Girls Gone Bible - Bless the Lord, O My Soul (Psalm 103) | Girls Gone Bible

Episode Date: June 5, 2026

hi GGB:) This week on Girls Gone Bible, we're diving deep into Psalm 103 and uncovering the power of gratitude, praise, and remembering the goodness of God. Together, we explore the character of God��His mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and unfailing love—and why our souls have every reason to bless His holy name. we love you soooooo much. Jesus loves you more. -Ang & Ari ORDER OUR BOOK! You can order our new book "Out of the Wilderness— 31 Devotions to Walk with God Through Your Hardest Seasons" at https://girlsgonebible.com/book JOIN US ON GGB+ 🥹❤ https://ggb.supportingcast.fm/ COME SEE US ON TOUR: Tickets for our tour are now on sale.  Go to https://www.GirlsGoneBible.com/tour WE LOVE YOU AND CANNOT WAIT TO SEE YOU!  BETTERHELP https://www.betterhelp.com/girlsgonebible GLORIFY https://www.glorify-app.com/ggb Active Skin Repair https://www.ActiveSkinRepair.com use code: GGB  GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY https://www.GCU.ed JUST THRIVE HEALTH https://www.justthrivehealth.com/GGB IQ BAR Text GGB to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products, plus FREE shipping. Message and data rates may apply.

Bless the what? I'm just loving this polo sweater. I'm so glad you got that at the outlet. Well, one thing about me. The outlets are the best. No, I know. We went to the outlets in New York. One thing about me is I love sweaters and sweatshirts.

I know you do. I'll buy a sweatshirt or sweater and wear it every day. I've worn this every day since I bought it, even on the podcast. And I'll wear it for the next. You'll wear it to the death at you. Like literally. I'll wear it till it's like coming out at the seams. The last one that you wore every day was that pink one, and I can't look at it anymore.

I also, I had this one Reformation. It was my favorite Reformation sweater that I had. That was a depression sweater. Every single day I wore this. I don't want to talk about it actually, bless. That's how I am with a good dress. Like, I'll wear it to bed. Like, it's actually kind of creepy.

And I also love, like, if I find her. Like, it's actually kind of creepy. It's kind of creepy, right? Like you wake up in a long dress. It's pretty creepy. And then I love, like, if I find a good top with, like, a good, like, puff sleeve, but not too puffy. Yeah. Well, you don't really wear your puff sleeves anymore. I can't find a good one. Is there something wrong? I don't know, but I felt like I wore my Brazil shirt today. You couldn't tell me anything. Like, I walked to get a coffee and, like, I was, like, act indifferent. I'm sure you were. Did you tell people you were a Brazil? No, but like it was just that like feel that when people looked at me, they just, they thought

I was ethnic. Oh, yeah. And I just kind of acted a little different. Hi, I'm Ange. And I'm Mari. And this is Girls Gone Bible. We are a faith-based podcast where we talk all things, spirituality, mental health, the Bible. We love Jesus Christ so much.

You know that video where the guy goes, Jesus Christ? Do you not know that? Okay, well, I'll put a video up there. I love that guy. He actually, I think I DMed him one time to have him on the podcast. Did he have tattoos? Yes. You haven't seen the guy, Jesus Christ,

put on the full armor of God. You haven't seen that? Is he like kind of cute? Well, no matter how I answer that question. Yes, he's a very beautiful man of God. He's like, probably married with children. I can't answer that. Wait, and I have to say that we have been so on top of our color schemes

unknowingly. Oh, we've been united. Well, I'm wearing green and you're wearing. No, it's the same color scheme. Like, we're always on. Would you say this is? Oh, I guess you're so right. That looks green, though.

On camera on it. Yours is green, inch. I had to. She was driving here. You know, we've lived here for years. Years. I still, I mean, don't even talk to me about directions and maps. It is my true red flag.

Like, if you want to know a red flag about me, Yeah. I can't find my way outside a box if you put me in one. But listen, you have so many other gifts. But no, she calls me and she's like, I am panicking. Can you Google how to get here? I had to chat CBT, how to get from her house to the studio. I didn't know. And then we get on a call with our team, so I'm not paying attention.

I had one exit that I needed to get off, just one exit. I drove so far. I ended up in a park in Sherman Oaks. I didn't know where I was. I was freaking out. And then all of a sudden, I swear, I started praying. And I started rebuking Satan out of my life. And my everything turned on on my phone.

You're kidding. I swear. Yeah, because your phone wasn't working. It wasn't working. My phone wasn't working. And my laptop. My laptop broke the other day. And I just feel like, anyways, how you doing?

I have a list of things. Oh, I know how I'm doing. Yeah. So listen to this. So Shalom had to do it. babies. Shlone has babies. You know that video I sent you of that there's an older woman. She has a hat on with like a bird feeder attached and like hummingbirds are just coming to her hat. Three people sent me that video. Three different people. Yeah. But no, so I wait. We wake up this morning and we have meetings all day starting from 9 a.m.

right and I'm just like going all day I it was like so I didn't spend any time with Jesus this morning I feel so burnt out and I was just thinking how did I do it how did we do it how did I do it before jesus I don't know do you ever think about that I literally had a moment today where I was like I don't know how I survived because today was like a really hard day not spending time with him before I stopped my day and have this like massive day without spending time with him. I was fried. Also, so we just got back from an amazing few shows in, we were in York, Pennsylvania, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Oh my gosh, we have so much to talk about. By the way, on that note really quick, we just want to tell you guys, we're on the Girls Gone Bible Live tour and we have tour dates for the rest of the year. I want to read some of them to you guys. I think everybody who has come to the shows can attest to like, They have only been getting more powerful. Not because of anything Ari and I do, but just the tangible presence of God in the room. Like, I know God's hand is so on this tour because of the impact that it's having on lives.

And it's just been really special to share these nights with you guys to encounter Jesus. We genuinely believe that people are getting delivered, set free, healed. people are stepping into their identities in Jesus. People are letting sin fall off of their lives. People are coming in one way, leaving another. These are revival nights. It's not just, it's not a live podcast that we're doing. Like we are preaching the word, letting the gospel go forth and inviting Jesus and the Holy Spirit into the room.

And there is no limit to what he does and wants to do when we honor him in that way. And so I just want to read some of the tour dates that we have coming up. We have Knoxville, Tennessee, Birmingham, Alabama, Beverly, Massachusetts, Beverly Massachusetts, Red Bank, New Jersey, San Jose, California, Pensacola, Florida, and Lakeland, Florida. Those are the next ones. You guys can go to Girls Gone Bible.com slash tour to get your tickets. We really want to see you there. But anyways, we were in Hartford and Rhode Island.

We weren't in Rhode Island. We were in York, Pennsylvania this weekend. It was like the best weekend of tour ever. It was so powerful, so special. We've been doing a lot of the East Coast, which just means the world to us. I actually grew up in Newtown, Connecticut, and we went back to my hometown the day after our Hartford show. And I've actually never talked about that season of my life. And I would love to eventually.

It was special seeing how excited you were like a kid. Oh my gosh. Well, because I hadn't been there in so many years. And it's so funny. I live there from, I think my mom told me, I get dates wrong. Sometimes my mom gets. She's always like, that's not when we were there. And I'm like, I'm sorry. I'm trying to remember. So I was there. She said 12 years. So I was there from like, sex. I don't know. You know me. No, I was there for a couple. I don't know, actually. Whatever. I went to preschool until middle school in Connecticut. So now we're going to say you're from Connecticut, right? Not the Bronx. I don't say I'm from the Bronx. Oh, I'm sorry. You say Brooklyn. No, no, Bronx. No, my family moved to the Bronx and then I grew up in Connecticut. I... You're from Connecticut. No, I'm from Connecticut. And there's a little part of me that's from the Bronx. And there's a little party that wants to... Street credit from the Bronx. No, I do. I am an Albanian from the Bronx, in a sense.

I like there's so like so many people identify as an Albanian from the Bronx and that's like Well you know what I say I'm from Boston and I'm not you know what you're from Massachusetts I'm from a freaking waymuth so freaking waymuth not a Northie no I'm definitely I'm definitely not from the North Shore no offense guys but um anyways so that was awesome but this morning so we got home Saturday no we got home Sunday long travel day we both travel day we both travel about 10 hours to get home, multiple flights. And we were really tired. And we got home and we called each other.

And we were like, it was like a battlefield out there. It's a battlefield on the East Coast. You guys pray for your city, but pray for all of America and pray for the East Coast. Pray that revival truly like gets sparked in the hearts of everybody. And pray that churches expand and grow on the East Coast because you go to the South and there's a spirit filled church on every corner. You go to the northeast. You go to New England. There's not that, I don't know, that many, but it's not that typical to see spirit-filled churches on every corner. And so our prayer is that Jesus just like, Jesus just saves. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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and really spread the word of Jesus because it is a dark, heavy place. And it's amazing. And we love the East Coast. We're from the East Coast. People are so full of heart. They're so strong. They're so resilient. And like so many people don't know Jesus.

And so when we go to the East Coast, it's a battlefield. Yeah. Like you and I both felt like we went to. war. Oh, yeah. I get to tell you, being on tour has been truly the greatest blessing. Yeah. For us. Like, being with you guys is like a serotonin shot. Yeah. You guys are the truly the biggest blessings of our lives. And when we get to be with you in person, it's the best thing ever. So we just, we really love you guys so much. So much. So much. And we just love the hunger. Like, people are, you guys make our job so much easier because when we walk on into a stage and there's already so much hunger

and faith in the room, it is so much. It just like makes our day. It makes our night and it makes preaching so much easier because it's landing. Like the word is landing. And so anyways, we say that to say, okay, so we get home on Sunday and we're both exhausted. And today's Monday. Oh, that was yesterday. Today's Monday and I call you after a couple of meetings. We're on FaceTime and I go, I am so tired. And I go, no, I rebuke that in Jesus name. I'm not tired. I'm okay. And you look at me and you go, Angie, it's okay to be tired. And we get off the phone and I can't complain or else I think it's like, I know, literally. And then what? And then I texted you in in quotations and I go, it's okay to be tired. I was like, yeah, it is okay to be tired. It is. Anyways, you got anything for us?

What else you got in them? Okay, so I wrote a list of funny things that happened over the last little while, and one of them was, don't forget your jacket and where's your blankie. And so Ari and I, it's gotten really bad. I'm going to be honest, we are stewarders of our money, and we don't fly first class. We don't like, we don't do that. Like the same way we traveled and acted three years ago is the same way we travel and act today. Yeah. And but this organization that we spoke for flew us first class. I didn't know how to act.

I was embarrassing Ari. I didn't know how to act. They give you sleep masks. I was like, you need to come. No, I was freaking out. She offered me a momosa. I said, I'm sober lady, but can I have an orange juice? I'm like, can you act like you belong here?

No, she actually was saying. No, I was acting like I belonged to it. I walked in there. Like I was Parasilton. No, and I was so like there's no way. They have blankets. They have pillows. I was freaking out.

And so Ari, we get on the plane and Ari goes, Ange, there's a guy like way bad. He was like in the sixth or sixth row or something. She goes, Ange, look at that cute guy. I turned. There's like actually a cute guy. He's like six rows behind us, whatever. And I'm like, oh my gosh, you should go talk to him. and she's like over my dead body and I'm like,

but you should just go talking. Do you want me to say something? She's like, Angela, shut up. I'm like, just sit down. I'm like so excited because they give you orange shoes. Anyway, so we go with this whole flight and I'm playing solitaire for six hours. Have you guys ever played solitaire? Okay.

I don't know if you have ever played solitaire, but it is so fun. No, you guys. Six hours. I put it on my phone. She was bye-bye. I love. She played it the whole time. I was so happy. I was like, and it was, it was on the, on the, yeah, it was on the, on the, on the little TV is on the plane. So I'm in first class drinking fresh squeeze orange juice, playing solitaire. I'm living my best life. Ari's like low key thinking about the guy in the sixth row probably. And like, anyways, so we're getting off the plane and I, you know, Ari travels with her blankie. I am. Yeah. It's. It's truly like I wasn't always that bad, but it's truly become my emotional support. She ties it around her head and like sits like that.

I had it on the way home when you weren't there. I had it literally wrapped around my head twice. And I was like this and I was like, I had a moment where I was like, oh my gosh. I was like, I can't believe myself. Well, my biggest fear, obviously she's had her blankie since she was born and my biggest fear as her best friend. is that she's going to lose it. I never leave the house with it because that's, I don't want to lose it. But now I have to bring it everywhere I go or else I'm not feeling too good.

Yeah. And it's my biggest fear because if she loses that blankie, it's over for all of us. Not just her, not just me, you guys too. We're in this together. So if she loses that blankie, I don't know what will happen. So I wrote in my notes, don't forget your jacket and where's your blankie. And so every time we leave. Homeboy in the six row, he stands up.

They're like not that far from each other. I'm now thinking about homeboy in the sixth row. And I turn into like mom mode. And I'm like, R, where's your jacket? Don't figure your jacket. I go, and R, where's your blankie? I was like, and then she looks at me and goes, shut up. And I go, I'm so sorry.

I am in my 30s. I'm so sorry. What is happening? I'm like Benjamin Button. I'm like reversing back. Like I'm like getting more immature each year. Like having a blankie wrap like literally wrapped around my head. I'm jealous I don't have one.

I had a moment of being like I am in my 30s. And you know what? You're living your best life. Listen, just like we got down a rabbit hole with having Father Joe on our podcast. For the record, we are not Catholic. We're not Catholic. We're here to all the rumors that are going around on TikTok. What's going on TikTok?

We're not Catholics. We're just merrily having open conversation. We haven't been conversations. We haven't been conversations. Dude. Yeah. So just the record. We're going to have to make a clip of this.

We're not Catholic. We're not Catholic. I go to Catholic Mass my entire life. I'll probably go for the rest of my life. Pick one. I take one. I don't want. You know what?

They try putting God in a box and they're trying to put me in a box too. I'm like, are you praying to Saints or are you not? I'm not. I'm not praying to saints. And I don't, I don't ask St. Anthony to like pray from me. Okay. I will say that when I used to lose my keys and pray to St. Anthony, I'd find them one minute later. So I don't know.

I'm not praying to St. Anthony. Me and St. Anthony would be boys if I did. I know we'd be boys, but we're not boys like that. My mom, like, listen, we're not cats. Catholic. I'm sorry for the confusion. We are going to have a Catholic priest on. For the record, we're not Catholic, but we are having. And like genuinely in all seriousness, I grew up, I'm Eastern European. I grew up around nuns and priests. And so I think there's so many people, yes, you can disagree with the theology of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. Ari and I both have disagreements and opinions. when we have an Orthodox priest on, when we have a Catholic priest, we're not bringing them here to debate with them. Yeah.

We're not bringing them here to dishonor them at the table that, like, we are way more hospitable than to bring somebody on our podcast in our space and then tell them, hey, we think you are wrong. That's not what we had him here for. I, like Father Josiah and whatever Catholic priests that we have on, I genuinely believe to think that I don't have something to learn from an Orthodox priest that's been practicing such beautiful faith, whether I believe in everything he believes or not, whether we agree on everything, to think that like you and I don't have something to learn from him and to learn from the way that he's going about his faith. I, yeah, I just think it was like an interesting

and I get the fear. If people are like afraid that we're going to become Catholic, I understand. I understand it could have even been confusing to some people. The place that Ari and I come from is that like we grew up around this stuff. So it's not intimidating to us. I'm not offended by somebody else talking about praying to saints because I don't believe in, nor do I pray to saints. But I can sit across from somebody who does and stand so firm in my faith that I can, it's just the same as like I study counter Islamic apologetics.

I can read the Quran without becoming Muslim. You know what I mean? Yeah. And so it's just like we so love the early church and the early church fathers and learning about this stuff. That's why we wanted to have Father Josiah on and on top of that. We want our Orthodox and Catholic brothers and sisters to feel so like accepted by us. And by the way, I wanted to experience the Greek Orthodox Church.

I went. It was these are a room full of people that hunger. and love the Lord and have reverence for him. Yeah. And so for us to judge is just so ignorant. Even when I look like my Auntie Barbara, like her whole life is the church. Her whole life is Jesus. We're not Catholic.

We identify as Protestant, both Ari and I. And I visit the Catholic Church and I take the Eucharist at the Catholic Church whenever I'm there. And I take communion at home. And I take communion at garden. in my church. I think the one thing that I'll say about myself is that I think has been so valuable to me as I early on in my journey, I was introduced to so many different expressions of faith. Again, I grew up truly Catholic in the Catholic Church. I then got disciples by Socrates, who was a spirit-filled, charismatic man who had these 10-person meetings where the power of God

would fall and people would be healed and delivered. And people were, singing and yelling in tongues. And I was introduced to that very early on. And then when I was in L.A., I would find these, like, African prophets who would, like, put a flyer out. And I'd go to 20-person meetings in a little conference room in Glendale, California, because I was chasing the presence of God. And then I started going to Mosaic. And I went to Mosaic, and I learned under Irwin McManus, and now I'm at Garden and I love Jesus' image. And so what I'm trying to say is, like, I receive no matter what church I go to, whether it's at the Catholic Church, I'll get rocked.

If I go to Mosaic, I'll get rocked. If I go to like a prophetic meeting, I'll get rocked because I'm not judgmental towards the churches that I'm going to. I walk in with an open heart. There is no cynicism. There's no like, I don't have a critical spirit causing me to be like, I don't like that. I don't like that expression of faith. I don't like how that is.

Not saying that I've never had that, I have. But for the most part, my heart is open. And I just think, like, we can spend more time, like, loving Jesus than being weird. And realize that all these other people are just trying to love Jesus too. Yeah. Yeah. And just because you watch Father Josiah. our podcast doesn't mean you have to become orthodox. It's so cool to learn. If I was you guys,

I'd be so excited to learn about like, what are you guys doing at your church? Yeah. Lord Jesus, we love you. Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, thank you, thank you, Jesus. God, we recognize your holiness, your divinity, your power, your wisdom, your majesty, but most of all, Lord, your endless, eternal love. Holy Spirit, would you come and fill us with your presence? Fill everything. Fill every person listening and watching with your presence, Jesus. God, I pray that you would open our hearts to receive your word, your precious word, would have fallen fertile soil and produce a hundredfold harvest? God, would you purify the eyes of our souls that we would see Jesus correctly,

that we'd worship you in spirit and in truth? And Lord, I pray that Psalm 1 of 3 would become revelatory. we would have received divine revelation around Psalm 103, that we had received divine revelation on the love of Jesus. Lord, magnify our love in this episode. We love you so much. Give us the words to speak. We bless you, Lord Jesus.

Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Guess who wrote Psalm 103? Your boy David. Tell us about your boy, David. I just love him. I really do. I really don't like what you did to that man, though.

It really just... What did it make you feel? What did he do? That man was such a loyal man and he killed him. Beth Shiba's original husband, right? He was so loyal to him. That was hard for me to read, you know what I mean? Yeah.

Did you forget gave it? Talk about the forgiveness of Lord, the forgiveness of Jesus when you really come with a, I'm sorry. So today we want to do a deep dive into Psalm 103. It's one of my favorite Psalms. I have a lot of this song memorized, and I would, we're going to read from the NLT version, but if you're going to memorize, I would memorize NIV. It's more word accurate.

Oh, that's good to know, Ann. Yeah, we should be teaching from NIV, but anyways, this song is from David. David has wrote so many of the Psalms, and if you've read through the Psalms, a lot of them are cries out to Jesus during crisis, during pain, during suffering. But then there's also moments where David is writing from a place of joy and gratitude and rejoicing and praise. And this is a Psalm of gratitude and of praise. This is probably the Psalm that I go to the most. I love it so much. Every time someone starts to like feel ashamed or about sin or they question the character of God, I go to this Psalm every time. And I'll never forget

But when I was sitting in so much shame, I was, I would just start in my journey. This was one of the first scriptures that he ministered to me when I just felt so, I was in sin, you know, and I felt ashamed. And I just was crying. And I was like, I don't know what to read. And I opened up the Bible and it was this Psalm and reading the part where he says, he has removed your sins from the east and the west. It's just, it just shows the character of God so much. I love the Psalm. It shows so many different facets of this character, his personality.

We learn so much about the character of God in Psalm 103. We learned so much about who he is. And I just, a couple of things. The context of Psalm 103, it's a worship Psalm, focused entirely on remembering God's goodness, praising God for his mercy. celebrating forgiveness and redemption, reflecting on God's compassion towards his children, recognizing God's eternal kingdom. And what I love so much is David is essentially preaching to his own soul, telling himself not to forget what God is done. And this is so much of the crux of like the Christian walk is going through life with Jesus, walking through hard times,

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Eagles. The Lord gives righteousness and justice to all who are treated unfairly. He revealed his character to Moses and his deeds to the people of Israel. The Lord is compassionate and merciful. He's slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever. He does not punish us for all our sins. He does not deal harshly with us as we deserve. For his unfailing love towards those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west. The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him.

For he knows how weak we are. He remembers we are only dust. Our days on earth are like grass, like wild flowers. We bloom and we die. The wind blows and we are gone, as though we had never been here. But the love of the Lord remains forever for those who fear him. His salvation extends to the children's children of those who are faithful to his covenant, of those who obey his commandments.

The Lord has made the heavens his throne. From there he rules over everything. Praise the Lord, you angels, you mighty ones who carry out his plans. listening for each of his commands. Yes, praise the Lord, you armies of angels who serve him and do his will. Praise the Lord, everything he has created, everything in all his kingdom. Let all that I am praise the Lord. So beautiful.

Such a good psalm. So beautiful. Oh, Lord, if we all began every day praying this psalm over ourselves. Let's start with, let's start. with this first moment. Let all that I am, praise the Lord. With my whole heart, I will praise His holy name. In another translation, that's really important. We mention it's, bless the Lord, oh, my soul. So this is David speaking to himself. A lot of us know this. This is David speaking to himself going, bless the Lord, oh, my soul. He is speaking to his own soul. I can't tell you how many

moments in worship that I've had, that I've been so numb, that I've been passive and just like apathetic like I felt nothing I'm just like great word you know sorry great word just a little apathetic I'll be using that next week sorry it's so cute apathetic how do you smell that APP you said a lot of good words this episode so I'm kind of you know so it's like you feel nothing and there's been so many moments where I will say bless the Lord oh my soul I command my soul to worship you Jesus I command my soul to worship you Jesus I command my soul to bless you. And what I think is so interesting about this is like, I've said this before, but like, we need Jesus literally for everything. We need Jesus to see Jesus. We need Jesus to know

Jesus. We need Jesus to love Jesus. That's why scripture makes it clear. We love because he first loved us. I actually will get into the secret place and say, Lord, I only love because you love me first. So before I can even attempt loving you, I need to receive your love. I need you to love me first. And I love this moment of David recognizing that, like, he actually needs to not muster up the love, not muster up the energy, but he needs to command his soul, bless the Lord, praise him, let all that I am praise the Lord. Yeah, I love that.

And I love what you said earlier about remembering what he's done for us. And oftentimes when we feel like we're in a dry place, when we just, we just are in those dry seasons, those mundane seasons. that's what I do and that's why I always say I can't believe what a blessing it was to go through such hard times because I always go back to those moments. And so I love doing that in the mornings of just being like having images of those moments and being like, I love you. Like I worship you. And I said in one of the episodes about spiritual discipline, like I think the biggest spiritual discipline is being able to fall in the arms of your father and just worship him. And I,

And that it's so simple. So beautiful. And like Ari said, let all that I am, praise the Lord. May I never forget the good things he does for me. One of the greatest dangers in the Christian life is forgetfulness. When I went through my hard time, I forgot. Yeah. I forgot.

Don't we all, right? Yeah. I forgot. Yeah. I genuinely, because I could not see. anything other than my own pain and my own fear and my own doubt and my own OCD and all the things like I forgot what God had done. Which is so funny because even that season of forgetting what he's done has like equipped

me for the next season when I go through that thing when I go through that because I'm literally going to be like, oh, I may have forgotten now what he's done, but I'm even remembering the last time I forgot what he's done. And he even made good of that situation. Yeah, literally. So it's just like everything we go through is a testimony that like prepares us for the next season that we need it. And so this. What line are you on? Oh, I'm on line. That was line two. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So line three, he forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. I just, that line is just telling us that he doesn't bring condemnation. It's he brings restoration to us. He doesn't just forgive one or two sins.

He forgives all our sins. To sit in shame would be us living in ignorance. That is not the heart of the father. And it says that he forgives all my sins. And you say that to yourself, he forgives all my sins and he heals all my diseases. He brings restoration. Like this, I think the biggest thing we see especially.

And even in myself, like this has been my walk. I was always felt so condemned in my mind. And that is not his heart. He forgives all of our sins. Yeah. You know what? I think I love what you say about like he doesn't forgive one or two of your sins. He forgives all of them.

I'm somebody. And I think you're a little bit like this too where we can feel at times partially forgiven. And we can feel forgiven for the things. things that aren't that bad, but when condemnation comes in and guilt comes in and shame comes in, like this biblical truth that he genuinely forgives all of our sins does not become like revelatory information for us. It just becomes something we know, but does not something we truly believe in our hearts and in our spirits. But like for everybody listening who goes to the same thing that Ari and I do, like could you potentially today truly believe that God forgives

every single one of your sins, even the sins that you don't forgive yourself for, even for the things, the massive mistakes that you've made and the ways you've screwed everything up and you screwed this up and you screwed that up and he gave you grace this one time and you did it again. Could you believe that his love covers every single one of your sins, all of your bad habits, all of your traumas, all of your issues? Can you believe that he forgives you completely and fully, I think it's one of the hardest things we'll ever do. And I'll even, as you were saying that, I just,

we want to encourage you to even right now in this moment, pause the video and reach out and say, Lord, help me in my unbelief of the shame and condemnation I feel. Help me believe that you forgive me, love me. Like in that time in your intimacy with him where you just will feel the love and it's like, all of that shame just will melt away. Yeah.

It's in your, intimacy with him. Stay, stay with him. Ask him, talk to him, be messy with him. And then I want to just say about he heals my diseases. I can say that I've been mentally not well and staying so close to him and following the word and just being so close to him through my sickness, through my OCD, through my mental health issues. He really has healed me so much. Like he really has healed me so much. Like he really has healed me so much. And so I don't submit to the identity of this is the way my life is because this is the way I grew up and this is the way my generational, like my family is. I don't submit to that. I submit to the Word of God and he says he heals my diseases. And so I, where I was so timid,

I am so bold now with that. I don't like, I'm not, and sometimes you will catch me being like, I have OCD. No, no, no, no. I don't even like like to say that. because he has healed so much of my mind. And I want you guys to not speak death over yourself. If you're someone who struggles with OCD, that's okay. You're open about it. But I want you to remember that we serve a God who heals, who's so close to us and who's working on our minds.

And so just stay close to him because he really does heal. And if you're watching this and you're believing for healing, so I'm believing for healing for multiple different things emotionally. and this is a promise. He forgives all your sins, but he does heal all of our diseases. And healing can refer to physical healing, emotional healing, spiritual restoration. And if you're watching this and he hasn't healed you or potentially you have a family member or a child or somebody, a friend who didn't get healed in this life, not in this lifetime. We only have one lifetime, but no weird new age stuff.

If you have someone who wasn't healed in this on earth, in this life, you can trust that in the next, in the life that we live in eternity with Jesus, you have new bodies. You're completely restored, completely renewed. And so whatever healing that we don't necessarily get on earth, we will receive when we see Jesus again. That's so comforting, isn't it? It's so comforting. Especially for family members. Yes. And it's the one thing.

But it's both and. Like, it's everything is both and. It's so nuanced because, yes, like, some people don't ever get healed on earth. And we get to believe that and know that in the afterlife with Jesus, like they have complete total healing and restoration. And at the same time, while I have breath in my lungs, I am. believing in the promise of God. I am believing for complete healing. I'm believing for restoration. I'm believing that I won't struggle with OCD thoughts anymore. I'm believing that God is healing me currently. And I'm partnering with him. I'm doing the therapy. I'm doing the stuff. That's right.

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Anyways, I don't know how we're going to do this. We have moved through two lines. He redeems, it looks like we're going to get to me. I don't know. He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies. He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the evil. Evils like the eagles.

I love this. He not only forgives our sins. He not only heals our diseases, but he redeems us another version. NIV says he redeems us from the pit. And he crowns us with love and compassion. So he not only saves us from death, he saved us from death, we'll tell you that much, but he also crowns you with love and compassion. It becomes an identity that who you are is crowned with the love and compassion of God,

of the father. Like you get to live in the reality that you have a God who should be giving you wrath and judgment, but instead because of Jesus Christ, he gives you love and compassion in all of your weaknesses in all of your issues, in all of your messiness and sin and shame, he doesn't look at you as any of that. He only looks at you with love and compassion. Isn't that so comforting? You don't need to tie your identity to your past. You are not your past. You are crowned with love and compassion. He's made you new. You're his child. You don't have to keep looking back at the past and being like, but I did this. No, he's crowned you. Yeah. Picture him literally, picture him putting a

A crown on your head. Yeah. I'm going to start doing it. Ears is a tiara. I'm going to start doing that. I think his is a tiara. The Lord gives righteousness and justice to all who are treated unfairly. So another part of his character, he's just, he's fair.

Life isn't fair, but God is fair. I think a lot of us, when we are treated unfairly, we just want to take matters into our own hands. and we want to seek justice and we want to, we want revenge. Nobody's going to treat me like that. No one's going to talk to me like that. And I just, I love this because if I can tell you anything, I think one of the biggest things that people do is they seek revenge. Yeah.

And I can tell you that I was, I'm one of them. I was on the side where I would just be so in my anger, I would sin. Yeah. And what I could tell you is that like scripture says, be still. Be still. and let him fight your battles because he truly will. He truly will. He will. He will fight for you. And so when we want to take matters into our own hands, I just want you guys to be reminded that in the midst, God is truly fighting for you, that you don't have to do anything. When you are going through something

and you feel like, and somebody has done something so bad to you, when you're going through something and you're like, I don't understand, like, it's been so long. And I feel like nothing's happened. And like this person, it just keeps their life is just getting better and better. You have to trust that God is working in his own timing. And justice will be served on his timing. He sees things that you can't see. And your job is not to carry the burden of vengeance. It's to put it in the hands of someone you can trust, which is him.

He will fight your battles. I'm telling you. And I'm even like, I even want to speak to the people that are like, man, but I was that person that hurt someone. And I've been there and I understand. And it's in the love of God that he served like you reap what you sow. Like that's out of his love too because even the person that hurts us, that's still someone that God loves.

And that's such a good reminder too. And that's something that will soften your heart too of being like, this is someone that God loves. And we don't know what they've been through growing up. We don't know what their history is. And so you just need to let God take care of them. Exactly. And how like how much lighter does that make you feel? It's exhausting. It's painful to seek vengeance. It doesn't feel good. Like it hurts.

Yeah. Like maybe it's like feels when you're in your flesh and you do that thing, but afterwards it doesn't feel good. So when you fight through that and you truly like you tell yourself, no, no, no, that's someone that God loves. I'll let him take care of that. How you will feel when you really handle things with grace, your heart will transform through that. And I even want to talk to, I, when I read this this morning, because I have friends that have kids that are going through so much bullying in school. Like, it is so bad. Wow.

I can't even believe some of the stuff these kids are doing. And I found myself saying to her, like, what she's, like, don't worry about it because who she'll be through this. Yeah. Let God. So good. So I'm talking to some parents right now with your kids, because I know through, I know so many kids are going through bullying. so many parents. My friends are going through hell right now dealing with this. And it's so taxing on them. But I will tell you that God will fight that battle for your kids too. So that's a word for someone.

Oh my gosh. Please write in the comments if that was for you. I can't imagine what. Oh, he revealed his character to Moses and his deeds to the people of Israel. The Lord is compassionate and merciful. He's slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. This text preaches itself. He's slow to get angry. He's filled with unfailing love. He's compassionate and he's merciful. These are characteristics of God that are hard for me to accept personally.

This is also so challenging for me because I want to be someone who's slow to get angry. I really do. but Jesus made me Albanian and from the East Coast. So sometimes it's, you know, you really, really, really have to let the Lord in to make you like Jesus in a lot of ways. And this is an area of being slow to get angry. For me, that has been, it's been a journey with Jesus because I desperately want to be like him. And I am so grateful to Jesus, though. and this should be for all of us when we hear about the character of God and we hear that he's slow

to anger, he's compassionate, he's merciful. Yes, we receive these as truths for our lives that like this is how God looks at us. And then the second step is to then emulate the character of God to other people. We are called to be slow to anger, to be merciful, to be compassionate, to be forgiving, endlessly forgiving, to not be bitter, to not hold on. And these are the hardest. things that, like, it's, they're not easy. They don't happen overnight, but the first thing is acknowledging. For me personally, the first thing is acknowledging when I'm falling short if, if I'm not being forgiving towards someone. The first thing is acknowledging it and then continuously trying to practice being forgiving, continuously make, having actions that move me towards forgiveness

or being patient or being merciful. And you know what? He wants the best for you and he's just trying to grow you into the best version of you. And part of that is testing you with some people that will test your patience, that will test your anger that will, you know what I mean? And so recently I find myself just so much, I have so much love and grace in my heart. Yeah. It's like crazy. And it's, I've been through a lot of tests. But I know how much it hurts when I do things that's out of the will. And I know how pleasing it is to him and now to myself when I handle things with grace. It just, it hurts so much. It's so painful.

Yeah. And then the second thing I'll say is this is such a good scripture to meditate on. I remember a girl the other night was asking like, how do we see God as father? Because my earthly father didn't treat me so well. And so I really want you guys for someone who didn't grow up with a father that they could trust or someone that was abusive, that you didn't, I want you to truly go to this scripture and meditate it on the mornings. I know how I feel, but you are compassionate and merciful and you're slow to get angry and you have unfeeling love. Do you know what unfeeling love is? That is like, think about the

worst thing you can do and he still loves you. That gift that we have, but yet we're still condemning ourselves every five seconds and we think God has turned his back on us. It's crazy. It's a love that is unlike anything you'll ever experience on planet Earth. We can all try to love each, even the greatest love you ever experience on Earth doesn't even begin to compare it to the love that Jesus has for you because the love that Jesus has for you has no beginning and it has no end. It is fully eternal. There is no limit. It doesn't expire. It doesn't end. It doesn't end. It is, we don't even know what eternal. It is eternal. It's not conditional. It's not based on anything you could ever do or not do or do right or do wrong. Like, it is nothing to do with you.

It is a love that existed before you were even born. We only exist because God is so obsessed with us. Can we get to the point where we realize God is obsessed with us? He adores us. He loves us. He has compassion for us. He wants nothing more than to be close to us. That is the reality of who he is. He wants so badly to be as close to you as possible. He wants so badly for us to know how loved we are. He wants us to be so encouraged and to be so joyful and to be so at peace. Like he wants that. He's not just sitting here saying, don't sit. Hey, listen, that's why I've been able to be single for this long. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm seeing. I'm seeing. Serious. Once you get this, once you find that safe love, you're like, oh, I'm good.

I know. Seriously. You know? This next verse means a lot to me. And I think you too, because I and I both struggle with a little bit of condemnation, condemned doubt. We have a little bit of condemnation. OCD. Verse 9 says, he will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever. He does not punish us for all our sins. he does not deal harshly with us as we deserve. He will not constantly accuse us nor remain angry forever. I think if you're watching this and you grew up, I think there's something really interesting about a household that has a culture of blaming.

If you live in a house or you grew up in a house where people were blaming each other, your parents were blaming each other, I think when I have kids, one of the most important things that I'm going to establish in my house is that there is no blame. Siblings don't blame one another. The kids will never see me and my husband blaming each other.

I don't blame the kids for doing things that are wrong. Because when you blame kids, when you establish that, like, there's something, like, holding a child accountable is one thing, but blaming them, like, this is your fault. You did this and pointing to who they are at their core and affecting them saying you are inherently bad or at fault. You grow up to have such a condemning voice. And you'll also condemn other people. Like, you know what I mean? You'll blame yourself and then you'll blame other people.

And it's just like this, it's just a mess. And so something that I think Ari and I hold on to a lot and have to continuously remind ourselves is that Satan is the accuser. God doesn't accuse. No, he does that. Satan is the accuser. God does not accuse us ever. He convicts. He brings things to light.

He gently encourages us. But when you're being accused in your mind, you are... I can't wait to have an OCD episode where I can let you guys in on truly. I just want to walk it out more before I really talk about it. But like the OCD that I've been battling... It's torment. This tormenting of like you, you, you, you, you, you. You are bad.

You are... And then when you analyze the thoughts, it's like, Oh my gosh. Yeah, it is truly. So if you're dealing with that, like just know that you're not alone and it's such a big, fat lie. And you truly have to get this Psalm into your heart. You have to memorize this and you have to read this over yourself. And remember, he will not constantly accuse you, nor will he remain angry forever.

If God wants you to change, if you've made a mistake or if you have patterns in your life or if you did wrong or you've been or you're currently doing wrong. God's not accusing you saying there's something wrong with you. He's gently bringing you into, hey, let's correct this together. And whatever you did in the past, it's already forgiven. Every time you get those thoughts, be like, no, you don't deal harshly with me. Yeah, exactly. You love me. Like, you don't punish me for all of my sins.

You don't deal harshly with me. You love. For his unfailing love towards those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. You're going to see twice in this Psalm. There's a correlation between the fear of God and the love of God. There's a song that says the angel encamps around those who fear the Lord. There's so much blessing that comes with fearing God. And like we always say fear, the fear of God is the awe of God, right?

You are in such awe and reverence of him that like you want to do right by him because you don't want to be away from him. But there's also an element to it, not that you're afraid of God, but you are afraid of being separated from God. Oh. You do have such a reverence that it does put the fear of God in you that like, if I speak to this person poorly and then I don't take accountability, God is not pleased with that.

Yeah. And I'm not afraid that he's going to strike me down. But I am afraid of not pleasing the Lord. Like I am afraid of the consequences that come from that. I am afraid of like if I have sex outside of. marriage, I have the fear of God in me that like, not only is that not pleasing to the Lord, but that separates me from him. That separates me from the character of Jesus. That, that, I have the fear of God in the sense that like, yes, God is sovereign above all else and I have free will.

So if I want to act out of pocket and be crazy, I could mess up this thing that God has for me. And you repent and the Lord will put you back on track, but that doesn't mean that it's without consequence. So like, for me, that. the fear of God is, yes, having such reverence for him that I want to be as close to him as possible and do right by him. But I also like, I want to do the right thing when no one's watching because God is watching. You know what I mean? That's like, that's the fear of God I have of like, no, no, you see and hear everything. That matters to me. You know? Yeah. And if you're someone who is sitting here being like, I don't feel like I truly have the fear of God. How do you get there?

just go deeper, just go deeper with him. It's in his love where you have a moment where you say, what have I been doing? And I remember having that moment of like, I just kept living the way I wanted. And it was like that moment of like, I don't want to keep, why am I doing the things that grieves your heart? Yeah.

So go deeper with him. Go deeper in intimacy with him. Go deeper in the scriptures. Have people pray over you. Be in community. I don't want you to beat yourself up if you are still in process. if you are still in this growing season where you're still like doing things out of his well. It was seriously a process for us.

Like it really was. That didn't mean we didn't love him. There's just some things that we were blind, spiritual blindness, ignorance, growing, growing pains, you know? So it's nothing to beat yourself up over if you're in process. It's nothing to condemn yourself for. If you are not in the place where you truly fear him, I just want to, I want to give you the push to really go deeper with him because when you do, it will be the greatest thing you ever do. He is following him in his ways and being in the awe and reverence of God is the safest place

you can be. He doesn't do it. This is not legalism. This is not rules. This is for our good. Seriously. And so with that moment I had when I was like, what have I been doing when I truly laid my life down and started to follow him fully is when my mind really started to heal is when my life really started to heal.

Yeah. Is when I really started to transform into the woman of God that he had really called me to be. And if you don't feel like, like what Ari said before, like, if you don't feel like you have the fear of God, ask him. Scripture talks about, like, if you ask him for wisdom, he will give it to you. Lord, I don't fear you. Like, I don't fear you. Yeah.

You better put that fear God in me, Lord. Like, ask him. Ask him. He'll do it. Be careful what you ask for. He'll do it. Okay. Okay.

This is, the Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear. For he, verse 14, for he knows how weak we are. He remembers we are only dust. One of my favorite verses ever. I always say that. I'm like, I'm dust. I'm dust. You know how weak I am.

That should break every bit of shame and condemnation. That like the Lord empathizes in our weaknesses. He knows who we are. He knows our frailty. He knows, he knows, he knows. He's not shocked by anything. No. Yes. All of the things that you're turning away from him and you don't want to tell him and you, he knows. He knows your weakness. And I want you to picture him literally like this. Exactly. Saying, I know you're only dust. And he feels bad. Of course. He has compassion. He has so much compassion. He's not like, you idiot. You did it again. Do you know what the best thing that I know where, whatever. But the best thing that my mentor said to me is when I and I wonder. if she said this to you because we um the best thing that she said to me is I would call her and I would tell her all the things that I feel ashamed that I feel like God is mad at me um and she would say to me no is that does that sound like a good father to you and I I that's something that you guys can

say to yourself every time you start to hear condemning voices you start to self-blame I literally want you this is what I say I say no does that sound like a good father? Father, no. No. No. Who's our mentor? Dana. Okay. Um, our days on earth are like glass, like wild flowers, we bloom and die. The wind blows and we are gone as though we had never been here before. So basically talking about we're like dust. We're here today, gone tomorrow. But the love of the Lord remains forever with those who fear him. His salvation extends to the children's children of those who are faithful to his covenant, of those who obey his commands. And I love this, verse 19, the Lord has made the heavens his throne.

From there, he rules over everything. Praise, or sorry, the Lord has made the heavens his throne. So imagine this, get this picture, the heavens, the heavens. So there's the earth, there's the oceans and everything, and then there's the heavens. Jesus's throne is the heavens. All of the heavens, that's what? where he sits. He is exalted above every other thing. He's exalted above us, above angels, above every single thing. His throne covers the entire earth, meaning he is above everything.

We are so small. Our lives are so small in comparison. I really am small. In comparison with how big God is. We're so small. When we get so consumed by ourselves in our lives and our troubles, and we all do it, I freaking do it. Some of us have some things that make it even harder to get out of our own heads. When we remember that literally the chair that I'm sitting on right now, God's chair, is the entire universe. He sits on top of it. That's his throne.

Like, that's crazy. He's huge. He's sovereign. From there, he rules over everything, speaking to the sovereignty of the Lord. So sovereign. praise the Lord, you angels. And so now he is bringing us all into worship. He is commanding not only himself, but all of us. Praise the Lord, you angels. You mighty ones who carry out his plans, listening for each of his commands, even the angels are under submission. Yes, praise the Lord. You

armies of angels who serve him and do his will. Praise the Lord. Everything he has created. Everything in all his kingdom. Everything. All of creation. All of creation. bows to the name of Jesus. All of creation sings praises to the name of Jesus. Every single thing, animate, an inanimate, and Annamet and Ananaeus. Animat. Stop. Animit. I know who's animat. I don't know what that is. You're stressing me out. Animate. Oh, it's not. Animate and inanimate. Who is animate? It's not a person. Oh, it is.

What is that word to me? It's a description. There's an enigmatic. It's a big word. This is a background. Watch your mouth. What is that word? I've never heard animate.

Animate and inanimate objects. So, animate, this is an in it. You're an animate object. You have feelings and emotions and will and like a soul. That is animate. You have a soul. Inanimate objects is like a rock. A.M.

I'm using that next week, too. And inanimate. And in. Anamom? You want to do an enema? I'm sorry. Adamame. Adamame.

When you eat it. Okay. Thank you for joy, Lord. Thank you for joy, Lord. We got to the end of the song. Animate, Alamame. Enema. Anima.

Never done one of those. Is that where you? We are singing so. Okay. Okay. Go. We are doing so one of dream. Praise the Lord.

Everything he has created, everything in his kingdom. let all that I am praise the Lord. I'm going to end it with an enema. I'm going to end it with anima. You notice? Notice how he says, carry out. You said you're using big words of being disrespectful. I remember the animate thing that he says.

Did I use that right? No. Okay, okay. Remember what he says, carry out his plans. Yeah. Listen for each of his commands. Serve him and do. You ruined it for me.

Sorry, keep going. Can you stop closing your eyes? Sleepy job. I was trying not to laugh. I know you are. You're on to something. Go off. I just got a revelation.

Serve him and do his well. Most of us, we're doing things. things in our strength, trying to create a life, doing things in our will, holding on things so tightly for ourselves that we think we want. We have to remember that this life is not about us. It's about his will and his plans and what he wants. And I know we have things that we want and we think is good for us. But a lot of things that we think are good for us aren't good for us. And so I'll speak for myself. There's been so many things that I look back on that I have held on to that I think I want for myself. And if I can give you any advice, it's open your hands and let go. And remember that he

says, I'm not trying to carry out my own plans for what I think I want for myself. I want to do the Lord's will. I want to carry out his plans. So I know that I want this thing or I want to go this way, but let me just carry out his plans. Let me open up my hands. And this is such a good prayer to say and meditate on. I want to carry out your plans and I want to serve you and do what is good for you, not what I think is for myself. So I know I want this thing. I know this is something that I'm holding on to so tightly, but help me carry out your will because I will tell you something, there is nothing more painful than not carrying out his will and in your disobedience, trying to go your way because he will keep putting you through the same thing. He did it with me over and over again

until I finally learned my lesson. I want to serve. you and I want to be in your will and I want to do your will. So may I serve you with all of my heart and anything that isn't from you, close the door and keep it shut. That is a prayer I constantly do in my singleness and with counterfeits that may come into my life, with jobs that we have that look pretty and shiny but aren't for us that God doesn't want for us because there will be things that will be so appetizing and look so shiny and good and maybe in your weakness and in your singleness and in your moment of, you know, wanting to be comforted, you want to go to that person or whatever it is.

Yeah. But a prayer that you can say to yourself is I want to carry out your plans and serve you and be in your will. So if it's not from you, Lord protect me and shut the door. Thank you. Jesus. That was so good. Carry out his will.

Fear the Lord. And know the love of Jesus and know how compassionate and amazing he is. is. Guys, thank you for being here with us today. We're exhausted. We are exhausted. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here. Thank you for loving us. And thank you for loving Jesus. Most importantly, we love you guys so much. We really, really do. God loves you even more. Can you truly believe today that all of Psalm 103 is absolutely true? And the love of Jesus is so eternal and it's so unfailing. meditate on Psalm 1 or 3. Memorize it, the NIV version, okay?

Yeah. Go eat some Adamami. And go eat some Adamami and don't get an enema. Is that the poop? I don't, yeah, is it? Yeah, I think that's like, but I thought that was, we'll talk about that later. Clean do you out. May the Lord bless you.

We're going to get a spiritual enema. Are you? May the Lord. truly genuinely bless you and keep you. May he make his face shot upon you and be gracious to you. May he turn his face towards you and give you peace. Shalom! Shalom!

We love you. I love you guys so much. Bye.