#44 - Psalm 37 (NASB) | Trusting God When You Want to Fix Everything

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Welcome to Mind and Faith Matters. I'm Dr. Cory

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Potter, the host, and I wanted to take a different

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approach today. A lot of times I'm sharing scripture

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and maybe giving you an interpretation. Today

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I wanted to start with me and somewhat of a confession.

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Sometimes, because I find myself to be a thinker,

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I actually think a little too much about how

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this should happen, when this should happen.

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how I should make things happen because I might

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be a type A personality and in that I'm learning

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in my life that I want to respond more than I

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want to have these quick spurts of I feel this

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way and I should solve it because I feel that

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way. And so this reading comes from my challenge

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to myself to wait on the Lord more than I do.

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And I've had other episodes last season about

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how it's so difficult to be still before God.

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And then techniques for understanding what it

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looks like to slow yourself and quiet yourself

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and listen for the voice of God. So when I read

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Psalm 37 today, I want you to think about how

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patient are you? So here it goes. Commit your

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way to the Lord. Trust also in him and he will

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do it. He will bring forth your righteousness

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as the light and your judgment as the noonday.

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Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him.

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Do not fret because of him who prospers in his

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way, because of the man who carries out wicked

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schemes. Cease from anger. forsake wrath do not

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fret it leads only to evil doing for evildoers

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will be cut off but those who wait for the Lord

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they will inherit the land yet a little while

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and the wicked man will be no more and you will

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look carefully for his place and he will not

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be there but the humble will inherit the land

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and will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

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The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes

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at him with his teeth. The Lord laughs at him,

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for he sees his day is coming. The wicked have

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drawn the sword and bent their bow to cast down

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the afflicted and the needy, to slay those who

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are upright in conduct. Their sword will enter

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their own heart, and their bows will be broken.

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Better is the little of the righteous than the

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abundance of many wicked. For the arms of the

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wicked will be broken, but the Lord sustains

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the righteous. The Lord knows the day of the

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blameless, and their inheritance will be forever.

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They will not be ashamed in the time of evil.

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and in the days of famine they will have abundance

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but the wicked will perish and the enemies of

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the Lord will be like the glory of the pasture

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they vanish like smoke they vanish away the wicked

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borrows and does not pay back but the righteous

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is gracious and gives for those blessed by him

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will inherit the land but those cursed by him

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will be cut off The steps of a man are established

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by the Lord, and he delights in his way. When

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he falls, he will not be hurled headlong, because

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the Lord is the one who holds his hand. I have

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been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen

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the righteous forsaken, or his descendants begging

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bread. All day long he is gracious and lends.

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and his descendants are a blessing. Depart from

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evil and do good, so you will abide forever.

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For the Lord loves justice and does not forsake

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his godly ones. They are preserved forever, but

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the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.

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The righteous will inherit the land and dwell

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in it forever. The mouth of the righteous utters

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wisdom. and his tongue speaks justice. The law

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of his God is in his heart. His steps do not

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slip. The wicked spies upon the righteous and

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seeks to kill him. The Lord will not leave him

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in his hand or let him be condemned when he is

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judged. Wait for the Lord and keep his way and

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he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the

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wicked are cut off, you will see it I have seen

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a wicked violent man spreading himself like a

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luxuriant tree in its native soil then he passed

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away and lo he was no more I sought for him but

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he could not be found mark the blameless man

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and behold the upright for the man of peace will

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have a prosperity For the man of peace will have

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a posterity, but transgressors will be altogether

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destroyed. The posterity of the wicked will be

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cut off, but the salvation of the righteous is

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from the Lord. He is their strength in time of

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trouble. The Lord helps them and delivers them.

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He delivers them from the wicked and saves them

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because they take refuge in him. Thank you for

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joining me today for this very brief reading

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of Psalm 37 verses 1 through 40 in the NASB or

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the New American Standard Bible. I want you to

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know that I'll be back to some more reflective

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Mind and Faith Matters episodes next week, but

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I hope you're blessed by the reading of God's

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Word today. Until next time, God bless.