Episode 2: Psalms 109

Welcome to my podcast, where I’ll be sharing from my heart stories and thoughts that I hope will teach and encourage others in their walk with God. I know that sharing what the Lord is doing in our lives or has done in our lives serves as an authentic testimony to God’s love and power. So let’s get started with today’s episode titled Psalms 109.

Lord, we give you this day, we give you this morning and we ask father that you do much with the little that we have to offer. Lord, I pray, that whatever obstacles we’re facing today, that we look to you to be able to overcome them. Thank you, Lord, that you are always there in Jesus name. Amen.

All right, so I might sound a little tired this morning for this podcast, but I just have to share with you how this morning has gone. Just to have a little setup before this morning, last week I got to spend some time with family and I really was thinking about how to get started with these podcasts. What I decided that I need is that I need to be a lot more intentional and that to be intentional, I’m going to have to have to make a schedule. So last week at my family’s house, I wrote out a schedule for my week. This is what I’m going to do at this time and I scheduled in when I was going to study and work for providing this podcast. I left my family’s house on Friday last week and realized that I left not only that schedule, but my Bible, my Bible study and my computer and just lots of other things. So I was feeling by Friday evening, very discouraged about this whole schedule thing for next week. My family got that stuff in the mail and it’ll be coming late next week. So Sunday night was my husband I’s anniversary and we went to a concert to celebrate which was lots of fun, but I got home really late Sunday night. I wrote down my schedule just for tomorrow, just to get ready for Monday, wrote down my schedule and I scheduled in Bible study time, even though I don’t really have my book that we’re using in my women’s Bible study group that I’m co-leading. But I was just going to sit down for an hour from 7:30 to 8:30, open up my Bible, you know, pray talk to the Lord, write down whatever is showing me or or whatever questions I have.

So I was gonna do that from 7:30 to 8:30 Monday morning. About 11:30 last night, we went to bed and I could not sleep. I don’t feel like I slept, but I’m not really sure because all I could remember is being awake all night long, tossing and turning. The alarm went off at 7:30 this morning and I was not ready. I think probably the snooze went off once or twice before I got myself out of bed. It’s a glorious rainy fall morning where I live, which is such a gift because it’s been just blazing hot. The Lord told me as I was talking to him this morning when I was laying in bed saying, I don’t know if I can do this, Lord, can I just sleep? and he said, I will sustain you physically. I said, OK and I got out of bed, decided not even to make coffee because the Lord is going to sustain me physically today. Instead, I opened the windows to where I’m going to study. I open the windows and I started worship music on Alexa because I love that background, worship music. I got that started and I admired the weather for just a minute with my open windows, a little bit of rain still falling on dry leaves. It’s just this glorious moment. Then my dog came out, so I knew I needed to take him out. So I took him out and still excited about getting started, but running late from my 7:30 scheduled start time.

The dog goes the bathroom. We come back in the house and I am ready. Music’s playing windows open. I just need to get my Bible, my backup Bibles and some paper. So I go into my dining room and I’m starting to gather these things and I step in a big pile of the dog’s crap. I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I was not happy about it, but in some ways it was kind of funny because I’m trying to get started here and I’ve gotten no sleep and I’m running late and things need to be done. Dog needs to be taken out. And now I’ve stepped in the dogs business from last night. I get the things to clean the floors up, to clean myself up and I’m now finally ready to get this scheduled time in with the Lord.

I grab my books and my notebook, my Bible, and I come sit down into my spot that I’ve designated with the windows open and the music playing. I get ready to crack open my Bible and my husband, who has been back in the bathroom getting ready for his day comes around the corner and just sits down right here next to me and all my attention is on him because he’s getting ready to leave for the day. I retell him this entire story and he is laughing hysterically because it’s just funny.

I end the story I am telling him with, “And now you just sat down and I have exactly now 24 minutes left of my hour to study with the Lord.”

We laughed about that for a minute and he said, there is the title for your podcast you’re going to record this morning called,  You Can’t Schedule the Lord. I loved it and I think he’s right.

I think that we do need to set up good intentions. We do need to set up good habits, but life and the enemy will get in the way. So will your dog and your husband and the beautiful weather and the lack of sleep and a million other things will get in the way of your intentions today. I want to encourage you to praise the Lord anyway. I want to encourage you to sit down for whatever time that you have. I want to encourage you to open the word of God, whether it’s an hour, whether it’s 24 minutes or whether it’s five minutes. When I did finally get to open up the word of God, I opened up to Psalms 109.  I want to read verse 1 to you, Psalms 109. Verse 1 says, “God of my praise, do not be silent.” I love that verse, because no matter what is going on in your life right now, whatever is getting in the way of your schedule, getting in the way getting of your emotions, your feelings, getting in the way of your good intentions, whatever that is, praise the Lord through it right now. It’s the God of our praise that we will ask to not be silent. It’s a beautiful verse. I would encourage you to continue to read Psalms 109. David then talks about his enemies and all the people that are speaking against him. He asked the Lord to deal with them and then he at the end of verse 109, he asked the Lord for help. I love that that God allows us to process through our situations and what the enemy is doing to us, but let’s begin with praise and let’s end with humility.  Lord, we need your help. I hope that you are encouraged today with my mess and I hope that you are encouraged with God’s word today. Please read Psalms 109 today.