Episode 3. When the Mountains Fall into the Sea. Psalm 46.
We live in a scary world. Today, Nicole and Sharon look at a psalm written for times of crisis. Step aside from the busy and enjoy a Sweet Selah Moment as we look at God's instructions on what to do in a crisis.
Show Notes: Correction from Sharon: When speaking of the planes crashing on 9/11, I said the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was headed for the Pentagon. No. The Pentagon was hit that day. The plane that crashed in that field was headed for the White House. Note to Readers: Please follow and subscribe and review for us. We'd love for more people to learn of our podcast. And comment below. We'd love that, too!!
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Speaker 0 00:00 We are so glad you stopped for a while with us. Sweet Selah Moments is a cooperative production of Word Radio and Sweet Selah Ministries. More information about this podcast including show notes can be [email protected] [email protected]. Thank you for joining us.
Nicole 00:22 Well hello and welcome to Sweet Selah Moments podcast. Today is episode three “When the mountains fall into the sea”. We started looking at Psalm 46 on our first episode and only dissected verse 10. Today we’re going to go back and look at the whole Psalm. Here’s Sharon to read it to us.
Sharon Hey friends, as I read you this beautiful Psalm again today, would you listen carefully for the word Selah and when you hear it just stop and think about what I just read. I’ll pause and think with you. Then we’ll go onto the next stanza of the Psalm, which would have been sung in ancient days. This is a Psalm to hold you steady in the very hardest of times. Psalm 46 to the chief musician, a song of the sons of Korah, a song for Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Sharon 01:20 Therefore we will not fear. Even though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the Holy place of the tabernacle of the most high God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved. God shall help her. Just at the break of dawn, the nations raged, the kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice. The earth melted. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah Come behold the works of the Lord who has made desolations in the earth. He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two. He burns the chariot in the fire.
Sharon 02:26 Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah You know this Psalm has huge significance to me, Nicole, because of 9-11 way back in the day, September 11th I think everybody that was living then age five years old or above remembers that day. I was praying in my house with a Mom’s in Prayer group for the Christian school where my husband teaches, Portsmouth Christian Academy. We were a Moms in Prayer group and we were in the middle of prayer. And the rule in Moms in Prayer is when you’re praying you just stay praying. The phone rang and I cannot tell you to this day why I answered that phone because the phone had rung before and I’ve never picked it up.
Sharon 03:21 We were praying, I picked it up and it was my Aunt Nancy and she said, ‘Turn on the TV now’. And so I did and all of us crowded around the TV and we saw the second plane go into the tower. We’d missed the first plane and immediately, because we were mothers, we wanted to go to the school and be with our kids. And thankfully it was a Christian school so we could, so we went to the school, we talked to the principal of the high school and said, how can we serve you?
