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Chad, we are in Psalm number four today.

So as I've said before, always feels weird to say chapter four

when you're talking about Psalms I don't like it. It's Psalm numero four.

This we got a Psalm of David which of course so many Psalms are this one is addressed of course to the the choir master with the stringed instruments

Okay, so this one's meant to be played on some strings.

Yeah, you gotta have the strings for song before.

So I mentioned to you out before we started recording

that I know this song well because hardly a night goes by when my head hits the pillow and I don't

pray song for it is the it is the nighttime prayer man this guy this is a

righteous flex by Chad on this song like let me tell me tell you about how many years I've been alive,

how many days are in the year.

That's how many times I've prayed this song.

I prayed this song, yeah.

So full confession, sometimes I fall asleep halfway through it. That's all right. That's the point.

You're trying to go to sleep here. Yeah, yeah, it's a great song to fall asleep too. Why would I pray the song?

Every night, well, because the last line is this,

in peace, I will both lie down and sleep. For alone oh Lord make me dwell in safety.

I mean can you get a better going to bed prayer than that?

No that's pretty good. That's the best so I do urge people to pray song for at night. It's the it wasn't just for me. I mean this has kind of been the traditional evening going to bed prayer for a long time. But it's only a verse so let me just read to it right quick. It's kind of hard. I haven't

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