#864 – His Mercies Never End (Lamentations 3:19–24)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 21 December 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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God's mercies for you are new every morning. His steadfast love for you never ceases. He is faithful, and even in the midst of tragedy we can hope in Him.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net. |
| 0:05.0 | Lamentations chapter 3 verses 19 through 24 |
| 0:10.0 | Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall. |
| 0:15.0 | My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. |
| 0:19.0 | But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope. The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His |
| 0:29.2 | mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. The |
| 0:39.3 | Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him. |
| 0:47.0 | This is one of the most beautiful passages |
| 0:49.6 | in the Old Testament, |
| 0:51.3 | yet it's written from a place of hurt and longing for hope. |
| 0:59.7 | Like, lamentations, this is a lament over pain and suffering and confusion as the people of God are |
| 1:08.6 | experiencing the effects of sin. Yet in their affliction and their wanderings in the pain and bitterness, |
| 1:18.0 | the wormwood and the gall, |
| 1:20.0 | as their souls are bowed down within them. |
| 1:24.0 | This they call to mine and therefore they have hope. |
| 1:27.0 | What is their hope? |
| 1:29.0 | In the reality that the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases and his mercies never ever ever come |
| 1:39.7 | to an end that the mercies of the Lord are new every single morning and the faithfulness of |
| 1:49.2 | the Lord is sure forever. Oh, I just want to remind you of this, that you might live in this today, |
| 2:00.0 | especially, especially if you are going through affliction or if you have wandered in this |
| 2:08.7 | way or that way or to even just in a hard, painful, even bitter time with your soul, bow down within you? |
| 2:22.3 | I just want to encourage you with this word from God. |
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