Daily Bites Of God's Word - Part 17 - Psalm 119:17

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Daily Bites Of God's Word - Part 18 - Psalm 119:18

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Hello and welcome back to Daily Bites God's Word.

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This is Andy Cain and it's a joy to be back with you once again. Today we're looking at Psalm 119 verse 17.

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Verse 17 says, deal bountifully with your slave or servant that I may live and keep your word.

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David wants this bountiful dealings from God. He wants to have long life.

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He wants to be healthy. He wants to be able and have ability and have a way to thrive here.

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And he knows that ultimately the goal to use our bodies in a healthy way in the way in which we are meant to is to bring glory to God by living and keeping his word.

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We are not in so many, we see so many different ways that Christianity is expressed where people are saying, well, you know,

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I claim my healing. I claim my miracle. And it, a lot of times it's very self -centered.

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We either just don't want what's coming to us or some disease or something like that. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to be free from these things.

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Paul certainly prayed for his thorn in the flesh to be removed, but he ultimately realized that God's power is perfected in our weakness, our human frailty.

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So when he says, I want to be dealt bountifully with the servant that I am. I want you to have a way in which you deal with me,

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Lord, where I am able to maximize the way I live and keep your word.

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That is the goal of every Christian. That is the goal of every church. We want to make sure that we are living and keeping the word of God.

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We need to love it in such a way where we see our entire life, our bodies, our money, our possessions, everything that we have, everything that we are is by the grace of God's.

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We want to use it for God's glory. We should want to be healthy so that we can live and keep the word of God.

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What is your focus today? What is your focus in general? What is your focus as you live your life?

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Is it self -centered? Is it man -centered? Are you more worried about what

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God can do for you or what you can do for God? Do you want

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God to deal bountifully with you so that you can live and keep his word or so that you can have it your way right away at Burger King now?

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Amen? Well, I trust that your goal is to live and keep the word of God and love it the same way the psalmist did here.