Life Verses: Psalm 27:13-14 (2025)
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If you’ve listened to much of Hey Y’all: The Podcast, then you know that when we do our words of the year, I like to pick a verse to go with that season and study. It helps me memorize more scripture while also giving me a Biblical perspective on what my word means sometimes in a context I don’t expect. In 2024, my verse very much colored my outlook on my word and was a whole journey in itself so I was truthfully a bit apprehensive picking out my verse for 2025.
I did the usual search of “my word” in different translations and while I loved the concept of Joel 2:25, “So I will restore to you the years the swarming locust has eaten…” I also knew that it didn’t feel like what I was going to be journeying through in my restoration year. Truthfully, I think that knowing some of the “locusts” had been self-made put it in a different light. So, I kept searching and Psalm 27:13-14 seemed to be a recurring theme.
“I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”

First, let’s talk about what I found in my Bible when I open Psalm 27. The verse above was marked up with the date June 2024 and “He didn’t!” which was already such an Ebenezer Stone based on a struggle from many years before. Also, you can see the verse had another tie to May 2020 and a connection to the end of the section. Then, because the Lord truly has a sense of humor, the whole section was surrounded by my previous verses of the year. It’s almost like He was weaving it all together from the beginning. Like why are we shocked when that happens? I remember sitting there in stunned silence. This was a coincidence or a happy accident. This was a direct message to me by the God of the universe that would not make sense to anyone else. As my favorite Bible Fellowship teacher always said, “It’s almost like He’s writing the whole thing”. Not only was this a great “God wink” but it was a great reminder of the faithfulness that was already in this concept. If you’ve never had a moment like that, ask God to speak to you in a way that leaves no room for mistaking if it was from Him and then buckle up.
Now, it wouldn’t be a word of the year discussion without me struggling to fully take hold of what the Lord has in store for me. So naturally, I was really excited about Psalm 27:13 because I truly believed I would see God’s goodness. That part was easy and I really wanted that to be my story for 2025 but the Father had more for me than that which is why there are verses not just one verse. I confess that verse 14 came with a heaviness and might I admit disappointment.
I spent 2024 learning to rest which for me was predominately seen in resting as I waited for all the Lord had promised and planned so seeing another reminder of waiting just felt, well, weighty. Almost like the busting of a balloon. Rising up in the excitement of verse 13 only to come swiftly back to reality with verse 14. Does that sound selfish or greedy? It felt a bit that way to me. Like how could I say I believed that I would see God move while also feeling disappointed in when He chose to do it. It felt like being excited about a gift but angry that the person wasn’t giving it to me now.
This is actually something I still struggle with emotionally while cognitively understanding why the Lord has a timeline that often feels completely opposed to mine. What is it about the word “wait” that makes us act like we’ve been given a “no”? If you’ve listened to the beginning of Season 7 of Hey Y’all, then you know that I ended 2025 with some questions concerning what the Lord was doing in my life and where He is placing my next steps. In fact, my word for 2026 and more importantly, my verse, is setting the stage for quite the life lesson in that arena but that’s a story for another time…




























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