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Ask Pastor John

A Daily Morning Exercise

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

How can we walk through this world of sin, suffering, and futility with strength and joy? Psalm 90:14 holds the key.

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Yesterday in our navigators Bible reading plan we read Psalm 90 together or maybe you're

0:10.5

catching up with a reading still, that's fine.

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No problem there.

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When you get to it, you'll see why Psalm 90 is the special much beloved Psalm that you,

0:20.7

Pastor John, have referenced in 30 different episodes in this podcast already to answer all sorts of

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listener questions. Psalm 90 is so rich. Sometimes you'll focus your attention on verses 12 or 17 as you approach 80 years old

0:36.4

verse 10 looms more and more on your mind but no verse in Psalm 90 gets more mentions from you than verse 14 and that's just it.

0:45.9

It only gets mentions from you, brief mentions.

0:49.3

Usually simply listed in the text that you string together in a prayer you called I-O-U-S, an acrostic, a one-minute prayer that you

0:59.2

pray before you read the Bible in the morning. You've told us about that prayer in several episodes,

1:04.0

which you can see in that new A-B-J book. If you have that, pages 16 and 17, I put those episodes

1:09.7

together on that I.O-U-S. Acrostic. So you often mentioned but rarely dwell on

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Psalm 90 verse 14. Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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I love that.

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For Christian Heedness, dedicated to the daily discipline of seeking our joy in God,

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this text is so huge. So draw out 10 minutes of insights from what you

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see in this text alone about our daily desire for God.

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Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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Wow.

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There are few things Tony that I love to do more than to take a Bible

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verse like this, a word from God, and I want to underline that. This is a word from God and then squeeze it like a sponge that has been

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dipped in the river of God's delights and see how many cups I can feel.

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