Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Psalms 56:3

“What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.”

Psalms 56:3 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 56:3, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Psalms 56. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 9 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Psalms 34:4I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
  • 1 Samuel 30:6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged hims…
  • 2 Corinthians 7:5For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
  • Psalms 55:4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
  • 2 Corinthians 1:8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
  • Psalms 11:1In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
  • 1 Samuel 21:12And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
  • 2 Chronicles 20:3And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
  • 1 Samuel 21:10And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

More to meet God in Psalms

Psalms 23:1Psalms 46:10Psalms 91:1Psalms 27:1Psalms 139:14Psalms 34:18Psalms 118:24Psalms 46:1Psalms 37:4Psalms 121:1Psalms 19:1Psalms 51:10Psalms 118:6Psalms 30:5

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.