words and the same kind of thing. 00:00:58.939 --> 00:01:02.299 And I find that boring after a while. 00:01:04.340 --> 00:01:09.159 But when we're just praying out of our heads, we're working with the furniture that's in 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:09.700 our heads. 00:01:09.900 --> 00:01:16.159 And if that furniture doesn't change, that's what's going to come out, right? 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:19.539 And we start to think, isn't God bored with this? 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:20.379 I'm bored with it. 00:01:20.379 --> 00:01:23.879 So that can be a problem. 00:01:25.199 --> 00:01:28.179 And if we're bored, right, we're not really motivated. 00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:29.619 Like, this doesn't sound like fun. 00:01:29.659 --> 00:01:30.359 I'm going to go pray. 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:31.479 I'm going to say the same stuff. 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:35.740 Our minds tend to wander. 00:01:37.740 --> 00:01:40.040 I don't think I need to say anything about that. 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.480 I mean, you know, your head goes over there. 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:48.780 And then at some point, you realize, whoa, what am I thinking about? 00:01:49.060 --> 00:01:51.040 This has nothing to do with what I was praying about. 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.660 And then you try to rein yourself in. 00:01:54.180 --> 00:01:57.640 And, you know, depending on the day, you're going to do that better or worse. 00:01:58.260 --> 00:02:02.440 It doesn't always, it can be pretty hard to control, right? 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:06.340 So I already said boring. 00:02:06.819 --> 00:02:08.859 That's the repetitive kind of thing. 00:02:11.099 --> 00:02:14.699 Sometimes we might pray through a list, which is helpful. 00:02:15.500 --> 00:02:22.500 And that will bring some variety to our prayers if we make the effort to maintain that list and keep it fresh. 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:25.879 And, you know, maybe we're rotating different things. 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:38.699 There are all kinds of, you know, ways to do that, which, to be frank, I've just never done because it's like I have to organize this whole list and think about, well, who do I pray for on Tuesdays? 00:02:38.699 --> 00:02:39.639 And I don't know. 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:47.519 It just, like, it just doesn't, you know, I probably should or should have at some point, but never really did. 00:02:51.219 --> 00:02:53.359 And, again, same things over and over. 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:56.340 Now, we're praying about the same topics over and over. 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:00.060 And I have it up there under problems. 00:03:00.160 --> 00:03:01.700 It's not really a problem, is it? 00:03:01.700 --> 00:03:04.600 Because we do want to pray for our family. 00:03:05.100 --> 00:03:07.660 We do want to pray for our loved ones. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:15.300 We do want to pray for things going on at work or things going on in school or things going on at church. 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:16.540 We want to pray for our church. 00:03:16.860 --> 00:03:18.040 We want to pray for our pastors. 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:25.719 We want to, you know, and these things, we don't want to just pray once and then, you know, maybe in six months I'll pray for that again. 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:28.899 We want to pray the same things over and over. 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:32.120 And it's profitable for us. 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:33.859 And it's appropriate. 00:03:33.860 --> 00:03:42.020 But if we pray the same things over and over in the exact same way, that's just going to get a little stale. 00:03:42.920 --> 00:03:46.160 And we're going to feel like, you know, God, I just said this yesterday. 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:48.500 Because you just said it the same way. 00:03:48.500 --> 00:03:53.960 And I don't think God is up there going, come on, a little something new. 00:03:54.300 --> 00:03:57.099 Come on, this is like we did this yesterday, remember? 00:03:57.979 --> 00:04:00.400 You know, I don't think that God feels that way. 00:04:00.460 --> 00:04:07.479 But I do think it lessens our motivation and can become automatic in such a way that we're not actually praying. 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:09.020 We're just reciting the words. 00:04:09.020 --> 00:04:21.259 And I think that's the tendency when we're being repetitive day after day in our prayers is it tends to become like, you know, like a liturgy that becomes stale. 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:29.040 So this is, so this is, here's a solution. 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:33.780 It's not the only one to most of these problems. 00:04:34.100 --> 00:04:34.439 Okay. 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:37.879 It's not magic and it's still hard work. 00:04:38.139 --> 00:04:45.000 But I've talked before about, we've talked about reading, about Bible intake, and we talked about listening. 00:04:45.219 --> 00:04:49.420 We talked about all kinds of different things in taking in the Bible. 00:04:49.420 --> 00:04:51.699 Then we talked about meditating on the Bible. 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:58.199 So taking a very small section and going over and over that, maybe word by word, 00:04:58.659 --> 00:05:03.779 thinking about all the different implications of this phrase or that phrase. 00:05:03.779 --> 00:05:10.000 It's really getting deeply into it and letting it get deeply into us, right? 00:05:10.039 --> 00:05:12.899 That's the goal, that the word becomes part of us. 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:16.699 And so we've talked about that. 00:05:16.699 --> 00:05:27.279 And that tends to, as we think about these things, we think about, you know, the greatness of God, or we think about the beauty of our salvation, 00:05:27.479 --> 00:05:38.659 or we're thinking about who Jesus is and what he's like, is going to naturally, thanks to God's spirit dwelling within us, 00:05:38.659 --> 00:05:40.480 is going to naturally evolve into prayer. 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:41.740 We're going to be praising God. 00:05:41.819 --> 00:05:42.939 We're going to be thanking God. 00:05:43.020 --> 00:05:51.259 We're going to be seeking God for help in, you know, an instruction that we see that we're falling short on or we're just struggling with. 00:05:52.060 --> 00:05:55.600 So that's going to happen naturally if we're meditating in scripture. 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:08.000 And the cycle can just be, you know, in a given morning, say you have a half hour, so maybe you read for 10 minutes, maybe you meditate for 10 minutes, 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:09.480 and you have another 10 minutes. 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:15.360 But maybe you read for 10, then you stop and meditate on something you just read. 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.040 But as you meditate, you turn to prayer. 00:06:19.180 --> 00:06:25.120 And then you sort of run through that, whatever that prayer is, right? 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:30.199 So you come to something that's, say, an attribute of God, and you praise God for it. 00:06:30.420 --> 00:06:34.420 Then you might return to the passage you're meditating on. 00:06:34.540 --> 00:06:36.060 And then that might lead to prayer. 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:39.220 So there's this sort of cycle that can repeat. 00:06:39.220 --> 00:06:46.540 And that's often how my morning goes. 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:48.300 So it sort of cycles around. 00:06:48.860 --> 00:06:52.600 And so that all kind of happens at once, right, even the reading. 00:06:52.780 --> 00:06:55.380 So sometimes I'll stop the reading and just meditate. 00:06:55.540 --> 00:07:00.020 But sometimes I'll just read through whatever my thing is for that day chapter and then meditate. 00:07:01.640 --> 00:07:06.440 You know, as I said, when we were talking about meditation, a goal would be, 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:12.480 and I know Dr. Whitney's goal, who was my professor when I took this class, 00:07:12.579 --> 00:07:15.800 his goal was to, he said, meditate every single day. 00:07:16.339 --> 00:07:21.079 That if you have 10 minutes, read for 10, read for 5, meditate for 5. 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:29.600 So, you know, so as we do that, we're going to find prayers naturally generated, but not always, okay? 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:41.439 So we can also read a chapter, meditate on something, and maybe it doesn't, like we're learning, 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.040 and we're maybe seeing something, or maybe we're not seeing a lot that day. 00:07:47.060 --> 00:07:54.939 We all have days like that, or the passage we have doesn't really, it doesn't really grab us. 00:07:54.939 --> 00:08:02.779 Then we might just say, I really just, I really need, I need to spend some time in prayer. 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:07.519 And then we might choose a different passage to just pray through. 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:18.180 And this I have found, especially on days when, whether it's because of the reading I'm doing in the Bible, 00:08:18.379 --> 00:08:23.359 like whatever in my schedule is kind of dry, or I'm just not sure, it just doesn't, 00:08:23.659 --> 00:08:29.620 or I have something else on my heart, you know, or I have, it just doesn't quite hit and spur a lot of prayer. 00:08:29.620 --> 00:08:37.740 Or I might just turn to another, turn to another passage, and often that's going to be, 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:41.259 that's going to be a psalm, but we'll get to that. 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:51.060 And some days I'm going to get up and I'm going to, A, not, maybe not have that much time, 00:08:51.059 --> 00:08:57.979 and just be in a frame of mind where, you know, even just sitting, just reading a chapter feels like, 00:08:58.139 --> 00:09:00.139 okay, this isn't going to get me where I need to get. 00:09:02.379 --> 00:09:09.539 And I'm just going to choose something to meditate on and pray through, more or less at the same time, right? 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:12.859 So some of that meditation is preaching to yourself, oops, keep hitting the mic, 00:09:13.339 --> 00:09:14.679 it's preaching to yourself, right? 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:17.479 And some of it is going to be speaking to God. 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:25.080 So, for instance, this morning, my head was just kind of in a lot of different places, 00:09:25.560 --> 00:09:30.820 and I just, I've come to like the end of a chunk, I just finished the Pentateuch, 00:09:30.899 --> 00:09:34.539 and I'm kind of like, do I want to go on to Joshua, do I want to do something else, I'm not quite sure. 00:09:36.420 --> 00:09:40.379 And so I didn't have a chapter ready to, oh, I'll just read this, 00:09:40.379 --> 00:09:50.379 and I just turned to a psalm and just started reading it slowly and meditating, praying, all mixed in together. 00:09:51.340 --> 00:10:00.159 And that often is a, it's a real help when I'm especially distracted or sleepy or short on time, anything like that. 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.580 It tends to be more what I do. 00:10:02.580 --> 00:10:10.860 Anyway, I'm sure there are variations on all of this that we might do, and you're not me, 00:10:11.060 --> 00:10:13.259 so you're not going to do exactly the same kind of thing. 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:18.160 But this is also described over and over in Puritan writings. 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:23.800 If you start reading the Puritans and they talk about how they approach the scriptures, how they pray, 00:10:24.280 --> 00:10:26.520 you're going to see it's a lot of this. 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:31.179 And this is really where I learned it, was from reading through Puritan authors 00:10:31.179 --> 00:10:36.699 and recognizing that they really had the word in them deeply. 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:38.720 And I wanted that. 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:43.000 I didn't just want, I just didn't want to like, okay, I know these words. 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:44.439 I have this information. 00:10:45.100 --> 00:10:49.500 I really wanted the word to be part of me, and this is how, this is how they did it. 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:51.399 And so I figured, well, I'm going to do this. 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:54.299 And I have found it really helpful. 00:10:54.299 --> 00:10:59.000 So that meditation process really gets it to be more part of your own life 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:02.959 and part of that furniture, right, furniture in your head, 00:11:03.099 --> 00:11:08.099 which helps you think further, learn more, pray better, all right? 00:11:10.740 --> 00:11:14.000 So you might, if you're going to pray through a passage, 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.740 you might just choose it out of your daily Bible reading. 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:18.699 That's totally natural. 00:11:19.199 --> 00:11:20.439 This is often what I do. 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:24.320 It may depend on where you are in the scriptures. 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:30.020 But, I mean, there's fruit for meditation all through, like, he gave us all of it. 00:11:31.220 --> 00:11:36.980 You can come to a genealogy and you think, well, this is, okay, been here, seen this. 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:42.940 But you can start thinking about all these individuals that God saw, all these individuals. 00:11:42.940 --> 00:11:46.000 Some of them, like, they're only named in a genealogy somewhere. 00:11:46.280 --> 00:11:52.220 And you think, this person had a whole life and a whole, and they didn't know they were in any way important, 00:11:52.540 --> 00:11:56.620 let alone they'd be recorded in what people are reading thousands of years. 00:11:56.680 --> 00:11:58.600 And look at God's care for the individual. 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:00.520 And you might be meditating on that. 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:06.960 So there's truly, there's truly meat for meditating throughout the scriptures. 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.340 But it's not all going to hit you the same way the same day. 00:12:10.079 --> 00:12:15.699 And if you have, you know, five chapters of genealogy, you may run dry there. 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:18.720 I would, I'm sure. 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:25.899 So sometimes out of your daily Bible reading, and that's going to be totally natural. 00:12:29.940 --> 00:12:33.379 The thing I want to introduce is the idea of a psalm of the day. 00:12:33.500 --> 00:12:35.399 This isn't rocket science and it's not new. 00:12:35.560 --> 00:12:36.860 It's not me. 00:12:37.060 --> 00:12:39.000 But there are 150 psalms. 00:12:39.800 --> 00:12:42.940 And let's say there are roughly 30 days in a month. 00:12:44.980 --> 00:12:48.320 Reading five psalms a day gets you through the psalms, basically. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:54.360 Um, so this approach, I'd heard, you know, I'd seen schedules like that. 00:12:54.420 --> 00:12:55.340 Read five psalms a day. 00:12:55.920 --> 00:12:59.759 Um, but this is an approach that I kind of like better. 00:12:59.940 --> 00:13:02.560 So this is something Dr. Whitney talked about. 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:04.580 And again, it wasn't new with him or anything. 00:13:04.580 --> 00:13:08.580 But you're going to start with the day of the week. 00:13:09.040 --> 00:13:12.800 Um, so today is March 27th. 00:13:13.500 --> 00:13:17.720 So you're going to count out five psalms, which you're going to add 30 every time. 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:21.000 So, so you start with today's date, 27. 00:13:21.139 --> 00:13:25.000 So the first psalm you might read it or you might pray is 27. 00:13:25.259 --> 00:13:30.399 And then we go, you know, 57, 87, 117, 147. 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:37.580 So then what you do is you have these five psalms and you're just going to skim through them. 00:13:37.580 --> 00:13:44.300 And especially the better you know the psalms, the more this is going to feel like you just need to skim through them. 00:13:44.460 --> 00:13:50.160 But you start reading or you just read a little bit and you get the flavor of the psalm or you remember it or whatever. 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:56.199 Um, and one of them is highly likely to sort of jump out at you as the right thing for today. 00:13:56.860 --> 00:14:00.079 Um, and it won't always be the same out of these five, right? 00:14:00.219 --> 00:14:04.899 Next, you know, April 27th, it will be the same set of, the same set of psalms. 00:14:04.899 --> 00:14:09.340 But so I, I chose for today Psalm 147. 00:14:09.779 --> 00:14:15.620 But, you know, in April it might be Psalm 27 or 57 or 87 or whatever. 00:14:16.179 --> 00:14:22.039 Um, so it gets you, it gets you looking at all the psalms through the course of a month. 00:14:22.740 --> 00:14:26.159 Um, and it moves you around in the Psalter. 00:14:26.299 --> 00:14:31.679 And there are, sometimes if you read like five in a row, you're going to get a lot of the same themes. 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.839 Because they are collected in a meaningful way. 00:14:35.539 --> 00:14:40.779 Um, and maybe that theme is not going to be what's really helpful for you that day. 00:14:41.079 --> 00:14:43.059 You know, not that you couldn't pray through them profitably. 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:48.599 But this way, you're getting, you're likely getting a bigger range. 00:14:48.719 --> 00:14:50.639 So it's kind of sort of random, but not really. 00:14:51.459 --> 00:14:57.059 Um, one of the advantages of doing something like this is you're not spending a whole lot of time thinking, 00:14:57.199 --> 00:14:58.379 okay, what am I going to pray through today? 00:14:58.379 --> 00:15:05.279 You're not starting from scratch every day and thinking, well, you know, I just read another genealogy. 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:06.539 I don't really want to pray through this. 00:15:06.620 --> 00:15:07.980 I want to do something else. 00:15:08.379 --> 00:15:09.500 What is it going to be? 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:11.159 And, you know, there's a whole Bible. 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:12.919 I mean, it's like 66 books. 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:18.539 And you can waste a lot of time just trying to figure that out. 00:15:18.659 --> 00:15:22.100 So making decisions, we don't need to be making a lot of decisions. 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:26.500 It just, yeah, it can take a lot of time. 00:15:26.500 --> 00:15:28.100 You can get sort of distracted by that. 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:30.200 So this is a way to narrow it down. 00:15:30.299 --> 00:15:32.519 Just flip through the five Psalms of the day. 00:15:35.820 --> 00:15:37.240 And I already said this. 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:45.080 So that's just a handy way to look at the Psalms. 00:15:45.419 --> 00:15:48.960 And the Psalms are, you know, they're written as prayers. 00:15:49.460 --> 00:15:51.159 They're already prayers, right? 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:52.500 So praying the Psalms. 00:15:52.580 --> 00:15:55.419 Now, they're not, like, some of it's not, but pretty much. 00:15:56.379 --> 00:15:59.980 So praying the Psalms comes very naturally because they are prayers, right? 00:15:59.980 --> 00:16:06.399 So we put ourselves in the position of the writer and we're praying a prayer. 00:16:07.500 --> 00:16:10.340 It's not the only place you can pray through the Bible. 00:16:10.340 --> 00:16:18.399 But it tends to be one of the most straightforward, simple way to do it. 00:16:19.160 --> 00:16:20.399 You can also pray. 00:16:20.540 --> 00:16:25.840 There are a number of New Testament passages that are fabulous to pray through. 00:16:25.940 --> 00:16:26.980 I mean, like a lot of it. 00:16:27.800 --> 00:16:32.660 In the epistles, those are jam-packed with, you know, you just take a verse and you meditate 00:16:32.660 --> 00:16:33.960 on that and pray that. 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:35.820 You know, you're reading Paul. 00:16:36.259 --> 00:16:41.000 You know, there's going to be, you know, five things that are amazing built into that 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:41.379 verse. 00:16:42.820 --> 00:16:44.600 Not every verse, right? 00:16:44.740 --> 00:16:48.160 But there's a lot of meat there for prayer. 00:16:48.400 --> 00:16:50.280 And we can look at that even though it's not written. 00:16:50.379 --> 00:16:52.780 It might, there are places where it's written as a prayer. 00:16:52.920 --> 00:16:54.379 And I pray through those a lot. 00:16:55.820 --> 00:16:58.700 But there are parts that are not written for prayer. 00:16:58.820 --> 00:17:01.840 They're instruction or they're, you know, Paul's building an argument. 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:06.819 But you, but you see what's in there and you go, wow, you know, you see a better glimpse 00:17:06.819 --> 00:17:07.440 of the gospel. 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:11.120 You see a, you know, you see a highlight of what Jesus is like. 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:14.420 You see those kinds of things and, and turn that into prayer. 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:20.660 It's just a little bit about other kind of genres. 00:17:20.660 --> 00:17:25.900 I, I often pray through parts of prophets. 00:17:26.220 --> 00:17:34.900 I'm a, I'm a big fan of Old Testament prophecy and some of it, like, you know, if it's just 00:17:34.900 --> 00:17:36.940 all this judgment on Moab. 00:17:36.940 --> 00:17:44.920 I mean, I'll still pray that, but I'll be thinking about how does this, how does this apply? 00:17:45.600 --> 00:17:53.200 You know, and thinking about what is this wrong that, that the prophet is, you know, accusing 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:59.860 this country of, or Israel or whoever, or he's addressing the priests or he's addressing, 00:17:59.980 --> 00:18:00.220 whatever. 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:02.340 What is, what's going on here? 00:18:02.420 --> 00:18:03.460 What, what did they do wrong? 00:18:03.460 --> 00:18:07.620 I'm going to meditate on that and think about that and I'm going to, you know, pray because 00:18:07.620 --> 00:18:11.460 we're, we're susceptible to all these kinds of sins, right? 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:17.480 So that's going to be food for meditation and prayer as well. 00:18:18.420 --> 00:18:25.079 Narrative sections, a little different in that you might not go like verse by verse through, 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:31.559 say, you know, an account in Matthew about a healing, for instance. 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:37.259 You might not, you know, the first verse might be, and Jesus walked alongside the sea. 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.579 Now, you don't really need to pray that, right? 00:18:40.659 --> 00:18:42.940 It's just kind of, it's just setting up a story, right? 00:18:43.059 --> 00:18:47.019 So you want to look at the whole thing then and see what is it really about? 00:18:47.159 --> 00:18:48.460 What's, what's going on here? 00:18:48.500 --> 00:18:50.899 And that might be food for your prayers that day. 00:18:50.900 --> 00:18:54.960 So it doesn't need to be just a Psalm. 00:18:55.060 --> 00:18:59.420 It doesn't need to be just a prayer that's recorded in Scripture, though those are great 00:18:59.420 --> 00:19:02.860 and they'll come fairly easily. 00:19:04.100 --> 00:19:09.380 But really, I've prayed lots of, lots of different parts of the Scripture. 00:19:09.540 --> 00:19:14.000 But what we're going to look at today is Psalm 147. 00:19:14.180 --> 00:19:15.360 It's one of the Psalms of the day. 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:22.439 And I'm just going to spend a little bit sort of talking through how I would pray through this. 00:19:24.679 --> 00:19:26.379 So this is the first verse. 00:19:26.479 --> 00:19:29.199 I've given you the whole thing in your handout. 00:19:30.099 --> 00:19:33.119 But for now, we don't, we don't need the whole thing. 00:19:33.179 --> 00:19:33.859 We will in a second. 00:19:37.399 --> 00:19:38.899 Or you start right at the beginning. 00:19:38.900 --> 00:19:40.640 And there you have praise the Lord. 00:19:40.780 --> 00:19:42.120 And you have an invitation. 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:47.440 And, and you're like, okay, this is what we're doing here, you know? 00:19:48.700 --> 00:19:54.900 And then he tells, he says, for, he's just giving you a reason to praise the Lord. 00:19:55.280 --> 00:19:57.420 For it is good to sing praises to our God. 00:19:57.740 --> 00:20:00.720 For it is pleasant and a song of praise is fitting. 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:03.200 So I'm going to think about that. 00:20:03.320 --> 00:20:05.900 Why is it good to sing praises to our God? 00:20:06.040 --> 00:20:07.120 What's good about it? 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:15.959 Um, so, you know, this goes back to, this is, this goes back to the different ways of like meditating on a passage. 00:20:16.539 --> 00:20:18.559 But then you're going to turn it into prayer. 00:20:18.959 --> 00:20:21.119 You know, Lord, I don't feel like singing today. 00:20:21.739 --> 00:20:24.139 Lord, but, but your word says it's good. 00:20:24.500 --> 00:20:26.579 Help me to see the goodness in it. 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:32.299 Help me to, um, yeah, help me to, help me to delight in praising you. 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:33.439 Help me to enjoy it. 00:20:33.719 --> 00:20:35.939 You know, that might be, you know, a prayer. 00:20:35.940 --> 00:20:38.500 Another day it's going to be, I feel great praising you. 00:20:38.600 --> 00:20:39.660 I'm, this is so good. 00:20:39.700 --> 00:20:40.700 I'm just really grateful. 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:45.100 You know, or anywhere in between, you're going to, you know, there might be something to, 00:20:45.220 --> 00:20:50.779 to pray in that first, uh, or that second clause for it's good to sing praises to our God. 00:20:50.900 --> 00:20:52.720 You might just think about our God. 00:20:53.180 --> 00:20:54.360 He's our God. 00:20:54.360 --> 00:20:55.840 Like, Lord, you're my God. 00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:58.460 You know, that sense of really belonging to God. 00:20:58.460 --> 00:21:04.360 And, and just enjoy that in his presence and thank him and praise him for that. 00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:08.200 Um, and then again, it is pleasant. 00:21:08.360 --> 00:21:09.620 A song of praise is fitting. 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:13.579 So this morning I was thinking about this and like, why is it fitting? 00:21:13.579 --> 00:21:16.839 Like, why is it, it, a song of praise. 00:21:16.919 --> 00:21:20.579 I thought about how a song of praise really matches reality, doesn't it? 00:21:20.579 --> 00:21:25.779 Like around us, we don't see, we may not, I mean, we see all kinds of horrible stuff that 00:21:25.779 --> 00:21:27.839 don't make us want to praise God. 00:21:27.939 --> 00:21:28.159 Right. 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:36.660 But when we think about who God is and what awaits us in his presence and how he's going 00:21:36.660 --> 00:21:43.300 to make it all right and how in Jesus he conquered all the sin that's causing all the misfortune 00:21:43.300 --> 00:21:47.940 and tragedy and horrible things in our world, then you say, well, it is fitting. 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:55.120 This, this praise is, comports with reality, like real reality, not just the surface things 00:21:55.120 --> 00:21:56.380 that we're walking through today. 00:21:56.500 --> 00:21:57.680 So I was thinking about that. 00:21:57.680 --> 00:21:58.500 How is it fitting? 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:05.720 And just praising God that it is fitting, that, that he's, he's worth praising no matter 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:06.700 what's going on here. 00:22:06.700 --> 00:22:17.019 And, and even more as we see how terrible humanity can be to one another, how evil, how, you know, 00:22:17.019 --> 00:22:22.220 whatever we're seeing, let alone the good things that God is doing in our lives and the, and 00:22:22.220 --> 00:22:27.299 the, the gifts and the treasures that we, that we experience and the whole range of what 00:22:27.299 --> 00:22:28.119 we walk through. 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:31.119 And so we're just recognizing, well, why is praise fitting? 00:22:31.399 --> 00:22:36.500 You know, so this is, that was where my mind went and another mind and me on another day 00:22:36.500 --> 00:22:37.819 is going to go somewhere else. 00:22:37.819 --> 00:22:41.319 But that's just an example for that verse. 00:22:41.639 --> 00:22:43.799 The next one, the Lord builds up Jerusalem. 00:22:43.799 --> 00:22:46.039 He gathers the outcasts of Israel. 00:22:46.039 --> 00:22:50.519 And here I just thought about, well, Jerusalem. 00:22:50.779 --> 00:22:51.099 Okay. 00:22:51.700 --> 00:22:54.659 That makes me think of the church in our age. 00:22:54.660 --> 00:23:01.040 Um, the Lord builds up, you know, the place of his people, the place where he dwells is Jerusalem. 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:03.140 He now dwells with his people. 00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:05.480 He dwells in us by his Holy Spirit. 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:08.340 The Lord builds up, the Lord builds up the church. 00:23:08.339 --> 00:23:15.859 And that's going to cause me to start praying for, for us, for, for this congregation, for, 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:21.699 and for the church in other parts of the world, you know, build up the church in Ukraine, you 00:23:21.699 --> 00:23:26.500 know, build up the church, you know, and, and what's going to happen is you're not going 00:23:26.500 --> 00:23:29.859 to just be praying like for yourself through the whole thing. 00:23:29.919 --> 00:23:32.199 You're going to, different things are going to come to mind. 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:36.880 Um, so like the church in Ukraine or something, cause it's, you know, it's something you've 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:37.580 been thinking about. 00:23:37.660 --> 00:23:39.900 We've been, you know, concerned with Ukraine. 00:23:40.660 --> 00:23:45.700 Lord, build up the church in this time, uh, and let your word go forth. 00:23:45.700 --> 00:23:52.799 And, and, and that prayer might, you know, it might wander a fair, fair bit away from the 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:54.460 actual text of the verse. 00:23:54.500 --> 00:23:55.059 And that's okay. 00:23:55.059 --> 00:23:57.720 That's where you're, that's where the spirit is leading you as you pray. 00:23:58.279 --> 00:23:59.420 And it's all good. 00:23:59.420 --> 00:24:02.180 Um, praying through. 00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:06.080 Through a piece of scripture doesn't mean you're like, you can only say things that 00:24:06.080 --> 00:24:11.620 are in there, you know, it's not, um, but it's a kickstart and it's a, it's a way to 00:24:11.620 --> 00:24:14.480 give you biblical language to pray. 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:19.140 Um, and then, I mean, he gathers the outcasts of Israel. 00:24:19.700 --> 00:24:24.920 Um, and you know, what is, what is the gospel, but a gathering of outcasts. 00:24:25.019 --> 00:24:29.600 We're all outcasts because of sin and, and he's doing that. 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:32.859 Um, you know, I'm, all kinds of things might come to my mind. 00:24:32.859 --> 00:24:38.980 Um, it might be gratitude for him gathering me as an outcast. 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:45.599 It might be, um, similarly kind of gratitude for having a, not being an outcast anymore. 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:47.459 I belong to, I belong to God. 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:49.659 I'm a daughter of the King. 00:24:49.660 --> 00:24:56.980 Um, it might be, uh, so I'm spending the afternoon with, uh, extended family celebrating my mother's 00:24:56.980 --> 00:24:58.940 90th birthday this afternoon. 00:24:59.660 --> 00:25:00.820 Um, yeah. 00:25:01.380 --> 00:25:08.300 Uh, even, she turned 91, uh, on Friday, but she's celebrating 90. 00:25:08.299 --> 00:25:14.940 Anyway, uh, so, but I'm going to spend a lot of time with people who don't know the Lord. 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:18.779 Um, and I might think of them as these, they're outcasts, right? 00:25:18.879 --> 00:25:25.359 They're outcasts due to sin, just as we all, we all are, um, apart from Jesus. 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:28.659 And I might be praying, Lord, maybe, maybe a seed can be planted. 00:25:28.819 --> 00:25:34.980 Maybe, you know, uh, maybe some in our family who are believers might be able to drop a, 00:25:34.980 --> 00:25:36.660 a word here, there. 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:41.860 Uh, um, so, you know, that's the kind of thing I'll, you know, I'll pray for because that's 00:25:41.860 --> 00:25:47.980 on my mind and it's going to come up in my, you know, as I, as I walk through the scriptures. 00:25:49.019 --> 00:25:52.860 Uh, the next verse, he heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. 00:25:53.160 --> 00:25:59.420 And this is going to be a place where I'm going to pray for my own broken heart and my own wounds, 00:25:59.539 --> 00:26:04.680 but I'm also going to be thinking about people in my life who are walking through a hard time, 00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:09.740 who are struggling, who are brokenhearted, who are wounded and pray for them. 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:16.840 So it's going to cause me, um, so for me, all right, it's going to cause me to pray for 00:26:16.840 --> 00:26:22.360 more of those people on my list, whether that's a written list or a mental list. 00:26:22.600 --> 00:26:25.340 It's going to cause me to remember these people. 00:26:25.740 --> 00:26:29.900 Um, as I looked at this, you know, I thought of the Hodgkins family and prayed for them, 00:26:29.900 --> 00:26:35.180 you know, so it's going to be that kind of thing where the people on your heart are going 00:26:35.180 --> 00:26:39.140 to, are going to surface as you, as you read different parts of scripture and you see, 00:26:39.320 --> 00:26:42.160 you know, how this applies to them as well. 00:26:42.220 --> 00:26:43.380 I'm going to be praying for them. 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:47.400 And, and here we have, we have this promise to pray, right? 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:52.320 We talked a little bit last week about, uh, giving God reasons for answering our prayers. 00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:55.360 Well, here's, this is who God is. 00:26:55.360 --> 00:26:56.200 This is who our God is. 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:01.980 He heals the brokenhearted so we can pray with confidence, uh, that he desires to heal, 00:27:02.140 --> 00:27:03.519 heal the brokenhearted. 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:09.259 And we can pray for our struggling friends and loved ones and, and have the confidence 00:27:09.259 --> 00:27:11.279 of praying God's words back to him. 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:15.460 Um, he's, this is, this is who he is. 00:27:15.460 --> 00:27:19.480 And so it just gives confidence and, and builds faith. 00:27:20.059 --> 00:27:24.819 Um, and I talked a little bit about that last week too, I think is, you know, I can tend 00:27:24.819 --> 00:27:27.799 to just sort of think, well, God's, he doesn't really answer prayer. 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:31.240 Um, but as I read this, my faith is built. 00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:33.599 Like, of course he cares for the broken heart. 00:27:33.659 --> 00:27:34.799 Look at, look what it says. 00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:38.419 And I know this, you know, and, but it, but it boosts my faith. 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:39.939 It reminds me of who God is. 00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:44.679 And then, then I pray with more faith for those who are struggling or for, you know, whatever 00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:53.120 I might be dealing with on that day or for, I, I thought about, uh, the people of Ukraine 00:27:53.120 --> 00:28:01.940 who have lost loved ones and how in the midst of this tragedy, how I just, just how wrenching 00:28:01.940 --> 00:28:09.080 that must be and how, uh, overwhelming to continue to be in a war zone, but you're also grieving. 00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:12.419 And it's just, uh, you know, I can only imagine. 00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:16.759 Um, but those are the kinds of things that came to my mind and I prayed about that I might 00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:18.579 not have, um, otherwise. 00:28:20.019 --> 00:28:23.899 Uh, he determines the number of the stars. 00:28:24.019 --> 00:28:25.759 He gives to all of them their names. 00:28:26.259 --> 00:28:27.500 I'm just going to throw it out. 00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:30.539 What kinds of things might you pray, you know, with this verse? 00:28:30.579 --> 00:28:32.240 What kinds of things might come to your mind? 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:40.339 That would take me straight back to the genealogies and I'd be looking up what those names mean. 00:28:45.460 --> 00:28:45.859 Okay. 00:28:46.099 --> 00:28:47.599 That is really interesting. 00:28:48.140 --> 00:28:48.339 Yep. 00:28:48.539 --> 00:28:48.799 Yep. 00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:50.180 Yep. 00:28:50.500 --> 00:28:51.120 What else? 00:28:52.859 --> 00:28:55.319 He has the power to gather the outcast. 00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:59.359 If he can number the stars, he has the power to make good on those words. 00:28:59.539 --> 00:28:59.839 Yeah. 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:01.279 That's faith building, isn't it? 00:29:01.380 --> 00:29:01.640 Yeah. 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:03.039 Yeah. 00:29:04.380 --> 00:29:04.940 Yeah. 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:13.900 He's not surprised that he orders all things so we can be confident that he's in control. 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:14.579 Yeah. 00:29:14.900 --> 00:29:15.180 Yeah. 00:29:15.620 --> 00:29:19.059 And we can, we can praise God for that here. 00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:26.799 We can, um, we can consider again, like Kelly did, the outcast, uh, the brokenhearted, those 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:27.420 who are wounded. 00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:31.019 Um, he, he knows them by name. 00:29:31.019 --> 00:29:33.960 Um, and we can praise him for that. 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:35.180 He knows me by name. 00:29:35.180 --> 00:29:43.900 Um, uh, uh, another, uh, Psalm that I meditated on this week was Psalm 84. 00:29:43.900 --> 00:29:50.800 And just, there's pictures there of the sparrow has found a nest in the, whatever, rafters of 00:29:50.800 --> 00:29:51.280 the temple. 00:29:51.280 --> 00:29:53.019 And I thought, I have a nest. 00:29:53.060 --> 00:29:56.600 I have a home where I belong, um, with God. 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:07.219 Um, and how comforting that has been, um, and I'm thanking him for that and asking him to 00:30:07.219 --> 00:30:13.480 help, help me live out of that, you know, with the confidence that I have a place of belonging 00:30:13.480 --> 00:30:19.700 with him and that one day I will be there in a, in a greater way than I am now. 00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:26.660 Um, so yeah, um, I'm going to stop. 00:30:26.740 --> 00:30:27.480 I'm going to stop there. 00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:34.799 Um, and what I'm going to ask you to do, um, we're going to, you could probably, when 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:42.920 I, we can probably stop the recording or, yeah, because what we're going to do is I gave 00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:44.500 you all of Psalm 147. 00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:49.599 Um, if you have another passage that's on your heart that you've read today or something 00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:54.460 like that, that you would like to try praying through, by all means, I don't care. 00:30:54.579 --> 00:30:59.039 I just wanted to provide something, um, as a starting place. 00:30:59.619 --> 00:31:05.619 Um, and I'm going to ask you to just pray through a passage of scripture. 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:10.839 Um, I'm going to give you 10 minutes, which is probably going to feel like a long time. 00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:17.740 Uh, but, uh, once you sort of zone in, I don't think it will be such a long time. 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:22.419 Um, and just, I just want you to try it right now. 00:31:23.019 --> 00:31:29.819 Um, and, and let's just spend some time in prayer putting into practice, uh, some of these 00:31:29.819 --> 00:31:30.139 things. 00:31:30.139 --> 00:31:40.059 Um, so I hope those of you who, uh, are listening or watching later, uh, also took your 10 minutes. 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:43.959 Um, if not, you can turn it off now and do it. 00:31:44.659 --> 00:31:49.039 Um, I'd love to hear your feedback. 00:31:49.779 --> 00:31:53.199 Any, uh, what was that experience like for you? 00:31:53.200 --> 00:32:13.480 I appreciated going, being able to go slowly through each, like, phrase, um, and think 00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:13.920 about that. 00:32:14.019 --> 00:32:17.000 I think normally I just, like, read through it and kind of try to figure out holistically, 00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:20.019 like what, like even in a chunk of what's going on here. 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:24.019 And I think slowing it down really helps me personally. 00:32:24.819 --> 00:32:25.420 Mm-hmm. 00:32:25.619 --> 00:32:25.880 Mm-hmm. 00:32:27.660 --> 00:32:32.859 Sometimes I feel guilty after long periods of not doing this, but it was comforting to 00:32:32.859 --> 00:32:37.000 feel that, um, familiarity, like, like riding a bike. 00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:37.660 Yeah. 00:32:37.740 --> 00:32:38.440 Oh, yeah, yeah. 00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:40.460 I still know how to do this. 00:32:40.660 --> 00:32:40.960 Yeah. 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:45.799 God is still close even when I don't draw near to him. 00:32:45.860 --> 00:32:46.120 Yeah. 00:32:46.600 --> 00:32:46.840 Yeah. 00:32:48.340 --> 00:32:48.740 Yeah. 00:32:48.740 --> 00:32:48.840 Yeah. 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:51.620 Yeah. 00:32:51.700 --> 00:32:57.420 For me, this can be a real, uh, sort of a, sort of a shortcut to that kind of connection 00:32:57.420 --> 00:33:03.920 with the Lord that, uh, can be lacking if I don't make the deliberate and intentional 00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:04.980 effort. 00:33:04.980 --> 00:33:06.960 Um, yeah. 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:08.960 Yeah. 00:33:10.340 --> 00:33:10.740 Yeah. 00:33:10.740 --> 00:33:11.140 Anyone else? 00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:13.360 Mary? 00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:18.880 I focused on a different psalm, psalm, uh, her passage, I guess I should say. 00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:19.740 Mm-hmm. 00:33:19.740 --> 00:33:26.680 Psalm 1914, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing and acceptable 00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:30.360 in your sight, and Lord, my God, my rock, and my redeemer. 00:33:30.620 --> 00:33:31.300 Mm-hmm. 00:33:31.300 --> 00:33:31.640 Mm-hmm. 00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:35.160 Yeah. 00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:35.259 Yeah. 00:33:35.259 --> 00:33:35.360 Yeah. 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:49.500 I actually focused on the last line, the last half of the last line of the second stanza, 00:33:49.900 --> 00:33:57.080 and just found myself praying for myself, for lots of people, that our, our hope would 00:33:57.080 --> 00:33:58.420 be God's best love. 00:33:58.420 --> 00:33:58.720 Yeah. 00:33:58.720 --> 00:33:58.759 Yeah. 00:33:59.220 --> 00:34:04.960 Just took that and just, the Lord just helped me run with it. 00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:06.640 Yeah. 00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:08.220 Lots, lots of things to pray for. 00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:08.740 Yeah. 00:34:09.099 --> 00:34:09.420 Yeah. 00:34:09.500 --> 00:34:10.460 Just that simple. 00:34:10.579 --> 00:34:10.740 Yeah. 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:11.860 That one line was. 00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:13.320 Yeah. 00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:20.900 And I think part of, you know, having something like that to pray for the people we care about, 00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:30.720 you know, it's, it's, it's easy sometimes to pray for the surface issue, right? 00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:32.819 To pray for health. 00:34:32.819 --> 00:34:38.399 And it's, and it's good to pray for, you know, for healing and for, you know, help for the 00:34:38.399 --> 00:34:42.639 doctors and that kind of thing when we're praying for someone who's, who's ill or for 00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:43.519 ourselves or whatever. 00:34:44.099 --> 00:34:49.980 But boy, I want someone praying that I would hope in his steadfast love also, you know? 00:34:49.980 --> 00:34:56.380 So it's not either or, but, but I often, I think it's easy to go, oh yeah, so-and-so 00:34:56.380 --> 00:34:57.699 has that thing coming up. 00:34:57.860 --> 00:35:00.380 They have a, they have a big job interview and I want to pray for that. 00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:07.219 But this helps me also pray for heart matters and spiritual matters. 00:35:07.219 --> 00:35:15.500 And, and I find that, yeah, I mean, that's, don't you want people praying that stuff for 00:35:15.500 --> 00:35:15.679 you? 00:35:16.459 --> 00:35:16.899 Debbie. 00:35:17.359 --> 00:35:23.339 I will sometimes pray the prayer at the beginning of Colossians for my children specifically 00:35:23.339 --> 00:35:25.099 and just go through that very slowly. 00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:25.679 Yeah. 00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:28.480 That God would bring about those things in their lives. 00:35:28.579 --> 00:35:28.879 Yeah. 00:35:29.539 --> 00:35:32.980 And you know, when you're praying scripture, you're praying according to God's will. 00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:33.279 Yep. 00:35:33.279 --> 00:35:33.980 Which is a comfort. 00:35:34.319 --> 00:35:34.659 Yeah. 00:35:34.879 --> 00:35:35.359 Yep. 00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:35.800 Yeah. 00:35:36.019 --> 00:35:36.500 Yeah. 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:37.599 There's that confidence. 00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:39.760 Yeah. 00:35:40.380 --> 00:35:42.740 It's also a sense of community. 00:35:44.180 --> 00:35:50.240 All of the people starting with the psalmist who wrote these words down, everyone who used 00:35:50.240 --> 00:35:55.599 this as their songbook, including Jesus and the people, the worshipers of his day, it's 00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:59.079 just, I don't know, there's something really neat about that. 00:35:59.200 --> 00:35:59.539 Yeah. 00:36:00.539 --> 00:36:00.880 Yeah. 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:02.720 The cloud of it. 00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:03.440 Yep. 00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:04.840 Yep. 00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:04.880 Yep. 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.360 Yeah. 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:09.120 It was good just to reconnect with people I wanted. 00:36:09.380 --> 00:36:13.559 I was reflecting on that part that Matt mentioned too, but just, it's easy, I think, 00:36:13.640 --> 00:36:17.559 some of them would bring in charlash for God, the sense that like we disappoint and we fail, 00:36:18.140 --> 00:36:22.480 we kind of impute this disappointment in him, but it's just good to be reminded that he 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:25.760 takes pleasure in the people who relate to him as a loving father. 00:36:25.900 --> 00:36:28.920 He wants to be known, like that's not a huge ask. 00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:31.500 I was like, oh, I think I might 00:36:31.500 --> 00:36:31.960 do that. 00:36:32.820 --> 00:36:35.280 It's reassuring to be like, he's not asking me 00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:36.920 to have lovely achievements. 00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:38.960 He's not asking me to do outrageous things 00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:41.000 that may be in my cards. I don't know. 00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:42.940 He has good work for me to do, but ultimately 00:36:42.940 --> 00:36:44.579 he wants me to trust that he's loving. 00:36:45.019 --> 00:36:47.180 When I'm able to do that, I have 00:36:47.180 --> 00:36:49.200 a position of stability in him where I can 00:36:49.200 --> 00:36:49.960 go out and love people. 00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:52.320 I don't fear people's 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.099 reaction and I'm free to love them well 00:36:54.099 --> 00:36:56.119 because I know who I have in heaven. 00:36:56.559 --> 00:36:58.220 That was reassuring to just remember 00:36:58.219 --> 00:36:58.839 who he is. 00:37:01.359 --> 00:37:04.039 I love the early 00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:05.819 verses where he heals the brokenhearted 00:37:05.819 --> 00:37:07.919 and bites up their wounds, but then 00:37:07.919 --> 00:37:10.079 it says he determines the number of the 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:11.539 stars and he gives names to them. 00:37:11.879 --> 00:37:14.519 I was thinking how unimaginably 00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:16.139 beautiful and powerful 00:37:16.139 --> 00:37:17.000 stars are. 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:18.000 God, 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:21.079 his endeavors to heal 00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:23.179 the brokenhearted is similar 00:37:23.179 --> 00:37:24.819 to his creation of the stars. 00:37:24.820 --> 00:37:25.300 Yeah. 00:37:25.620 --> 00:37:27.559 And that is just 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:28.880 and the importance 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:30.519 that he places on stars, 00:37:30.740 --> 00:37:33.220 he places on the brokenhearted. 00:37:33.539 --> 00:37:33.780 Yeah. 00:37:34.300 --> 00:37:34.519 Yeah. 00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:37.180 So he goes, 00:37:37.380 --> 00:37:39.519 I looked at that same person 00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:41.160 and 00:37:41.160 --> 00:37:43.480 the thing that I saw was 00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:44.380 like, 00:37:44.720 --> 00:37:45.920 who cares about the stars? 00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:46.280 You guys? 00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:50.579 What God does, 00:37:50.980 --> 00:37:51.619 therefore. 00:37:51.940 --> 00:37:52.220 Yeah. 00:37:53.300 --> 00:37:53.740 Like, 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:55.079 why wouldn't he 00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:57.220 care about the brokenhearted? 00:37:57.400 --> 00:37:57.760 Yeah. 00:37:57.900 --> 00:37:58.780 Because the stars, 00:37:58.920 --> 00:37:59.119 like, 00:37:59.260 --> 00:38:01.460 I'm colorblind, 00:38:01.539 --> 00:38:02.639 so maybe they're not so well. 00:38:03.019 --> 00:38:03.460 Yeah. 00:38:03.460 --> 00:38:05.579 Like, 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:08.300 there's lots of stars, 00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:08.720 and, 00:38:08.720 --> 00:38:09.679 like, 00:38:09.780 --> 00:38:10.800 in the scheme of things, 00:38:11.019 --> 00:38:11.740 to us, 00:38:13.300 --> 00:38:13.539 like, 00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:14.940 the sky would be less interesting, 00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:15.840 but they're really, 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:16.220 like, 00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:18.639 inconsequential, 00:38:18.780 --> 00:38:19.720 from my perspective. 00:38:21.659 --> 00:38:22.139 Yeah. 00:38:23.740 --> 00:38:24.220 Yeah. 00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:25.019 It's kind of, 00:38:25.780 --> 00:38:28.039 God knows all the sparrows 00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:29.099 and how much more about it. 00:38:29.099 --> 00:38:29.639 Right, right. 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:29.940 Yeah. 00:38:29.940 --> 00:38:30.199 Yeah. 00:38:31.780 --> 00:38:32.280 Sparrows, 00:38:32.420 --> 00:38:32.760 stars, 00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:33.140 yeah, 00:38:33.220 --> 00:38:33.480 whatever. 00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:34.580 Yeah. 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:36.560 Yeah. 00:38:38.060 --> 00:38:38.320 Yeah. 00:38:42.160 --> 00:38:43.160 There was something 00:38:43.160 --> 00:38:44.040 just encouraging, 00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:44.480 going, 00:38:44.580 --> 00:38:45.680 that everyone in this room 00:38:45.680 --> 00:38:46.800 was praying to God, 00:38:47.100 --> 00:38:48.240 as I was. 00:38:49.560 --> 00:38:51.280 The Lord builds up Jerusalem, 00:38:51.500 --> 00:38:52.360 He builds up His church. 00:38:52.420 --> 00:38:52.840 Yeah. 00:38:53.080 --> 00:38:53.600 And, 00:38:53.600 --> 00:38:55.580 we're being built up. 00:38:56.580 --> 00:38:57.080 Yeah. 00:38:57.180 --> 00:38:58.000 In real time, 00:38:58.200 --> 00:39:00.060 as we meditate together 00:39:00.060 --> 00:39:00.900 on God's Word. 00:39:01.100 --> 00:39:01.380 Yeah. 00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:02.580 Yeah. 00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:06.300 I spent most of the time 00:39:06.300 --> 00:39:08.360 in the third stanza there. 00:39:11.860 --> 00:39:12.260 So, 00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:13.240 He strengthens the bars 00:39:13.240 --> 00:39:13.800 of your gates. 00:39:13.860 --> 00:39:14.660 I was thinking about 00:39:14.660 --> 00:39:16.200 His protection over the church 00:39:16.200 --> 00:39:16.960 and, 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:18.820 and that He would strengthen 00:39:18.820 --> 00:39:19.360 the bars 00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:20.600 and keep out evil. 00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:23.079 and then, 00:39:23.139 --> 00:39:24.239 He blesses your children. 00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:25.279 I prayed for the kids 00:39:25.279 --> 00:39:26.559 right now in Sunday school. 00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:27.119 And, 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:28.739 you know, 00:39:28.759 --> 00:39:29.819 I don't always think of that. 00:39:30.059 --> 00:39:30.259 Right? 00:39:30.819 --> 00:39:31.099 And, 00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:33.519 and then when 00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:36.199 He sends out His command 00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:36.759 to the earth, 00:39:36.839 --> 00:39:38.259 His word runs swiftly. 00:39:38.260 --> 00:39:41.500 I just started praying about the gospel 00:39:41.500 --> 00:39:44.240 going forth into places 00:39:44.240 --> 00:39:45.560 where it's not heard, 00:39:46.060 --> 00:39:48.060 where there's no Christian witness, 00:39:48.420 --> 00:39:51.860 where people don't have the scriptures 00:39:51.860 --> 00:39:53.580 in their heart language. 00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:56.540 And I don't remember the last time 00:39:56.540 --> 00:39:59.380 I prayed like that for unreached people 00:39:59.380 --> 00:40:00.560 in that way. 00:40:00.940 --> 00:40:01.160 Now, 00:40:01.160 --> 00:40:03.140 I didn't have a specific place, 00:40:03.139 --> 00:40:03.339 but, 00:40:03.639 --> 00:40:04.179 you know, 00:40:04.219 --> 00:40:04.920 all those prayers, 00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:05.599 God hears 00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:06.920 and He knows what to do with them. 00:40:08.699 --> 00:40:09.179 And, 00:40:09.339 --> 00:40:12.000 and that's what I love about this 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:13.400 is just that it opens up 00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:14.960 my range of 00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:17.279 regular praying 00:40:17.279 --> 00:40:19.139 far beyond 00:40:19.139 --> 00:40:21.099 my own little circle. 00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:25.279 And it makes, 00:40:25.619 --> 00:40:26.400 makes my, 00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:28.339 my prayers much more God-centered 00:40:28.339 --> 00:40:31.179 because the scriptures are God-centered, 00:40:31.319 --> 00:40:31.420 right? 00:40:31.420 --> 00:40:32.299 It's about God 00:40:32.299 --> 00:40:32.739 and it's, 00:40:32.739 --> 00:40:34.119 and it lifts our eyes 00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:34.839 to see 00:40:34.839 --> 00:40:37.699 how great He is 00:40:37.699 --> 00:40:39.079 and how much He loves us 00:40:39.079 --> 00:40:39.979 and all these kinds of things 00:40:39.979 --> 00:40:40.679 we've been sharing. 00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:41.539 You know, 00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:42.879 they're all about that, 00:40:42.979 --> 00:40:43.099 right? 00:40:43.139 --> 00:40:44.399 They're about who God is 00:40:44.399 --> 00:40:45.099 and therefore 00:40:45.099 --> 00:40:47.159 how He cares for us 00:40:47.159 --> 00:40:48.739 and how He loves us. 00:40:55.579 --> 00:40:56.059 So, 00:40:56.219 --> 00:40:56.979 let me just see. 00:40:59.579 --> 00:41:00.679 How about distraction? 00:41:00.899 --> 00:41:01.139 Was it, 00:41:01.139 --> 00:41:01.799 was it hard? 00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:03.000 Were you distracted? 00:41:03.580 --> 00:41:03.840 I mean, 00:41:03.900 --> 00:41:04.039 it's, 00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:05.400 it's weird in a room like this, 00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:06.200 I have to say, 00:41:06.220 --> 00:41:06.820 I was distracted. 00:41:07.560 --> 00:41:07.740 But, 00:41:07.740 --> 00:41:08.500 um, 00:41:10.420 --> 00:41:11.380 I think this was the first 00:41:11.380 --> 00:41:12.780 when I wasn't distracted. 00:41:14.380 --> 00:41:16.340 But I usually don't get this quiet 00:41:16.340 --> 00:41:17.060 at the time. 00:41:17.120 --> 00:41:17.539 Yeah. 00:41:18.900 --> 00:41:19.260 Yeah. 00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:20.720 Yeah. 00:41:22.300 --> 00:41:22.700 Yeah. 00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:23.780 Yeah. 00:41:24.900 --> 00:41:25.300 Yeah. 00:41:25.300 --> 00:41:49.320 you know, 00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:50.440 if your mind wanders 00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:51.560 somewhere in the middle of it, 00:41:51.559 --> 00:41:55.559 you have something to go back to. You have an anchor 00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:58.239 in the text that you're praying. 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:03.539 If your prayers have gone far afield from this, it doesn't matter. 00:42:04.539 --> 00:42:08.000 You're praying, and that's fine. 00:42:08.739 --> 00:42:12.460 But when it starts being about, you're starting to think about 00:42:12.460 --> 00:42:15.980 what you're making for dinner this week, then you go, 00:42:15.980 --> 00:42:20.239 oh, wait, but I can come back. And you can pull yourself back much more easily, I think. 00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:26.820 When you have something in front of you. So I think it's easier to get back on track. 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.820 As well as, I don't get as distracted when I pray this way. 00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:33.960 Two things about distraction. 00:42:34.340 --> 00:42:38.500 I've found writing my prayers can help me stay focused. 00:42:40.619 --> 00:42:43.900 More so than anything else I've done so far. 00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:47.799 The other thing, too, about anchoring it to this is 00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:52.440 if you're in a situation where you're going to get pulled away. 00:42:52.680 --> 00:42:55.900 Like, you don't, like, well, I've got time to pray, but, you know, 00:42:55.980 --> 00:42:58.160 two minutes later, baby Christ, you're going to take me away. 00:42:58.700 --> 00:43:01.560 You know, this gives you something to go back to 00:43:01.560 --> 00:43:05.519 once you're taking care of whatever issues crop up. 00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:06.920 Yep. Yep. 00:43:08.500 --> 00:43:08.940 Yep. 00:43:09.160 --> 00:43:13.660 It'll also put, you know, it may just lock a phrase into your head 00:43:13.659 --> 00:43:17.059 that you can carry with you throughout the day. 00:43:18.859 --> 00:43:19.299 Yeah. 00:43:19.759 --> 00:43:20.000 Yeah. 00:43:20.339 --> 00:43:21.980 So it's been helpful to me. 00:43:22.219 --> 00:43:24.379 In the morning, I also get very distracted. 00:43:25.059 --> 00:43:28.639 So I'll just keep a to-do list, like, by my Bible, in my Bible, 00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:30.659 and as it comes to mind, I'll just write it down, 00:43:30.739 --> 00:43:31.980 and then I'll go back to praying. 00:43:32.139 --> 00:43:32.359 Yep. 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:35.460 And that way I don't feel like I have to remember, like, 00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:37.920 oh, I have to get my son new shoes or whatever. 00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:38.699 Right, right. 00:43:38.699 --> 00:43:40.460 Because it's written down and it's done. 00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:40.859 Yeah. 00:43:41.179 --> 00:43:41.399 Yep. 00:43:41.899 --> 00:43:43.019 Yeah, that can work. 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.859 Unless it then becomes a, oh, I'm thinking a to-do list. 00:43:46.859 --> 00:43:48.259 Which is what happens to me. 00:43:48.439 --> 00:43:48.699 Yeah. 00:43:48.819 --> 00:43:52.239 So I'm just like, oh, what else do I need to write down for today? 00:43:52.339 --> 00:43:52.519 Yeah. 00:43:52.939 --> 00:43:53.159 Yeah. 00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:56.500 So, yeah, I mean, different things, 00:43:56.699 --> 00:43:58.119 and try whatever works. 00:43:59.359 --> 00:43:59.719 Yeah. 00:43:59.719 --> 00:43:59.779 Yeah. 00:43:59.780 --> 00:44:08.080 The simplicity of the Samba Dei method, like, helps me. 00:44:08.180 --> 00:44:10.440 Because if I have too much structure, I freak out. 00:44:10.740 --> 00:44:11.080 Uh-huh. 00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:15.960 Like, ah, there's no way I can keep up with this reading plan. 00:44:16.060 --> 00:44:16.740 There's too much. 00:44:16.940 --> 00:44:17.240 Yeah, yeah. 00:44:17.460 --> 00:44:20.640 Oh, I'm not holy enough, and, oh, George Mueller's so much better than me. 00:44:20.780 --> 00:44:21.980 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:44:22.980 --> 00:44:28.260 And then, but if it's too little structure, then it's like, well, what do I do? 00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:28.519 Yeah. 00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:31.960 I guess I'll just read the next chapter from the last thing I read. 00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:32.460 Right. 00:44:32.460 --> 00:44:38.820 And I'll just kind of, you know, it's nice when it's like, what's today? 00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:44.820 Okay, 27, okay, okay, I can have some choices, but not too much choice. 00:44:45.099 --> 00:44:46.000 Right, right. 00:44:46.179 --> 00:44:52.699 And so it frees my mind from spiritual performance anxiety, I guess. 00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:53.519 Sure, yeah. 00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:58.340 Like, as if anyone else is watching, I don't know who I'm performing. 00:44:58.340 --> 00:44:59.079 Yeah. 00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:04.380 I guess I have this idea sometimes that God will not be pleased, but then that's ridiculous. 00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:05.519 Right. 00:45:06.380 --> 00:45:07.620 But I think we've all been there. 00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:09.559 So, yeah. 00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:10.559 Yeah. 00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:13.039 So, this is, that's what I have for today. 00:45:13.420 --> 00:45:14.920 We have a few more minutes. 00:45:15.420 --> 00:45:22.000 If there's any other, any questions about today or about any of the other weeks or comments 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:27.539 or anything, I'd be happy to hear. 00:45:27.619 --> 00:45:27.960 Thank you, Gloria. 00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:29.420 You're welcome. 00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:41.780 All right, I'll ask a question. 00:45:42.019 --> 00:45:42.199 Okay. 00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:50.679 Just to be back with anybody who's raised children, what are some good healthy ways to help start helping children to incorporate stuff, 00:45:50.779 --> 00:45:55.939 especially kids who are outside-the-box thinkers maybe and aren't going to be a little linear and enjoy journaling like that? 00:45:56.939 --> 00:46:03.539 I love being like type A and having my fancy pens and paper, but for kids and just outside-the-box thinkers that aren't kids, 00:46:03.599 --> 00:46:10.439 what are some tips or things you found helpful to create general structure that would be meaningful and possibly lead them in good habits? 00:46:12.199 --> 00:46:14.639 That's a great question. I don't have any answer. 00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:16.939 Did I wait for the bus in the morning? 00:46:17.619 --> 00:46:19.000 No, I'm on the bus. 00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:19.779 Okay. 00:46:21.339 --> 00:46:28.480 One thing I need to do again, I have the Dwell Bible app, and we watched one of those really great sight and sound plays about Esther, 00:46:28.639 --> 00:46:31.219 and so I put on Esther with a message, so it was very conversational. 00:46:31.219 --> 00:46:37.039 I listened to Esther for like a week, and that was actually pretty cool because it was very plot-driven and like, dude, this is messed up. 00:46:37.139 --> 00:46:37.980 Like, they were really getting that. 00:46:37.980 --> 00:46:43.920 So I need to like, that's actually a good way to get into like, using the message version out loud can be helpful. 00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:44.320 Mm-hmm. 00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:44.699 Mm-hmm. 00:46:45.780 --> 00:46:46.039 Yeah. 00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:47.039 Yeah. 00:46:47.980 --> 00:46:48.340 Yeah. 00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:51.960 I think sometimes just doing it with them. 00:46:55.199 --> 00:46:55.599 Yeah. 00:46:56.179 --> 00:46:57.719 And them seeing you do it. 00:46:58.219 --> 00:46:58.659 Yeah. 00:46:58.659 --> 00:47:28.639 Mm-hmm. 00:47:28.659 --> 00:47:29.099 Yeah. 00:47:29.899 --> 00:47:33.000 We're taking turns praying at the end of time. 00:47:33.319 --> 00:47:34.579 It doesn't always have to be bad. 00:47:34.940 --> 00:47:35.219 Yeah. 00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:36.319 Yeah. 00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:42.440 I was like, one thing, so I'm like my third kid, but like, I remember like desperately being quiet times when I had two under two, 00:47:42.579 --> 00:47:47.940 and I would be like, Drew time and one time Bible time, and I was really like, I desperately need this to be quiet. 00:47:47.940 --> 00:47:48.019 Yeah. 00:47:48.380 --> 00:47:52.960 And I've loosened up a lot, and so now like, I just do my quiet time in the morning. 00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:54.920 I get interrupted 50 times between everybody. 00:47:55.059 --> 00:47:55.320 Yeah. 00:47:55.460 --> 00:47:58.559 But you know, it's also, John came and sat in my lap, and he's like, why are you coloring your Bible? 00:47:58.860 --> 00:48:00.220 And can I color your Bible? 00:48:00.340 --> 00:48:02.220 I was like, all right, you can color these lines green. 00:48:02.340 --> 00:48:02.900 What does this mean? 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:04.659 Well, green means this is wisdom stuff. 00:48:04.659 --> 00:48:08.500 So like, I feel like, it's nice to see that, I have improved. 00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:11.579 It's like, wow, I wish I could have done this, you know, 10 years ago and had two under two. 00:48:11.659 --> 00:48:12.339 That would have been great. 00:48:12.519 --> 00:48:12.659 Yeah. 00:48:12.659 --> 00:48:13.779 Probably growing up kids, but. 00:48:15.879 --> 00:48:19.279 But yeah, I've had to kind of let go of like, quiet time is not to be quiet. 00:48:20.940 --> 00:48:21.179 Yeah. 00:48:21.259 --> 00:48:23.699 You can teach them to respect it, and I'm like, hey, I'm going to have quiet time. 00:48:23.779 --> 00:48:25.099 Can you guys go wrestle in the basement maybe? 00:48:25.219 --> 00:48:25.599 Like, you know. 00:48:26.699 --> 00:48:28.719 We try to, you know, and it's still a mess. 00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:29.679 Yeah. 00:48:29.980 --> 00:48:30.139 Yeah. 00:48:30.299 --> 00:48:30.519 Debbie. 00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:33.059 I used to sometimes say, I'm talking to God. 00:48:33.179 --> 00:48:34.679 How dare you interrupt me? 00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:42.039 What did they do when you said that? 00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:43.199 Didn't mean a whole lot to that. 00:48:47.819 --> 00:48:49.559 Now I'm talking to God about you. 00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:50.559 Yeah. 00:48:58.380 --> 00:49:00.380 There's clearly no magic formulas, Callie. 00:49:00.460 --> 00:49:00.679 Sorry. 00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:00.980 Yeah. 00:49:01.340 --> 00:49:01.739 Yeah. 00:49:03.739 --> 00:49:03.860 Yeah. 00:49:04.259 --> 00:49:04.579 Sorry. 00:49:04.699 --> 00:49:04.820 Back. 00:49:04.820 --> 00:49:09.259 There are some fun memorization apps for devices. 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:16.739 And there's strategies to help you remember, like, you read the verse through, and then the 00:49:16.739 --> 00:49:18.699 next time it leaves some words out. 00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:27.039 And, yeah, there's different apps, and it's a great way of, it's a great tool for memorizing 00:49:27.039 --> 00:49:27.639 scriptures. 00:49:27.919 --> 00:49:28.139 Mm-hmm. 00:49:28.319 --> 00:49:28.599 Mm-hmm. 00:49:29.219 --> 00:49:30.500 Might be for some people. 00:49:31.179 --> 00:49:31.619 Yeah. 00:49:31.859 --> 00:49:32.039 Yeah. 00:49:33.319 --> 00:49:33.799 Yeah. 00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:35.559 Yeah. 00:49:35.559 --> 00:49:35.619 Yeah. 00:49:35.899 --> 00:49:39.639 So my son's only two, so take this, but all the salt. 00:49:40.379 --> 00:49:44.579 But it's actually been really encouraging to listen to Christian music in the car with him. 00:49:44.759 --> 00:49:45.139 Mm-hmm. 00:49:45.139 --> 00:49:50.799 Because then during the day when he's just playing trains or cars, I can hear the melody. 00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:51.839 Yeah. 00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:57.539 He's absorbing something, you know, even though we're just in the car, which is dead time, 00:49:57.619 --> 00:49:57.960 really. 00:49:58.139 --> 00:49:59.159 We can redeem it a little bit. 00:49:59.219 --> 00:49:59.519 Yeah. 00:49:59.759 --> 00:50:04.139 And I find myself singing in the car, too, without even teaching, you know. 00:50:04.219 --> 00:50:04.379 Yep. 00:50:04.379 --> 00:50:07.279 And if you're a model for him, like, hopefully he catches something. 00:50:07.339 --> 00:50:07.599 Yep. 00:50:07.879 --> 00:50:08.000 Yeah. 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:13.759 And so starting young, too, because you don't really know how much they're catching or how, 00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:14.320 mm-hmm. 00:50:14.460 --> 00:50:18.540 Like, he's singing, like, melodies to hymns that I didn't even know he was paying attention 00:50:18.540 --> 00:50:18.880 to. 00:50:19.020 --> 00:50:19.240 Yep. 00:50:19.240 --> 00:50:19.420 Yep. 00:50:19.420 --> 00:50:20.640 So it's encouraging. 00:50:21.040 --> 00:50:21.280 Yeah. 00:50:21.540 --> 00:50:21.740 Yeah. 00:50:22.160 --> 00:50:25.160 They pay attention to a lot that we don't think they're paying any attention. 00:50:25.420 --> 00:50:25.580 Yeah. 00:50:26.500 --> 00:50:26.940 Yeah. 00:50:27.220 --> 00:50:29.280 Which is good and bad, but yeah. 00:50:29.740 --> 00:50:29.900 Yeah. 00:50:29.900 --> 00:50:30.220 Yeah. 00:50:30.220 --> 00:50:31.220 Yeah. 00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:33.360 Yeah. 00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:36.320 Good. 00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:37.539 Oh, Matt, sorry. 00:50:37.539 --> 00:50:42.740 Have you talked about Carson's book, Praying with Paul? 00:50:43.460 --> 00:50:44.579 Oh, excellent book. 00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:46.140 It's a great book. 00:50:46.220 --> 00:50:46.860 I haven't. 00:50:47.160 --> 00:50:47.599 That's okay. 00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:48.800 But, yeah. 00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:50.360 It's hard to be what you said earlier. 00:50:50.680 --> 00:50:50.940 Yes. 00:50:50.940 --> 00:50:55.340 Like, if you're looking for a book to think about how to grow in prayers, it's a book by 00:50:55.340 --> 00:51:01.120 D.A. Carson called Praying with Paul that walks you through all the prayers in the epistles. 00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:08.579 And it changed my prayer life because it gave me the freedom to say it's okay to pray these 00:51:08.579 --> 00:51:16.639 spiritual principles, these spiritual things that Paul prayed for these churches as the 00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:18.319 primary things at one level. 00:51:18.539 --> 00:51:18.679 Yeah. 00:51:18.759 --> 00:51:19.679 As a focal point. 00:51:19.779 --> 00:51:19.920 Yep. 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:23.539 You know, his subtitle is The Priority of Paul in His Prayers. 00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:23.940 Yeah. 00:51:24.179 --> 00:51:24.579 Yeah. 00:51:24.579 --> 00:51:30.400 You know, he does not pray for practical situations, but he doesn't pray very much for 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:37.099 them related, you know, compared to praying for their growth in the gospel, their love for 00:51:37.099 --> 00:51:43.360 one another, their, you know, conviction of sin, their, you know, continuing in perseverance 00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:44.539 and that sort of thing. 00:51:45.099 --> 00:51:48.299 So, so just shifting gears from kids to adults. 00:51:48.299 --> 00:51:48.759 Yeah, yeah. 00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:54.400 That's just a great book to read and was very helpful in teaching me how to pray through 00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:57.360 the scriptures in a particular way. 00:51:57.560 --> 00:51:57.780 Yeah. 00:51:58.100 --> 00:51:59.120 No, it's a good one. 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:01.300 Is it in the book store? 00:52:02.260 --> 00:52:03.280 It should be. 00:52:03.380 --> 00:52:04.380 I'm not exactly sure. 00:52:04.680 --> 00:52:08.340 We haven't, I haven't ordered books in a while, but I'm pretty sure it is. 00:52:09.240 --> 00:52:13.460 Shameless book for the women at work Bible study group. 00:52:13.580 --> 00:52:14.800 We're doing that book at the moment. 00:52:15.220 --> 00:52:15.760 Oh, for real? 00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:21.820 The first time I went through that book, I went, oh, I didn't know what I learned. 00:52:26.340 --> 00:52:26.740 Yeah. 00:52:29.060 --> 00:52:29.420 Yeah. 00:52:29.740 --> 00:52:32.860 So the other side of your hand, oh, geez, they're backwards. 00:52:33.220 --> 00:52:39.460 Anyway, there's like nothing there, but Donald Whitney does have a, I meant to bring it. 00:52:39.660 --> 00:52:42.480 It's just a little book, Praying the Bible. 00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:46.240 It will say pretty much what I have already said. 00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:53.440 But if you, you know, if you want to look back on it or anything, and that's, yeah. 00:52:54.780 --> 00:52:55.179 Yeah. 00:52:55.300 --> 00:52:56.519 So thank you very much. 00:52:56.639 --> 00:53:06.139 I want to say again that I relied heavily on Dr. Whitney's material, and it was really helpful 00:53:06.139 --> 00:53:12.859 for me, and I just, I want to give him credit for a fair amount of this, and just the way 00:53:12.859 --> 00:53:16.699 that, the way he taught it was really helpful for me. 00:53:16.699 --> 00:53:20.119 So I want to give credit where credit's due. 00:53:20.899 --> 00:53:24.939 And thank you for your attention, and it's been really great, and I appreciate all your 00:53:24.939 --> 00:53:26.739 responsiveness. 00:53:26.960 --> 00:53:27.759 It's been really wonderful. 00:53:28.099 --> 00:53:28.839 So thank you. 00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:30.420 Thank you. 00:53:30.420 --> 00:54:00.400 Thank you.