Well Lit Path Podcast

Psalm 26 may look like David is bragging a little bit, but the only person David is bragging on is God. So much so that he asks God to examine his motivations, purge anything out that shouldn't be there. How often to we stop and look at what He has done in us? To give Him glory for the marvelous work He has wrought in us? When was the last time you asked Him to examine you?  Have you let Him work...

Psalm 25 puts us once again in the company of David, who has lessons to teach about how we should pray. How we are reconciled, how we are restored through the integrity and uprightness of God, whose integrity and uprightness is above reproach. He also admonishes the shame out of our lives and encourages us up to lift up our souls, bare and raw before an almighty God who knows our ugly anyway, and...

Here we are in Psalm 24! A Psalm of triumph, awe and praise, we find it becomes easy to give glory to the Father when we look at the world through the lens David provides here.   We see that while the earth is His, he is also the Lord of the battle and the victory is His as well. He is Jehovah, He is LORD above all!

Psalm 23 is potentially one of the most well-loved and well-commented on passages in the the Psalms. As we follow the Holy Spirit through the chapter, is there something fresh for us once again? Something we can be renewed by?  God's Word is never without a revitalizing application to our every day life. Join Tom as he discusses joy, the provision of the Shepherd and the way we are cared for so co...

Do we ever feel forsaken? Does God ever feel far from you? Do we struggle at times with feeling like God cares? How do we get to a place of praise when we feel this way?  David penned multiple Psalms in which he felt exactly like this. Is it family, finances, health, spirit that has you feeling forsaken? David shares with us his remedy after sharing his struggle. We can find both in Psalm 22.

David writes a thankful response for the realization of his Psalm for the people to intercede and petition for him in Psalm 21.  Thankfulness, no matter what the answer to our prayers may be can be hard, but in this Psalm we see how we can find joy and thankfulness for the answer of "yes" and the answer of "no". As we look to the future in the second half of the Psalm, we find even more reason to...

Psalm 20 takes us to a nation praying for the prayers and requests of their king to be heard. How often do we intercede on the behalf of our brethren? How often do we think we need to know what to pray for them for? Should we pray for them and that God hear them and help them whether we know the details of their prayers or not? God may provide some answers through his favorite shepherd boy here in...

Let's explore Psalm 19 together! Portions of this Psalm are very familiar, but there is something David is pointing out to us that Paul utilizes in the New Testament (which Paul does frequently) that is very important to us. The heavens and nature are an undeniable witness of God's existence. There are firm truths for us if we recognize them and sure blessings to be had in their acknowledgment.

As we meet David once again in Psalm 18, we find that God is good, God is worthy of worship, God is a deliverance to us. Do we call on him when we should?  There is powerful praise in this Psalm, let's see if we can get on board and do some praying ourselves. We're just practicing for eternity!

Psalm 17 challenges us in our prayer life. Do we pray according to God's will? Do we bend our requests to fit our will? David shows us how to keep our sincerity in reflection before God when it comes to prayer. Let's take a walk little further down this path together.

This week we unpack the rich descriptions of blessing and how God preserves us in him. Do we trust in him to preserve us in all things? Some things? Too often our trust stops where we try to mentally limit his preservation in our lives. David shows us that God's faithfulness is not contingent on our amount of trust.

David calls out a challenge to the follower of God with a list of those things that define said follower. Paul will draw on these traits later on in the Bible and give us a similar list. Who are those that will abide with God and dwell with him? Those that are defined by his character that comes through in their character.

David is pretty hard on the fool in Psalm 14. As we explore the Psalm, we'll see that his is justified in his indictment.  The glory of the gospel is that there is even hope for the fool.

Psalm 13 brought a time of life back to Tom's memory that he shares with us in great detail. In the trials of our lives, when God is building us as Christians, it is easy to think that we've been forgotten.  We need to realize not only has he not forgotten us, he is forging us into who he wants us to be.

Despite all the wickedness we see in the world, God has destined us for preservation. All too infrequently do we ask for the help we need from our God, or all too late in the problem. Why do we wait? Why do we struggle through relying on our own strength? Let's see what the Bible has to say.

In this episode we walk through Psalm 11, where David says he is taking it to the streets. He will not flee, and neither should we. He's going on the offensive because he knows God's got this and every trial, every trouble. He put his trust in God, and we can too.

Psalm 10 tells a story of condemnation for the wicked. David's accusations are scathing and righteous, and as we look at them, we see how applicable they are to our society today. Indeed the hearts of men are desperately wicked.

This week's episode puts us smack dab in the middle of David's struggle with troubles. He prayerfully and rejoicingly points out that he is thankful that the Lord determines and judges the righteousness of all man, and that only his righteousness will pass the scrutiny.

When was the last time you looked up at the night sky and thought: Wow.? In Psalm 8 David does exactly that and then worships like we all should before an almighty God whose name is... EXCELLENT!

This week's episode take us to David's song to the Lord concerning the accusation of Cush. As David considers the accusations, he asks God to search his heart to see if there is any truth in them. Do we have the courage to do the same in the face of accusations, external and internal?

As we continue our walk through the Psalms in this episode, we look at Psalm 6, where David goes from being fearful of punishment, to being regretful concerning his sin, realizing his need for restoration through repentance.

This episode finds us with David again in Psalm 5, where we look at the benefits of starting our day in prayer and how our God protects us from the enemies within.

In this episode we're continuing our walk through the Psalms and we pause for a moment at Psalm 4 to learn about how we can be blessed in our distress because of a God who has been faithful before and will continue to be faithful.

In this episode we meet David in Psalm 3 where he could surely have been in despair but instead chooses to focus in his Sustaining Deliverer.

In this episode we walk through Psalm 2 and take a look at how we can find definitions and redemption in our Defining King.