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This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson, I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.

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And you're receiving this message because you opted in to be encouraged.

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Today's verse, Psalms 33 and 8. It says,

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Let all the earth fear the Lord, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

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This is sort of a prayer when you think about it. It's not specifically prayed to God, but it's like a prayer out into the air to say,

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Everyone should do this. This makes sense, hearkening back to the power that God displayed at the creation, the cross and in the lives of believers aplenty.

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Has his willingness to die for his people altered their recognition of his power and the need to fear him?

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I can, we can trust him. People choose to trust him only enough to not fear him, and not actually enough to have him as a helper,

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which leaves them susceptible to the yearnings without the blessings of his return.

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Well, that sounds like foolishness. I say we trust him with our today, with our yesterday, with our tomorrow, with our eternity.

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He was big enough and powerful enough to make everything. He was big enough and powerful enough to part the Red Sea,

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to part the Jordan, to protect the Israelites into the promised land, to preserve his legacy,

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to make the Bible transition through to thousands of years later, to cause Jesus to die on the cross.

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Miracle upon miracles, and here we are in all creation testifying, we can trust him.

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In fact, let all the people of the earth fear the Lord, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.