In Distress, He Enlarged Me

Abide Bible Sleep Meditation

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.2 • 776 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sleep better and Stress Less— with Abide, a Christian meditation app that provides a biblically grounded place to experience peace and progress in your relationship with Christ. We hope this biblical sleep meditation, narrated by James Seawood, helps your body relax and your mind rest on the truth found in scripture. Tonight, experience what it means for God to enlarge us in our distress, and for Him to graciously set us free from our troubles. He is faithful to you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Abide's Sleep Meditations. I'm Tyler Boss. Today's meditation is brought to by
0:05.7	our partners at Life Audio. If you go to Life Audio.com, you will find dozens of other faith-centered
0:11.9	podcasts in their network. They've got shows about prayer, Bible study, parenting, and more. Head over to
0:17.8	lifeaio.com now. Remember, you can have full access to all our sleep stories
0:22.9	commercial free. Just text Abide to 22433 for 25% off the app. Now, relax your mind and body
0:31.8	as we hear tonight's sleep story. Hello, and welcome to this sleep story from Abide.
0:41.7	I'm James.
0:43.1	Thank you for joining me tonight, for in distress, he enlarged me.
0:49.5	If we have been walking through this earthly life for any length of time,
0:55.2	it's very likely we have encountered times of distress.
0:59.5	This world offers many opportunities for distress,
1:03.2	but God uses those times of our lives as golden moments to shower his love onto us.
1:12.6	He knows that when we are weakest, we need his strength most.
1:17.5	He runs to our places of great need and fills them with his fullness.
1:23.1	King David knew this truth experientially, because in David's need, God answered his cry of distress.
1:33.0	In Psalm 4 verse 1, David writes,
1:37.4	When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness,
1:43.2	in pressure thou hast enlarged me, be gracious unto me, and hear my prayer.
1:52.0	God is so intimately aware of our needs, and our needs are the very thing that qualify us for his divine help and intervention.
2:02.6	When we cry out to him, he answers us.
2:06.5	When we seek him, he makes himself findable to us.
2:11.4	When we knock at his door, he will always open to us.
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