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Psalm chapter 18, verse 1.

I love you, oh Lord, my strength.

What a great, simple verse.

Now what is that? Seven words.

I love you, oh, Lord, my strength. Like, memorize that verse today.

I love you, oh, Lord, my strength. I love you, oh Lord, my strength. I love you. And this is the

prayer that just we want to resound from our lips and our hearts.

This is the greatest commandment.

Jesus said, love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and all your strength.

So to cry out, I love you.

Oh, Lord.

And if you look in your Bible, that's L with the small caps, ORD, which whenever you see that in your Bible, you know, that's the Hebrew word, Yahweh, the Lord, the name that he has revealed himself as all over Scripture, as covenant keeping faithful loving god who saves his people

delivers his people i love you oh covenant keeping god faithful god who loves and cares for and

saves your people i love love you, oh Lord, my strength. Oh, the rest of this chapter

just gives a picture of the strength of God. He's called a rock and a fortress and a deliverer

and a refuge and a shield and the horn of salvation. The psalmist is crying

out for help and the earth reels and rocks and the foundations of the mountains tremble and quake.

And it's just this powerful picture. You get down to verse 29 and the psalmist who's David in this instance says,

for by you I can run against a troop and by my God I can leap over a wall. The whole imagery is just

you can't stop God and he is our strength.

Think about it. God, he's all powerful. He's omnipotent. He's sovereign ruler, the one who reigns over everything. His power is unimaginable, inconceivable for us. And this God is our strength. Oh, I love you. Oh, Lord, my strength.

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