Hi, this is Cindy Helton, your host of the Daily Still Podcast. I invite you to enjoy this encore meditation.

Welcome to the Daily Still podcast, a place to pause. Here we create space to listen for the

whispers of God.

I'm your host Cindy Helton, and I believe one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves is room to be still.

I hope you'll find this to be a welcoming atmosphere as we quiet the noise around us and within us.

This meditation focuses on Psalm 108, a prayer for God's help.

It's important to note that this prayer for God's help begins with the psalmist declaration

of praise and confident trust in God.

As we ponder the Psalms, consider,

they not only express the heart of the writer,

but the heart of the Holy Spirit who inspires the writing.

Psalm 108 repeats prayers that are included in other chapters of the Psalms.

It's an example to us of praying and applying familiar scriptures to our circumstances.

The Psalms serve as a prayer book for us to use in our present situations when we don't know what to pray.

So join me as we pray this Psalm for help to the one who holds the whole world in his hands.

Now let's settle in and begin.

Take several slow, deep breaths. you contemplate God's presence with you.

You may want to close your eyes and enter into a physical posture of prayer. A reading from Psalm 108, the Passion Translation

My heart, O God, is focused and determined.

Now I can sing my song with passionate praises. Awake, O my soul, with the music of his splendor.

Arise my soul and sing his praises.

Wherever I go, I will thank you.

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