David had a lot of things to think about. Sometimes our sin puts us in a situation where we do a

whole lot of thinking. And that's what David did. And that thinking turned into praying and that

praying turned into hope. I hope you'll see it today. Welcome to Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelie. We believe the

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Hey, friends.

Welcome back.

Hope you had a great time with your family and friends over the Christmas holiday,

wherever you are or wherever you traveled.

Hope you're doing well.

And hope that you are ready to go because we've got an entire

psalm. We're going to attempt to get finished today. Psalm 39. So would you find your place if you're

following along? And let's dive right in. Psalm 39. The intro says, to the chief musician, even to

Juduthan, a Psalm of David. David had some great colleagues during his ministry, and three of them

are actually named in the Psalms, a Judusin, another man by the name of Heemann,

and then Asaf. And these three guys were apparently the accomplished musicians, the worship leaders,

if you will, and were responsible for the music that accompanied many of the

Psalms, but also writing some of the Psalms themselves. So David dedicates this particular

Psalm to Juduthan. Remember, we talked about in Psalm 38 a bit about David's sorrow over his sin, his suffering

because of his sin, and some of that carries through to Psalm 39. And the Psalm has a couple

really natural breaks in it. For instance, at the end of verse 5, it says Sayla, which was a musical rest.

And a lot of times it accompanied the idea behind the lyrics of stop and think about this for

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