Well Faith with Chris Teien
The WELL Faith Podcast offers encouraging, Bible-based messages from Pastor Chris Teien and guests. New sermons are released every Sunday. Replay episodes are marked with an asterisk. Find us online at ChrisTeien.com and Rockwell.Church in Virginia, MN. Email comments to wellfaith24@gmail.com
Well Faith with Chris Teien
How to Pray for God’s Direction When You Don’t Know Where to Go (Psalm 25)
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Show Me the Right Path, Lord. When life feels uncertain, it can be hard to know what to pray. Psalm 25 gives us a biblical prayer pattern for seeking God’s direction when the path ahead is unclear. In this message, Pastor Chris Teien walks through David’s heartfelt words—showing us how to trust God’s leadership, seek His truth, rest in His mercy, live with humility, and wait with integrity.
Link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2285086/episodes/17649397
Key Points:
- Trust God When You Don’t Know What to Do (vv. 1–3) – Begin with confidence in God’s character before you know the outcome.
- Seek God’s Truth to Guide Your Steps (vv. 4–5) – Let His Word and Spirit set the course instead of relying solely on your own reasoning.
- Remember God’s Mercy More Than Your Mistakes (vv. 6–11) – Don’t let shame hold you back; God’s mercy is greater than your past.
- Walk Humbly in the Fear of the Lord (vv. 12–15) – Humility and reverence for God lead to wisdom and blessing.
- Call on God and Wait with Integrity (vv. 16–22) – Trust His timing and stay faithful in the waiting.
Personal Stories from Pastor Chris:
Pastor Chris shares a youth ministry game that illustrates God’s step-by-step leading, a dense fog driving experience that mirrors life’s uncertainty, and a personal lesson about not letting past mistakes define you.
Notable Quotes:
- “Sometimes God’s plan is way more than we ever thought—so much so that He needs to lead us point by point.”
- “God’s mercy is greater than all of your sin.”
- “Waiting on God is not wasted time; it’s where He shapes your character.”
- “Sometimes God’s plan isn’t for you to move or change careers—it’s for you to be faithful right where you are and bloom where He has planted you.”
Actionable Takeaways:
- Reflect: Am I starting my prayers with trust in who God is?
- Apply: Spend time in Scripture daily to keep your steps aligned with His truth.
- Step of Faith: Release past guilt into God’s mercy and walk forward in freedom.
- Next Step: Commit to waiting on God with integrity instead of forcing your own way.
Scripture References:
Psalm 25; Romans 10:11; Proverbs 3:5–6; 1 John 1:9; Psalm 119:105; Proverbs 9:10; 1 Peter 5:8
Keywords: Psalm 25, prayer for guidance, trusting God, God’s direction, God’s mercy, waiting on God, Rockwell Church, Chris Teien
Challenge:
This week, pray through Psalm 25 in your own words, asking God to show you the right path, guide you in truth, and help you wait on Him with integrity.
The WELL Faith Podcast offers encouraging, Bible-based messages from Pastor Chris Teien and guests. New sermons are released every Sunday. Replay episodes are marked with an asterisk. Find us online at ChrisTeien.com and Rockwell.Church in Virginia, MN. Email comments to wellfaith24@gmail.com
I'm still in a series on the Psalms, and today we're in Psalm 25. And Psalm 25 is a really great psalm to guide you to pray. I know that you know that in the book of Psalms, that there are, that was the hymn book for the Israelites, there's many templates that we can follow to praise the Lord, to pray, to be repentant and ask forgiveness, like Psalm 51 is one of those. But here we have a psalm where I'm guessing that David is later in his years, he's experienced a lot of life, he's gone through good times and bad times, and he comes to the Lord and he doesn't say, Lord, my life is a mess. Here's my plan, bless it. So this is not a psalm where David lays out his desires, his plan, and says, All right, God, now that you know what I want to do, I want you to make it happen. But instead, he comes to the Lord and says, Show me the right path, Lord. A prayer of trust and rescue when life feels overwhelming. I think there's a lot more wisdom in praying that God would show me the right path than there is choosing the path and asking God to bless it. Sometimes what God has for us is way more than we ever thought. And it's just so overwhelming that He just needs to lead us there point by point. Do you ever go on one of those scavenger hunts or play those youth ministry games where you go or bigger better? And so you get off the you get the first thing on the list, and you get to the list and you're trying to find something or get something or whatever, and they don't give you the whole list. Instead, it's just you get to the one point, and then after you've accomplished that, then you're handed the next thing on the list, and then you go to the next thing. And so you no one really knows where they're gonna end up. If you're competing against other people, you're not really sure that they even have the same list as you, but you're working it through, you're doing what you're supposed to do, you're getting what's required, finding what's required, you know, whatever. And it's a pretty fun game. And sometimes that's the way that the Lord chooses to guide and direct us. Sometimes he moves us in a certain area and we get a certain skill, and then he moves us to a certain area, and we get another skill, and he moves us to another area, and we get some contacts and some interest and some experience, and then pretty soon he moves us into that big plan thing that he had for us. The thing that we didn't expect. The thing that when we're praying and praising the Lord, we look back and we're like, man, I never thought that I would be here doing this way. But look what God did in the past to put all those things together. And maybe, maybe God's plan for you isn't overwhelming. Maybe God's plan for you is for you to be faithful and for you to stay in the relationships, in the job, in the place where you are, and you just need to keep being faithful, becoming more faithful, becoming more bold about sharing your faith and praying for others. And God is gonna make you bloom right where you are planted. He doesn't have a plan for you to move, he doesn't have a plan for you to switch careers. He has a plan for you to be faithful from day to day. And maybe his plan isn't that you're going to achieve greatness. I mentioned this before, but maybe his plan is that you're going to invest into somebody, and God is gonna use that person to do something great. But you laid a foundation, you invested in that person's life, you helped them to become the person that they needed to become so that God could use them in a mighty way, and that's a pretty cool thing. Matter of fact, the next series in September, I haven't gotten it all together yet, but it's gonna be called something like generations, and it's gonna start on Grandparents' Day, actually, which is the Sunday after Labor Day. You guys celebrate Grandparents' Day? Do you even know, my grandchildren? There's a thing called Grandparents' Day. Did you even know that's on the calendar? All right. Now you do. But anyway, generations of people investing their life, generations of people serving together, generations of relationships. It's gonna be a cool series. And so we can look forward to that. But back to this Psalm, back to Psalm 25, and back to this path thing. Okay, so it was pretty foggy the other day. Were you out in the fog at all? I had to go to Duluth. There was a conference that I went to, and it was kind of foggy. But there was a time, one time, down by the Minnesota River where I used to live, it was so foggy that you couldn't see in front of you. I knew kind of where the road was, but if I hadn't been familiar with that area, if I had no clue of where the street was that I needed to turn, I would have been lost in the fog because it was so thick along the Minnesota River. It's one of those things where you want to get, if you have a passenger, you want to send him out in front of the vehicle to walk along and make sure that you're still on the road because you just can't see anything. And sometimes that is the way that it is in our life. And we just don't know, you know, where the next turn is. We just don't know what to do. And so in that situation in life, obviously, we need to call out and pray. We need to pray that God would guide us, that God would help us through, that God would help us to do the right thing in the right way. And as I mentioned before, David was called the man after God's own heart, but he wasn't perfect. So there were times when he did sinful things. There were times when he compromised his integrity, and there was that one memorable sin with Bathsheba that he's known for. But in the later days of his life, as he looks back, he gives us this prayer that has a theme of three things trust, placing confidence in God even when life is unstable. And two, guidance, seeking his path instead of forcing our own. And three, forgiveness, relying on his mercy instead of being defined by our sins. So this psalm, actually, in the King James Version, verses one through eight, I think, was a camp song that he used to sing when I was a kid. Unto thee, O Lord, is a hymn from Psalm 25. So sing it sung in rounds, the the man or the guy sing, and then the women echo, and we're not going to sing that right now, but just an interesting song. It's a good psalm. A good psalm. So, number one in this psalm, the first point is to trust God when you don't know what to do. To trust God when you don't know what to do. There's people in life when they don't know what to do, they won't do anything. They'll just sit there and they don't have a clue, so they won't do anything. There's other people in life that don't have a clue of what to do, so they just run full speed ahead and they're like, we'll just figure it out when we get there. That's not always a great idea. That's not always the greatest plan. It's not a great plan, too, guys, when you're supposed to assemble something for the kids and you're like, yeah, I don't need the directions. So you assemble it all and you're like, oops, I forgot those main bolts. I didn't even know I needed that. And because you love your children or grandchildren or whoever so much, you're gonna tear it all apart and put it back together again. There's work and there's rework. But to run ahead. Years ago when I was a youth pastor, we had a ton of junior high kids. I don't remember how many we had. There was a family and faith night at the Timberwolves, and we were at the Target Center, and I'd gone from the park. We had all these church vans. And so I think we had like 40 junior hires or something like that. And so we're in the parking ramp, and all these some of these kids are running full speed down the stairway. And I'm like, I yelled down the stairway, I'm like, where are you going? And they're like, We don't know. And I'm like, get back up here. The skyway's on the third floor. And they're like, okay. And I think that is what happens to a lot of us is we just run full speed, and God's like, Where are you going? And we're like, we don't know. And God's like, you are in the wrong place. And but this psalm that David gives us is a treasure. And he starts out with this is also, I believe, a third day song. In you, Lord my God, I put my trust. I trust in you. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame, but shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause. So this is how David starts his prayer. He doesn't start out with, Oh Lord, my life is a mess and I need you to fix it right now. And here's my plan, or here's what I did to get in this mess. He starts out with, God, I trust you. I'm coming to you because I fully trust you. He's declaring his faith in the Lord. And when we have troubles and we pray, we should declare our trust in the Lord. This prayer that we're looking at fits the pattern of many of the other prayer patterns we're familiar with. Like I mentioned, acts of prayer, ACTS, for we adore the Lord. We confess our sins. Then T is for thanksgiving. We're thankful for everything. And we tell God that we're thankful for this and that. And then supplication. We pray for others and we pray for ourselves. And the formula of what David is doing here is very similar. But do not let me put be put to shame. So when I think about shame, I think about embarrassment. I think about the couple who fell off a cruise ship, and they begged the media people not to release their name because they didn't ever want to be forever known on the internet as the couple who fell off the cruise ship. That kind of shame is what I think about. But in this day, God's honor was tied to David. So in the ancient world, shame wasn't just embarrassment. It was the loss of honor, dignity, and standing, especially in connection to your God. If David's enemies triumphed over him, it would not only humiliate him personally, but also call into question the God he served. So that's why it's much about God's reputation as David's. Then he says, No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame. So to hope in God, to trust God, Romans 10 11 says, anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame. So we follow after the Lord, we do his will, we do his way, and sometimes people won't understand, sometimes we'll be persecuted for it. Sometimes government authorities or neighbors or family people will tell us to stop, but we keep serving and living for the Lord the way we're supposed to, and we can trust that God will get us through. So in 1 Samuel 22, David was hiding in the cave of Adulum. He did not know where his next meal would come from, and his army was a group of distressed and dead and discontented men, and he had no idea what tomorrow would bring, but he knew that he could trust in God. Proverbs 3 5 says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding, and all your ways submit to him, and he will make your path straight. So when you don't know what to do, you go to the Lord first. You trust in God when you don't know what to do. When your future is certain, start prayer. Start praying and trusting, not fearing. Begin by affirming who God is and placing yourself in his care. So remember that as you are a Christ follower, that God's honor is tied to your life in experience, and people are watching, and you can know with confidence that God cares about you and he will not abandon you. And refuse to divine trust by immediate outcomes. So that's one thing that I struggle with sometimes is I like immediate outcomes. I'm like, okay, I did this, I did the four steps. I'm like, okay. All right, God, I'm ready. Ready. Bless me, provide, fix it, do it. Let's get it done. Come on. And sometimes God waits. Sometimes God waits because he's working on the other people. Sometimes God waits because he's bringing together their circumstances. Sometimes God waits because he's trying to make sure that he builds character in me. Sometimes God waits because he wants to make sure that we knew that it was God who provided, God who answered, God who came to our rescue. And that is a good thing. So again, I already mentioned this. But number two, seek God's truth to guide your steps. Seek God's truth to guide your steps. Again, there are times when we just want to do our own thing our own way. Or we look at the way things could be done, and we're like, that's the way to do it. There's no other way it can be done. And but it turns out there could be other ways. Just real quick, years ago, I on Saturdays, while I was finished in Bible college, worked at a place that I had to make deliveries in the company van from Minnetonka to Minneapolis. And so I knew the way to get there on the highway and everything. And so I went, or I was talking to another guy that used to deliver on that route. And he said, Did you know there's a shortcut that takes, I don't know, like some minutes off of your drive if you would take this shortcut? I'm like, Yeah, that's a crime-ridden neighborhood. That's not really a great neighborhood. And he's like, It's not a great neighborhood, but you're driving through it early in the morning. He's like, Your fear isn't the criminals because they're all asleep. Your fear is the little kids that are playing in between the cars out in the streets. But he's like, I take that route. I took that route all the time on Saturdays, and it's a pretty safe way to go. And sometimes when believers come alongside you, sometimes God helps you to see ways to make positive steps, to make steps that make a difference. But you need to ask God. Ask God to help you. And David prays, Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths, guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior, and my hope is in you all day long. So again, David isn't saying, you know, I know the way. He is saying, God, show me your ways, teach me your paths, those well-worn paths, those the way that I should go. So he wants the patterns that lead to truth and to lead to life. He doesn't want to wander aimlessly or repeat past mistakes. He wants God Himself to be the teacher, to be the guide, and to guide him in truth. Now, David wrote this in a time when not everybody had the Holy Spirit all the time. If you believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, we receive the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit helps us to understand Scripture, encourages us in our faith, gives us at least one spiritual gift to do ministry. And so we have the Holy Spirit to help us. But to teach me your past, to guide me in your truth. Again, that comes to, we want to be spending time in God's Word. We want to be praying for the Spirit to enlighten, bring Scripture to mind. A lot of times scripture we've memorized in the past comes to mind and helps guide us and direct us. And sometimes we make choices based on verses that we've memorized or been familiar with in the past or that God brings to mind to help us to follow in the right direction, to help us to seek God's truth, to guide our steps. And guiding us in our truth, in his truth, not our truth, guiding us in truth means that sometimes the way that God is guiding us is going to be countercultural. Sometimes society is like, well, we believe this, we do this, and we're like, wait, God's word, God's truth is Christians on the narrow way, not the broad way. And so to ask that, to pray for that, to ask God to guide us. Psalm 119, 105 says, Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. So the more time you spend in God's word, the more familiar you get with it, the better of a guide it is. So seeking guidance though starts with surrender. It starts with asking God to show us the plan, show us the way, show us the priority, show us the strategy. And so God's word is often our source of guidance. Sometimes when we come along trusted Christian, wise people, wise advisors, other Christ followers, and we share with them our difficulty, our struggle, sometimes they will have a word from the Lord for us that can encourage us, or they'll show us a passage, or they'll help us through, and that can be a really great thing. Number three, remember God's mercy more than your mistakes. Remember God's mercy more than your mistakes. So I used to have a, I think I mentioned this before, but uh one time when the kids were little, we were watching the river flood. So I was on this hill and we had this dodge spirit, and I used to tell people at our church that we went to, we arrived in the spirit today. I thought that was like a really righteous thing to say because we had a dodge spirit. Nonetheless, I was putting one of the kids in their car seat in the back and the door closed, and the door hit me in the head. I was so mad that I hit the back of the trunk and I dented it. And so then there's dent in the trunk, and I felt bad about that. So I put a bumper sticker over it, and it said, the next time Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of your future. I put that right on there. But Satan does that. He reminds you of your past sin, of the past things in your life that you're ashamed of, of the things that you know you shouldn't have done that you did do, and all of these things, he drags it up and tries to get you to stop serving the Lord, to get you to stop living for Jesus, to get you to just sit down and be quiet and think that God can't use you anymore. And that happened to David too. David went, if you read through the Old Testament, you see that David went through some difficult times. Sometimes it wasn't his fault, sometimes it was. But he prays. He says, Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. So he's talking about God's character. God's character is mercy and love. It's not like God had forgotten his mercy and love. It's not like God doesn't remember it. No, David is saying, Your character is love, your character is mercy. So remember, Lord, your great mercy and love. Then he says, Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways according to your love, remember me, for you, O Lord, are good. To remember those things. Jesus says that if we confess, if we confess our sins, that we're He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That's in 1 John. But to know that if the Holy Spirit brings a sin to mind, we should confess that. If we're a Christ follower, if we've been saved, if we're in Christ, if we realize we've sinned, and maybe the Holy Spirit brings that to mind, we should just confess that right then and there and say, Lord, I realize that what I did was wrong, or what I said was wrong, or what I thought was wrong, or please forgive me and help me not to do that again and to move forward, to accept that you have asked for forgiveness, that forgiveness is yours, and then to move on in that forgiveness. Sometimes we don't forgive ourselves and we need to. But according to your love, remember me, for you are good. So I'm not really sure all of the sins that David might have done when he was young. I mean, maybe he was arrogant as a youth, but he knows. And I don't know any of your sins when you were young or today, but God knows. And you should walk in forgiveness, you should walk forward in faith and not be stuck in that. And then he continues, Good and upright is the Lord. Therefore he instructs sinners in his ways, he guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. So to know that the Lord wants to turn sinners into saints, to know that Jesus wants to save you, but he loves you so much he doesn't want to leave you there. He wants to help you to grow in wholeness and he wants to help you to grow in holiness so that you can enjoy this life and be greatly used by God to offer hope to all the other people around you who are drowning in the guilt of their sin, who do not know the ways of the Lord, who do not know the ways of God. And he guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. God takes humble people and he lifts them up. God takes humble people and he can use them to do amazing things. God takes humble people, he guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. Are you humble? When guilt rises, focus on who God is before you focus on what you've done. His mercy and love are part of his unchanging character. So God's forgiveness is not earned, it is given because of his covenant love and for the glory of his name. And you can move forward in freedom, not because your past is small, but because God's mercy is greater than all of your sin. And then he says, All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant. For the sake of your name, Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great. So this is a great template to pray. This is a great model to follow after. So what you would do is you would look into Psalm 25, and as you would read it through, maybe out loud, you would change some of the words. Maybe you would insert your name in there. Maybe you would name some of the sins that you feel so burdened by. Maybe you would list some of the things that you think that maybe God wants you to do or the direction that you're headed in. So you would personalize it and pray it back to the Lord, and you will be rewarded for that. You would have a better prayer life. It's so wonderful when you can pray the words of God back to God. That is a powerful way to pray and to apply scripture to your life. So remember God's mercy more than your mistakes. Don't let your mistakes paralyze you. Matter of fact, if people bring up your mistakes, maybe you just own it and you're like, yes, I did that. Yes. That was embarrassing. That was wrong. That was unfortunate. I'm sorry. But Jesus has forgiven me. He's changing me. I'm not the person I used to be. I'm not perfect, but I'm on the way to becoming more and more like Jesus. How about you? Maybe that's a good way for that conversation. Number four, walk humbly in the fear of the Lord. Walk humbly in the fear of the Lord. So the fear of the Lord isn't terror that makes you run from God, but it's a respect. You're in awe of the Lord. You want to follow his ways. You revere him. It's a submission that draws you to him in worship, in obedience. You want to align your life choices with his will. You want to follow his way, to walk humbly in the fear of the Lord. And David prays in verse 12. Who then are those who fear the Lord? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose. They will spend their days in prosperity and their descendants will inherit the land. That sounds pretty awesome, but I want you to know that doesn't mean that just because you follow the Lord, that you're going to be rich. So God can bless you. And overall, if you are a sincere Christ follower doing the things of God, there's a high probability that God may bless your finances in a way that you have more than enough, that you can be generous, that you have things saved away, that God blesses your life and your finances. But it's not a guarantee. So it's not the prosperity gospel that means that if you're doing this, you're going to be rich, rich, rich. No, God will provide what you need. And their descendants will inherit the land. Talk about generations after generations of people following God. Which is interesting because this isn't just a psalm of David, but it's also one of those teaching ones where each verse starts out with a Hebrew letter. And so we saw other psalms like that. But the point was, David thought this, shared this, prayed this, wrote this down. The people who came after him use this as a template for prayer. It was taught as a way to pray to the Lord. Verse 14, the Lord confides in those who fear him. He makes his covenant known to them, and his eyes are my eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare. The snare. As we go through life, no matter how close to God we are, no matter how much we want to live our life in a godly way, there's always spiritual temptations, there's always things around us. Satan's always trying to trip us up. And the Lord can help us as we try to live a righteous life as we go through life, not to get tripped up in the snare, in the trap, in the things that will trip us up. And that is a good thing to know. That is a good way to be. Proverbs 9 10 says, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. So when you live in humble awe of the Lord, you will be heading in the right direction. Fearing God means placing his opinion above all others, even your own. A humble God, revering heart opens the door to deeper intimacy with him, and keep your eyes on the Lord daily. Guidance is not a one-time download, but an ongoing relationship. Five, call on God and wait with integrity. Call on God and wait with integrity. Sometimes that is the hardest part, like I mentioned before, is waiting. Waiting for God to answer, waiting for God's plan, waiting for God to do what he's going to do. Waiting for God so that you can accomplish what you need to accomplish. Verse 16, turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish. Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins. David is praying now, not just for the stuff that he did, but now he's praying through the stuff that he feels. And so David is in a point of his life where he feels lonely and afflicted, and the troubles of his heart cause him anguish. And sometimes that's how we feel too. Sometimes we can be surrounded by a group of people. We can be in a crowd. It's like when you're, if you go to a big high school, you can be, like I went to a high school, had 2,500 students at one point. You'd be around 2,500 students and still feel lonely. And you can cry out to God about your loneliness, about how you feel, about your anguish. You can pray that God would give you a friend. I pray for all of the students going to school, that every one of them would have at least one godly friend that helps them to grow in Christ and helps them through the trials and struggles of junior high or high school or college. And David prays, See how numerous are my enemies and how fiercely they hate me. Guard my life and rescue me, and do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you. And then he says, Deliver Israel, O God, from all their troubles. And that's how the psalm ends. But so he lists. He's like, God, I got some problems. I think you know what they are, but let me just name them. Numerous enemies. Uh, a bunch of people hate me. I feel at risk for my life, so rescue me, help me, help me, help me avoid shame, help me to take refuge in you. So integrity and uprightness, protect me. We trust in that. And then he ends with deliver Israel, O God, from all of their troubles. And maybe as we're going through life, when we feel alone or overlooked to call on God honestly and know that he hears the cry of the afflicted, so maybe we confess both the sins that are within and the threats that are all around, because God cares about both. And waiting with integrity means refusing to take matters into your own hands in ways that violate God. So there's times when David didn't know what to do. He's like, Should I pursue the enemy or should I not? Let's ask God, let's pray about this before we do something crazy. But this part about this last verse, deliver me, deliver Israel, oh God, from all of their enemies. That was his nation. That was his people. And for us, you know, deliver us, deliver our church, deliver our nation, deliver our people from our troubles and our enemies. Maybe God bless the church. Maybe, you know, God please provide, guide, and bless America. And so as we think about that, just real quick, I wanted to talk about the church, this church. So Satan wants to do everything he can to destroy this church, to pull this church apart, to find ways to get in there and cause us to divide, cause us to whisper, cause us to be angry with one another, cause us to rip apart. And so sometimes in the church that happens, and it is a sad thing. And 1 Peter 5.8 says, be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kinds of suffering. I want us to think about that. Is there anything that we have that makes that angry at somebody about that were there somebody in the church that we need to confess something to, say something to, encourage something up? That might be a good thing to do before we leave here today. But let me pray. Jesus, I thank you so much for these people. I thank you for the opportunity to proclaim this wonderful psalm that is a template for prayer. I pray that we would put it into action. I pray that we would pray like this. I pray that as we have struggles, that we would know exactly how to go into the throne room and talk to the Heavenly Father about the problems, the issues, the struggles that we have, and that we would find peace and a solution. And that out of your great mercies, that you would do great things that we would praise you for in Jesus' name.