Episode 540
540: Defensiveness VS Openness (Psalm 141) || Morning Mindset Daily Christian Devotional
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer · Carey Green
October 4, 20196m 19s
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">📜 TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Psalm 141</span></p>
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<p class="line"><span class="chapter-3"><span class="text Ps-141-1"><span class="chapternum"> </span>O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, I call upon you; hasten to me!</span></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-1">Give ear to my voice when I call to you!</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-16279" class="text Ps-141-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-2">and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-16280" class="text Ps-141-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>Set a guard, O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, over my mouth;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-3">keep watch over the door of my lips!</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-16281" class="text Ps-141-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Do not let my heart incline to any evil,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-4">to busy myself with wicked deeds</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-141-4">in company with men who work iniquity,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-4">and let me not eat of their delicacies!</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-16282" class="text Ps-141-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-5">let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;</span></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-5">let my head not refuse it.</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-141-5">Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.</span><br><span id="en-ESV-16283" class="text Ps-141-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>When their judges are thrown over the cliff,<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;" data-fn="#fen-ESV-16283a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-16283a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20141&version=ESV#fen-ESV-16283a">a</a>]</sup></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-6">then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-16284" class="text Ps-141-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>As when one plows and breaks up the earth,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-7">so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;" data-fn="#fen-ESV-16284b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-16284b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a title="See footnote b" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20141&version=ESV#fen-ESV-16284b">b</a>]</sup></span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-16285" class="text Ps-141-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>But my eyes are toward you, O <span class="small-caps">God</span>, my Lord;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-8">in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;" data-fn="#fen-ESV-16285c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-16285c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]">[<a title="See footnote c" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20141&version=ESV#fen-ESV-16285c">c</a>]</sup></span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-16286" class="text Ps-141-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-9">and from the snares of evildoers!</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-16287" class="text Ps-141-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>Let the wicked fall into their own nets,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-10">while I pass by safely.</span></span></p>
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