Good morning everyone, welcome to Bridge Down Daily. My name is Chris Vinnant. I am from

Genesis Collective, Down here in Costa Mesa, California. And I'm privileged to stand in for

John Mark who is out doing some studying. Thank you so much, Bridge Down, for who you are

as a community. The role and assignment that you've accepted to be a prophetic community

in the areas of the spiritual practices that inspire churches around the world. Pretty much

everywhere I go, I hear gratitude, thanks coming from pastors, leaders, people who are living

out these practices on a daily basis. And you have been that incubating space for the truth

to be lived out well done. And thank you. I came to a living faith when I was 18 years

old many, many, many years ago. And it was pretty soon that I stumbled onto this Davidic

Psalm that has been a source of incredible inspiration to me, especially in times of vulnerability,

in times of uncertainty, in times of anxiety that can so easily grip the soul and hold it in a

wrench grip. But David, who knew so much of the human wrestle with life and faith is able to

give language and vocabulary to the things that you and I wrestle with, especially in these days.

David Gibbon, a friend here in Southern California, said that we're all facing three things, which

is that we are uncertain, we are uncontrollable and we are unknowing of the time in which we love

and what the art working is going to be. And all of that produces, as we all know, an incredible

amount of anxiety. Well, David gives us a little window of how he handled it. In Psalm 103, he launches

out and he says, praise the Lord, oh, my soul. Now, at first reading, we kind of glibly rush our way

through that as if there's no hidden story behind it. Now, forgive my imagination, but this is what I

imagine. David is facing the complexities of life. He's a king, he's a husband, he's got children,

he's got friends, he's got enemies and all of them together produce this volume of emotion that

can at times be overwhelming. I suspect the day he wrote this, he looked at his soul and he said,

...