Hey, it's David Platt. I am really looking forward to Secret Church 25 on April 11th, and I hope you'll

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Deuteronomy chapter 23, verse 5. But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam instead

the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loved you

oh I love this verse God reminding his people of a time in which he turned a curse,

what was intended to curse them, into a blessing for them.

Because the Lord your God loved you.

What a picture of God's love and his power to turn curses into blessings,

to turn that which people intend for evil into good for us. Oh, I think about reading this in the

Psalms the other day, too, about people attacking

the Psalmist and wanting to harm the Psalmist. And the Psalmist says, I know you are fulfilling a good

purpose for me. Even in that. And so I want to encourage you today, obviously, I don't know

all that's going on in your life. But I want to encourage you today. Obviously, I don't know all that's going on in your life.

But I want to encourage you especially if you're going through a hard time.

And maybe it is someone who has done something or is doing something hurtful towards you.

Or maybe it's just, well, any number of different kinds of trials you might be walking

through.

I want to encourage you with the biblical reality.

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