Day 273: Psalms 63-65 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript
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- 0:01Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
- 0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
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- 0:25Family, welcome to day 273.
- 0:28Today we are going to look at three of
- 0:30David's Psalms. We've got Psalms 63,64
- 0:34and 65. If you've already done the
- 0:37reading and we are going to dive in, I
- 0:40think that the content today is going to
- 0:41be super helpful. These Psalms
- 0:43definitely minister to me in my alone
- 0:45time, in my private time as I was
- 0:47reading through these Psalms. These
- 0:49Psalms personally resonated with me.
- 0:51I've been reading Psalm 63 specifically
- 0:54since I was like a teenager. So, I
- 0:55really, really love Psalm 63. I've got a
- 0:58lot of things to share with you
- 0:59regarding all these Psalms, but
- 1:01definitely Psalm 63 in particular. So,
- 1:05if you have not done the reading, hey,
- 1:07go do the reading for the day. Honestly,
- 1:10it should take you less than 10 minutes.
- 1:12I mean, Psalm 64 is really short. Psalm
- 1:1563 is short. Psalm 65 is the longest of
- 1:17the three, but it shouldn't take you
- 1:19long to get the reading done. How about
- 1:21you go get the reading done so that you
- 1:22have context for everything that we're
- 1:24going to talk about on today's episode.
- 1:26All right, like every day, we are going
- 1:29to start with context clues. We're going
- 1:31to look at the historical, cultural,
- 1:33linguistic, literary context of the
- 1:36Psalms. We're going to try to situate
- 1:38these words or this content inside of
- 1:41some context and then I'll give you as
- 1:43many nerdy nuggets as I got and we'll
- 1:45leave with a timeless truth. All right,
- 1:49let's dive into context. All right,
- 1:51Psalm 63. We're actually going to get a
- 1:54heading that's going to give us a little
- 1:55bit of context. It says this, uh, Psalm
- 1:58of David, when he was in the desert of
- 2:01Judah. Okay, in the desert of Judah.
- 2:03Now, there are two possibilities for
- 2:06when David was in the desert of Judah.
- 2:09Okay, the first possibility uh or the
- 2:12first option is when David was hiding in
- 2:15the cave with Saul. Okay, remember
- 2:18that's 1st Samuel chapter 24:es 1-2 and
- 2:21that is the context of Psalm 57. Okay,
- 2:25so about six Psalms ago, probably a
- 2:27couple of days ago, Psalms 57, David was
- 2:30out in the desert. Okay, but the desert
- 2:33that he was in meant that he was in a
- 2:35cave where he could have killed Saul,
- 2:36but he chose not to. And then the second
- 2:39option for context, cuz again, the
- 2:41heading only says when he was in the
- 2:44desert of Judah. Well, there's multiple
- 2:45times in David's life where he's in the
- 2:47desert. So, we're trying to narrow it
- 2:49down to figure out which context fits
- 2:52the scenario the best. And the second
- 2:55option is actually going to be 2 Samuel
- 2:5715:23
- 2:58when David is forced out of Jerusalem by
- 3:02his son Abselum who's trying to usurp
- 3:05the throne. So, the context is either
- 3:09that David is out in the wilderness on
- 3:12the run from Saul or that he's on the
- 3:14run from Abselum. This is either early
- 3:17in David's life or later in David's
- 3:19life. We're going to figure out which
- 3:20one it is. All right. Psalm 64 has no
- 3:25context that is clearly discernible. All
- 3:28that we have as a heading is for the
- 3:30director of music, a psalm of David.
- 3:32That's all we got for Psalm 64. Now,
- 3:35most people are going to see a lot of
- 3:38similarities between Psalm 64 and a lot
- 3:42of the other on ther run psalms. Okay? I
- 3:45would say the on ther run psalms are
- 3:47these psalms from early in David's life
- 3:50where he's fleeing from King Saul and
- 3:53he's out in the wilderness or out in the
- 3:56desert and just running for his life.
- 3:57And we're going to look at the clues as
- 4:00to why that could be the context for
- 4:02Psalm 64. And then lastly, Psalm 65. We
- 4:06don't have a ton of context for.
- 4:07However, we've got literary context. We
- 4:10don't have historical or cultural
- 4:11context, but we've got literary context.
- 4:14And this is a psalm of praise. This is a
- 4:18hymn of praise. This is I love Psalm 65.
- 4:22And so, we've got a psalm where David is
- 4:26clearly on the run, scared for his life.
- 4:28It could be that he's on the run from
- 4:30Saul. Could be that he's on the run from
- 4:31Abselum. We'll look at both. And then
- 4:34we've got probably another on the run
- 4:36psalm from David's uh younger years
- 4:39where he's running from Saul. And then
- 4:41we've got a hymn of praise for our three
- 4:44psalms today. All right, let's dive into
- 4:46some nerdy nuggets. We're just going to
- 4:48kind of move through the text. Okay,
- 4:49I'll start at Psalm 63. And you, God,
- 4:53are my God. Earnestly I seek you. I
- 4:56thirst for you. So the first metaphor we
- 4:59get right out of the gate is I thirst
- 5:01for you. Now, the context for where
- 5:04David is at this point is huge because
- 5:08David is out in the desert. And I love
- 5:09this that David's response to being out
- 5:14in a dry, barren, desert land is not I
- 5:18thirst for water. It's I thirst for God.
- 5:21Okay? David is definitely using the
- 5:25context that surrounds him to inspire
- 5:28him on how to communicate with the Lord.
- 5:31Okay, so the words that David is
- 5:34speaking cannot be disconnected from the
- 5:38context in which David is sitting. Okay,
- 5:40he is in the desert and once you begin
- 5:43to realize that makes all the difference
- 5:44in the world. Okay, I thirst for you.
- 5:48Many of us would assume he's about to
- 5:49say, "I thirst for water." No, no, no. I
- 5:53thirst for you. My whole being longs for
- 5:58you. In a dry and parched land where
- 6:01there is no water. Okay, so right there,
- 6:03he he lets us know where he's at. He's
- 6:06in a dry and parched land where there is
- 6:08no water. And in the middle of the worst
- 6:11situation, what am I longing for, God?
- 6:14What am I thirsty for, God? Then I could
- 6:17move into a timeless truth right there.
- 6:19Because how many times are we in
- 6:21situations where there's no provision
- 6:23and the thing we're longing for is
- 6:25provision that there is no protection.
- 6:27The thing that we're longing for is
- 6:28protection. But actually in moments
- 6:30where there's lack, God is saying, "How
- 6:33about you long after me?" Because if you
- 6:36get me, you get everything else that you
- 6:38need. Okay? And now I I just want to
- 6:40kind of give you a barrage of how much
- 6:44of a sensory descriptive episode we're
- 6:47getting. Okay. I have seen you in the
- 6:49sanctuary. Okay. Seen and beheld your
- 6:53power and your glory. Seen, beheld. So,
- 6:56we're activating the eyes because your
- 6:58love is better than life. My lips will
- 7:02glorify you. So, we've gone from eyes
- 7:04seen and beheld to my lips. I will
- 7:07praise you as long as I live in your
- 7:10name. I will lift up my hands. This is
- 7:14think about how many body parts are
- 7:16involved here. Okay, David is saying
- 7:18that true worship or true worship
- 7:21encapsulates all the senses. It's it's
- 7:24it's taste, touch, feel, see. It's it's
- 7:27all of it. Okay. And sometimes I think
- 7:30we can get this understanding that you
- 7:33know God is to all to be only
- 7:35experienced spiritually. But David is
- 7:38actually saying no God isn't to only be
- 7:42experienced spiritually. But there's a
- 7:45physical experience that should
- 7:47accompany a spiritual reality. A
- 7:50physical experience that should
- 7:52accompany a spiritual reality. And what
- 7:54is that physical experience? God, I want
- 7:57to see you. I want to behold you. I want
- 7:59my lips to praise you. I want to lift up
- 8:02my hands. It's funny. I was actually in
- 8:06a conversation with my therapist and
- 8:07they were talking through just how
- 8:10transformation happens in a person. And
- 8:12they kind of drew this diagram for me
- 8:14that um there's this triangle between
- 8:17your feelings, your thoughts, and your
- 8:19behavior. Feelings, thoughts, behavior.
- 8:22And he said you can introduce change to
- 8:24any of those three. that it's our
- 8:27feelings that really begin to produce
- 8:29our thoughts and those thoughts produce
- 8:31behaviors. Okay. But they said a lot of
- 8:35times people want if if they're
- 8:37struggling with anxiety or depression,
- 8:39they will want to, you know, enter new
- 8:42thoughts, okay, get new thoughts, which
- 8:44then are going to have an impact on the
- 8:46feelings and then ultimately it's going
- 8:48to change behavior. But my therapists
- 8:51are saying you could actually do the
- 8:54opposite way and instead of just waiting
- 8:56to feel better, you just start going to
- 8:58the gym. So you introduce a new
- 9:01behavior. You introduce something that
- 9:04makes your body do something different.
- 9:08And my therapists are saying it's just
- 9:10as effective to introduce a behavior
- 9:14because that behavior, believe it or
- 9:16not, is going to begin to release
- 9:18dopamine and serotonin and all kinds of
- 9:20good chemicals which are going to give
- 9:22you different feelings which are going
- 9:24to lead to new thoughts that sometimes
- 9:27in the western world which is so heavily
- 9:29dominated by the transformation of the
- 9:32mind that we can sometimes think the
- 9:35only way that transformation can happen
- 9:37by introducing some new thoughts which
- 9:39change our feelings which change our
- 9:40behavior. But my therapists are saying,
- 9:42"Well, really, you could change behavior
- 9:45which change feelings which change
- 9:48thoughts." And I recently told the
- 9:51entire worship team at our church, I
- 9:53said, "Isn't it cool that on Sunday
- 9:55mornings we actually get to do both?
- 9:57We're asking people to lift up their
- 9:59hands even before they fully surrender
- 10:02to God mentally or emotionally. But then
- 10:05in the sermon, what we're doing is we're
- 10:07trying to change people's minds. We're
- 10:10trying to cause them to repent. We are
- 10:12teaching people to reach their minds,
- 10:15but we're preaching to them to reach
- 10:16their hearts. And worship is kind of top
- 10:20down. It It's saying, "No, let's get
- 10:22people to do a different behavior so
- 10:24they could feel different and think
- 10:26different." And then the preaching is
- 10:27getting people to think different so
- 10:29they could feel different and behave
- 10:30different. And I told the worship team,
- 10:32"We're a tag team duo." Okay, I'm going
- 10:35to tackle the thoughts and the feelings
- 10:37and then ultimately challenge people to
- 10:39change their behavior. But guess what
- 10:41you guys get to do? And before I ever
- 10:43get up the stage, you're challenging
- 10:45behavior, which is ultimately going to
- 10:46challenge feelings and thoughts. And one
- 10:50way is not better than the other. We are
- 10:52a team. And so I just want you to see
- 10:54how physical of a reality this spiritual
- 11:00moment of worship is. Okay? I want to
- 11:03see you. I want to behold you. My lips
- 11:06are going to praise you. My hands are
- 11:09going to be raised. I will be fully
- 11:11satisfied as with the richest of foods.
- 11:15That's a metaphor, right? That that this
- 11:17is like the presence of God is something
- 11:19I'm consuming. With singing lips, my
- 11:22mouth will praise you. It's very very
- 11:24physical. On my bed, I remember you. So
- 11:28now I'm activating the mind. Okay. I
- 11:30think of you through the watch of the
- 11:32night because you are my help. I sing in
- 11:35the shadow of your wings. I cling to
- 11:38you. Your right hand upholds me. So what
- 11:42does what does lurggical corporate
- 11:46worship do? It causes people who have
- 11:49had an experience congregationally with
- 11:52God's presence to remember the Lord, to
- 11:56think of him through the watch of the
- 11:59night. So it says, "Those who want to
- 12:01kill me will be destroyed. They will go
- 12:03down to the depths of the earth. They
- 12:04will be given over to the sword and
- 12:06become food for jackals. But the king
- 12:08will rejoice in God." All right. Now,
- 12:10the big million-dollar question is which
- 12:12king? And I would say that when we get
- 12:16to chapter 63 or Psalm 63:1,
- 12:20that king that's being talked about
- 12:21there is not Solomon, but the king
- 12:23that's being spoken about there is
- 12:25David. Which means I would make the
- 12:28context for this psalm when David was
- 12:31fleeing from Abselum. Okay, because of
- 12:33this verse. But the king will rejoice in
- 12:36God. Which king? I don't think he's
- 12:38talking about Saul. I think he's talking
- 12:40about himself. Okay. All right. Psalm
- 12:4364. This is a good on therun psalm.
- 12:46Okay. Let's get some nerdy nuggets out
- 12:47of here. Why? Why do I think this is a
- 12:49good on the run psalm? Well, because
- 12:51David is literally complaining about his
- 12:55enemies. Listen to the first words of
- 12:56the song. Hear me, my God, as I voice my
- 12:59complaint. He's like, "Hey, look, man. I
- 13:01got some complaints." All right. Hear
- 13:03me, God, as I voice my complaint.
- 13:04Protect my life from the threat of the
- 13:06enemy. Hide me from the conspiracy of
- 13:08the wicked and the plots of evildoers.
- 13:11Right? We've already read multiple
- 13:13psalms where people are stitching on
- 13:15David. They are reporting him to King
- 13:18Saul. Okay? So, I think now Psalm 64 is
- 13:22back in the past. We we so I think Psalm
- 13:2663 is about Abselum when David's old. I
- 13:28think Psalm 64 is about Saul when David
- 13:32is a young man. So again, it's a
- 13:34reminder the Psalms are not organized
- 13:36based on any kind of chronology. Okay.
- 13:40They sharpen their tongues like swords
- 13:42and aim crew words like deadly arrows. I
- 13:46just think that's amazing imagery. What
- 13:50good? What? Like that's like that's a
- 13:52good lyric, man. That's that's strong.
- 13:55They sharpen their tongues like swords.
- 13:59It's the words that people are using.
- 14:02They're sharpening their tongues like
- 14:03swords. They encourage each other in
- 14:05evil plans. They talk about hiding their
- 14:08snares. They say, "Who will see it?"
- 14:11They plot injustice and say, "We have
- 14:14devised a perfect plan. Surely the human
- 14:16mind in heart are cunning. So verse 8
- 14:21says this and I think this is um the law
- 14:23of sewing and reaping like right here in
- 14:26Psalm 64. It says he will turn Yahweh
- 14:30okay will turn their own tongues against
- 14:33them that they are seeking to destroy
- 14:36other people with their words but really
- 14:38what they are doing is they're
- 14:40destroying themselves with their words.
- 14:43Okay. he will turn their own tongues
- 14:46against them. And so seriously, this
- 14:48isn't my Thomas truth for the day, but
- 14:50if you struggle with gossip, just know
- 14:52that you're not actually tearing another
- 14:53person down. You're tearing yourself
- 14:55down. And if if you sharpen your tongue
- 14:59like a sword to speak negatively or to
- 15:03speak harmfully towards other people,
- 15:06ultimately you're going to reap what
- 15:07you've seown. And you're sowing words
- 15:10all the time. And you can't sew negative
- 15:13words and think that other people are
- 15:15going to reap it. You're not primarily
- 15:17just hurting them. You're actually
- 15:19hurting yourself. Family, the wait is
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- 16:01your personal life, I think that reading
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- 16:18back to the episode. Okay, let's go to
- 16:20Psalm 65 and kind of look at our last
- 16:24couple of nerdy nuggets. Okay. Um Psalm
- 16:2665. It's going to start. I love this
- 16:29psalm. Praise awaits you, our God in
- 16:32Zion. To you our vows will be fulfilled.
- 16:36You who answer prayer. Right there.
- 16:39Ain't that a good verse? You who answer
- 16:41prayer, like if there's something you
- 16:43need to know about God, he answers
- 16:45prayer. Okay? When you pray, the Lord
- 16:47answers. He hears, he answers. You who
- 16:51answer prayer, to you all people will
- 16:54come. Okay? People flock to God. Why?
- 16:57because he answers prayers. When we were
- 16:59overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our
- 17:03transgressions. God, you're a forgiving
- 17:05God. You hear prayers, you forgive
- 17:07people. You hear prayers, you forgive
- 17:10people. When we were overwhelmed by
- 17:13sins, we didn't know how we were going
- 17:15to find any kind of freedom or
- 17:18deliverance or forgiveness. Okay? You
- 17:21forgave our transgressions. All right.
- 17:23Now, I want to skip all the way down.
- 17:26Okay? Uh, I actually want to skip to
- 17:28verse 7. There are two things that I'm
- 17:30going to highlight from verse 7 all the
- 17:32way to verse 12. Okay, verse 7. You
- 17:36stilled the roaring of the seas, the
- 17:38roaring of their waves, and the turmoil
- 17:41of the nations. All right, so this is
- 17:44also like a creation psalm. Okay. So, so
- 17:47the writer is going to go into detail on
- 17:51how Yahweh tamed the chaos with a toou
- 17:54vavohu of Genesis chapter 1 and over the
- 17:57course of seven days created order where
- 18:01there was chaos. Now, there's a nerdy
- 18:04nugget. If you see the creation account
- 18:06in Genesis chapter 1 primarily as a
- 18:10story or a narrative whereby God creates
- 18:13something out of nothing, then there's a
- 18:16bunch of psalms that actually are going
- 18:19to display or talk about God in language
- 18:23that is not consistent with God turning
- 18:27nothing into something, but which is
- 18:29very consistent with God taking chaos
- 18:32and molding it, making at shaping it
- 18:35into order. Okay. And so we see this you
- 18:39who stilled the roaring of the seas.
- 18:42Okay. This is what every deity has to do
- 18:45in every creation myth whether it be
- 18:48Babylonian or Mesopotamian or Canaanite.
- 18:50Okay. They have to tame or conquer the
- 18:55chaos that's always found in the form of
- 18:58a raging sea and a sea dragon who still
- 19:01the roaring of the seas, the roaring of
- 19:03their waves, in the turmoil of the
- 19:05nations. The whole earth is filled with
- 19:07awe at your wonders. Where morning dawn,
- 19:10where evening fades, you call forth
- 19:13songs of joy. All right. So, so the
- 19:16first thing I want you to see is that
- 19:18one of the things that Psalm 65 is
- 19:20telling us is that God takes chaos and
- 19:24turns it into order. So, God's a God.
- 19:27Yahweh is a God of order as opposed to
- 19:30chaos. Okay. Second, okay, uh what's the
- 19:33second thing that we see? You care for
- 19:35the land and water it. Okay. So, God
- 19:39cares for it. So this is a God number
- 19:42one of order, not chaos. But this is
- 19:46also a God that is nurturing, that's
- 19:51careful, not wrathful. It's not that
- 19:54God's wrath is never on display, but God
- 19:58is being talked about like a gardener.
- 20:03like like the same way that you or I
- 20:05would care for plants or flowers or
- 20:07fruit in a garden. The earth is God's
- 20:11garden. Okay? You care for the land and
- 20:14you water it. And now I love this next
- 20:16word. It's going to give us the third
- 20:18image I want us to hear. You enrich it
- 20:21abundantly. So number one, God's a God
- 20:23of order, not chaos. He's a God of care,
- 20:27not destruction. He's a God of creation,
- 20:30not destruction. He cares for the
- 20:32creation. He doesn't destroy the
- 20:34creation. And then last, God is a God of
- 20:37abundance, not lack. Abundance. Read
- 20:40this. Okay. The streams of God are
- 20:43filled with water. That word filled,
- 20:46that's an abundance word. Okay. To
- 20:49provide the people with grain, for so
- 20:52you have ordained it. You drench its
- 20:55furrows. Drench. Okay. So, we got
- 20:58fields. We got drench. Okay. And level
- 21:02its ridges. You soften it with showers
- 21:04and bless its crops. You crown the year
- 21:07with your bounty. And your carts
- 21:11overflow with abundance. The grasslands
- 21:14of the wilderness overflow. The hills
- 21:18are clothed with gladness. The meadows
- 21:21are covered with flocks. The valleys are
- 21:24mantled with grain. Their shout for joy.
- 21:27They shout for joy and sing like you
- 21:31hear all those abundance words.
- 21:33Overflow, bounty, abundance,
- 21:37drench, fill. I mean, my gosh. The
- 21:41psalmist here, David, sees God as a God
- 21:44of order, not chaos, a God of care, not
- 21:47destruction, but ultimately a God of
- 21:50abundance, not lack. And and let me say
- 21:53this, prosperity gospel preachers get a
- 21:57really bad rap. It's like top 10 kinds
- 22:00of people that people hate. Prosperity
- 22:02gospel preachers. And I get why, but the
- 22:06Bible talks about prosperity. Like like
- 22:09when God created the Garden of Eden, God
- 22:12did not create a place of lack. He
- 22:14created a place of abundance. And my
- 22:17timeless truth actually for today is
- 22:20that I always want to have an abundance
- 22:24mindset everywhere I go. It's funny, you
- 22:27know, me and my wife, I challenge her
- 22:29with this a lot because there are years
- 22:32I said I wanted to plant a church in
- 22:34Charlotte, North Carolina. I'd lived in
- 22:35North Carolina. I want to plant a church
- 22:37in Charlotte. And then my best friend
- 22:38Brian Bulock plant a church in
- 22:40Charlotte. And I just went, "Oh, you
- 22:41know the other cities?" And my wife's
- 22:43like, "That was our city." And I was
- 22:45like, why do you have such a scarcity
- 22:47mindset? Who cares, man? There's other
- 22:49places. There's Boise, Idaho, there's
- 22:51San Francisco,
- 22:53there's Portland, there's Seattle,
- 22:55there's Houston. I And we ended up in
- 22:57Houston. I have an abundance mindset.
- 23:00One time I was talking to a couple of
- 23:02guys at the church. I kind of walked by
- 23:03them and they were talking about
- 23:04immigration. They were like, "Yeah, cuz
- 23:05they're taking our jobs." And I was
- 23:07like, whoa, the scarcity mindset is just
- 23:12the scarcity mindset is here in
- 23:14abundance. What do you mean they are
- 23:16taking our jobs? God owns a cattle on a
- 23:19thousand hills. There's an unlimited
- 23:21amount of jobs. There's not a limited
- 23:23amount of jobs. There's an unlimited
- 23:24amount of jobs. Like I just operate my
- 23:27life from an abundance mindset. It's
- 23:30actually the thing that's made me very,
- 23:31very generous. I'll give thousands of
- 23:34dollars away. Why? because there's
- 23:36always more. Like I don't care. I'm
- 23:38generous with ideas. I'm generous with
- 23:41cities. I'm generous with opportunities.
- 23:44You know, somebody came up to me
- 23:45recently was like, "Yo, thank you for
- 23:46recommending me for those speaking
- 23:48engagements." Obviously, I provide for
- 23:51my family by going to churches and
- 23:52speaking, but there's millions of
- 23:54churches to go speak at. I I'm not in
- 23:56competition with anybody. Somebody came
- 23:59up to me recently at an event here in
- 24:01Houston and they said, "Yeah, you know,
- 24:03you got a lot of competition here.
- 24:04There's a lot of churches. And I looked
- 24:06at them and said, "The only competition
- 24:07I have is Satan. I'm not in competition
- 24:10with any church." What kind of scarcity
- 24:12mindset do you have? You think I'm
- 24:15competing with other churches for
- 24:18Christians, man? You want to know what's
- 24:21going to happen with our ministry?
- 24:23Thousands of people are going to get
- 24:24saved. Thousand people are going to get
- 24:26saved by the tens of thousands. I'm not
- 24:29competing with anybody. I I and the fact
- 24:31that that's how people really think.
- 24:34People are really like, "No, these are
- 24:35my jobs. These are my opportunities.
- 24:37This is my speaking engagements. These
- 24:38are my people." It's like, "Wow, God's a
- 24:42God of abundance." Abundance. There's
- 24:45more than enough money for everybody.
- 24:47More than enough homes for everybody.
- 24:48There's more than enough jobs for
- 24:50everybody. More than enough
- 24:51opportunities for everybody. There's
- 24:53more than enough revelation for
- 24:54everybody. I don't got to steal
- 24:55anybody's sermons. This is I I just have
- 24:58an abundance mindset. An abundance
- 25:01mindset. You know, I came up with a
- 25:03really cool book idea and then a friend
- 25:05of mine wanted that book idea. I was
- 25:07like, "Yeah, take it. I come up with
- 25:08more ideas." The same brain that came up
- 25:10with that idea can come up with 10 more
- 25:13ideas. It's an abundance mindset. And
- 25:15and clearly David has an abundance
- 25:18mindset in Psalm 65. And he has an
- 25:20abundance mindset because he believes
- 25:23that God is a God of abundance. By no
- 25:25means am I trying to push prosperity
- 25:28gospel down anybody's throat. But the
- 25:31opposite would be what? Like poverty
- 25:33gospel? Like what are you saying? God's
- 25:36a god of lack. I don't see God as a god
- 25:39of lack. I see him as a god of
- 25:41abundance, which then should make me
- 25:43have an abundance mentality. But if I
- 25:45see God as a God of scarcity, I'm going
- 25:47to have a scarcity mentality. And a
- 25:49scarcity mentality creates poverty. And
- 25:52a prosperity mindset or an abundance
- 25:55mindset creates prosperity. And if by
- 25:58prosperity gospel you mean I don't have
- 26:00to do anything and God just blesses me,
- 26:02of course I don't believe in that. But
- 26:04if you mean that by prosperity gospel
- 26:07that God does have an abundant supply
- 26:10and then he puts conditions in place
- 26:12whereby I become a diligent, excellent,
- 26:15hardworking person that is operating
- 26:19according to the laws of reciprocity so
- 26:22that I can flow in the current or in the
- 26:25stream of God's provision. Absolutely. I
- 26:29I believe that God is a God of
- 26:31prosperity. When I look at Eden and when
- 26:33I look at heaven, those don't look like
- 26:35places of lack. Which means God's ideal
- 26:37is not lack. It is abundance. And if
- 26:41there's a truth that I think is relevant
- 26:44for David's context and for our context,
- 26:48say God is not a God of lack or
- 26:51scarcity. He's a God of abundance. He's
- 26:54a God of provision. And if you struggle
- 26:57with scarcity mindset, you're going to
- 26:59have to dismantle that thought process.
- 27:03And you're going to have to genuinely
- 27:06deconstruct that idea and reconstruct a
- 27:11prosperity mindset or an abundance
- 27:14mindset. Cuz honestly, it'll change
- 27:16everything about your life. I cannot
- 27:19stress this enough. An abundance mindset
- 27:22will change everything about your life
- 27:24because you'll stop operating based on
- 27:27fear. You'll actually start to operate
- 27:29based on faith. I have an abundance
- 27:32mindset. Therefore, I can create
- 27:34opportunities for others. I could be
- 27:36generous with ideas and opportunities
- 27:38and I can walk through the open doors
- 27:40that God's provided for me. But I have
- 27:43an abundance mindset and I think you
- 27:45should, too. And I think David did. All
- 27:47right. Tomorrow we got day 274 and we
- 27:51got Psalm 66-68.
- 27:54I can't wait to dive into the content
- 27:56with you. I love you. If you're on a
- 27:58streak, I am proud of you. Hey, how
- 28:01about this? Practice an abundance
- 28:02mindset. Share this podcast with
- 28:05somebody that you know needs it. Love
- 28:08you guys. See you tomorrow. Peace.
- 28:10Thanks so much for joining us on the
- 28:12Bible department podcast. If this
- 28:14episode was helpful, how about you leave
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