First Place (Psalm 5)

In the Stillness Podcast · Aug 11, 2026 · 12m

David prayed before the sun was up...so what does it actually look like to give God first place in a day, before anything else gets to it?

Psalm 5 opens with David laying out his lament to God first thing in the morning, and it's the kind of honest, unpolished prayer most of us save for emergencies. In this episode, we sit in the first half of the psalm and ask what it actually means to be "poor in spirit," not weak, but truthfully dependent.

We talk about what it looks like to hand God the first part of your day instead of leftovers, why waiting for His response is half of what prayer even…