come on in, Let’s start here. What’s your what’s your self narrative? Getting out of bed this morning, the alarm clock, you’re like here we go again, or you’re like here we go again. I mean, what’s your self narrative? Are you just constantly thinking like fearful thoughts? Are you like scared? The sky is falling self narrative? Are you uneasy, shaken, nervous about what’s gonna happen if uncertainty about your past or the future? Is that yourself narrative? You’re you’re, what you’re telling yourself is your day or your week been filled with anxious thoughts, dreadful thoughts about our society and our culture, what’s happening in our country and what’s happening in your career and your future. The Tory the stories. We tell ourselves how we talk to ourselves about ourselves, define our life, there’s a there’s a your self narrative really has a trajectory to what is happening and what will happen in your life, you’re like, wait a second, I thought this was a bible church, it is going somewhere. So hang with me. And so your self talk this conversation that’s happening in your mind every single day has consequences. You can think of yourself as the hero of the story you’re writing, you can think of yourself as the victim of the story, you’re writing, you think of yourself as a healer in the story, healing your friends and your family, but when you understand this self narrative that is occurring in between your ears, you can start changing it and when you unlock the self narrative, it unlocks not only your past unlocks your future potential as a follower of christ today is the last sermon series of our summer of psalms where we’ve been kind of looking at these different psalms about emotions and thoughts and feelings and how to process life the good parts of life and the bad parts of life, but today’s psalm psalm 18. This covers this, this whole book of psalms and a great summary, an amazing topic addressing the emotions and feelings and the thought life we have as christians. So let’s pray, we’re about to embark on of quoting God is a very heavy thing and I don’t want to do it wrong. So let’s pray, let’s pray God, I thank you for today, thank you for the word of God and saw maintain I said just give us wisdom as we learn to navigate this narrative in our heads, supposed to give us wisdom to think rightly of ourselves and of you and of others. I said just give us an understanding of psalm 18, help us to really understand what David is writing about Lord as it just really lead us in our time today. We need you to make this time worthwhile unlock our minds and unlock the mind of David and the mind of one of the authors of the bible and how to think correctly about life that we’re living. Give us wisdom and help in jesus name, we pray Amen. Okay, so solemn 18 is on page 2 58 in your house bible, grab that, pull it out and you can take that home if you don’t own a bible, it’s one of the longer psalms. It’s not a short one. There’s four long psalms in the bible psalm 18 1, 18 being the longest. It’d take me six minutes to read this psalm if I went straight through it. Um, it’s, it’s a chunk, it’s 50 verses and there’s four lines in each verse. It’s a lot. But I believe the word of God is powerful and alive and we need to make sure we look at the word of God as we go through the bible. And so this song is written by David. Uh, and he really does model self talk in an incredible way for us. That’s incredibly valuable to our lives. David is described as a man after God’s own heart, who was one of the most influential kings in Israel’s history. He was a warrior who was an artistic poet, singing man and he also knew how to kill people. You get what I’m saying. He was a leader and he had family problems. He had all kinds of things. He process…