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April 5, 2025 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today we will begin reading the section of Psalms entitled All Kinds of Songs. We will read Psalm 20, Psalm 25: 1-14, Psalm 32, Psalm 42, and Psalm 101. We will read about keeping quiet about our sins and how it makes us feel bad inside, but when we confess our sins to God He forgives us and we feel better because the truth sets us free! We will be reminded that there will be times we are sad and even though we may not understand why we are going through tough times we can still trust in God to work good into EVERYTHING that is happening, even if it takes a while to see what that good is. Lastly, we will discuss being careful to avoid situations that can cause us to sin.
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Introduction and Purpose
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Hey everybody, it is April 5th and we are here today with Robin at In the Family Weight Coaching and we're here for our daily Bible reading. Thank you so much for joining me, whether you are following along on your favorite podcasting app or whether you are watching the video somewhere, like from YouTube or on my site or on Spotify. I'm so glad that you're here with me.
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As you know, we are reading through the Bible in one year, and we are using the Day by Day Kids Bible, which is written by Karen Henley.
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It's that time of the day again. If you have your calendar because you are keeping track of your daily commitment, Cleo, I hope you've got your calendar out. You got a sticker ready, Cleo?
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Let's put that sticker on. i know you can do it. Get that sticker on there.
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I have my sticker on and today is Saturday the 5th.
Exploring Selected Psalms
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Well, we are reading in the book of Psalms. Yesterday we finished Songs of Joy. And today we're going to start a new section of Psalms and it's entitled All Kinds of Songs.
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So this is just a collection of all kinds of Psalms. Today we are going to have Psalm 20 and 25, but only part of it, 1 through 14.
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And then Psalm 32 Psalm 42 and then Psalm 101. And most of them were written by David, but not all of them. One of them was written by Korah's family.
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And we have seen that that is another popular author is Korah's family. I don't know anything at all about Chorus Family. I don't think we have any writings about Chorus Family.
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But that is who wrote some of these psalms that we read.
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So our first psalm is entitled Chariots and Horses. And it's Psalm 20, written by David.
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I pray that God will answer you when you are sad. I pray that God will guard you and send you help. I pray that he will remember the worship gifts you give him.
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I pray that God will give you what you wish for. I pray that he will make your plans work out. I pray that we'll shout and be glad when you win.
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i pray that we'll wave our flags in God's name. I pray that God will give you what you ask for.
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God answers his people from heaven and he saves them with his great power. Some people trust in chariots. Some people trust in horses. They will fall.
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But we trust in God. We will stand strong.
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I pray this psalm for everybody here that is listening or watching.
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and our next Psalm is Psalm 25 and it is entitled Good and Right. And this is just part of it is verses one through 14. And it's also been written by David.
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I lift my soul to you, Lord. i trust in you, my God. Don't let sinful people win. People who trust in you will feel good.
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But sinful people won't feel good for anything. Show me the way I should live, Lord God. Lead me and teach me. You give me hope all day long.
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Remember your love for me. Don't remember what I have done wrong. Remember me by how much you love me. Because you are good God.
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Forgive my sins because of who you are. You will teach people who love you how to choose your way You share your plans with people who love you.
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You give them your promises.
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I like that one. That's the end of our reading for Psalm 25, 1 through 14. That one is talking to God.
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Our next Psalm is Psalm 32, and it's called, Not Like a Horse. And it's also written by David.
Confession and Forgiveness: Personal Insights
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People are happy when their sins are forgiven. Their sins are erased. People are happy when God throws away the list of their sins. When I kept quiet about my sins, I felt terrible.
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I cried all day. Day and night, God, you tried to get me to listen. My strength melted away. Like it does on a hot summer day. hey Then i told you about my sins, and didn't hide them.
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I said, i will tell God about my sins. Then you forgave me. So everyone who loves you should pray to you.
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You are like a place for me to hide. You keep me from trouble. You give me songs about how you save me. God says, I will teach you how you should live.
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I will watch over you. Do not be like the horse or mule. It doesn't understand at all. It has to be led by a bit in its mouth.
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It won't move without a harness and long reins.
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People who do bad things have many troubles. But the people who trust God will have God's love around them forever. Everyone who obeys God should be glad.
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Show your joy in God. Sing if your heart is sinless.
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This is an excellent psalm, and this is our main daily application today. When I kept quiet about my sins, I felt terrible.
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How many times have we committed a sin and we've kept it inside and we just felt terrible, like it was just eating away at us. And yet when we finally, finally bring ourselves to bring it to God and confess it, we feel better because we are forgiven.
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Confession is telling the truth. We've spoken a little bit recently about a new idea that I had never realized, and that's that confession is not to say, I'm sorry.
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When we confess our sins, it means to tell the truth. If a policeman asks you to write down your confession of what you did, you don't write down, I'm sorry. You write down what you did.
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And that is what confession is. It's when we tell God the truth. And when we come to God with the truth of what we've love of the what we've done, the truth sets us free and he forgives us.
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This past week, I had the opportunity to ask ah to confess my sins. And I had committed a sin against my husband in an argument.
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And i went to God and I told the truth. And I said, this is what I did. And I heard God tell me forgiven. And it was the most amazing thing because I've never done confession like that before. And and I could feel and I could hear God tell me forgiven. And to know that I was forgiven, mean, I wasn't expecting that word to jump into my mind, but that was how our God speaks to us.
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And it was just amazing. And it it's ah just couldn't hold that in. I had to tell you. It was so applicable to what we are reading here today. When we are faithful to confess our sins, God is faithful to forgive us.
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We have Jesus. He paid the price for our sins. We don't have to do sin offerings anymore. ah Jesus made the one and final sin offering. And that time is coming up in the year where we where we remember what Jesus did over the Passover and over Easter.
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Easter is to celebrate his resurrection.
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It says, so every everyone who loves you should pray to you. And pray that if you have anything that you have done, that you not keep it inside and let it eat at you. Because that's how the enemy gains a foothold.
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Is if he tells you, i can't I can't go to God about this sin. It's terrible. That's not true. That's a lie. And if you are scared, tell God, I am scared.
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And tell him what you are scared about. And he will forgive you.
Longing and Trust in God
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Okay, our next psalm is Psalm 42, and it's called, Like a Deer. And this is the one that's been written by Chorus Family.
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My soul is like a deer that is thirsty for water. My soul is thirsty for the living God. When can I meet with God? My tears are all that I have for food day and night.
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Why are you sad, my soul? Why am I troubled inside? i will trust in God. I will praise Him because He saves me.
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Deep water calls when the waterfall roars. I feel like waves have splashed over me. God sends His love every day, and at night He s sends His song.
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It's a prayer to God. I say to God, Why did you forget me? Why must I go around crying, held back by my enemies?
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My body hurts as my enemies tease me. They say, Where is your God?
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Why are you sad, my soul? Why am I troubled inside? I will trust in God. I will praise him because he saves me.
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So we don't know what exactly was going on with Cora's family when they wrote this psalm. But we do know that they were very sad, and yet despite that sadness, they knew that they could trust in God and go to God because God would save them.
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So Cora's family was going through something. And this is also part of our application today is that it's okay to feel sad. It's okay to not understand what's going on and to not know when God's timing is going to cause things to happen.
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But like this psalm says, I will trust in God. I will praise him because he saves me. And we can trust that no matter what it is that looks bad that it's happening.
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God will work good into it. He is faithful to do that. If you've been with us for a little while, then you read the story, for instance, with Ruth and with Naomi, her mother-in-law.
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And Naomi had was living in a foreign country ah because there was no food in Israel. And she had moved there
Lessons from Naomi and Ruth
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with her husband and their two sons.
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And while she was living there, she lost her husband and her two sons. And her sons were married. So then she had her daughters-in-law, Ruth and another woman.
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And she sent the other woman back to live with their family. And she tried to get Ruth to go. But Ruth said, no, no, i won't I won't stay here with my family. You are my family, and your God will be my God.
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And so they returned to Israel. And there, God had plans for Ruth. But Naomi said, when I left, I was full, and I'm returning empty.
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And she was very sad. But had she not lost her husband and her two sons, then it would not have arisen for the occasion for Boaz to buy or redeem the field that she owned and to also marry Ruth.
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And they would be part of the predecessors of our Savior Jesus.
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So God worked good into everything. And it didn't look like it at the time, as she had lost both her husband and her two sons. But God was working good into everything.
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And we can't always see it. But we have faith that he is doing it. Because we can see by the history that he is faithful to work good into everything.
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Even if we can't see it right now.
Living Uprightly: Psalm 101
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The next psalm is Psalm 101, and it's also by David, and it's called Proud Eyes.
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I will sing about your love, God. i will sing about how fair you are. i will be careful to live a life without sin. I will walk in my house with a sinless heart.
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I won't let my eyes see anything bad. I hate what people do when they don't love you. I won't let them near me. i will stay away from people who sin in their hearts.
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Some people might tell lies about their neighbors, but I will tell those people to be quiet. I will not stay around anyone who has a proud look and a proud heart.
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I will look for people I can trust. I'll let them live with me. No one who lies will live in my house. Every morning I will find all the sinful people.
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I will not let them live in God's city.
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And that's the end of Psalm 101 by King David.
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So he was vowing to rule his country with with right and good and to not let sin rule in the country. He was a very good king.
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This song, this psalm is very good. will sing about your love, God. I will sing about how fair you are. I will be careful to live a life without sin.
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I like how it talks about how he avoids sin because you have to watch out for sin. that Our enemy wants to tempt us with things.
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And it's very easy to be tempted in the world be get um in with people who are saying bad things. And we say, there's a saying that says, ah nothing spreads faster than bad news.
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And when people are gossiping, that's to speak about another person. And it's usually something that you wouldn't want to tell them to their face. So if there is something that you wouldn't want to tell somebody straight to their face, then it's probably something we shouldn't be talking about.
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And i'm so this is talking about avoiding sinful situations, temptation situations, so that we will keep our hearts clean.
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And that's the same thing we have to do today. It's no different today than it was in David's time because we are all still just people. And we have to keep our heart clean because God lives in our hearts.
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He sees all that. He hears all that. And we don't want to be bad company for the Holy Spirit. We don't want to grieve the Holy Spirit. And we've talked a little bit about that this year too, if you've been with us.
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You may have missed that day. But it's not a good idea for us to grieve the Holy Spirit, which means to make the Holy Spirit sad. We want to keep the Holy Spirit happy and do good things.
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And that is the end of our readings today.
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Well, I don't know about you, but I sure feel like i my light was lit today. These Psalms have really done a wonderful job just lighting my light.
Conclusion and Engagement
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i can I can feel it.
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It's just all warm and fuzzy inside. Do you feel warm and fuzzy inside?
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00:17:37
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I would appreciate that. And together we will light up this event so that we can help spread the word about reading God's word. I hope everybody has a great rest of their day and i will be here for everybody again tomorrow.