S3:146 Psalm 61
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Do we say vows to God today? Emma Dotter is joined by Watermark staff member Lauren Atkinson to talk through Psalm 61 and how we can use David’s words as a model for our prayers daily. David’s desire is for God to hear him and allow him to be in God’s presence. His vows to God are not something required for God to hear us today. For those in Christ, we can pray to God with confidence that He hears us. Take a few minutes today to pray through Psalm 61 as David teaches us what a prayer of dependence looks like.
Additional Scripture Referenced:
Psalm 139:7 – “Where shall I flee from your presence?”
2 Samuel 6 – David sets up the tabernacle
Matthew 5 – Sermon on the Mount
1 Corinthians 10:4 – “the Rock was Christ”
Matthew 16:18 – “on this Rock I will build my church”
John 1:14 – “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us”
Revelation 21:3 – “the dwelling place of God is with man”
To hear more of Lauren’s story, check out her previous episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s3-138-psalm-53/id1600151923?i=1000662389567
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. You're listening to Join the Journey |
| 0:06.0 | podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. Today, we're reading Psalm 61, and I am back |
| 0:14.4 | in the podcast studio with my co-worker, Lauren Atkinson. Hey, guys. Lauren, glad you're here in the last episode. |
| 0:21.8 | You shared your story, how you got to Dallas, what you do on the journey team. |
| 0:25.5 | So I'm going to let you jump in Psalm 61. |
| 0:28.3 | What's you got for us? |
| 0:29.3 | Great. |
| 0:29.8 | Yeah, today we are in Psalm 61, where David is giving us a model of how we can pray today. |
| 0:37.1 | So if we start jumping straight into verses one and two, |
| 0:40.3 | and David is crying out to God. He says, hear my cry, oh God, and listen to my prayer. From the end of |
| 0:47.7 | the earth, I call to you when my heart is faint. So David is starting off this prayer with a simple |
| 0:53.5 | request that God would hear him. And if you're |
| 0:56.4 | like me, you may be thinking, why would David ask God to listen to him? There's no evidence in all |
| 1:02.4 | of scripture that tells us that God does not listen to us when we pray. Because he's sovereign over |
| 1:07.8 | everything. He's omniscient. He knows all things, he's omnipresent, he's |
| 1:11.7 | everywhere every time. So why would David ask God to listen to him? Even in Psalm 139 verse 7, David says, |
| 1:20.6 | Where shall I go from your spirit or where shall I flee from your presence? David's convinced that |
| 1:25.7 | God can physically hear him, but still he's starting |
| 1:28.6 | this prayer with the request that God would actually listen. And it just makes me think, have we |
| 1:33.3 | ever questioned whether or not God listens to us when we pray? And not just like a physical listening, |
| 1:39.4 | can he hear us? But does he really care about what we have to say when there's a million people in the |
| 1:44.9 | world talking to him at the same time? Yeah, it's kind of like when sometimes you are praying |
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