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Zephaniah chapter 3 verse 17,

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness.

He will quiet you by his love. He will exalt over you with loud singing. Is that not an awesome

verse, an awesome picture of God in the middle of his people, promising to restore them. Listen

to those words, the Lord your God is in your midst. And obviously there's a specific context here

in Zephaniah that God is speaking to his people in. At the same time, these are truths that we see

all over the New Testament that God speaks over his people who are in Jesus, his sons,

and daughters. The Lord your God is in your midst. Jesus, make clear, I will be with you always.

You will never be alone. I will be with you a mighty one who will save. The one who is with you

today. Just let this soak in wherever you're sitting, driving, walking, running, whatever you're

doing right now. If you are in Jesus, the Lord your God is in your midst. He is with you. He is a

mighty one who will save you, not just in the future, but today he is your savior and he is mighty.

And he will rejoice over you with gladness. What a picture of God as our Father, as love for us,

his love for you. Would you just feel this right now that God, the holy God of the universe,

look out and creation today and just think about the one who's spoken and all came into being.

And he rejoices over you with gladness, his child. He quiets you by his love.

Oh, amidst the restlessness of your heart and it's the anxiousness of your mind. Be quieted in this

moment. Rest in his love. He loves you. He's holding you in his hand. And he will exalt over you

with loud singing, not just singing. And that in and of itself is quite the picture. God exalting

over you, me as people with singing, God singing over us, with joy over us, with gladness over us,

but it's loud singing. It's divinely loud singing. Father, you want to just shout into this

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