When I Need Strength (Psalm 18) | Honest to God | Dave Rodriguez

This one, Psalm 18, will show you how to rebuild, re-energize, strengthen your faith. This one will move you from defense to offense in your faith. The strength you desperately need will come from tenacious love, robust theology, and unwavering gratitude.

What is your theology?
Are you going to allow your pain to define your God?
Will you allow someone else to tell you what you believe about God?
How long have you been living off your parent's faith?
What do you need to do to get God straight in your head?
Will you allow your doubts about God to go undealt within your brain?

I do not know what tomorrow holds for me or for you. But...
I WILL love God. I will cling to what I believe about him. I will remember what he has done and be thankful.

'You Were Made for More' because God created you ON purpose FOR a purpose. This is the vision of Grace Church, led by Pastor Barry Rodriguez and based in Indianapolis, IN.

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[GoToGal]

My pain is what lead me to God. 54 years of doing it my way never worked… the pain never ceased but once I opened my heart to God I felt peace, safe, loved and known. 🙏🏼

[c.l.j.jardell]

In my distress. I cal out. To. The. Lord. Help.

[wbless]

A Turbulence in people occured everyday and we need Jesus Christ to help getting tru... Praise the Lord, Amen

[AnthonyCarrTV]

This should have a million views and likes. You really nailed it. Thank you for meditating on this passage and sharing. Especially encouraged about the gritty love you point out in verse one.

[mirandagarrett]

It’s weird that I saw this on a sign after I left work crying bc I feel like none of my coworkers like me at all I feel embarrassed of my knowledge In my career and I’ve been doing it for 9 years I feel defeated so i needed this

[janemogote]

very encouraging... Watching from Phililpines...

[believe]

Please anyone reading this...advice or comments are greatly NEEDED and appreciated!

I had a dream of Psalm 18 back in January of 2020. It started off with the loudest thunder..the loudest noise I've ever heard in my entire life!!! It was so so incredibly loud. I was conscious of all of this while i was dreaming. It was vivid and lucid. Then I was standing somewhere in an open ocean and I looked up above me and there were lightning strikes everywhere happening and it thundered again.. I look over to my left and I see people scattering and running everywhere in the far distance across the ocean and so I started to run too. It was all dark and we were in some ocean and the ocean was almost mid calf height to my legs and then stopped being conscious in my dream of what was happening..I looked up into the sky and I saw someone sitting in a massive dark cloud and suddenly these massive hail balls ( they were so big like a size of the bottom of a huge Snowman ) were being thrown from the sky at people so I stood there and I looked behind me and I recognized two people that were trying to dodge the hail balls running to the left then to the right in complete fear.. I know who these two people are in my Waking Life!!!! ..  then I briefly started fearing and began to start to run and then I suddenly stopped!!! and I said to myself .... hold on why am I running??  and I looked up and I clearly remembered saying to myself...this is My God!! ...and i started praising him looking up at the dark cloud and I woke up..the next day i called my pastor to come over. He did, I told him my dream and about not knowing it was in the Bible...the 100% accuracy and detail of the dream to Psalm 18 . We read Psalm 18 together and thats all..not much else...just to stay focused on Jesus and to say I trust you Jesus..
 
I never knew about Psalm 18 when this dream happened. I woke up completely in shock and then I started Googling lightning in the Bible, dark clouds in the Bible, Thunder in the Bible.. Etc.. and then I came across Psalm 18..I was in complete shock, stiff cold and was blown away. I was up in my living room probably from 2:00 a.m. till about 4 - 5:00 a.m. in the morning sitting in my living room with the lights on wondering what on Earth just happened and why did I have this dream and more specifically why did I turn back and see two people (i know very good in my waking life) having massive hail balls being thrown at them.

Another night, a year and half later...June 6 of 2021... I was having insomnia tossing and turning I knew something was not right and something felt off. I was very restless so I got up turned my lights on and decided to read my Bible where I left off. I have a bookmark in my Bible. I opened the page it was in Second Samuel. It was Psalm 18!!!  I never knew Psalm 18 was in the Bible twice.. this immediately brought to my attention my Psalm 18 dream i had in January 2020..I felt that it was a little bit weird...

Any advice or ideas what this may mean?

[stessassss]

Hallelujah! Fantastic God gave me the scripture 2 days ago whilst going through more intense drama etc which has been 2 years now, concerning toxic family, ill father whom i am caring for because no one else would et... and hearing you also explain it like this just confirms confirms more God Jesus Holy Spirit was speaking to me directly!

I have been so challenged it is insanity and the only thing that has kept me standing is my FAITH in God FAITH! AND LOVE FOR GOD this i know Glory to God. yet i know also God has been fine tuning me and preparing me for his higher purpose for me hence the intense spiritual warfare i have had to contend with

Shalom Thank you

[c.l.j.jardell]

Simone that helps me. Know. God. Knows. What how. And. Holds me. Safe. From. All harm. Who explains. The. Battle. And. Has. A word. Of. Help.

[patrickporras]

I will love God. Amen.

Also, where's Jesus? A Jewish person or even a Muslim could be saying yes and amen to this sermon. We need to hear how all of this is pointing to Christ, the rock of our salvation who came down from heaven with passionate and fierce love like fire to devour our truest enemies and set us free