A short update after season four. Lyric & Letter isn’t continuing into a season five, but the heart behind it is still going, just in a new home. Come find me at Go Slow. Study Deep. Be Transformed. | A Bible Study Podcast, where we’re opening Scripture together starting in Genesis.

I have absolutely loved diving into Gods word with you through this podcast and I hope you can join me on the new one!

🎙️ Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0341BCEVZGv01kwRsCFKtf?si=JPWjB1H5QFGuZ3F_s4FhQQ&utm_source=copy-link

Go slow. Study deep. Be transformed.

This is the final episode of Season 4, and it's coming a lot earlier than usual. Normally this podcast runs through November before taking a break, but that's not what's happening this year. I want to be upfront about something right away: this is not me stepping away from Lyric & Letter. It's not the end. It's a change in shape, and I think once you hear the full story, you'll understand why it needed to happen.

In this episode, I walk back through what this whole season has actually held, far more than what made it onto the podcast feed, and what I found when I finally stopped and weighed all of it together. I talk about what stayed standing when everything else gave way, something new I ended up building because of it, and a confession about my own priorities that took me most of this year to be able to say out loud.

I also tell you exactly what's changing going into Season 5: how the podcast will sound different, how it will release differently, and where this ministry's real center of gravity has been all along. This isn't goodbye. It's me finally being honest with you about where I actually am, and inviting you to keep walking with me there.

Where to find everything:

📖 Start studying — Genesis to Revelation, the full 7-step application, saved notes, and Theo, the study companion: app.lyricandletter.com

👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 Join the women's Bible study — Monday nights, 6:30–8:30 PM Eastern: www.lyricandletter.com/womensbiblestudy

💬 Connect with our community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/lyricandletter

Thank you for staying with me through a season that didn't go the way either of us expected. I'll see you next season in Genesis.

What does it look like to command your own soul back to worship when it does not want to rise? Not as a theory — as a practice. The way David did it. The way I have had to do it in this season.

This episode begins something I have been praying over for a long time: a walk into Psalm 103, the psalm that has quietly been holding me through a season I did not fully understand until recently. I started this project in late winter. Then I got sick, and everything stopped. And in the recovering and the re-recording, I learned something I had been carrying for years without a name for it — post-traumatic stress disorder, out of a long season of end-of-life caregiving. Looking back, I can see that God had drawn me to this psalm before I could have told you why. He had me writing about a soul that has to be called back to worship at the very time I was fighting to remember anything good at all. That is not an accident. Nothing is, with Him.

So this is not a study for people who have it all together. It is a psalm written by someone who did not — and I am not coming to you from the far side of it, healed and looking back. I am still being healed, one step toward Christ at a time. Not above you. Beside you.

We begin with the very first line, where David does not sing to a crowd. He talks to himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul. A command, not a feeling. A call home.

In This Episode:

• Who David really was — overlooked, passed over, passionate, broken, and a man after God's own heart all at the same time. Not a stained-glass figure. A real man, far more like us than we tend to believe.
• Nephesh (Genesis 2:7) — why "soul" means the whole of you, every room in the heart, opened to God at once
• Psalm 42 — the companion psalm where the soul again speaks to the soul, calling itself back to what is true
• Self-control as the fruit of the Spirit — Spirit-led turning, not white-knuckle willpower
• Forget not — why forgetting is the default, why prosperity dulls the memory faster than suffering, and how the Lord's table is where we fight that very forgetting
• Bless his holy name — why a name in the Hebrew world was a revelation of character, and how Jesus begins prayer exactly where David begins this psalm

A note on the series: this began as an eight-part walk through all of Psalm 103. For now, I am sharing this one stanza as a doorway into the prayer guide and ambient worship album — enough of the story to draw you into your own time with the Lord. If you would like me to continue through the rest of the stanzas, I would love to hear from you. Reach out anytime at [email protected].

Want to go deeper?

• Download the free companion prayer guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GzND7eLLyOP7njrcAkWHN-9iW8CXdj2-/view?usp=drive_link
• Explore Thematic Verse Mapping: https://www.ThematicVerseMapping.com
• Connect with our community: https://youtube.com/@lyricandletterstudios/community
• Download the Lyric and Letter Study Method: https://lyricandletter.com/thestudymethod
• Subscribe for devotionals, studies, and Scripture reflections: https://www.lyricandletter.com

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

Lyric and Letter Studios | www.lyricandletter.com

This episode contains original ambient worship music created by Lyric and Letter Studios using Suno AI. All music is original to this ministry. No third-party copyrighted material is featured in this episode.

#BiblicalTeaching #InstrumentalWorship #Psalm103 #BlessTheLord #ChristianPodcast

What does God's mercy sound like when you need it most — not theologically, but personally? Present tense. Real in the specific ruins of a very specific season.

This episode has been three months in the making. Not because I was planning something big — but because life didn't stop long enough for me to sit down and record. Bronchitis that put me in bed for a few weeks incluing an ER visit. A women's retreat I almost couldn't attend. A layoff. A miracle. And in the middle of all of it, almost 19 hours of original ambient worship music being built track by track, passage by passage, out of intercession.

The most personal of those projects is Rachamim | The Mercy Project. Twenty-seven tracks. Nine movements. One unbroken thread of God's chesed and rachamim — His covenant love and womb-mercy — traced through Scripture from Romans to Revelation.

Rachamim is the Hebrew word for the womb-love of God. The mercy that holds you before you know you need holding. That sustains you in the dark before you are aware of being sustained. I went looking for it in Scripture because I needed to know it was real. Not on the other side of the hard season. In the middle of it.

In This Episode:

- Romans 5:8 — the agape that was already moving toward you

before you knew you needed it, before you were even looking for it

- Lamentations 3:22-24 — Jeremiah in the ruins making the

yet, declaring hesed and rachamim from inside the ash heap of

Jerusalem

- Revelation 22 — the third garden, the river running

crystal clear from the throne of the Lamb, the Spirit and the Bride

saying Come to everyone still thirsty

- Discover the three gardens of Scripture — Eden, Gethsemane, and

Revelation 22 — and the river that connects them all

- Understand why the water of life is offered freely — and what that

freedom actually cost

Listen to Rachamim | The Mercy Project:

https://youtu.be/uVj8P9eMHag?si=E_AsDF5STdG4dZMh

Want to go deeper?

- Download the free companion devotional: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gXoZBfVaHxJTFL3f0ZTRbmVDkg_JIrCa/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109108011886213284659&rtpof=true&sd=true

- Explore Thematic Verse Mapping: https://www.ThematicVerseMapping.com

- Connect with our community: https://youtube.com/@lyricandletterstudios/community?si=Ym7TJBHrAllg4QzF

- Subscribe for devotionals, studies, and Scripture reflections:

https://www.lyricandletter.com

The Spirit and the Bride say Come.

Lyric and Letter Studios | lyricandletter.com

This episode contains original ambient worship music created by Lyric

and Letter Studios using Suno AI. All music is original to this

ministry. No third-party copyrighted material is featured in this

episode.

#Biblical Teaching #Instrumental Worship #Mercybof God

Grace and peace to you all. I wanted to share a brief update regarding the podcast. Due to a persistent illness that has kept me away from the microphone for the last two months, I am taking some necessary time to rest and recover.

While the podcast is temporarily on pause, I invite you to visit the YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/@lyricandletterstudio where you can find previous studies and ambient worship to sit with in the meantime.

Thank you so much for your patience and for your continued prayers as I heal. I look forward to being back with you in the Word very soon.

Welcome back to Part 2 of our journey through the Beatitudes. In our last session, we looked at the "Emptying"—the vertical work God does in our hearts as we recognize our spiritual poverty and hunger for Him. Today, we move into the "Overflow."

Join Rebecca as we walk through the final four Beatitudes in Matthew 5:7–10, discovering how a heart filled with Christ naturally spills out into the world. We transition from the internal to the horizontal, exploring what it means to be an active agent of God’s Kingdom in our relationships and our communities. From the "loyal love" of mercy to the "tunnel vision" of a pure heart, we dive deep into the Greek and Hebrew roots of these verses to see how they practically transform our daily walk.

In this episode:

• The Overflow: Moving from vertical need to horizontal action—how the life of God spills out onto those around us.

• The Merciful: Unpacking eleēmōn and the five dimensions of Hesed (Relational, Transformative, Radical, Societal, and Internal).

• Pure in Heart: Understanding katharos—a heart healed of chaos and singularly focused on Jesus, modeled by the Bleeding Woman and Mary Magdalene.

• The Peacemakers: Distinguishing between passive "peace-keeping" and active "peace-making" through the lens of Acts 15 and the life of Father Theodore Hesburgh.

• The Persecuted: Finding the "family resemblance" when we are hunted for righteousness' sake, using Daniel as our witness of faithfulness in a hostile culture.

Companion Resource:To help you slow down and truly meditate on these truths, I’ve created a Devotional Supplement for this episode. It includes the scriptures, Greek word studies, and reflection questions to guide your "Selah" moments this week. Download HERE.

Connect with us:

• The Quiet Table: Join the livestream

• Website: www.LyricandLetter.com

• Community: https://www.youtube.com/@LyricandLetterStudios/posts

We live in a loud world. It’s time to hit pause.

Lyric and Letter: Where Worship Meets the Word is a place for those who hunger for depth. What started as a mission to reverse-engineer the lyrics of beloved worship songs has evolved into a movement of "Selah"—the biblical art of pausing to weigh the truth.

Join Rebecca Lane for a journey through the theology of worship. From fact-checking the hits to deep, inductive Thematic Verse Mapping accompanied by custom Ambient Worship music, this podcast is your companion for sound doctrine.

Pull up a chair, open your Bible, and let’s learn to abide.

The Lyric is His Word. The Letter is our study. The Music is the space where they meet.

We live in a loud world. It’s time to hit pause.

Lyric and Letter is a sanctuary for those who hunger for depth. What started as a mission to reverse-engineer the lyrics of beloved worship songs has evolved into a movement of "Selah"—the biblical art of pausing to weigh the truth.

Join Rebecca Lane for a journey through the theology of worship. From fact-checking the hits to deep, inductive Thematic Verse Mapping accompanied by custom Ambient Worship music, this podcast is your companion for sound doctrine.

Pull up a chair, open your Bible, and let’s learn to abide.

The Lyric is His Word. The Letter is our study. The Music is the space where they meet.

Welcome to Season Four of Lyric & Letter, where worship meets the Word. In this season opener, we are doing things differently. We are moving from song analysis into a deeper, slower rhythm of studying God's Word, accompanied by original ambient worship music designed for your "Selah" moments.

Join Rebecca as we begin our journey through the Sermon on the Mount, focusing specifically on the first four Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3–6). We explore the "emptying and filling" structure of these verses—moving from spiritual bankruptcy and godly mourning into the quiet strength of meekness and a desperate hunger for righteousness. We unpack the Greek meanings behind words like ptōchos and praus to discover that the Kingdom of Heaven isn't for the self-sufficient, but for those who know they need a Savior.

In this episode:

• The Shift: Why we are moving to a "Selah" style of study to let the Word breathe in us.

• The Poor in Spirit: Understanding ptōchos (spiritual bankruptcy).

• Godly Grief: Why mourning is a sacred rhythm, not a failure.

• Meekness: Defining strength under control (the warhorse).

• Hunger & Thirst: The transition from emptying to filling.

Companion Resource:To help you slow down and truly meditate on these truths, I’ve created a Devotional Supplement for this episode. It includes the scriptures, reflection questions, and "Selah" Psalms mentioned in today's study. Download it to enrich your quiet time this week

Connect with us:

• The Quiet Table: ⁠Join the livestream⁠

• Website: ⁠www.LyricandLetter.com⁠

• Community: ⁠www.Facebook.com/groups/lyricandletter

In this transparent Season 4 introduction, I’m sharing how I have exhausted my interest in the modern worship sector and why my heart is hungry for something deeper. We are moving away from analyzing other people's lyrics and returning to the original model found in the Psalms:

• The Lyric: The raw truth of God found directly in Scripture.

• The Selah: A musical pause to stop, think, and meditate on what we just heard.

Join me as I explain how "The Quiet Table" studies have reshaped this podcast and how we will be using original instrumental music (created with tools like Suno) to help us sit inside the Scripture rather than rushing through it.

The Lyric is His Word. The Letter is our study. And the music is the space where worship meets the Word.

In this episode:

• Why modern worship songs started feeling "surface level" and limited.

• The transition to "The Quiet Table" and instrumental reflection.

• How we are redefining "Lyric and Letter" for a new season of depth.

Connect with us:

• The Quiet Table: Join the livestream

• Website: www.LyricandLetter.com

• Community: www.Facebook.com/groups/lyricandletter