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24. Psalm 59 Explained (The Danger of Spiritualized Prayer)
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- Become New with John Ortberg
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- Jun 4, 2026
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Summary
What's your story today? In this teaching on Psalm 59, John Ortberg explores one of the most important lessons of the Psalms: prayer is always prayed from inside a story. Drawing from Answering God, John challenges the idea of "spiritualized prayer" — prayer that removes the conflict, fear, anger, disappointment, and messiness of ordinary life. Psalm 59 was written in the middle of David's crisis. Men were sent to kill him. His prayer wasn't polished. It wasn't neat. It was real. This epi...