JB Hixson: In a Dry and Thirsty Land

Stand Up For The Truth Podcast

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dr. JB Hixson

SORRY, NO VIDEO VERSION TODAY! Mary welcomes back JB Hixson today to help us all turn down the volume on our lives. We are inordinately busy – and not just that, we are tuning in the world more and more and tuning out that still small voice, the one thing that can give us strength and comfort. Sometimes we don’t even know how unbalanced our lives are until we tune it all out and spend time with Jesus. God knows what we need, in every generation. The world is so chaotic, and adding to the geopolitical insanity, there are countless voices and opinions presenting other ways to view everything. Exhausted yet? Maybe you are but don’t realize it. JB and Mary look at David the sweet Psalmist, and his declaration that what we really need is to draw near to Jesus – and drink of the living water He offers. David, and that deer, panted for the water during the most difficult times, and so should we – whether we are on the run from enemies, navigating apostasy in the church, watching the news about man’s inhumanity to man – all these things sap our strength. He is our peace, and He knows what will make for our peace: whatsoever is true, lovely, and praiseworthy. Let’s unplug and satisy that thirst. Have a long drink of cool water.

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0:34.3	handy this is stand up for the truth oct It's October 31, 2025. I'm Crash. Hi, Mary. Hello. So do we, are we celebrating anything? I know we don't celebrate Halloween out here. Reformation Day. Yeah. I suppose. Yeah. You know, I just, it's funny. I consider it sort of a hostage situation in my own home where, you know, young people roam the neighborhood and extort the grown-ups for sugar. So that's kind of how I look at it.
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1:30.1	For the truth live. Yes, it is live. Well, yes, welcome to the podcast. J.B. Hickson is back with us. Always a great conversation. Today's podcast is entitled In a Dry and Thirsty Land. and we're going to talk about turning down the noise and listening once
1:45.2	again for that still small voice. And a little bit about David and some of his laments when he
1:51.7	became very, very thirsty while he was on the run. So we're going to talk about him. In fact,
1:56.1	we're going to start with Psalm 43. So let's just jump in here. Vindicate me, oh God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For you are the God of my strength. Why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill and to your tabernacle. And then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. And on the harp, I will praise you, oh, God, my God. Why are you cast down, oh, my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.
2:36.6	Let's pray together this morning. Oh, Lord, we long for you, your presence, and the living water
2:43.1	that can only come from you. We need to be refreshed by you, and so many times, Lord, we don't even
2:49.1	realize that we long for the wrong things.
2:51.7	And what we truly need is only a prayer away.
2:54.8	Thank you for the peace that passes all understanding, a promise that you will keep us in perfect peace
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