Hey, I'm David Platt. I wrote a book on how to read the Bible, a simple guide to deeper intimacy with God.

I think about Psalm 119, 162. It says, I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.

There is spoil. There's treasure waiting for you and me every day in God's word, not just so that we know it and understand it,

but so that we know God and walk in love relationship with God.

That's why I wrote this book to help you toward that end.

So I encourage you to pick it up wherever books are sold.

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Zephaniah 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 exult over you with loud singing.

Is that not amazing? This is God speaking to his people in the Old Testament. The verse right

before this on that day, it shall be said in Jerusalem, fear not,

let not your hands grow weak. This is God just encouraging his people. And verse 17, the Lord your God

in your midst of mighty one who will save, who rejoices over you with gladness. What a picture, God, rejoicing over his people with gladness.

God will quiet you by his love. Oh, what a verse. God quieting his people with his love for them. And God exulting over you.

Like we were praying in Habakkuk chapter three about us rejoicing in God.

This is a picture of God rejoicing, exulting over us with loud singing.

This is God.

Exulting over his people with singing, with joyful, loud singing. Oh, this verse just leads us to praise God for his love for us and to remind us today of how much he loves us. Like, yes, we're not

the direct recipients of this prophecy in Zeppaniah chapter 3, verse 17, but we know in Jesus,

all these things are true for each of us who are in Jesus. And so I just want to encourage you today. God loves you so much.

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