PSALMS TO SLEEP BETTER: Psalm 23
Listen as Sarah shares from Psalm 23 and what it means to walk the paths of righteousness.
Listen as Sarah shares from Psalm 23 and what it means to walk the paths of righteousness.
Listen as Jen shares from Psalm 22 about the God who cries out and understands our cries.
How can we rejoice when our prayers seem unanswered? This is more than just making a gratitude list. It is a deep understanding and believing of God’s character.
Jen shares a long prayer for the battles you’re facing tonight.
Sarah shares how both God’s creation and God’s Word are powerful tools against depression and anxiety. Are you utilizing both?
Jen shares the difference it makes if you believe God doesn’t just love you, he likes you.
Sarah’s family has experienced a very deep injustice, which has caused her to seek out the Lord for help. What do we do when others wrong us? Listen as Sarah learned the difference between making things right and having peace.
Jen shares how we are never truly alone at night with our worries and anxieties. We learn from Psalm 16 how God cares for both our inner person and our outer person and cares so much for us that he will co-regulate with us so we can rest securely.
This week’s episode is from Psalm 15. Sarah shares why we have this promise to “never be shaken.” What does that mean? How can we not falter when depression and anxiety take away our sleep?
The fool says there is no God, but what about those of us whose life is making us doubt? How can we be wise and bring our doubts to God?
The King of Glory is the answer to all the world’s problems, from the most private to the most public pain.
Sarah shares how we can come to God with even our hard questions. David asked God “How long…” If you feel forgotten, alone, and abandoned by even God, listen in today.
This is the Secret Place of God, and in it you will be safe!
One of the things that bring restoration and repair to our lives is positioning ourselves in worship.
In this episode, David assures himself of what he knows to be true, that God is true to his word.
If you struggle to fall asleep at night or go through your day fighting anxiety and depression, pull up a chair.
Psalm 7 is another cry for justice. The author, David, expresses deep hurt and pain because people he cared about had hurt him. What does it mean that God was his shield?
Psalm 7 is another cry for justice. The author, David, expresses deep hurt and pain because people he cared about had hurt him. What does it mean that God was his shield?
Psalm 7 is another cry for justice. The author, David, expresses deep hurt and pain because people he cared about had hurt him. What does it mean that God was his shield?
Psalm 7 is another cry for justice. The author, David, expresses deep hurt and pain because people he cared about had hurt him. What does it mean that God was his shield?
The song in the night must be sung—it demands action—a deliberate transfer of thoughts from nightfall to morning light.
David, expresses deep sorrow so much that he is not eating and doesn’t sleep. His bed is filled with tears. How does David find comfort?
In the morning, David cried out to God. What do we learn from David and his morning prayer to God that will help us sleep?
Psalm 4 asks God to help us when we cry out to him. We want God to listen. Does He?
While these representations do not look like a physical image of a person or thing, they do reveal where a person has placed their trust.
If you struggle to fall asleep at night or go through your day fighting anxiety and depression, pull up a chair. Psalms is a book that gives us permission to feel but also to hear.
If you struggle to fall asleep at night or go through your day fighting anxiety and depression, pull up a chair. Psalms is a book that gives us permission to feel but also to hear.
If you struggle to fall asleep at night or go through your day fighting anxiety and depression, pull up a chair. Psalms is a book that gives us permission to feel but also to hear.
Perhaps we’re leaning more on musical dynamics to spark emotional responses than on genuine spiritual engagement.
Welcome to the Psalms to Help You Sleep podcast with Sarah Frazer and Jennifer Holmes. If you struggle to fall asleep at night or go through your day fighting anxiety and depression, pull up a chair. Psalms is a book that gives us permission to feel but also to hear.
When we walk through the rubble that was once our lives, His arm is around our shoulders, holding us up.
And so it is with life—preparation for the procession qualifies us to march in peace.
Jesus said we should just tell the truth: “Let your no mean no and your yes mean yes.”
We dare to approach the nearness of the Almighty because there is over us the shadow of a cross.
We have all been empowered by His Spirit to serve Him in His power, not in our own.
I realized a time may come when simplicity will be the door through which the Spirit will walk into.
We can have an inner sense of balance based on truth, stabilizing truth.
The Word is alive in us through the Holy Spirit giving us a sort of spiritual inner ear to help us keep our balance.
Worship was always meant to be the place where you give it ALL back to God and ask Him what He wants.
The enemy wants our praise, and that comes in the form of dragging us away from our First Love and enticing us to worry, fear, and obsess.
What I was allowed to hear, I believe, was Heaven worshipping.
The Lord delights in your offerings to Him and desires to give you a secure place to minister before Him.
As we rush through life randomly selecting what to listen to and what to ignore, we need to listen for the fanfare God sends our way.
The Lord we serve makes sure it is the good we have done in His name that lives on after us, indeed, that lives forever.
It is when we truly experience His beauty that awe and wonder begin to manifest and open the door to His glory.
Remember where your springs are found—in the Kingdom of God!
God meets us at the altar of prayer when our hearts become the altar of prayer.
As soldiers of the Light, we must be sure that we do not unconsciously form any alliances with the Darkness.
When you learn to live life on two levels, you’re able to carry on a continual conversation with the Lord.
As you praise God, your faith will grow stronger, and peace will overwhelm you.
When the worship started, a miracle took place.
The Zeal of the Father’s House is a cleansing force, a purifying process of revolutionized thinking and corrected behavior.
We congregate because the Lord has called us together. The Bible is clear: “Do not stop congregating!”
When we take time to worship God, we are saying we value Him above our hobbies, entertainment, friends, spouses, children, etc.
Putting on praise when encountering a spirit of heaviness may be uncomfortable because it’s not something you are used to doing.
The music of worship must be filled with the truth of God and with the testimonies of God’s people.
His music took us and started our feet to move and our hearts to sway. Like a child in the sun, we were dancing again.
Today our musical, spiritual warriors stand idle, for we no longer call them to the battle.
Every emotion that emanates from the human heart is represented in the Book of Psalms.
The heart of the True Worshiper is a fiery heart burning with a passion for God and for His Kingdom.
There are those God is commissioning to go forth, clothed in the full armor of God, to dance and rejoice before the King!
Eternity won’t be long enough to praise God for all His goodness in our lives.
If we are not careful, we will spend more time applying scripture to contemporary living than we do telling the Gospel story.
God’s plan for one’s success does not come at the expense of another.
I watched and praised God for this young man who wasn’t afraid to worship Him.
“Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—The saints’ and angels’ song.”
Loving children minister to loving parents like no one else can.
As I cried, grieved, prayed, and journaled, the lightbulb went on!
Public worship can suffer if songs are used that do not do the work of worship.
The holy purpose is to minister to the Lord, giving Him “the glory due His name.
Music is the language of emotions and True Worship requires emotion.
We need to stop fighting the enemy on his own terms and his own turf.
We may not be aware of His presence but, just as we would miss air, we would be desperate if His omnipresence were suddenly taken from us.
We may not be aware of His presence but, just as we would miss air, we would be desperate if His omnipresence were suddenly taken from us.
Regardless of the musical language of a certain people in a particular place and a given time, the music God is listening for is full of truth, revelation, and mystery.
Jesus unites worshipers across any line Satan or man himself can draw.
We may not be aware of His presence but, just as we would miss air, we would be desperate if His omnipresence were suddenly taken from us.
The challenge of worshiping in the truth of the Kingdom while living in the culture of the world has faced every church in every land in every age of Christianity.
God is coming in answer to the praises and declarations of His Church!
While the Lord is dealing with each individual worshiper, He is also moving the congregation forward in faith.
In corporate settings, the unity of all the believers singing the same truth at the same time with the same emotion is a vital force in the life of the church.
Worship invokes the presence of God upon the circumstances and situations that seem to be way out of control.
There is too much at stake in today’s service to be coy with our praise and selfish with our worship.
We were created to co-labor with God to advance his kingdom.
We have put praise and worship on the clock and we have lost the sense of tarrying, of waiting on the Lord. No wonder our strength is not often renewed.
The rhythm of His heartbeat is getting louder.
The idea is simple enough: when we worship in Spirit and Truth, we provide the Lord with an earthly place to do His work.
When we enter the realm of the splendor of His majesty and sovereignty, miracles, signs, and wonders happen.
This book opens our eyes to the enduring relevance of songs that have been sung for hundreds of years.
How transforming it would be if our worship leaders and rank and file worshipers would see themselves as priests unto the Lord, a Kingdom of Priests.
I love my indwelling God who draws me toward thoughts of Him alone!
We see the passionate heart of David as he actively pursued the presence of God just as Jesus did the presence of His Father.
God is taking the Word of the Lord from the plowman and engraving it upon the hearts of His people with an intensified speed.
This was the glory of God, the weight of the significance of His Dwelling Place given to the Israelites as the sign of their Covenant with God.
True effectiveness as a believer in the Lord Jesus begins and is maintained in the Secret Place of prayer.
Signs and wonders, gifts and revelations, anointings, and deliverances don’t slide very easily into modernistic slots.
As we worship, that human spirit within connects with the Spirit of God and we cry “Abba, Father!”
Nowhere in the Bible does it say we only need to worship God when we feel like it.
If we want to effectively fight in this war that we’re in, the battlefields must change to match the warfare that we’re engaged in.
If there is no personal spiritual relationship between the pastor and music pastor, there is little hope for a public display of God’s power on the platform.