Conversation is the fertilizer of intimacy. The honest and open exchange of the things closest to our hearts is what builds closeness. We know it to be true. We have experienced it in our marriages, we have found such to be the case with our best friends, and we know the more our children confide in us, the closer our connection. It is no different in our relationship with the Lord. Conversation fosters and sustains intimacy when God speaks to us through His word (Hebrews 1:1-2), and we speak to God in prayer (1 Peter 5:7). 

The Psalms can be a wonderful tool for drawing closer to God than you have ever drawn before. Penned by the shepherd-king David, Psalm 103 is a song of praise for the Lord’s benevolence toward those who love and fear Him. God called David “a man after my own heart”, and we have in this Psalm just what such a heart sounds like word for word. As David pours forth his heart, I invite you open to Psalm 103 now as you listen to this podcast, so you can practice with me in responding, from the heart, to the inspired phrases of the Psalms. 

 My hope is that this form of prayer may become to you a new source of blessing and closeness with the God who so adores you.  Truly, “He is intimate with the upright” (Proverbs 3:32).