# 505 Praying Through Psalms 69: When the Waters Are Up to Your Neck!

An episode of [Praying Christian Women](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1436550370), 29 Oct 2026, 21 min.

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Don't forget to grab your free scripture journal at PrayingChristianWomen.com/journal today! What happens when the rising waters of life—whether a devastating health diagnosis, financial ruin, or the slow erosion of your reputation—leave you feeling completely trapped and sinking into the mire? Join Jaime on the Praying Christian Women Podcast for a deeply comforting and raw devotional on Psalm 69, a powerful chapter that meets us in our lowest moments of panic and anxiety, while pointing us toward the ultimate hope of our Redeemer. Drawing from a vivid, real-life illustration of Alaska’s treacherous glacial mudflats and rapidly rushing bore tides, Jaime paints an unforgettable picture of what David meant when he cried out that the waters had risen to his neck with no foothold in sight. She explores how David’s desperate pleas give us permission to bring our own untidy, raw, and seemingly hopeless emotions directly to the throne of grace, reminding us that authenticity and trust go hand in hand when we are straining our eyes waiting for God to move. Along the way, we see how David’s deep distress foreshadows the suffering of Jesus on the cross, and Jaime thoughtfully unpacks the challenging concept of "imprecatory prayers"—those jarring verses where David calls down God’s wrath upon his adversaries. Through the lens of New Testament grace, she offers wise, practical perspective on shifting our focus away from flesh-and-blood enemies to recognize the true spiritual battle against the principalities of darkness. Come ready to lay down your deepest anxieties—the exhausting false accusations, the overwhelming debts, and the situations threatening to swallow you whole. Let this episode remind you that our Savior is bigger than the fiercest tides working against you. Because He is a God who hears the needy, who lifts our feet out of the suffocating silt to set us securely on high, and whose redeeming power can turn even the very seas that threatened to drown us into a chorus of praise for His glory. Discover More: Explore additional episodes of Praying Christian Women, Mindful Christian Prayers, and other Christian podcasts at Lifeaudio.com Check out our new podcast, Christian True-Crime Junkies!, on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts! Connect with Us: Stay updated and engage with our community: On Substack @PrayingChristianWomen On Facebook @PrayingChristianWomen On Instagram @PrayingChristianWomen On YouTube: @PrayingChristianWomen Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

## Transcript

[0:02] Speaker 1: Life Audio Hi there, and welcome to another Prayer Through
[0:07] Speaker 1: the Psalms episode of the Praying Christian Women podcast. I'm Jamie,
[0:12] Speaker 1: and I'm excited to be back. We've taken a long
[0:14] Speaker 1: hiatus from our Prayers Through the Psalms over the summer
[0:18] Speaker 1: and kind of into the fall, and I'm really excited
[0:21] Speaker 1: to bring back these weekly devotions because it's a highlight
[0:25] Speaker 1: of my week, and I hope it's a highlight of yours.
[0:28] Speaker 1: We are into Psalm 69. So we've done 68 Psalms
[0:32] Speaker 1: before now. So we're just moving through them. And this
[0:37] Speaker 1: one is kind of a long one. And some of
[0:41] Speaker 1: the passages are going to be familiar to you because
[0:45] Speaker 1: they're quoted a lot in reference to Jesus' suffering on
[0:49] Speaker 1: the cross. And some of them have familiar imagery about
[0:55] Speaker 1: sinking in the muck and the mire. I particularly love
[0:59] Speaker 1: the Psalms that talk about sinking because I have a
[1:03] Speaker 1: very vivid object lesson kind of from our time in Alaska.
[1:08] Speaker 1: So when we get into the actual text of this chapter,
[1:13] Speaker 1: you'll notice it talks about sinking into the mud and
[1:15] Speaker 1: then it talks about being in the water up to
[1:17] Speaker 1: my neck. And there's a very sad and scary but
[1:23] Speaker 1: true situation in Alaska. So I believe Alaska has, if
[1:28] Speaker 1: not the largest tide gradient and fastest incoming and outgoing
[1:34] Speaker 1: tides of anywhere in the world, at least one of
[1:37] Speaker 1: the quickest change of tides and one of the most
[1:42] Speaker 1: large tide gradients of anywhere on the planet, which means
[1:46] Speaker 1: that when the tide goes out, it goes out quickly
[1:49] Speaker 1: and it goes out a lot. And when the tide
[1:52] Speaker 1: comes in, it comes in quickly and it comes in
[1:54] Speaker 1: a lot and way faster than anyone that doesn't have
[1:57] Speaker 1: experience with it will expect it to. In addition to this,
[2:02] Speaker 1: which can be dangerous for someone trying to cross an
[2:04] Speaker 1: area of a stream or a river or body of
[2:08] Speaker 1: water that looks like it's actual solid ground, even if
[2:13] Speaker 1: it's just regular solid ground and you're going across and
[2:15] Speaker 1: the tide comes in quickly, it can take you by surprise.
[2:17] Speaker 1: They actually have something called a bore tide that comes
[2:21] Speaker 1: different heights at different times. People actually will surf it
[2:24] Speaker 1: on the tourniquet arm. And it is just a large,
[2:29] Speaker 1: basically where the incoming and outgoing tide meet, and it
[2:32] Speaker 1: forms kind of a little, like a wave. And it
[2:34] Speaker 1: can be a large wave, it can be a middle-sized
[2:36] Speaker 1: wave or a small wave, but it carries surfers, so
[2:39] Speaker 1: it's significant. So basically, you gotta be careful. But if
[2:43] Speaker 1: that weren't enough of the tide coming in quickly and
[2:45] Speaker 1: going out quickly, we have something interesting we have glacial
[2:50] Speaker 1: silt that forms mudflats. So if you think of cornstarch,
[2:55] Speaker 1: it's what's called a non-Newtonian fluid. So when you step
[2:58] Speaker 1: on it, when you smack it with your hand, it
[3:01] Speaker 1: becomes solid. And when you let it go, it just
[3:03] Speaker 1: kind of like turns back into sort of a mushy liquid.
[3:09] Speaker 1: I you know, kids will play with it and stuff. Well,
[3:15] Speaker 1: picture something like this with very, very fine particles formed
[3:18] Speaker 1: by glaciers coming down mountains and turning soil and rock
[3:23] Speaker 1: into tiny, tiny, fine, fine grains of particles. And because
[3:28] Speaker 1: they're so tiny and fine, like cornstarch, when they mix
[3:31] Speaker 1: with water, they form basically quicksand is what it ends
[3:35] Speaker 1: up being. So when there's absolutely no water and you
[3:39] Speaker 1: have a completely low tide, It might feel solid as
[3:44] Speaker 1: you're walking on it. You can kind of see a
[3:45] Speaker 1: little bit of liquid in it, but just a little
[3:48] Speaker 1: bit of liquid, a little bit of water coming up
[3:51] Speaker 1: and it becomes quicksand. So every year someone ends up
[3:57] Speaker 1: going out on the mudflats thinking, going for a walk
[3:59] Speaker 1: because it looks like open area and a tide will
[4:04] Speaker 1: come in way quicker than the person thinks and and
[4:07] Speaker 1: they'll get stuck. And what happens is, just like quicksand,
[4:10] Speaker 1: the more you struggle, the deeper your feet go into
[4:13] Speaker 1: this glacial silt. And as the tide comes in, very sadly,
[4:19] Speaker 1: and unfortunately, sometimes people die. It's been known to happen.
[4:22] Speaker 1: I don't know when the last time was, but it's
[4:24] Speaker 1: probably not even been a handful of years, maybe just
[4:27] Speaker 1: a couple of years since someone has died due to
[4:29] Speaker 1: going out on the mudflats. All of this to say
[4:32] Speaker 1: that what will happen is the tide comes in and
[4:35] Speaker 1: the water rises and rises. You can't get your feet out.
[4:39] Speaker 1: And eventually it gets up to your neck. And this
[4:42] Speaker 1: is the picture I have when I read what David
[4:44] Speaker 1: says in this psalm. It's panic and just intense anxiety
[4:52] Speaker 1: due to impending doom. So I want you to kind
[4:56] Speaker 1: of have this picture, not to be morbid, but in
[4:59] Speaker 1: this psalm, The water is up to his neck and
[5:02] Speaker 1: he can't get out. He is stuck just like someone
[5:06] Speaker 1: who would be stuck in the mudflats would be. If
[5:09] Speaker 1: you find yourself in a situation where you're feeling impending doom,
[5:13] Speaker 1: maybe it's not life or death, but maybe it's the
[5:16] Speaker 1: life or death of your reputation or maybe it's financial
[5:20] Speaker 1: ruin or maybe it's a health condition that might not
[5:25] Speaker 1: be life-threatening but is absolutely scary and devastating. Whatever it
[5:31] Speaker 1: happens to be, whatever your struggle, I want you to
[5:34] Speaker 1: put yourself in the position of David. And then I
[5:36] Speaker 1: want you to experience the progression from this desperation into
[5:42] Speaker 1: expression of his raw, true feelings. Because he, more than
[5:47] Speaker 1: anyone else in the Bible, demonstrates, gives us permission to
[5:52] Speaker 1: be angry with God, to be desperate, to feel hopeless,
[5:57] Speaker 1: and yet to go to God with those feelings. Let's pray.
[6:13] Speaker 1: Let's pray. We just come to you today asking that
[6:32] Speaker 1: you would point us to truths in this passage, that
[6:36] Speaker 1: you would point us to examples of how we can
[6:39] Speaker 1: live our own lives with more authenticity in our relationship
[6:43] Speaker 1: with you, with more trust, and just with the freedom
[6:48] Speaker 1: to express our raw and true and sometimes untidy emotions
[6:53] Speaker 1: to you through prayer. We just pray that if there
[6:56] Speaker 1: are any barriers between us and reading your word and
[7:00] Speaker 1: hearing from your Holy Spirit, that you would just break
[7:03] Speaker 1: them down in Jesus' name. We confess any sin, whether
[7:08] Speaker 1: it's sin in our thoughts, in our words, in our actions,
[7:12] Speaker 1: whether it's sin we're aware of or sin we're not
[7:14] Speaker 1: aware of. We pray that you would take it from us.
[7:18] Speaker 1: We lay it at the feet of Jesus because we can,
[7:20] Speaker 1: because he died to pay the penalty for those sins.
[7:25] Speaker 1: And you've promised to remove them as far as the
[7:27] Speaker 1: East is from the West. And that when you look
[7:30] Speaker 1: at us, you see your son. You see purity. And
[7:34] Speaker 1: you're able to commune with us in a way that
[7:36] Speaker 1: would not be possible without Jesus. So we thank you
[7:40] Speaker 1: for the gift of Jesus as well. And for the
[7:42] Speaker 1: gift of your word. And we just pray that you
[7:44] Speaker 1: would bless this time of meditation on your word and prayer.
[7:49] Speaker 1: And we just pray that your word would go out
[7:52] Speaker 1: today and not return empty. In Jesus' name, amen. All right,
[7:58] Speaker 1: let's read this Psalm. This is a long one, I'm
[8:01] Speaker 1: warning you, but it's really, really good. So hang in there.
[8:05] Speaker 1: Psalm 69. And as usual, this is from the NASB,
[8:09] Speaker 1: the New American Standard Bible, 1995. I just really like
[8:12] Speaker 1: this translation to read the Psalms. It says, a cry
[8:16] Speaker 1: of distress and imprecation on adversaries. This is the first
[8:21] Speaker 1: time I've seen this in a description. Imprecation is an
[8:26] Speaker 1: imprecatory prayer. or basically calling down God's wrath on enemies.
[8:31] Speaker 1: And we've talked about this. Actually, Praying Christian Women has
[8:36] Speaker 1: episodes that address imprecatory prayers and whether or not it's
[8:39] Speaker 1: appropriate to call down curses on our enemies. You can look,
[8:44] Speaker 1: you know, Google that, look into it, see what you think,
[8:48] Speaker 1: come to your own conclusions. Not everything that's demonstrated in
[8:53] Speaker 1: the Bible is for everyone. On the other hand, prayer.
[8:58] Speaker 1: It's God's word. And I feel like we pray the
[9:01] Speaker 1: Psalms as our own prayers. Some of them will inevitably
[9:06] Speaker 1: be imprecatory. We've seen them before. I've just never seen
[9:10] Speaker 1: it written in a description from the Bible. So this
[9:13] Speaker 1: is for the choir director, according to Shoshanim, which means
[9:18] Speaker 1: the lilies, possibly, which some people think is in reference
[9:23] Speaker 1: to the tune that it was to be sung to,
[9:26] Speaker 1: which again, Like to be able to hear these Psalms
[9:30] Speaker 1: sung would be incredible, but we can't. Not until heaven.
[9:35] Speaker 1: And it is a Psalm of David. So this is
[9:37] Speaker 1: definitely attributed to David. Save me, O God, for the
[9:41] Speaker 1: waters have threatened my life. I have sunk deep in
[9:45] Speaker 1: mire or mudflats, if you want to sort of swap
[9:49] Speaker 1: that out in your head. And there is no foothold.
[9:53] Speaker 1: I have come into deep waters and a flood overflows me.
[9:57] Speaker 1: I'm weary with my crying. My throat is parched. my
[10:00] Speaker 1: eyes fail while i wait for my god those who
[10:03] Speaker 1: hate me without a cause are more than the hairs
[10:06] Speaker 1: of my head those who would destroy me are powerful
[10:09] Speaker 1: being wrongfully my enemies what i did not steal i
[10:13] Speaker 1: then have to restore So this first part is just
[10:17] Speaker 1: talking about that feeling of being overwhelmed. And it says,
[10:21] Speaker 1: my eyes fail while I wait for my God. It's
[10:23] Speaker 1: this picture of looking. I remember when I was a
[10:25] Speaker 1: kid and I would look for the school bus coming
[10:27] Speaker 1: to the bus stop. And my dad was way taller
[10:30] Speaker 1: than me. And so he would see it before I
[10:32] Speaker 1: would see it coming. He also, I think, had better
[10:34] Speaker 1: eyesight than me. And so it's kind of like David
[10:38] Speaker 1: just waiting, waiting on God. and just his eyes are
[10:42] Speaker 1: just getting tired from straining and looking and hoping, you know,
[10:45] Speaker 1: every moment he thinks God's going to come. Meanwhile, the
[10:49] Speaker 1: waters are coming higher and higher and higher, and there
[10:52] Speaker 1: is no foothold. These mud flats are sucking his feet in,
[10:56] Speaker 1: so he can't swim away. Oh God, it is you
[10:59] Speaker 1: who knows my folly, and my wrongs are not hidden
[11:02] Speaker 1: from you. May those who wait for you not be
[11:05] Speaker 1: ashamed through me, oh God, God of hosts. May those
[11:09] Speaker 1: who seek you not be dishonored through me, O God
[11:12] Speaker 1: of Israel, because for your sake I have borne reproach.
[11:16] Speaker 1: Dishonor has covered my face. I've become estranged from my
[11:20] Speaker 1: brothers and an alien to my mother's sons. Or zeal
[11:24] Speaker 1: for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of
[11:28] Speaker 1: those who reproach you have fallen on me. And I'm
[11:30] Speaker 1: going to note right here, zeal for your house has
[11:32] Speaker 1: consumed me is often quoted in verses parallel with Jesus
[11:38] Speaker 1: overthrowing the tables in the temple when the tax collectors
[11:44] Speaker 1: and the thieves were in the temple, cheating the people
[11:47] Speaker 1: of God. That is John 2, 17, after Jesus cleanses
[11:52] Speaker 1: the temple. His disciples remember this scripture from this psalm,
[11:56] Speaker 1: zeal for your house will consume me. I wept in
[11:59] Speaker 1: my soul with fasting. It became my reproach. When I
[12:03] Speaker 1: made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
[12:06] Speaker 1: Those who sit in the gate talk about me, and
[12:09] Speaker 1: I am the song of the drunkards. But as for me,
[12:12] Speaker 1: my prayer is to you, O Lord, at an acceptable time.
[12:16] Speaker 1: And here the tide turns a little bit where he's
[12:20] Speaker 1: laying his case out. He's feeling overwhelmed. He's been falsely accused.
[12:25] Speaker 1: He is sitting on debt that he didn't incur that
[12:28] Speaker 1: he now has to pay back. So there might be
[12:30] Speaker 1: a financial or Maybe it's symbolic of another kind of
[12:34] Speaker 1: debt that he's in. And basically he is in this
[12:40] Speaker 1: place of utter despair. And yet he says, but as
[12:43] Speaker 1: for me, no matter what happens, no matter what trials
[12:47] Speaker 1: and tribulations are piled up and heaped on me, as
[12:51] Speaker 1: for me, as a child of God, my prayer is
[12:54] Speaker 1: to you, God, in the greatness of your loving kindness,
[12:57] Speaker 1: answer me with your saving truth. Deliver me from the mire.
[13:02] Speaker 1: Do not let me sink. May I be delivered from
[13:05] Speaker 1: my foes and from the deep waters. May the flood
[13:08] Speaker 1: of water not overflow me, nor the deep swallow me up,
[13:12] Speaker 1: nor the pit shut its mouth on me, saying, Do
[13:15] Speaker 1: not rescue me before I drown. I'm so close to
[13:19] Speaker 1: drowning right now, but I need you and I believe
[13:21] Speaker 1: in you to save me before I drown. Answer me,
[13:24] Speaker 1: O Lord, for your loving kindness is good. According to
[13:27] Speaker 1: the greatness of your compassion, turn to me and do
[13:29] Speaker 1: not hide your face from your servant, for I am
[13:32] Speaker 1: in distress. Answer me quickly. Oh, draw near to my
[13:36] Speaker 1: soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
[13:40] Speaker 1: You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor.
[13:43] Speaker 1: All my adversaries are before you. Reproach has broken my
[13:47] Speaker 1: heart and I am so sick. And I looked for sympathy,
[13:50] Speaker 1: but there was none. And for comforters, but I found none.
[13:54] Speaker 1: They also gave me gall for my food. And for
[13:57] Speaker 1: my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. Again, this
[14:00] Speaker 1: is another reflection in the New Testament back to this
[14:04] Speaker 1: psalm when Jesus is offered vinegar when he's on the cross.
[14:08] Speaker 1: May their table before them become a snare. And when
[14:10] Speaker 1: they are in peace, may it become a trap. May
[14:13] Speaker 1: their eyes grow dim so they cannot see. This is
[14:15] Speaker 1: our imprecatory prayer. And make their loins shake continually. Pour
[14:20] Speaker 1: out your indignation on them. And may your burning anger
[14:23] Speaker 1: overtake them. May their camp be desolate. A little caution here.
[14:26] Speaker 1: This is David being very raw. And as I said,
[14:28] Speaker 1: there are things in the Bible like Solomon and other kings,
[14:54] Speaker 1: you know, David committing adultery just because he committed adultery
[14:56] Speaker 1: and was called a man of God's own heart doesn't
[14:59] Speaker 1: necessarily mean that committing adultery is right, right? It goes
[15:03] Speaker 1: against the Ten Commandments. It goes against God's best. Just
[15:07] Speaker 1: because Solomon had tons of horses and chariots, even though
[15:12] Speaker 1: the law said not to, and had multiple wives, even
[15:14] Speaker 1: though the law said not to, it's still in the Bible.
[15:17] Speaker 1: So I would caution praying that someone would go to hell.
[15:21] Speaker 1: This is pretty much what this is saying. This is pre-Jesus.
[15:25] Speaker 1: So their understanding of Sheol and of death was a
[15:28] Speaker 1: little different. But here he's saying there's a book of life.
[15:32] Speaker 1: To me, it looks like he's foreshadowing. I'm not a
[15:34] Speaker 1: scholar on the Jewish understanding of the afterlife. There's Abraham's bosom,
[15:39] Speaker 1: and then there's the abyss, which is in a parable
[15:42] Speaker 1: of Jesus that kind of fleshed that out a little bit.
[15:45] Speaker 1: But he's talking about a book of life. And he's saying,
[15:47] Speaker 1: blot them out of the book of life. Basically, let
[15:51] Speaker 1: them go to hell. And I would really caution, as
[15:54] Speaker 1: you are incorporating these psalms into your prayer life, to
[15:57] Speaker 1: look into this. Talk to a pastor. I'm not a theologian,
[16:01] Speaker 1: but I do know that in one of our episodes,
[16:04] Speaker 1: Alana and I talk about imprecatory prayer. I think our
[16:08] Speaker 1: understanding of this needs to be taken in context because
[16:13] Speaker 1: in Matthew 5, 43 to 44, it says, You've heard
[16:16] Speaker 1: that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and
[16:18] Speaker 1: hate your enemy. But I, Jesus, say to you, love
[16:21] Speaker 1: your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. David
[16:24] Speaker 1: was operating under Old Testament wisdom. And David was also,
[16:30] Speaker 1: the enemies that were coming against him were coming against
[16:33] Speaker 1: the God of Israel and his nation as well. And
[16:37] Speaker 1: I don't have a good answer for you other than
[16:40] Speaker 1: I personally don't believe that praying for someone to be
[16:43] Speaker 1: cut off from the possibility of salvation is biblical. I'm
[16:47] Speaker 1: going to leave it at that. I'm going to let
[16:48] Speaker 1: you dig into it because there are some who say
[16:51] Speaker 1: praying the imprecatory Psalms is fine. There are others such
[16:55] Speaker 1: as C.S. Lewis who doesn't necessarily agree with that. So
[17:00] Speaker 1: should we read God's word? Can we pray God's word? Absolutely.
[17:04] Speaker 1: But when we do, the way I address this is
[17:10] Speaker 1: I look at my enemy with a capital E as
[17:15] Speaker 1: Satan and his minions. who are already condemned to hell.
[17:19] Speaker 1: There's no way they can get out of that. That
[17:21] Speaker 1: has been decreed and his destiny and their destiny is hell.
[17:26] Speaker 1: So as I pray this Psalm, the way I would
[17:30] Speaker 1: pray it would be to think my enemy is not
[17:35] Speaker 1: flesh and blood, just like we learn in Ephesians. The
[17:39] Speaker 1: battle is not against flesh and blood. It's about the principalities,
[17:43] Speaker 1: the evil forces that set themselves up against God. So
[17:46] Speaker 1: that's how I handle this. If this question has piqued
[17:49] Speaker 1: your interest, I would really love for you to speak
[17:52] Speaker 1: to someone who is a theologian to give you some
[17:55] Speaker 1: insights or look further in scripture for your answers and
[17:59] Speaker 1: go to God with that. So anyway, no more time
[18:02] Speaker 1: on that. But I just I had to say that.
[18:04] Speaker 1: That's one. It's one thing to pray that God would
[18:07] Speaker 1: turn the traps of your enemies against them. I think
[18:10] Speaker 1: that's perfectly fine if the situation calls for it so
[18:13] Speaker 1: that they are ensnared in their own sin. I think
[18:16] Speaker 1: that's biblical, even New Testament biblical. But I do not
[18:19] Speaker 1: think praying for someone to go to hell is biblical
[18:23] Speaker 1: from what we know of who Jesus is. Okay. But
[18:26] Speaker 1: I am afflicted and in pain. May your salvation, O God,
[18:29] Speaker 1: and this is verse 29 that I'm picking back up on.
[18:31] Speaker 1: May your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.
[18:35] Speaker 1: I will praise the name of God with song and
[18:37] Speaker 1: magnify him with thanksgiving. And it will please the Lord
[18:40] Speaker 1: better than an ox or a young bull with horns
[18:42] Speaker 1: and hooves. The humble have seen it and are glad.
[18:46] Speaker 1: You who seek God, let your heart revive. For the
[18:48] Speaker 1: Lord hears the needy and does not despise his who
[18:51] Speaker 1: are prisoners. So here we go. He is afflicted. He's
[18:55] Speaker 1: in pain. But he's saying, God, you are my savior.
[18:58] Speaker 1: You're my salvation. Let that lift me up out of
[19:01] Speaker 1: the muck and mire and set me. Kind of like
[19:03] Speaker 1: the other psalm that talks about setting my feet upon
[19:06] Speaker 1: a solid rock. set me securely on high. Let heaven
[19:10] Speaker 1: and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves
[19:13] Speaker 1: in them. For God will save Zion and build the
[19:16] Speaker 1: cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.
[19:19] Speaker 1: The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those
[19:22] Speaker 1: who love his name will dwell in it. And here
[19:25] Speaker 1: he brings it all together. At the very end, after
[19:29] Speaker 1: railing and raging and complaining and praying imprecatory prayers, he
[19:34] Speaker 1: is saying, let heaven and earth praise him. Let the
[19:37] Speaker 1: sea and everything that moves in him. So he's talking
[19:39] Speaker 1: about the very thing that was about to swallow him
[19:41] Speaker 1: up and kill him. Let even those things reflect back
[19:45] Speaker 1: on God and praise him. So my word to you
[19:49] Speaker 1: today is, God is bigger than even the things that
[19:54] Speaker 1: are threatening to swallow you up because he's a redeemer
[19:58] Speaker 1: of everything. So that even those things that are right
[20:01] Speaker 1: now working against you, like the sea that's threatening by
[20:05] Speaker 1: coming right up to your neck, he's bigger than all
[20:08] Speaker 1: of it. And he can redeem it and not just
[20:12] Speaker 1: lift you out of it, but turn even those difficult situations,
[20:17] Speaker 1: and I dare say even people, back to himself to
[20:21] Speaker 1: bring glory to him. Let's pray. Father God, we praise
[20:26] Speaker 1: you for being a redeemer. We pray not only that
[20:30] Speaker 1: you would lift us up out of the muck and
[20:32] Speaker 1: the mire, the glacial silt that surrounds our feet and
[20:36] Speaker 1: keeps us from being able to escape, that you would
[20:39] Speaker 1: not only get us out of it, but that you
[20:41] Speaker 1: would redeem it and reclaim it for yourself, God, for
[20:44] Speaker 1: your good purposes, for our good purposes. In Jesus' name, amen.
[20:53] Speaker 1: We'd like to take just a quick second to thank
[20:55] Speaker 1: the team at Life Audio for their partnership with us
[20:58] Speaker 1: on the podcast. If you go to lifeaudio.com, you will
[21:01] Speaker 1: find dozens of other faith-centered podcasts in their network. They've
[21:05] Speaker 1: got shows about prayer, Bible study, parenting, and so much more.
[21:09] Speaker 1: That's lifeaudio.com.

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