Some Gold in the Psalms | (Ep. 280)

Femina

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Fem Minute podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks for joining me today. I've been going through the Psalms lately, and I found some gold in Psalm 20, and that's where I'm going today. And of course, if you want to grab a Bible, fine, but I know most of you
0:21.6	listen to this while you're on the run, so you can look at it later. The first thing I want you to
0:27.0	notice is we go through this short psalm is that most of the verses begin with the word may. In fact,
0:34.1	that word may appears eight times in these short nine verses, at least in the ESV translation
0:40.5	that I'm using with my study of the Psalms. This is a word we hear often in benedictions. May the
0:48.0	Lord bless you and keep you. For example, it expresses a hope, a prayer, and it can also be used in impregatory prayers like,
0:57.9	may the Lord destroy your enemies. First one, may the Lord answer you in the day of trouble,
1:04.0	may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. Notice that the context here is a day of trouble where protection is needed. When David had a day
1:14.6	of trouble, it most often involved enemies and battles. For us, a day of trouble may be many things
1:22.2	other than warfare, but I believe we can apply this psalm to all our own varieties of troubles, big or small.
1:30.6	May the Lord answer us in the day of trouble.
1:34.6	Whatever your troubles, may the Lord answer you.
1:38.2	And this assumes, of course, that you are calling out to him in prayer, anticipating and waiting for an answer. If you're not
1:45.8	asking, then why should he answer you? May the name of the God of Jacob protect you. Most often,
1:52.5	when we are calling out to the Lord in a day of trouble, our biggest need is for protection.
1:58.5	We're vulnerable, fragile beings. Even David, the seasoned warrior, needed the
2:03.2	Lord's protection. Verse 2, may he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from
2:09.7	Zion. There is no help and no support equal to that which the Lord sends. Where will this help come from?
2:18.1	His sanctuary.
2:19.7	We're asking him to send help and give support,
2:22.7	and the psalma says,
2:24.3	may he do just that?
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