What's up, friends, it's E and happy Wednesday. My goodness, what a week it has been. I don't know about you,

but it is every bit of a Wednesday, and this deep breath could not come soon enough. Also, I am

loving the Bible verses that you guys are leaving in the review section of this podcast. It's so awesome.

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having you be a part of this. So without further ado, let's jump into the good news.

The word this week is 27, and it's mostly because we're looking at Psalm 27, to be honest.

If you've read through Psalms before, I challenge you to read it this time

from a renewed perspective and with a fresh pair of eyes. Some quick background on this Psalm.

The author is King David, and there's multiple parts to these verses that essentially make it feel

like, like as if it's two separate Psalms that were somehow pieced together, but there's a reason for that.

So briefly, first, if you're familiar with the book of Psalms, you without a doubt have noticed that a majority of them are written during various trials or tribulations and even triumphant moments in David's life.

Before I read this Psalm, there are a few things I want you to keep an ear out for.

And feel free to write them down or reflect on them, whether that's during this podcast or even afterwards.

But in the first part of Psalm 27, David expresses his deep and proven confidence in God, which is highlighted by his cry out for God's continued presence in his life.

That might sound like an easy thing to do, but the reality of it all is that while writing

this, David was up hard against his enemies as they were surrounding him, and he could have easily

cursed God, but instead he reminded himself and us, for that matter, within his writings,

that God is his light and his salvation.

And with the Lord's strength in your life, there is no one to fear. So mark this point. We are not fearless in faith

because we were born that way. Let's just be honest with ourselves. It's almost the exact opposite of that.

We are fearless in our faith because we have an understanding of God's strength

and his sovereign ways and have experienced it in time and time and time again. The reason why David

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