What It Really Means to Fear God (Psalm 34 Explained)
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Madison Prewett Troutt
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Madi dives into Psalm 34 and unpacks one of the most foundational truths of the Christian life: the fear of the Lord. What we fear most often reveals what we value most, and ultimately, what we worship most. The fear of the Lord isn't about being afraid of God; it's about revering Him above everything else. When we fear God rightly, we are freed from fearing man.
This conversation is a powerful invitation to examine our hearts, surrender the idols of approval and control, and rediscover the freedom that comes from living in awe of who God is.
My prayer is that this episode would help you grow in the fear of the Lord, trust Him more deeply, and find the courage to live boldly for an audience of One.
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| 0:00.0 | Psalm 34, 4 through 9. I sought the Lord and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant and their faces shall never be ashamed. This poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear |
| 0:23.5 | him and he delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. |
| 0:31.7 | O fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack. Yes and amen. Psalm 34 is a Psalm I've been |
| 0:42.0 | memorizing lately and it is such a beautiful posture of the heart that David in one of his |
| 0:49.9 | lowest of lows and hardest of circumstances is worshipping the Lord and praising the Lord and |
| 0:57.9 | extolling in the Lord and choosing to trust God above what his circumstances are saying. And he's |
| 1:06.6 | choosing to trust that God will be his provider. He's choosing to trust that God will be his deliver. |
| 1:11.5 | He's choosing to trust that no matter what happens to me, I believe God has got me. He is coming |
| 1:18.6 | before the Lord with such humility. And when you study this passage, you actually find out that |
| 1:23.8 | this is when David made himself look mad before another king. He made himself |
| 1:29.3 | look crazy. He faked being crazy, essentially, to get out of potentially being harmed or enslaved. |
| 1:37.1 | And so he pretended to be like a madman. And he was let go and set free because they were like, |
| 1:43.2 | we don't want to have anything to do with |
| 1:44.4 | this guy. He's clearly insane. But in the midst of that, David had this posture of God. I know |
| 1:51.8 | you will deliver me. And even in the midst of, you can tell, like, David is clearly a little |
| 1:57.1 | afraid of this guy that this guy might kill him, that this guy might enslave him more |
| 2:01.7 | than anything. You see David say, but no matter what, I fear God. I fear God more than I fear man. |
| 2:07.8 | I fear God more than I fear death. I fear God more than I fear anything else happening to me. |
| 2:13.5 | I trust that God has got me. And I want to talk about that. I want to talk about the fear of the |
| 2:19.0 | Lord because in our world today we harp so much on do not be afraid, do not be fearful. God is not |
| 2:26.4 | given you a spirit of fear. Perfect love drives out all fear, which is all so true. And the spirit of |
| 2:31.7 | fear is not from God. The spirit of fear that makes you afraid of man |
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