God Notes

Impossible missions don’t require extraordinary people.
They require a close God.

'But you, Lord , do not be far from me. You are my strength; come quickly to help me. ' — Psalms 22:19

Strength isn’t something God gives you like a gift card.

Strength is God’s nearness.

This is why God tells every terrified person He calls:

• “I am with you.”

• “I am with

When you use the gift God gave you—even just to process your own life—
God can weave meaning into it far beyond what you see.

David didn’t know:

• Psalm 22 would be quoted by Jesus

• It would be sung for 3,000 years

• It would become one of the clearest Messianic windows

• His metaphors would match the cross exactly

He just wrote.

He wrote honestly.
He wrote imagin

God gifted David to write in such a way that his imagination could paint pictures beyond his own life.

David is writing with his imagination,
but the Holy Spirit is writing through his imagination.

It’s like God whispers:

“Use your gift, David…
Your words will do more than you know.”

And David paints metaphor…

…but the Spirit loads that metaphor with

God doesn’t just drop prophecy like weather alerts.

He plants seeds of Christ inside real human stories:

• Joseph’s suffering

• Moses’ intercession

• David’s songs

• Isaiah’s visions

• Jonah’s three days

• Daniel’s deliverance

Every story becomes a shadow of the One to come.

David wasn’t trying to write a prophecy.
He was just telling the truth about his own suffering…
…but in doing so, he accidentally described the very thing Jesus would one day literally walk through.

David is using poetic language to capture suffering.
Jesus steps into David’s poetry and makes it history.

Read Psalm 22

The Holy Spirit handed David a telescope and pointed him straight at Golgotha a thousand years early.

David describes crucifixion… before crucifixion existed

Rome won’t invent crucifixion for another ~800 years after David writes this.

Yet look what David sees:

• “They pierce my hands and my feet.”

• “I am poured out like water.”

• “All my bones are out of

The Doe of the Dawn

In Jewish tradition, that phrase became a symbol of radiant beauty breaking through darkness.

In rabbinic literature, “the dawn” symbolizes God’s salvation breaking into suffering slowly, almost imperceptibly, like first light.

“Doe of the Morning” is like:

You’re standing on your porch at 4:59am.
It’s still dark.
Quiet.
Everything

Yahweh is the most consistent “brand” in existence

If we think in modern metaphors, Yahweh is the most consistent “brand” in existence.

Every miracle, every act of mercy, every fulfilled promise —
it all adds equity to that Name.

And unlike human brands that rise and fall on public opinion,
God’s Name builds trust through timeless consistency.

“The name

A Name That Carries a World

When you say “Apple,” you don’t think of the letters A-P-P-L-E —
you think of design, innovation, minimalism, sleek packaging, creative culture.
It’s not just a name. It’s a story contained in a single syllable.

That’s how ancient names worked too.
They were verbal containers for character.
To know a person’s name was to know