Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmoth. So here on 10 minute Bible Talks, we're going through the

writings and we're beginning with the Psalms. So you're hearing us every day go through a

different Psalm for a while. These are great because the Psalms were originally

written to be memorized and sung aloud. They were like a hymn book back in the days that they were written.

So as we go through the Psalms, we can do the same thing. We can use them, we can recite them,

we can even use them as poetry, but another great way for us to

use the Psalm is to pray them back to God. Today we're going to look at Psalms

seven and we're going to talk about a way that we can look to this

Psalm when things are not going well relationally, specifically for us and for

our name if you will. Have you ever been falsely accused? Have you been

gossiped about, slandered? Have you had your name or your reputation associated

with something that doesn't represent who you are or your true intentions.

These are gut-wrenching situations.

It's one thing to be in trouble for something you actually did and at least for that you can take ownership,

you can apologize, you can make it right.

But when people are talking about you,

or ghosting you, for something you don't understand,

it's hard to know what to do. Maybe you've had someone who

works for you say that you're hard to work for, rather than just taking ownership

for their lack of effort. Or maybe you've had a friend become jealous of a new friendship or

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