Psalm 27

In this message on Psalm 27, Pastor Rob Salvato uses David's psalm as a model for how to process hard seasons with God — working through David's three-part movement of Reverence (declaring who God is: light, salvation, strength, fortress, rock), Response (refusing fear, lifting his head, staying in spiritual disciplines even when he doesn't feel like it, and pressing into God's presence rather than anything else), and Request (hear me, have mercy, don't abandon me, teach me, defend me). The heart of the message is that processing vertically — running everything through the lens of who God is rather than the lens of your circumstances — is what moves truth from your head to your heart and turns theology from theory into something that actually shapes how you live. The message closes on verse 14: when everything in you wants to run, check out, or lash out, David's final word is simply "wait on the Lord" — because the same God who is your light, your salvation, and your strength is still at work, and He will strengthen your heart as you do.