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Ep 69 - Bless the Lord, O My Soul | The Psalm 103 Project

Ep 69 - Bless the Lord, O My Soul | The Psalm 103 Project

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What does it look like to command your own soul back to worship when it does not want to rise? Not as a theory — as a practice. The way David did it. The way I have had to do it in this season.This episode begins something I have been praying over for a long time: a walk into Psalm 103, the psalm that has quietly been holding me through a season I did not fully understand until recently. I started this project in late winter. Then I got sick, and everything stopped. And in the recovering and the re-recording, I learned something I had been carrying for years without a name for it — post-traumatic stress disorder, out of a long season of end-of-life caregiving. Looking back, I can see that God had drawn me to this psalm before I could have told you why. He had me writing about a soul that has to be called back to worship at the very time I was fighting to remember anything good at all. That is not an accident. Nothing is, with Him.So this is not a study for people who have it all together. It is a psalm written by someone who did not — and I am not coming to you from the far side of it, healed and looking back. I am still being healed, one step toward Christ at a time. Not above you. Beside you.We begin with the very first line, where David does not sing to a crowd. He talks to himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul. A command, not a feeling. A call home.In This Episode:Who David really was — overlooked, passed over, passionate, broken, and a man after God's own heart all at the same time. Not a stained-glass figure. A real man, far more like us than we tend to believe.Nephesh (Genesis 2:7) — why "soul" means the whole of you, every room in the heart, opened to God at oncePsalm 42 — the companion psalm where the soul again speaks to the soul, calling itself back to what is trueSelf-control as the fruit of the Spirit — Spirit-led turning, not white-knuckle willpowerForget not — why forgetting is the default, why prosperity dulls the memory faster than suffering, and how the Lord's table is where we fight that very forgettingBless his holy name — why a name in the Hebrew world was a revelation of character, and how Jesus begins prayer exactly where David begins this psalmA note on the series: this began as an eight-part walk through all of Psalm 103. For now, I am sharing this one stanza as a doorway into the prayer guide and ambient worship album — enough of the story to draw you into your own time with the Lord. If you would like me to continue through the rest of the stanzas, I would love to hear from you. Reach out anytime at lyricandletterpodcast@gmail.com.Want to go deeper?Download the free companion prayer guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GzND7eLLyOP7njrcAkWHN-9iW8CXdj2-/view?usp=drive_linkExplore Thematic Verse Mapping: https://www.ThematicVerseMapping.comConnect with our community: https://youtube.com/@lyricandletterstudios/communityDownload the Lyric and Letter Study Method: https://lyricandletter.com/thestudymethodSubscribe for devotionals, studies, and Scripture reflections: https://www.lyricandletter.comBless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.Lyric and Letter Studios | www.lyricandletter.comThis episode contains original ambient worship music created by Lyric and Letter Studios using Suno AI. All music is original to this ministry. No third-party copyrighted material is featured in this episode.#BiblicalTeaching #InstrumentalWorship #Psalm103 #BlessTheLord #ChristianPodcast
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