About this episode

Brian Hedges discusses the practice of spiritual recollection as a means to achieve wholeness and intimacy with God.

Psalm 86 calls believers to practice spiritual “recollection” — a disciplined, honest self-examination before God that gathers the fragments of our hearts and souls into wholeness. Brian Hedges shows how, through honesty about our needs and trust in God’s mercy, we can reorient from distraction, disorientation, and fragmentation toward clarity, unity, and intimacy with God. This message encourages regular reflection and soul-reconciling prayer so that our inner lives become grounded, integrat...

People in this episode

Host: Brian Hedges

Topics covered

• spiritual recollection
• self-examination
• trust in God
• clarity
• intimacy with God
• reflection
• prayer

Keywords

• spirituality
• self-examination
• Psalm 86
• trust
• prayer
• reflection
• intimacy with God

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Books & works: Psalm 86

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