Daily Devotion Wednesday Wisdom with Total Apex Media | November 19, 2025

It’s Wednesday, and time for your daily devotion. Throughout life, you’ll have occasions to feel pride or arrogance. However, a better way is to become more humble as you grow spiritually. When you walk closely with God, you realize His greatness and your dependence upon Him. It dispels pride.

As we continue in Psalm 34, David has a moment of transparency in verse 6:

⁶ This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.

In today’s daily devotion, praise God for saving you from trouble.

This Poor Man

David was a warrior who’d fought battles that brought him national renown. He brought down the Philistine giant, Goliath, and women sang songs praising his battle skills. He commanded Saul’s army and won victory after victory. Yet he calls himself a poor man. Without God, we are inadequate.

In Revelation 3:17, Jesus addresses the Laodicean church, which had grown lukewarm. Although they described themselves as rich, increased with goods, and needing nothing, Jesus described them as “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” In your daily devotion, realize no earthly possessions can negate your need for God.

David Cried

There’s no shame in tears. Jesus cried out to God in the Garden of Gethsemane. In Matthew 26:38, Jesus says to His inner circle, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful.” Hence, God’s angel strengthened Him as He prayed. David cries out, and he is strengthened as well.

Thank God He hears you when you pray. We don’t control the outcome, but we trust that God’s way is always best.

God Heard David

It’s a wonderful thing to be heard by the God of the universe. Knowing that He’s not too preoccupied to deal with our troubles is praiseworthy. In Jeremiah 33:3, God says, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee.” God invites you throughout Scripture to call Him. In this daily devotion, rejoice because He is your present help.

God Saved Him

Like David, you can look back over your life and surely see where God saved you. God saves David in Gath, but he also saves David from Saul. He saved him from a lion and a bear, feats beyond human capacity.

Joseph and David’s lives have many similarities. They were both the youngest brother whom the older ones mistreated. David was anointed the next king as a youth; in Joseph’s youth, he had dreams of greatness. Saul hunted David’s life; Joseph’s brothers plotted to kill him. David rose to kingship; Joseph rose to commander.

In Wednesday’s daily devotion, praise the God who can save like no other.

All David’s Troubles

David was a blessed man because God was with him. He didn’t earn victories because he was so skilled or gifted. It was because God’s hand was upon him. David experienced his moments of despair, yet as he looked to God, he ended his cries with praise.

There’s a saying that “trouble doesn’t last always,” and David declares in Psalm 30:5 that “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Like David, you’ll face your share of trouble. Spiritually, the night may be longer than expected, but know that you can have joy in the midst of it.

In today’s daily devotion, don’t focus on the trouble, but on the God who delivers you from it.

Final Word

What a mighty God we serve! Trouble is a part of life. There’s no way to escape it. However, humbly admit, like David, that you are poor without Him. When you cry out to Him, you can trust He hears you. Praise God in today’s daily devotion that He is mighty to save.