In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devo...
Join pastor Dane Ortlund, best-selling author of Gentle and Lowly, Monday through Friday each week on a journey through all 150 psalms in the Bible.
Listen as he reads and reflects on each psalm in full—helping us see what these Scriptural songs tell us about God, about ourselves, and about the grace that the Lord offers to us with open hands.
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Psalm 69 - Save Me, O God
In your time of distress, you can pray this Psalm and know with confidence that God will somehow answer and deliver you, because Jesus prayed for deliverance but faced the cross nevertheless.
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Psalm 68 - God Shall Scatter His Enemies
What difference does it make that God is both mighty and merciful, both powerful and gentle? All the difference in the world. It means he is able to deliver us from all our difficulties and sins, and it means he enjoys delivering us.
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Psalm 67 - Make Your Face Shine upon Us
This is who God is. He is not a parochial, narrow-minded God. His welcome to sinners is wide. He asks only for our penitent faith, our trusting contrition—all he asks is that we humble ourselves enough to know of our need for his saving mercy.
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Psalm 66 - How Awesome Are Your Deeds
Are you in a valley now? Do you feel now that you are fighting your way “through fire and through water"? Take comfort in this Psalm. Through tears he brings us “to a place of abundance.”
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Psalm 65 - O God of Our Salvation
God cares for you. He does not care about our souls alone, although that is the most important thing about us. He cares also about our physical nourishment.Yet why did he give us food, ultimately? Not only for our enjoyment but more deeply to tell us who he is—our true sustenance, our deepest nourishment.
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Psalm 64 - Hide Me from the Wicked
Our words reveal what is truly happening in our hearts, far better than any X-ray. When our immediate verbal response is to respond to evil with evil, we demonstrate that we are not in tune with the gospel.
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Psalm 63 - My Soul Thirsts for You
The heart of Christianity is not a set of doctrines to believe, even though sound doctrine is vital. Nor is the heart of Christianity an activity to pursue, even though the Christian faith is necessarily active. The heart of Christianity is to live upon God. You were made for God.
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Psalm 62 - My Soul Waits for God Alone
Pain has a special way of exposing where our trust truly lies. But pain also brings us into our only secure trust: the Lord himself.
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Psalm 61 - Lead Me to the Rock
How do you handle distress — emotional, psychological, physical, financial? What is your heart-impulse when you feel swamped by adversity? Cry out to the Lord. He will lead you to a place of safety.
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Psalm 60 - He Will Tread Down Our Foes
Ultimately, through Jesus Christ, God fulfills his promises to Abraham, and the New Testament indicates that God’s way of continuing to fulfill his land promises is through faithful Christian witness, extending not just to the Promised Land of Israel but to the end of the earth.
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Psalm 59 - Deliver Me from My Enemies
If we have pains we do not deserve, how much more does the holy God not deserve the pains of our own failure to defend him and praise him and follow him wholeheartedly?
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Psalm 58 - God Who Judges the Earth
God will right all wrongs. The final judgment of God is a deeply liberating doctrine. All will be put to right. We can release the need to judge now. We can leave it in his wise hands.
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Psalm 57 - Let Your Glory Be over All the Earth
In the midst of difficulty, the Holy Spirit delights to bring us into this settled place of contentment: as long as God is exalted, all is well. As long as he is known and lifted up and honored, my own welfare need not worry me too much.
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Psalm 56 - In God I Trust
This psalm lists different reasons not to be afraid. One striking remark from David addresses the tender nearness of God. Consider the beautiful imagery David uses.
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Psalm 55 - Cast Your Burden on the Lord
Betrayals happen every day on this earth, but there is one Friend who we know will never betray us. Open up to him, fellowship with him, pour out your heart to him. He will not let you down.
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Psalm 54 - The Lord Upholds My Life
Instead of looking around for some other person or group of people to protect him, David looks to God. His eyes go up, not out.
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Psalm 53 - There Is None Who Does Good
If you feel yourself to be under the indictment of this psalm, this is all that is needed to receive the mercy of God in Jesus Christ. To the degree that you know your sin, to that degree you may enjoy amazing grace.
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Psalm 52 - The Steadfast Love of God Endures
To trust God means to live your life as if God actually exists and is who he says he is. It is to conduct your existence in such a way that what you say that you believe about God aligns with how you use words, money, your body, and other people. It is to leave your final welfare in God’s hands rather than your own.
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Psalm 51 - Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
Amid your dirtiness, you are free to breathe again. In Christ, you are rinsed clean—invincibly, permanently, irreversibly.
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Psalm 50 - God Himself Is Judge
God wants us to honor him simply by crying out for help: “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” We glorify God by being delivered by him—which reminds us of the deepest reason for the sacrificial system.
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Psalm 49 - Why Should I Fear in Times of Trouble?
Jesus Christ left the beauty of heaven to walk through the brokenness of this fallen world. And he went willingly to a Roman cross to ransom sinners from the clutches of death and hell and condemnation. The price he paid—his own dear life—is costly enough to win back the lives of all of those who repent and trust in him.
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Psalm 48 - Zion, the City of Our God
Do you live in a city? A town? A village? God does not simply dwell among you, in some special building. He dwells in you. He could not be closer.
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Psalm 47 - God Is King over All the Earth
One day, through the salvation wrought in Jesus Christ, the true and final descendant of Abraham, God will welcome into the new heavens and the new earth a beautiful international diversity of ethnicities.
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Psalm 46 - God Is Our Fortress
What worries your heart as you lie awake in bed? God says: I, not any circumstantial solution, am your refuge amid your adversities. I am a very present help in trouble. I am God. Be still.
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Psalm 45 - Your Throne, O God, Is Forever
Jesus is the ideal king. Even today, when most nations are not under the rule of a pure monarchy, this is the king, the ruler, every human heart longs for. A king of justice and of virtue, of might and of beauty.
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