When Anxiety Talks And Psalms Talk Back

Fear doesn’t wait until your faith feels strong, so we lean into a better question: what does it look like to trust God while you’re still feeling it? We open with Psalm 56 and a simple, steady confession, “In God I will praise His Word… in God I have put my trust.” For us, that’s more than a memory verse. It’s a way to anchor the mind when pressure, uncertainty, or guilt tries to take over. 

From there we make a clear turn to the difference between law and grace. Sinai shows us the standard, but it also exposes the truth that none of us can produce righteousness on our own. We talk about the new covenant promise, the “new and living way,” and why following Jesus changes the entire frame of obedience. Grace is not permission to drift. Grace is power to live, because it puts our confidence in Christ instead of our performance. 

We also slow down on the gospel itself: God’s love, the reality of sin and spiritual death, and the gift of eternal life in Jesus. Then we bring it home with what it means that Christ dwells in us through faith. Practical trust grows as we commit our way to the Lord, feed on His faithfulness (Psalm 37), and let “the word of His grace” build us up (Acts 20:32). Psalm 19 helps explain why Scripture changes people: it converts the soul, makes wise the simple, and enlightens the eyes. 

We close with the Holy Spirit and the daily call to walk in the Spirit rather than the flesh, ending in prayer and a final benediction of God’s keeping power. If this encouraged you, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs steadiness, and leave a review with the Scripture that has carried you lately.

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Transcript

Opening Praise And Purpose

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I hear your loving voices coming and speaking to one another. It is so beautiful to hear the voice of the Christian, the voice of the one who understands, the one who allows Christ uh to be in them through faith. It's so wonderful to be a Christian. Today tonight we are going to uh talk to you about from Psalms fifty-six Psalm throughout uh the Psalms fifty-six and the other Psalms too. I want to talk to you about trusting, praising the Lord and His Word. I heard in prayer, Brother Raymond, he mentioned God's word. We want to understand God's word, it's important. Being a Christian, we walk according to his word. We live according to his word. In John, at one of the miracles of Jesus, his mother was there, and she made a statement. She said this, whatever he says to you, do it. Whatever Jesus says to you and me, do it. Follow him. He is the living word. The Bible says Psalms fifty six, the verse four. In God, I will praise His Word. In God, I have put my trust in God. I will praise His Word in the Lord. I will trust His Word in God. I have put my trust. You have magnified your word above all your name. Psalm fifty six verse four. Psalm fifty six verses ten through eleven. Let's look into his word tonight. As a Christian, we don't have to go to Sinai for the law. We are not under the law. It's present day, we're under grace. We have a new and living way. Not under the old testament. The old testament we had to do what we thought was right. We couldn't do it. We couldn't uh we didn't have within us that time without Christ, we couldn't do anything else in the law. So the Lord testified against us. The Lord looked down from heaven to see if he could find anyone that was righteous. What was the answer? We couldn't find one. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. None righteous, you wouldn't righteous. I was not righteous, didn't know how to be, but the law called us be righteous, be holy. We didn't know how on our own to be holy, but to be righteous. Thanks be to God for the new way. God has said to his prophet Jeremiah that there would come to be a new way who God was going to deal with us as human beings. And he is dealing with us today, the present day, under the new and living way. The new way is following Christ. The new way is trusting in Jesus and His Word, the new way, the living way. Thank God for Jesus. It's because God so loved us, so loved us that He gave His Son. Why did He give His Son for our sins? The payment for the wages of sin is death. Since all of us sinned against God, we all are subject to death. But God loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son to deliver us from this spiritual, this spiritual death. He wants to give us eternal life, and this eternal life is in Christ. And thank God that Christ dwells in us. We've got to understand He dwells in us, testify to it. Love to talk about Jesus, how He dwells in us through faith. To live by grace, one must trust in the Lord. David urged others to trust in the Lord. Trust in the Lord. Feed on his faithfulness. Commit your way to the Lord. Trust also in him. Psalms thirty seven and verse three says, Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness. Verse five of the thirty-seven Psalm says, Commit your way to the Lord. And we learn to do that. We learn what it means to live spiritually and to have a life in Christ. David himself trusted in the Lord. In God. I have put my trust. Part of trusting in the Lord involved holding his word in an exalting place, trusting in, honoring it, praising it. David proclaimed I will praise his word. This is an inherent part of living by grace, since it is the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance. This is found in Acts twenty in verse thirty two. God's word is so trustworthy, so praiseworthy, David proclaimed the unique character of God's word, which gives the word its incomparable effectiveness. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. In Psalms nineteen and verse seven, God's word is fully sufficient. The Lord has nothing out, has left nothing out of it that we need for spiritual development. Therefore, it can transform lives into what God wants them to be. Furthermore, the testimony of the Lord is sure. Psalms nineteen and verse seven, making wise the simple. Enlightening the eyes, Psalms nineteen and verse eight. God's word is holy and untained. Man's words are polluted with sin and self and all sorts of unrighteousness. When people feed on contaminated words of humanity their eyes become dull and lightless. Contrary wise when the words of the Lord are consistently taken in, one's eyes shine with heaven's light, praise God, upon consideration of the unparalleled character and ability of God's word. It is no surprise that the Spirit of God inspired David to exclaim, Oh he cried out, You have magnified your word above your name. Praise God. He has given you and me the Holy Spirit to be active in our lives. The Bible teaches you and me, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Human beings, without Christ, we just have the lust of the flesh. We live according to the flesh, and it kills us. But the Holy Spirit build us up and give us life. That's why God through His Son has left you in me. The Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit abide in you and me. We have to praise him. Christ, in you is the hope of glory. Dear Lord our God, I see we see that the words from your heart are to be treated just as you are to be treated as part of my trust in you and my praise for you. I confess my trust in and praise for your word. Please use the word of your grace to transform and to shake our lives in every way. In Jesus' name. Amen. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before his presence with exceeding joy. Amen.