1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Good morning. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Good morning. 3 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Oh, I love it. 4 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,000 I feel happy to be here today. 5 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,000 You know, some days I have to try to be happy to be at church. 6 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Not because there's anything wrong with church. 7 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,000 I just, sometimes people, you know, getting kind of psyching yourself up for that. 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Sometimes I don't sleep that well on Saturday nights. 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 So I'm extra happy to be here today. 10 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,000 And I've just been looking around and smiling at beautiful faces. 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 So it's fun to be here. 12 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 My name is Scott. 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,000 A little bit about me. 14 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 I had a spinal cord injury about eight years ago. 15 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 So I used the chair. 16 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 And I usually stay tilted pretty far back in the chair. 17 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Because that helps me manage my blood pressure. 18 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:53,000 I stay bundled up pretty warm because temperature regulation is a challenge for me. 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,000 So it's not a fashion statement. 20 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,000 My hoods these days are really popular. 21 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,000 I do like having my hood up. 22 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 But I also get really cold without it. 23 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,000 I also take a lot of drinks of water. 24 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 I take some medications to give me dry mouth. 25 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,000 So you'll have to be patient as we take drink breaks today. 26 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:19,000 So with that, I'll go ahead and take a drink. 27 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Excuse me. 28 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 You're one of those camelback packs. 29 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:27,000 That's a little thing. 30 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:39,000 I have to go to the bathroom every hour. 31 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Yes. 32 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Sip breaks. 33 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 How do I say this? 34 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Have you used that phrase this week? 35 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 I use it quite a bit. 36 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,000 I'm someone who really likes to think before I speak. 37 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 So sometimes I'm really careful how I say things. 38 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 My wife is nodding her head. 39 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 We were arguing about this last night. 40 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:14,000 She would say, do you want a snack when you go to bed? 41 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 You know, she helps get me into bed. 42 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 And then sometimes I like to munch on something. 43 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:25,000 And so she asked me, do you want anything to munch on? 44 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Did you hear me? 45 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Yeah, I'm thinking. 46 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 I have to think about how hungry am I? 47 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 How much should I eat today? 48 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 What kind of snack should I have? 49 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 And I eat the same exact snack every single night. 50 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 But I still have to think about it. 51 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 And I don't know, what else did you ask me? 52 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Do you remember? 53 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 It doesn't even matter. 54 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Yes. 55 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Her eyes actually glaze over. 56 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 And my friend Alex is back there. 57 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 And she knows too. 58 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 She helps me get up in the mornings. 59 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Questions like, what shoes do you want to wear today? 60 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 They can take a couple of minutes. 61 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:19,000 So I'm somebody who, how can I put this? 62 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Have you used that one this week? 63 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Sometimes we use that phrase a lot. 64 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:31,000 We're trying to figure out exactly how we should say things. 65 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Finding the right words can be hard. 66 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Sometimes we look for them really carefully. 67 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Sometimes we say, I don't want this to sound bad. 68 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 That always makes you a little nervous, doesn't it? 69 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,000 I remember especially a time when that was true is, 70 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 have you ever written anything to a crush before? 71 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Maybe a text, maybe a letter, maybe an email. 72 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,000 How long did you think before you actually sent it? 73 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 How many times did you use the backspace button? 74 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,000 I want them to think I like them. 75 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Maybe even I like like them. 76 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 But I want them to think I like like like them. 77 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Because then they'll think I'm too into them. 78 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 We can put a lot of thought into that. 79 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:29,000 When I was emailing Tashiana, because we weren't really texting that much yet, 80 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 I don't even think I had a cell phone. 81 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,000 But when I would email her and we weren't dating yet, 82 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:43,000 I would spend 30 minutes in the library where I went to write my emails just thinking, 83 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 how do I say this? 84 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 How am I going to put this? 85 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 I want to say it just right. 86 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,000 It took me a while trying to find the right words. 87 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Another time sometimes we're trying to find the right words is in a high pressure situation like an interview. 88 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:07,000 I interviewed for the first time in a while and years not too long ago. 89 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,000 And a question came up and I couldn't believe I wasn't prepared for it. 90 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 What are some of your weaknesses? 91 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,000 And I'm like, oh my gosh, I've heard this so many times. 92 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:24,000 I've asked this in so many interviews and now I'm sitting here and I have no idea what to say. 93 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:32,000 So what popped into my head was one of my favorite interviews from one of my favorite TV shows. 94 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 It goes like this. 95 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Let me ask you a question right off the bat. 96 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000 What do you think are your greatest strengths as a manager? 97 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:46,000 The response, why don't I tell you what my greatest weaknesses are? 98 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 I work too hard. 99 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 I care too much. 100 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:56,000 And sometimes I can be too invested in my job. 101 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Okay, and your strengths? 102 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Well, my weaknesses are actually strengths. 103 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Ah, very good. 104 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 There you go. 105 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:12,000 And so what I did to buy a little bit of time in this interview was tell the interviewer this joke 106 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:17,000 and then try to come up with three actual weaknesses, which was a struggle, 107 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,000 not because I don't know my weaknesses but because I was having one of those moments. 108 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,000 How do I put this? 109 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Another time I was quitting a job and I didn't particularly care for the job, 110 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:37,000 and I was 21 at the time, so I have some grace for me, but I decided to use the words from a song. 111 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Sometimes songs put things better than words we can think of. 112 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:52,000 And so I told the manager, in the words of R.E.O. Speedwagon, I believe it's time for me to fly. 113 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Again, I was 21 and I didn't much care for the job. 114 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:04,000 This is a silly example, but there are other times when words really strike us 115 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:11,000 because they give us the words for, or songs really strike us because they give us the words to say something. 116 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:17,000 It's really hard to say we feel it, we've thought of it, but we might not have the right words. 117 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:22,000 I heard a song recently by Billie Eilish from the Barbie movie, 118 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:32,000 which one of the themes in that is when your whole identity is shattered, your world falls apart, how do you rebuild that? 119 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 And I heard this song and I was really moved by it. 120 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Here are a few of the lyrics. 121 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,000 When did it end? All the enjoyment. 122 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,000 I'm sad again. Don't tell my boyfriend. 123 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:52,000 It's not what he's made for. What was I made for? 124 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 I don't know how to feel, but I want to try. 125 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I don't know how to feel, but someday I might. 126 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:09,000 I think I forgot how to be happy, something I'm not, but something I can be, 127 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:15,000 something I wait for, something I'm made for. 128 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:23,000 This song has a deep sadness to it, but it also reaches out with a hope. 129 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:30,000 It can't quite grasp or identify what that hope is, what she's hoping she was made for, 130 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:36,000 but she senses that there's something there that she's reaching out toward. 131 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:44,000 What was I made for? Something that echoes, I think, since humans became humans, 132 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,000 since we could even begin to think about how to feel. 133 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Another song that saw a lot of popularity in the country rock genre in 2023 134 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:00,000 is about needing a favor from God. 135 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,000 And I'll share some of the words to that song. 136 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Hardcover King James only been saving dust on my nightstand, 137 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:14,000 and I don't know what to say by the time I fold my hands. 138 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:21,000 I only talk to God when I need a favor, and I only pray when I ain't got a prayer. 139 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:29,000 So who the heck am I to expect a savior if I only talk to God when I need a favor? 140 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,000 But God, I need a favor. 141 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:39,000 I owe you more than one, and beggars can't be choosers, but I'll pay for all I've done. 142 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Just please don't let me lose her. 143 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Well, I hope my spiritual life has more depth than asking God for favors. 144 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:55,000 I also know that there's times where I find myself asking for favors, 145 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 or maybe I would put it as an emergency prayer. 146 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 God, please help me get out of this. 147 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,000 God, help me get this job. 148 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,000 God, I'm so stressed out right now. 149 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 God, help me pass this test. 150 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:23,000 And sometimes I find when I'm praying those prayers that it's been a while between since I've prayed something else. 151 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:32,000 It's just been a string of emergency prayers lately, just those moments of desperation, 152 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:39,000 and I realize that in between those, I find it really hard to find the right words. 153 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,000 What do I say? How do I say it? 154 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,000 What can I express that is something genuine? 155 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,000 God gives us the words in the Bible. 156 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,000 He gives us the answers to the test. 157 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,000 He gives us a whole book of prayers, the Psalms. 158 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:09,000 The Psalms are the longest book in the Bible, 150 chapters, longest by a long shot. 159 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:14,000 150 prayers covering every topic you can think of. 160 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Depression, anxiety, war, creation, thanksgiving, anger, and I especially like this one, even anger toward God. 161 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Sometimes I need permission to express that because I feel it. 162 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:43,000 And wouldn't you know that God gives us the words to even tell him when we're angry with him. 163 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,000 He even gives us the words to express our frustration. 164 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:57,000 And that's good news for me and maybe some others of us, too. 165 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:05,000 A lot of the Psalms were written by someone named David, King David, the same David that fought Goliath. 166 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,000 The same David who did so many things. 167 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:15,000 And I want to mention some of his life experiences for a moment because as someone who wrote a lot of Psalms, 168 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:23,000 he can give us an idea of just how many topics there are, how many themes. 169 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,000 He grew up as a shepherd. He loved creation. 170 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:38,000 He grew up looking at the mountains, the grass, the trees, the sheep, the predators, all of those things. 171 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:43,000 He grew up knowing what war was like. 172 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:53,000 The violence, having made his fame by killing the champion of another nation. 173 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,000 He knew the highest highs, but he also knew the lowest lows. 174 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:04,000 He spent years of his life running around from someone who wanted to kill him. 175 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:08,000 He lived in caves. That's hard times. 176 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:13,000 He was betrayed again and again and again. 177 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,000 He would seek refuge in a kingdom or from friends. 178 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:23,000 But when his opponent, Saul, came around, they would sell him out. 179 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:28,000 His friends died. His friends came and went. 180 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:35,000 And then he became king. He won countless battles. 181 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,000 He fell in love and married someone he loved. 182 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:51,000 But he also is, how do I put this, a moron. 183 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Someone we can relate to in that way as well. 184 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000 He committed adultery. 185 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:04,000 He committed by proxy murder. 186 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:09,000 He had to ask forgiveness for some terrible things. 187 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Now, he wrote about those things. 188 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:17,000 And he was able to connect with God even in spite of them. 189 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:22,000 But I want to mention too that even though he kept writing during that time, 190 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 even though he kept connecting with God, 191 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:30,000 it didn't wipe out the consequences of what he did. 192 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,000 His family was ruined. 193 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:40,000 His kingdom that he'd worked so hard to preserve was ruined. 194 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:49,000 His own son, one of them chased him around trying to kill him and forced him to go on the run. 195 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,000 So when we think of David in the Psalms we wrote, 196 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,000 we don't only see a hero. 197 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:03,000 We see someone who made mistakes, but we see someone who prayed through it 198 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:08,000 and continued to look for words of hope through it. 199 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 He wrote the 23rd Psalm. 200 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:18,000 I was at a funeral recently and that Psalm was read as it is so often at funerals, 201 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,000 a song of hope. 202 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,000 He wrote the 51st Psalm, a Psalm of repentance, 203 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:30,000 after he'd been confronted by someone for committing adultery, 204 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:35,000 for cheating on his wife, wives, but that's another thing. 205 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 It was still wrong. 206 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,000 And he also wrote the 22nd Psalm. 207 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Jesus actually quoted the Psalms. 208 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,000 He quoted his Psalm while he was on the cross. 209 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 You've probably heard the line, 210 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:57,000 my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 211 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Lines that echo, lines that hurt to hear and especially hurt to see Jesus saying. 212 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:12,000 But what I love is that when Jesus said this, 213 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,000 even though those words have sting, 214 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,000 that wasn't all he was thinking about. 215 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:24,000 That wasn't his only prayer in that moment. 216 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,000 The song goes on and gives words of hope. 217 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Jesus wasn't only reciting those first lines of feeling betrayed, 218 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,000 but the rest of that prayer, the rest of that Psalm. 219 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:44,000 And I'd like to share some of that with you. 220 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Psalm 22 and I've the verses I've read, 221 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,000 I've jumped around a little bit because it's a long Psalm. 222 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,000 So if you look it up in your Bible, you'll find these verses there, 223 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:03,000 but they it jumps around some. 224 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:09,000 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 225 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Why are you so far from saving me? 226 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,000 So far from my cries of anguish. 227 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:22,000 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer. 228 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:26,000 By night, but I find no rest. 229 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Yet in you, our ancestors put their trust. 230 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,000 They trusted and you delivered them. 231 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:41,000 To you they cry out and you saved them. 232 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 In you they trusted and were not put to shame. 233 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,000 You brought me out of the womb. 234 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:53,000 You made me trust in you, even in my mother's arms. 235 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,000 From birth, I relied on you. 236 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,000 From my mother's belly, you have been my God. 237 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Lord, do not be far from me. 238 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 You are my strength. 239 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Come quickly to help me. 240 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,000 You have not despised or scorn my suffering. 241 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:17,000 You have not hidden your face from me, 242 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,000 but have listened to my cry for help. 243 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Jesus said the words, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 244 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,000 But even in that moment as he felt forsaken, 245 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:36,000 he was also praying, knowing that he was not abandoned by God. 246 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,000 He was loved by God. 247 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 He was seen by God. 248 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 And for us today when we read the Psalms, 249 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:51,000 God gives us the right words to celebrate, 250 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,000 to feel our pain, to cry out, 251 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,000 but he also gives us the words of hope. 252 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:06,000 Almost every Psalm ends directing us back to him. 253 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 They echo those questions that we've heard, 254 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:14,000 what was I made for, 255 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,000 how do I pray those emergency prayers, 256 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:23,000 but they also point us to the hope that's deeper than that. 257 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Okay, Scott, it's time for you to wrap it up. 258 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:33,000 And you told me that this is the longest book in the Bible. 259 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,000 Where do I start? 260 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:41,000 A lot of the Psalms, if you read them, you might find kind of boring. 261 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Sometimes it feels like they repeat themselves a lot. 262 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:51,000 How do I find the ones that I'm looking for? 263 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,000 One way to do it is with the internet. 264 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:01,000 If you Google Psalms about hope, Psalms about anxiety, 265 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:08,000 Psalms about creation, all kinds of things will pop up. 266 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Now it's Google, so all kinds of things will pop up. 267 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,000 So you have to be careful getting your Bible verses from Google, 268 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,000 but it's a place you can start. 269 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Another place that's really helpful for praying the Psalms 270 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,000 is an app called YouVersion. 271 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:36,000 If you put in your app, search Bible, it's the first one that will pop up. 272 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Now on there, you can read the Psalms, but there's also plans. 273 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:49,000 And if you go in there and you type in Psalms, praying the Psalms, 274 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000 in the plans, it will give you plans for praying the Psalms. 275 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,000 There's a seven-day one. 276 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:00,000 There's a 35-day one, and it will walk you through 277 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,000 and give you devotionals and give you Psalms to pray. 278 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:13,000 That's a way to pray the Psalms, to use the words that God has given us. 279 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:21,000 And this is worship, to pray Scripture, to pray the Psalms. 280 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:25,000 We could all pray the Psalms this week. 281 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,000 We could all do this seven-day plan. 282 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:33,000 I'd encourage you to do it, to look it up in the app, 283 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:39,000 or you can Google if you're feeling risky. 284 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,000 But the Psalms, God gives us the words. 285 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Amen? 286 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Let's pray. 287 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:54,000 God, as we do this series on worship, 288 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:59,000 we think about praying the Psalms. 289 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:05,000 We think about how you give us the words we need. 290 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:13,000 You give us the words to voice our fears, our joy, 291 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,000 and you also point us back to you. 292 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,000 And we thank you for that. 293 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,000 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.