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Psalm chapter 65 verse 5

By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness

oh god of our salvation,

the hope of all the ends of the earth,

and of the farthest seas.

What a great verse, and I want to hone in on two phrases first in the beginning of

verse five by awesome deeds you answer us you answer us with righteousness. Earlier in this Psalm, David says

praise is due to you oh God you who hear prayer so the picture in Psalm 65 and this is in a sense so

basic but it's such a needed reminder for us continually that God, the creator of the world, the

sovereign ruler of all hears you and me when we talk to him and he answers us according to

his righteousness according to his perfect knowledge, his perfect wisdom, his perfect power, his perfect love,

like this should drive us to pray all the time that we would leave behind prayerlessness,

thank God of the focus on the second part of this first as the hope of all the ends of the earth and

of the farthest seas. He's our hope. He's our only hope. I just want you to think about your life today from

different angles. Like one just very basically your only hope today for life and growth in godliness for victory over

sin, for strength, for sustenance, for joy. Your only hope for all these things is God. He is the author of all these things.

And without him we don't have any of these things. He's our only hope for everything we want

everything we need on a daily basis. We live every moment with God as our only

hope. Now we may not always realize that. In fact, we often forget that and take those things for granted.

But the reality is God is our only hope for all of those things and then think about

challenges or trials difficulties that you're walking through, maybe health struggles, maybe relational struggles,

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