Scripture For Anxious Times With Psalm 91

A warning from Jesus can feel uncomfortably modern: don’t let your heart get dulled. I open with Luke 21 and let that line do its work, then I pray plainly for stronger faith, real repentance, and protection for the brokenhearted and those suffering for the name of Jesus Christ. If you’ve been weighed down by anxiety, outrage, or constant noise, this is a reset toward spiritual vigilance, daily prayer, and steady hope. 

From there, I read the marriage passage in 1 Peter 3:1–7 and ask the hard questions it raises about honor, authority, humility, and how our home life connects to our prayer life. Then we stay in Luke as the story moves toward Passover and betrayal, and we sit with Psalm 90 and Psalm 91, two of the clearest biblical pictures of human frailty and God as refuge. These readings hit on Christian endurance, fear, suffering, trust, and what it means to live like tomorrow is not guaranteed. 

I also share a quick note about my fiction series and how reviews and support help, then pivot into cultural commentary: immigration, public safety concerns, a Medal of Honor spotlight on Oscar R. Burkhard, and an American heritage quote on legislative prayer from Marsh v. Chambers. The thread tying it all together is simple: stay awake, tell the truth, and return to God instead of drifting with the age. 

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Transcript

Warning From Luke About Vigilance

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Luke verse 4. Watch out, don't let your hearts be dulled by carousing and brightness and by the worries of this life. Don't let that day catch you unaware like a trap, for that day will come upon everyone living on the earth. Keep alert at all times and pray that you might be strong enough to escape these coming horrors and stand before the Son of Man. Father, help us to be strong enough to escape the coming horrors and stand before your Son Jesus Christ. 16-year-old girl, August 2025, Denmark Hill, South London, UK. Raped by Sharam Razuli, 19-year-old Muslim Iranian asylum seeker, after she and a friend were lured to his Salvation Army run migrant accommodation. We're supporting those folks. By encouraging illegal immigration and mass Muslim immigration and allowing it. Hope y'all are doing well wherever y'all are, whatever part of the day you're in. Sure to appreciate you joining me, giving me a little bit of your time and attention, a little piece of your day. I will try and use it wisely for those of y'all who continue to share the podcast and pray for me or for a podcast. Thank you very, very much. Father, thank you for today. Thank you for you, Father, and your son Jesus Christ.

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Thank you for rain on a tin roof. Thank you for your love and your mercy, your grace, and your forgiveness.

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Thank you that we can trust our souls to you and that you will bring us safely home to you and your son. Because of your son alone. Strengthen our faith. Forgive us our cowardice and our unbelief.

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Our lust, our greed, pride, arrogance, judgment of others. Covetousness, gossip, slander, hypocrisy, lies, procrastination, theft. Help us to love you with our whole heart, mind, soul, and strength to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Marriage Teaching From 1 Peter

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Watch over those listening to the podcast, please. Father, watch over those who are alone, who feel abandoned, who are brokenhearted, draw them close to you. Be with those around the world, our brothers and sisters who are suffering for the sake. The name of your son Jesus Christ. Help us to comfort them, to defend them in any way we can, to support them and encourage them. Help our nation here in America and around the world where people are listening, Father, please to turn back to you and your son. Guide our leaders in the pulpit and in the state. Help them to rule in fear of you. And guide my words here, Father, please. In your son's name we pray. Amen. Marriage verse for today, verses 1 Peter 3, 1 through 7. Wives likewise submit to your own husbands. Do this that even if refuse to believe the word, they may be one without a word by the wife, their wives' way of life. After all, they will have observed the reverent and holy manner of your lives. Don't try to make yourselves beautiful on the outside with stylish hair by wearing gold jewelry or fine clothes. Instead, make yourselves beautiful on the inside and your hearts with the enduring quality of a gentle, peaceful spirit. This type of beauty is very precious in God's eyes. For it was in this way that holy women who trusted in God used to make themselves beautiful, accepting the authority of their own husbands. For example, Sarah accepted Abraham's authority when she called him master. You have become her children when you do good and don't respond to threats with fear. Husbands, likewise, submit by living with your wife in ways that honor her, knowing that she is the weaker partner. Honor her all the more as she is also a co-heir of the gracious care of life.

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Do this so that your prayers won't be hindered. Husbands, do we honor our wives? Wives, do you submit to the authority of your husband?

Luke 21 Watchfulness And Betrayal

Psalm 90 And Psalm 91 Refuge

Proverbs On Discipline And Love

Book Plug And Support Request

Another Assault Case In The UK

Medal Of Honor And Assimilation

Legislative Prayer And First Amendment

Final Blessing And Sign-Off

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If we don't, we're not following God's commands for us in marriage. Luke 21, 29 through 22, 13. Then he, Jesus, gave them this illustration. Notice the fig tree or any other tree. When the leaves come out, you know without being told that summer is near. In the same way, when you see all these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass from the scene until all these things have taken place. Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear. Watch out. Don't let your hearts be dulled by carousing and drunkenness and by the worries of this life. Don't let that day catch you unaware like a trap, for that day will come upon everyone living on the earth. Keep alert at all times, and pray that you might be strong enough to escape these coming horrors and stand before the Son of Man. Every day Jesus went to the temple to teach, and each evening he returned to spend the night on the Mount of Olives. The crowds gathered at the temple early each morning to hear him. The festival of unleavened bread, which is also called Passover, was approaching. The leading priests and teachers of religious law were plotting how to kill Jesus, but they were afraid of the people's reaction. Then Satan entered into Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve disciples, and he went to the leading priests and captains of the temple guard to discuss the best way to betray Jesus to them. They were delighted and they promised to give him money. So he agreed and began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus, to rest when the crowds weren't around. Now the festival of unleavened bread arrived when the Passover lamb is sacrificed. Jesus sent Peter and John ahead and said, Go and prepare the Passover meal so we can eat it together. Where do you want us to prepare it? They asked him. He replied, As soon as you enter Jerusalem, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him. At the house he enters, say to the owner, The teacher asks, Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples? He will take you upstairs to a large room that is already set up. That is where you should prepare our meal. They went off to the city and found everything just as Jesus had said, and they prepared the Passover meal there. Psalm 90, verse 1 through 91, verse 16. A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, through all the generations you have been our home, before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God. You turn people back to dust, saying, Return to dust, you mortals. For you a thousand years are as a passing day, as brief as a few night hours. You sweep people away like dreams that disappear, that are like grass that springs up in the morning. In the morning it blooms and flourishes, but by evening it is dry and withered. We wither beneath your anger. We are overwhelmed by your fury. You spread out our sins before you, our secret sins, and you see them all. We live our lives beneath your wrath, ending our years with a groan. Seventy years are given to us, some even live to eighty, but even the best years are filled with pain and trouble. Soon they disappear, and we fly away. Who can comprehend your power, the power of your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve. Teach us to realize the brevity of life so that we may grow in it. O Lord, come back to us. How long will you delay? Take pity on your servants. Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives. Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery. Replace the evil years with good. Let us, your servants, see you work again, let our children see your glory, and may the Lord our God show us his approval and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful. Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. This I declare about the Lord, He alone is my refuge, my place of safety. He is my God, and I trust him. For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease. He will cover you with his feathers, he will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection. Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night, nor the arrow that flies in the day. Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday. Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you. Just open your eyes and see how the wicked are punished. If you make the Lord your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter, no evil will conquer you, no plague will come near your home, for he will order his angels to protect you wherever you go. They will hold you up with their hands, so you won't even hurt your foot on a stone. You will trample upon lions and cobras, you will crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet. The Lord says, I will rescue those who love me, I will protect those who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer. I will be with them in trouble, I will rescue and honor them. I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation. Proverbs 13, 24 and 25. Those who spare the rod of discipline hate their children. Those who love their children care enough to discipline them. The godly eat to their heart's content, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry. I think that's a good reminder as a parent of our relationship with God. Right? We think all too often that the pain and the sorrow and the struggles in this life somehow mean that God isn't there, doesn't care, when in reality, often it means exactly the opposite. He cares so much that he won't let us stay the way we are. Right? Countryside, Book of the Wise, uh, like Narnia the Hobbit, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Fablehaven. If you get a chance to check out the series, that's a little excerpt from a five-star review on Amazon by John Andrew Nichols. Super enjoyable. This book was a new spin on certain myths and beliefs. The creative turns it takes are mentally breathtaking with an alternate turn to a magical world. If you get a chance, check out the series. And if you enjoy the first and second book, either one, if you'd leave a review online, those help immensely. Same thing for the podcast. If you feel like you're getting something out of it, if you would leave a review online, those help. And if you have five or ten dollars a month, you can donate. There's a link in the show notes where you can set that up, and that helps a great deal too. So thank you very, very much. Sadiq Nickzad. I know I didn't say that right. October 2023. Falkirk, Scotland, 15-year-old schoolgirl was raped in daylight in a busy town center by this Muslim Afghan national who entered the UK illegally on a small vote. Medal of Honor for today, Oscar R. Burkhard. Private, highest rank major medical corps Indian campaigns, hospital corps, U.S. Army, U.S. Army, October 5th, 1898, Leech Lake, Minnesota. For distinguished bravery and action against hostile Indians. Don't ever buy into the leftist argument of the last several decades that the Indians lived in this utopic, peaceful society. Right? That's not to say that we didn't make mistakes, folks, but the idea that the indigenous peoples somehow had this perfect lifestyle before we came is just as faulty. Accredited to Fort Snelling, St. Paul County, Minnesota, not awarded posthumously, presented April 21st, 1899. Born December 21st, 1877, Baden, Archon, Germany. Died February 18, 1950, Rome, New York, buried Rome Cemetery, MHT, Tac 7, Tac 5, Rome, New York. Another great example, folks, of the difference in immigrants today versus ones that have come in the past and love our nation so desperately. Oscar R. Burkhard. And that's not all immigrants, folks. We've got some good ones coming in today, but the vast majority, overwhelming almost universally, of the Muslims that we've got coming in and the illegal immigrants that we've got coming in, not only don't care anything about the country, but they're actively destroying it. American heritage quote for today comes from the Supreme Court from Justice, Chief Justice Warren Earl Berger, who was the Chief Justice from 1969 to 1986. This is out of the 1982 court opinion of Marsh versus Chambers. The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment. The practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the First Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each house and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment, that they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable. Prayer and chaplains are deeply embedded in the history and tradition of this country. The legislature, by majority vote, invites a clergyman to give a prayer. Neither the inviting nor the giving nor the hearing of the prayer is making a law. On this basis alone, the sayings of prayer per se in the legislative halls at the opening session is not prohibited by the first and 14th Amendments. You can already see that we had backpedaled too much by this point from 1947 and the whole debacle of separation of church and state, folks. Not only, you go back to Justice Joseph's story's comments, not only did our founders not want to kick Christianity, not any other religion, just Christianity out of our national life, our constitutions, our institutions, there would have been absolute revolt in that founding generation if they had tried to do that. If they thought for a moment that we were going to use the First Amendment and the establishment clause the way we had today, they would never have ratified the Constitution. And they had no desire, they didn't even cross their mind that we were going to pretend that all these other false imposter religions like Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, atheism, that all of these secular deist, false religions, we were going to someday pretend that they were equal to Christianity and the worship of God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. We have lost our minds. Amen. God bless y'all. God bless your families, your marriages if you're married, your nation. God bless America. We'll talk to y'all again real soon, folks. Looking forward to it.