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April 6, 2025 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today we will finish reading the Psalms! We will learn that treating God as the most important one in our life is the beginning of wisdom. We will read about waiting for God more than a guard hopes for the morning. We will describe the contentment in our soul as being like a well-fed baby with its mama. We will be reminded to let our eternal God be our helper and look to HIM, not to leaders, who will one day die. We will end our reading in the Psalms by clapping our hands with joy and singing a song of praise to God, the Lord Most High!
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Introduction and Session Overview
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there everybody Today is Sunday, April 6th, 2025, and you are here with Robin at In the Family Way Coaching. We're here for our daily Bible reading. We are reading through the whole Bible this year using the Day by Day Kids Bible that's been written by Karen Henley.
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If you are just finding this event, don't be discouraged that it's a kid's Bible. This is simply a very easy to understand Bible that's written in storybook form, and it's in chronological order, so we can see the whole big story of God's love for us from Genesis all the way through Revelation.
Encouragement for Daily Reading
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We have been keeping track of our daily reading with our calendar. So if you have one of those calendars, go ahead and get that out and get that sticker ready or however else you're marking off your days because you're about to hear the Bible today.
00:00:54
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If you would like your own calendar, head on over to my site. I have one available for you to download for free. You can find that at
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and click on the tab for Read the Bible in One Year, and you will find April's calendar available for you to download there. It doesn't matter how you mark off your days, you can mark your own cross, you can write a happy face or a star, or just a check, or cross out the day, however it is, but this is a great little motivational tool to encourage you to keep going and fill that calendar up every day.
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It doesn't matter if you read it and a couple of them on one day, and here just i skip a couple of days because you simply don't have time. If you heard all of the entries, then you've still read the Bible. You've heard the Bible this year.
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So don't be discouraged if you're thinking, oh, I don't need to mark off the days. I'm not doing this every day. It's not so much that you're here every day. It's that you're listening to every day's reading.
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So I don't want you to be discouraged
Focus on Psalms: Songs and Solomon
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in that. So feel free to head over and pick up that calendar and mark off your days so that you can be encouraged to to listen to every day this month. And soon enough, you'll have listened the whole year.
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We are already a fourth of the way done this year. We are moving right along. So I'm so glad that you are here listening, whether you are using your favorite podcasting app or whether you are following along on video using Spotify or ah YouTube or on TikTok or if you're watching from my site.
00:02:30
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I'm just glad that you're participating in here and I hope that you're enjoying our readings as much as I'm enjoying them. Today we are finishing the last bit of the Psalms. in the set and movie are ah These Psalms are included in a section entitled Songs All kinds of songs.
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That's what it was. And we're going to complete that section of Psalms
Discussion on Psalm 111: Wisdom and Fear of the Lord
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today. And then tomorrow we're going to start in with Solomon and hearing about him. We'll pick up again in our story.
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So let's go ahead and get going today.
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Our first Psalm gives us a little easier way to understand. Some of us may have heard that the beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
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And this words it a different way. So we're going to hear a different way to think about fearing. We've talked a little bit about fearing the Lord, and this gives us a very easy way to understand.
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This is Psalm 11, how to begin to be wise. I don't know anybody who doesn't want to be wise. I will thank God with all my heart. I will praise him with people who do what is right.
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What God does is great and powerful. He is fair and right. He's good and kind. He gives people food to people who trust in him.
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you remember He remembers his promises forever. You can trust his way. God's name is special. It's the best. Treat God as the most important one.
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That's how to begin to be wise. Everyone who obeys God understands. Praise God forever.
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And that's the end of Psalm 111.
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So making God
Insights from Psalms 130 and 131: Hope and Tranquility
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the most important one and treating him as the most important one in your life is how to begin to be wise. So it doesn't matter how old we are.
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We need to treat God as the most important one in our lives. That means not our mom and not our dad, not our brother or sister, not our friends, not ourselves.
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Treat God as the most important one. And that is the beginning of wisdom.
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Our next Psalm is Psalm 130 and it's entitled, More Than the Guard. I cry to you, God. Hear my voice. Be kind to me.
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If you kept track of our sins, no one would be good enough for you. But you forgive, so we look up to you. I wait for God more than the guards wait for the morning.
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Hope in God, because God's love never ends. He can save his people from their sins.
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And that's the end of Psalm 130.
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I wait for God more than the guards wait for the morning. The guards they're talking about is like when they had cities with walls around them and they would have guards posted and they would have guards working at night, even on the ground. They didn't have to be on the wall, but they're the equivalent of police officers.
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And they would walk around all night and their shift would be over when the sunlight came up. And so more than the guards are waiting for the morning for their shift to be over, we wait for God.
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And God's love never ends. So we can hope in him and our hope will not fail.
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Psalm 131 is entitled, Like a Well-Fed Baby, and this is written by David.
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My heart is not proud, God, and I don't worry about things that are too big for me to understand. And I don't worry about things that are too wonderful for me. My soul ah still and quiet, like a well-fed baby with its mama.
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Put your hope in God now and forever.
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That was a short one.
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Has anybody ever seen, i bet you remember, when the baby is warm and cuddly and has a full tummy after they've just finished their milk and they get sleepy and they're happy and they're not crying now because they're full.
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And that is what David is saying his soul is like, it's still and peaceful and content. And that's what it feels like, like a well-fed baby with its mama.
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Our next Psalm is entitled, Do Not Trust Princes.
Psalm 146: Trust in God over Earthly Authorities
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And it's Psalm 146. I love this one. This might be my favorite one today.
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Besides the making God the most important one being the beginning of wisdom. My soul, praise God. I will cheer for him all my life. I will sing praise to him as long as I live.
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Don't trust the leaders of the land to save you. They are only people. When they die, their plans become nothing. But good things come to people who let God be their helper.
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Their hope is in God. He is the one who made heaven and earth and sea. He is the Lord. He always keeps his promises.
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He takes care of people who are not treated right. He gives food to people who are hungry. He helps people who can't see so they're able to see again.
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He lifts up people who feel pushed down by trouble. He loves everyone who does what's right. God watches over strangers.
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He takes care of women who have no husbands. He cares for children who have no fathers. But he gives sinful people trouble. God is king forever.
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Cheer for God!
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and like that one. I like it because we have a tendency to put our trust in those who are in a power ah of authority, who are in positions of authority.
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And that can be police officers, that could be a fireman, that could be the president, that could be a king or a queen. And we think that they are the ones who are gonna protect us and save us from ourselves, keep us safe.
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But they are not the ones who keep us safe. They can make laws that help us, but they're not the ones we should be looking to for our safety for our lives. That's only God.
00:09:48
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If you've been with us for a little while, you may remember reading about Abraham and Sarah. And when Abraham and Sarah were traveling, Abraham asked Sarah to lie so that if anybody was interested in her as his wife, then she was to say that, oh, I'm just with my brother.
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and it was like a partial truth because they were somewhat related they had different mothers that they had the same father i believe it was or different fathers one of the which and In the end, it was God who needed to save Sarah.
00:10:26
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It wasn't Abraham who saved Sarah and kept her safe or kept himself safe. It wasn't Sarah's lie that kept them safe. And it certainly wasn't the king who kept them safe. It was God who saved Sarah each time and kept her marriage safe so that nobody else took her as their wife, their wife.
00:10:47
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as their wife And when we see the battles with all of the many people, and God won battles with just a couple of people, he is the one that we look to to keep us safe, not the leaders.
Celebrating God's Kingship: Psalms 45 and 47
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Psalm 45 is entitled, For the King, a love song by Korah's family. My heart is happy about telling my poems to the king. My voice is like a pen that belongs to a good writer.
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King, you are the best of all men. God will bring good to you forever. Hang your sword by your side and write out for truth and for what is right. Write out and win.
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Let your sharp arrows shoot your enemies. Do wonderful things. Let the nations fall before you. You will be king forever. You will be fair when you rule your kingdom.
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You love what is right and hate what's wrong. So God has made you great. He has let joy flow over you. Your robes smell sweet with perfume.
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Music from beautiful palaces makes you happy. Many princesses are with you. The queen is at your right hand. She's dressed in gold.
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Listen and think about it, princess. Forget about your home far away. The king is so happy with your beauty. Look up to him. People will bring you gifts.
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Rich people will want to meet you. The princess is bright and beautiful in her room. Her gown is made of gold. She is led to the king in her beautiful gown.
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Her friends follow her with joy. They are glad to go to the king's palace. Your sons will grow up to rule many lands. People will remember you.
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All nations will praise you forever.
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I'm not sure that might be written about King David. And we do still talk about King David, don't we?
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He had a heart for God. And he tried to do what was right.
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And so God made him great and he let joy flow over David. David wrote a lot about joy.
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This is our very last Psalm, and this will complete our reading today. Psalm 47, also by Korah's family. Clap your hands, all you people.
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Shout to God with joy. God, the Lord Most High, is wonderful. He's the great King of the earth. He puts other nations under us.
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He chose to give us a good land to live in. We are his people and he loves us. Sing praises to God.
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Sing praises to our king. Sing praises. God is the king of all the earth. Sing a song of praise to him.
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What a happy note to end on today.
Closing: Praise and Upcoming Readings
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Clap our hands, all people, and shout with God to joy. Shout to God with joy. He is our great king of the earth.
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Hallelujah.
00:14:22
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God is king of all the earth. Sing a song of praise to him. Let's all sing a song of praise to God today. No matter where we are at our day, whether we're at the beginning of our day listening to these psalms, or whether you are at the end of your day listening before you head to bed tonight.
00:14:39
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Let's sing a song of praise to God. and if you feel that god has lit your light today then when we're finished watching or listening please click that light button and let's spread the word so that other people can also have the joy of knowing the lord and reading god's word and that they too may feel that god has lit their light Thank you so much for being here with me today, whether you are listening on your favorite podcasting app or watching on your favorite but app.
00:15:09
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I am so glad that you are here and that your light has been lit today, too. I know God lit my light today. We are the light of the world and the salt of the earth. So let's go out from here and sing praises of joy to God wherever we go.
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I will be here with everybody again tomorrow, and we will pick up and read about Solomon tomorrow. Have a great rest of your day today.