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Hey, shane here and Shane, welcome to the Daily Blade. We are on day two of going through the Psalms and today we're doing Psalm 90. Bring it, and it's a special psalm and we sure hope you enjoy it. Got the words there for you. If you need them, just sing through this chorus when the sun comes up. Satisfy us.

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When the sun comes, upy us Let me just begin by reading the first 14 verses of Psalm 19. 14 verses of Psalm 90. Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth or ever, you had formed the earth and the world from everlasting to everlasting. You are God. You return man to dust and say return, o children of man. For a thousand years in your sight are, but as yesterday, when it is past, or as a watch. In the night you sweep them away, as with a flood. They are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning. In the morning it flourishes and is renewed. In the evening it fades and withers.

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For we are brought to an end by your anger, by your wrath. We are dismayed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. For all our days pass away under your wrath. We bring our years to an end like a sigh. The years of our life are 70 or even, by reason of strength, 80, yet their span is but toil and trouble. They are soon gone and we fly away. Who considers the power of your anger, who considers your wrath according to the fear of you? So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom return. Oh Lord, how long have pity on your servants and satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we might rejoice and be glad all of our days. This is the word of the Lord.

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Let me just share a few things. Did you know that the average life expectancy today is 70 years? Funny enough, in men the ladies always outlast the men. It's's a little higher for them 73 or something like that. Did you know the average life expectancy when my grandpa was born? Any guesses?

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38. Wow, and if you take an average of the last few thousand years years, say between now and the flood, like from the earliest documents that we can find in humanity, it's going to be around 30, the average life expectancy of a human born in this world. I don't know what that does to y'all or what that does to you guys out there, but that gives me a little perspective. God chose to put us here today, where we have technology and medicine, and you know it's back up to 70, I guess. Apparently, when moses wrote this it was 70 or even, by reason of strength, 80, which is pretty similar to right now. Um, did you, did you know that about two people die every second. Every second that's how many people die in the world today Two people a second. About 172,824 a year.

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Not a year.

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Yeah, that's pretty crazy. That's a day Two years ago I got a call. My brother was well, his wife Marla, my sister-in-law thought he was having a heart attack. So I got in my truck and I drove down to Austin where they live and I made it to the hospital and I was in the room with him. He looked great, he was kind of, he was funny. They were kind of prepping him for an operation. We knew that he had some sort of like a tear and then prayed over him and walked out, prayed over him and walked out, and then I walked back in like 20 minutes later and he was dead. And then I went to this really nice looking home a few days later and I got a jar looking home a few days later and I got a jar, and then I brought that jar and I just handed it to Marla. That's Justin, and I don't know what that does to you, but it makes me all of those things that I just shared. It makes me like really want to pray these prayers that Moses prayed.

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He saw that stuff every day. We live in America, most of us here listening, and we're really protected from the reality of death. You could go months not think about it. Moses saw, he saw death all the time. I mean most of the a lot of the world does. They see it all the time, it's right in front of them. But in my family I mean, maybe my girls are gonna have to like, probably gonna have to go to counseling. You know they're gonna turn like 28 and be like I need something's wrong. You know, because we've always talked really plainly about it and it's not by choice, really, it's just they began to see a lot.

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Some people that they love die at an early age and they saw it up close, you know. And so you know, when my little Haven is like you know, I'm not I remember a few years back she's like I'm not, I'm not ready, you know, to fully surrender my life. I just I don't know if, I don't know if he loves me, I just don't, I just don't. I can't get my head around it and I, I mean I would just pray for her and we would talk about it and I would just say well, honey, you just need to know that daddy's going. He's asking Jesus that you're not going to die tonight. Isn't that what the Bible says? Like man, you don't know if you have tomorrow. You don't know that, and today's the day Like I'll tell you what you have. You have right now, you have this moment. That's about all you, that's about the only thing you know for sure is this moment.

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And I say all that to say these three prayers that Moses ended all of that section of Psalm 90 with. He says Lord, because of all of this up here, like the brevity of my life and the depravity of my heart, would you teach me to number my days? And then he prays Lord, would you return and have pity on your servants? Praise God that God answered that prayer Like he had pity. Did you know that he sent his son Jesus? He had pity on his servants. He healed us of sin and death and hell. Anyone who would call upon him would be saved. And then he prays would you satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love?

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And if that sounds churchy and like, okay, we've heard that a bunch and then we all just need to pray for just that, he would uncallous our heart, because today what we need is to be saved from our sin, which he has done, and you can receive that today. And we also need him to satisfy our heart. We need him to do that Because if he doesn't, then everything else is going to, and so, in the few days we have in this life, compared to forever, we're asking him to satisfy us with his steadfast love. And so we're all forgetful. Before we forget, before we move on today, satisfy us with your love before we give up, which a lot of us are tempted to do.

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Lord, satisfy me with your love before we give up, which a lot of us are tempted to do. Lord, satisfy me with your love and he will. He will. This is a great thing about singing and praying. God responds. So can we do that? Can we do that today? Can we cry out to him and sing his word back to him? You have been our dwelling place.

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You have been our dwelling place, o everlasting God, before you formed the mountain tops. You were before it all it all. And soon our lives turn back to dust, where the sun comes out. Satisfies us before the day has passed us by, before our hearts forget all your goodness. Satisfy us with your love. The wrath of God poured out, the wrath of God poured out for sin On Jesus crucified. Consider Him our hiding place, our shelter is alive. Thank you, lord, because he lived and died for us. Thank you, lord.

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Satisfy us before our hearts forget all your goodness. Satisfy us with your love. Teach us, lord. Teach us, lord, to number our days on earth and give us more Wisdom in the secret heart, as you display amazing grace In Jesus Christ for us. Teach us, lord, to number of days. Give us more Wisdom in the secret, as you display Amazing grace in Jesus Christ for us. When the sun comes up. Satisfy us Before the day has passed us by, before our hearts forget all your goodness. Satisfy us with your love when the sun comes up, satisfy us Before the day has passed. I spy before hearts give up, before the day has passed us by, before our hearts give up, before our hearts give Spirit, fill us, satisfy us with your love. Oh, we need you. Oh, we need you, we need you.

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Father, I confess that we so have a tendency in us to live in a fake world and just to create our own safe little world and stuff inside this eternal hole that we have in our heart the things that you've created and just find ourselves hungry and thirsty and anxious and miserable and bored. And so we just, I just pray that over our brothers and sisters out, just singing and praying this today, that you would satisfy their heart with your love and the measure of your love, lord, they'd be able to comprehend that, just the span of it, and that that would truly Lord, more than anything, that there would be a tangible, satisfying work that happens in cars and cubicles and kitchens and on walks. Would you do that today? Would you satisfy our heart in Jesus? Thank you that that's a possibility, um, that you've created us for you, for fellowship with you, that you've created us for union in Christ, and thank you for the gift of song, that we can pour out our heart to you, that we can sing to you, pray to you through song. Thank you, lord. In Jesus' name we pray, amen, amen. Thank y'all so much for joining us, for diving into the deep end here at Psalm 90.

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Why did Moses have to do that, man, he just went there. You know, and welcome to the bible. You know, gosh, it's so good and it's so um, you know where it's the? The word of god is sharper than a two-edged sword, like cutting through the bones. The mirror, I mean like it, it's, it's just, it exposes what's real. I mean, like it, it's, it's just, it exposes what's real in the universe. And so, anyway, hope it was helpful to you, so glad that you would have the faith to come join us with your beautiful God given voice that he's given you, regardless of what you think of it. I know he thinks it's beautiful and is blessed by it when you sing to him, and our only ask is you'd bring that voice back tomorrow, and we're going to be here, we're going to see what God does in our lives. Have an awesome day of worship.

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