June 20 – Finding Your Safe Place

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, June 20th.

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Finding your safe place In a
world that feels increasingly

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uncertain, everyone is looking
for somewhere safe.

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Some people find it in
friendships, some in

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entertainment, some in money or
status, and none of those things

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are necessarily bad.
But they all have one thing in

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common.
They can fail you at the worst

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possible moment.
Proverbs chapter 18, verse 10

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offers something completely
different.

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The name of the Lord is a strong
tower.

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The righteous man runs into it
and is safe.

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And then verse 11 gives the
contrast.

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The rich man’s wealth is his
strong city.

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He thinks of it as a wall.
One of these is a real

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stronghold, one of them is an
illusion.

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Money and status feel like walls
until the crisis comes.

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But God’s name, his character,
his faithfulness, that is a

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tower that actually holds.
David in First Samuel chapter 22

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was a fugitive.
Enemies were after him, and yet

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he didn’t hide alone.
People rallied to him and he

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found community in the middle of
the chaos.

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God was building something even
in the running, even in the

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hiding.
David’s safety wasn’t a

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comfortable house with a great
security system.

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It was the presence and
protection of God.

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Psalm 52 verse one calls out the
arrogance of trusting in power

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and wealth.
Why do you boast of evil, O

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mighty man?
The steadfast love of God

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endures all the day.
That word steadfast is key.

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God’s love doesn’t have off
days.

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It doesn’t dry up when the
situation gets complicated.

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It endures all the day, every
day, every moment, every season.

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For you today, whether things
are going well or completely

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falling apart, this is the
invitation.

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Run to God first.
Not as a last resort when

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everything else fails.
Not as a backup plan as your

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first instinct.
The strong tower is always open.

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You don’t have to earn your way
in or clean yourself up before

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you enter.
You just run.

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And like David, as you do that,
you’ll often find that God also

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surrounds you with people who
become part of your safety

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community.
Mentors, loyal friends who show

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up in the hard times.
Safety in God and safety in

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community go together.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
being our strong tower, a safe

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place that never fails and never
closes.

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When we’re tempted to find
safety in things that ultimately

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can’t hold us, redirect us back
to you.

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Help us to run to you first, in
fear, in stress, in uncertainty.

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Surround us with godly community
and teach us to trust in your

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steadfast love above all else,
in Jesus name, Amen.

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What if the road ahead is not
meant to be rushed, feared, or

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walked alone?
Going with God is a prayer

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script series for believers who
need more than encouragement for

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the journey.
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walking with the Lord in real
life, right where they are.

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Through themes of pace, peace,
paths, provision, and

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protection, this series helps
you surrender urgency, receive

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steadiness, seek direction,
depend on God’s care, and pray

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with confidence over the road
before you.

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uncertain, weary, or hungry for

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a closer walk with God, Going
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Proverbs, Chapter 18, Verses 10
to 11 World English Bible

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Yahweh’s name is a strong tower.
The righteous run to him and are

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safe.
The rich man’s wealth is his

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strong city, like an unscalable
wall in his own imagination.

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First Samuel Chapter 22 World
English Bible David therefore

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departed from there and escaped
to a Dullam’s cave.

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When his brothers and all his
father’s house heard it, they

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went down there to him.
Everyone who was in distress,

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everyone who was in debt, and
everyone who was discontented

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gathered themselves to him and
he became captain over them.

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They were with him about 400
men.

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David went from there to mis pay
of Moab and he said to the king

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of Moab, please let my father
and my mother come out with you

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until I know what God will do
for me.

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He brought them before the king
of Moab and they lived with him

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all the time that David was in
the stronghold.

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The prophet Gad said to David,
don’t stay in the stronghold,

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depart and go into the land of
Judah.

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Then David departed and came
into the forest of Harith.

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Saul heard that David was
discovered with the men who were

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with him.
Now Saul was sitting in Jibah

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under the tamarisk tree in Rama
with his spear in his hand, and

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all his servants were standing
around him.

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Saul said to his servants who
stood around him.

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Here now, you Benjamites, will
the son of Jesse give everyone

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of you fields and vineyards?
Will he make you all captains of

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thousands and captains of
hundreds, that all of you have

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conspired against me?
And there is no one who

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discloses to me when my son
makes a treaty with the son of

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Jesse.
And there is none of you who is

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sorry for me, or discloses to me
that my son has stirred up my

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servant against me to.
Lie in wait, as it is today.

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Then Doge the Edomite, who stood
by the servants of Saul,

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answered and said, I saw the son
of Jesse coming to Nob, to

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Ahimletch the son of Ahitub.
He inquired of Yahweh for him,

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gave him food, and gave him the
sword of Goliath the Philistine.

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Then the king sent to call
Ahimletch the priest, the son of

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Ahitub, and all his father’s
house, the priests who were in

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Nob, and they all came to the
king.

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Saul said, Here now you son of
Ahatub, he answered, Here I am,

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my Lord.
Saul said to him, Why have you

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conspired against me, you and
the son of Jesse, in that you

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have given him bread and a
sword, and have inquired of God

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for him, that he should rise
against me to lie?

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In wait, as it is today.
Then Aheimlich answered the

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king, and said, Who among all
your servants is so faithful as

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David?
Who is the King’s son-in-law,

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captain of your bodyguard, and
honored in your house?

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Have I today begun to inquire of
God for him, be it far from me.

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Don’t let the king impute
anything to his servant, nor to

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all the House of my father, for
your servant knows nothing of

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all this, less or more.
The king said.

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You shall surely die Aheim Lech
you and all your father’s house.

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The king said to the guard who
stood about him.

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Turn and kill the priests of
Yahweh, because their hand also

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is with David and because they
knew that he fled and didn’t

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disclose it to me.
But the servants of the king

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wouldn’t put out their hand to
fall on the priests of Yahweh.

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The king said to Doge.
Turn and attack the priests.

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Doge the Edomite turned and he
attacked the priests, and he

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killed on that day 85 people who
wore a linen ephod.

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He struck Nob, the city of the
priests, with the edge of the

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sword, both men and women,
children and nursing babies and

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cattle and donkeys and sheep
with the edge of the sword.

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One of the sons of Ahemletch,
the son of Ahitub named

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Abiathar, escaped and fled after
David.

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Abiathar told David that Saul
had slain Yahweh’s priests.

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David said to Abiathar, I knew
on that day when Doge the

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Edomite was there, that he would
surely tell Saul, I am

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responsible for the death of all
the persons of your father’s

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house.
Stay with me.

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Don’t be afraid, for he who
seeks my life seeks your life,

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for you will be safe with me.
Psalm Chapter 52 World English

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Bible Why do you boast of
mischief, mighty man?

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God’s loving kindness endures
continually.

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Your tongue plots destruction
like a sharp razor working

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deceitfully.
You love evil more than good,

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lying rather than speaking the
truth.

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You love all devouring words,
you deceitful tongue.

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God will likewise destroy you
forever.

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He will take you up and pluck
you out of your tent and root

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you out of the land of the
living.

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The righteous also will see it
and fear and laugh at him,

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saying, Behold, this is the man
who didn’t make God his

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strength, but trusted in the
abundance of his riches and

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strengthened himself in his
wickedness.

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But As for me, I am like a green
olive tree in God’s house.

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I trust in God’s loving kindness
forever and ever.

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I will give you thanks forever
because you have done it.

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I will hope in your name, for it
is good in the presence of your

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Saints.
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