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This is your daily reminder. God has not run

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out of mercy, not for you, not today. Welcome

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to the New Mercies Podcast. Welcome today, Saturday,

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March the 21st. Thank you for finding us. Like,

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subscribe, follow, all the things. If you want

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to donate, link in the description. There you

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go. That's our intro. Psalm 103 is our reading

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today. This is our bonus day since it is a Saturday.

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This is just a little extra reading for you if

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you are interested in diving in a little bit

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to a psalm, a time in the Word where you get

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to hear a little bit more of where we worship

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the Lord. I love Psalm 103. It's David's day.

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David wrote this psalm. It's his hallelujah chorus.

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Now what that means is, here's the deal. I want

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to encourage you in this. If you are ever feeling

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down, If you're ever feeling like it's just hard

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to worship, go read Psalm 103. It is a chorus

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that you see yourself, you see the Lord, you

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see who he is, what he's done. I like to think

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of this psalm broken up in three ways. The first

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part of it is Jesus, God's man. Then we see God's

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mercy, and then we see God's might right there

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at the end. It is a powerful psalm. It is what's

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called an envelope psalm or an envelope psalm,

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depending on how you say that word. What that

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means is it starts and it ends in the exact same

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way. Why? Because as you get through it to the

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end, you can start right back over again. It

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begins with one of the greatest phrases in the

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Scripture, Bless the Lord, O my soul. It ends

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with a phrase, Bless the Lord, O my soul. There

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is so many blessings found within this psalm.

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As David's writing it, yes, he is writing from

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a situation and circumstances that he's celebrating.

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He's experienced God in a great way. But here's

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what it does for us. It points us to a time where

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we can now look back at Christ and see what he's

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done for us. We can see how he has taken over

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and loved us so much and his steadfast love just

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constantly endures. I just want to read a little

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bit of this psalm to you today, just kind of

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sporadically throughout to give you a little

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bit of encouragement, give you a little bit of

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a reason to shout today, a reason to lift. your

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voice, a reason to praise him today. If you're

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looking for ways to praise the Lord, he's got

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to be there, right? I've said before that worship

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happens when he shows up or whenever we recognize

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that he's there. As soon as we recognize him,

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worship flows. That's what David is trying to

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help us see in his hallelujah chorus within this

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psalm. Listen to a couple of these verses. Verse

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number two says, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and

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forget not all his benefits, who forgives all

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your iniquity and who heals all your diseases,

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who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns

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you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies

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you with good so that your youth is renewed like

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the eagles. You can stop right there. You can

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read those three verses, four verses over and

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over and over again. He has blessed you. He has

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given you a hope. He has renewed you. He's restored

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you. The words that are in that text are so beautiful.

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He forgets not all his benefits, who forgives

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you, who heals you, who redeems you, who crowns

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you. It is so good to think about this God that

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does all of that for us. I want to encourage

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you today. Read Psalm 103. Short episode today,

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real short. But here's why. Because I want you

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to read this text, jump into it, and just start

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to write out the things that he's done for you.

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Start to remember and recall the things in your

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life that he has done for you. I promise you

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this. If you read this over and over and over

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again, you will find a hallelujah that may be

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deep inside your heart that you didn't even realize

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you had. deep sense of praise and of worship

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because this God is so, so good and he loves

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you so, so much. He points us to Christ. He points

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us to his perfect plan. He points to how strong

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he is, how mighty he is. I want to encourage

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you today. Get soaked up in Psalm 103.