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Psalm chapter 21 verse six

for you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with the joy of your presence. I want you to

think about that last phrase. You make him glad with the joy of your presence.

Now the Psalm is talking about King David

and how he rejoices in God.

And basically the song is talking about himself, so how God has made him blessed forever and God

makes him the king glad with the joy of God's presence. So I want you to think with me about what does it mean

to be glad with the joy of God's presence? I think about a week ago I came back from some time out of the country close to two weeks

I had been gone so I come back and I see my wife and my kids.

And the only way I can describe when I see them after being gone for close to a couple of weeks

is total joy in each other's presence.

Like I walk out of the airport and there are my kids in the car, they jump out the car they come running up to me give me huge

hugs their joy and my presence my joy and their presence I've missed them so much so I'm just hugging on them and then Heather my wife

is there and she jumps out and she comes and gives me a hug and I'm giving her hug and

I'm just thinking oh joy of being in

one another's presence. Now with that picture just a pure joy you can find in

the presence of someone else, apply Psalm 21 verse 7 to that.

Now apply Psalm 21 verse 6 to our lives and the privilege we experience on a daily basis.

When you rise in the morning, you have, I have the pure joy of spending time in the presence of God with Him.

God.

I'm talking the Creator of the universe, the ruler of all.

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