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Psalm 5 | Psalms Series 2026

July 19, 2026 St Peter's Hornsby Sermons

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Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 2: Thanks. Okay. The second reading is from Psalm five.
Speaker 2: It's on page four seventy three.
Speaker 2: Psalm five.
Speaker 2: Listen to my words, Lord.
Speaker 2: Consider my sighing.
Speaker 2: Pay attention to the sound of my cry.
Speaker 2: My King and my God.
Speaker 2: For I pray to you in the morning.
Speaker 2: Lord, you hear my voice.
Speaker 2: In the morning I plead my case to you and watch expectantly.
Speaker 2: For you are not a God who delights in wickedness.
Speaker 2: Evil cannot dwell with you.
Speaker 2: The boastful cannot stand in your sight.
Speaker 2: You hate all evildoers.
Speaker 2: You destroy those who tell lies.
Speaker 2: The Lord abhors violent and treacherous people.
Speaker 2: But I enter your house by the abundance of your faithful love.
Speaker 2: I bow down, award your holy temple in awe of you, Lord.
Speaker 2: Lead me in your righteousness because of my adversaries.
Speaker 2: Make your way straight before me.
Speaker 2: For there is nothing reliable in what they say.
Speaker 2: Destruction is within them.
Speaker 2: Their throat is an open grave.
Speaker 2: They flatter with their tongues.
Speaker 2: Punish them.
Speaker 2: God let them fall by their own schemes.
Speaker 2: Drive them out because of their many crimes.
Speaker 2: For they rebel against you.
Speaker 2: But let all who take refuge in you rejoice.
Speaker 2: Let them shout for joy forever.
Speaker 2: May you shelter them.
Speaker 2: And may those who love your name boast about you.
Speaker 2: For you, Lord.
Speaker 2: Bless the righteous One.
Speaker 2: You surround him with favor, like a shield.
Speaker 3: Where do you turn to when you suffer injustice?
Speaker 3: Or who do you go?
Speaker 3: Who do you go to?
Speaker 3: To right a wrong?
Speaker 3: Or when you might feel that the world is against you.
Speaker 3: This psalm is written.
Speaker 3: Keep it open.
Speaker 3: Page four seventy three.
Speaker 3: Um, it's in a dark period of the kingship of David.
Speaker 3: Um, David had been at the top, the king of Israel, um, in the
Speaker 3: golden period of Israel.
Speaker 3: But things had started to go dark and had started to wobble.
Speaker 3: Um, we know, you know, probably about Bathsheba and Uriah and
Speaker 3: what happened there.
Speaker 3: But there was also another incident.
Speaker 3: Um, David's son had just come back.
Speaker 3: His name's Absalom, come back from exile.
Speaker 3: And Absalom had done a terrible thing.
Speaker 3: And David, his father, really hadn't disciplined him.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 3: But that's really for another sermon.
Speaker 3: Um, but Absalom had come back into the kingdom of David and
Speaker 3: had slowly and steadily undermined the authority of his
Speaker 3: father, the king.
Speaker 3: And he'd been gathering people over to his side.
Speaker 3: He'd been badmouthing David, undermining him.
Speaker 3: And this is from two Samuel fifteen.
Speaker 3: Absalom had been sitting at the the city gates.
Speaker 3: This is where you find justice.
Speaker 3: And he'd been telling people,
Speaker 3: oh, the king is too busy to give
Speaker 3: you justice.
Speaker 3: If I was king, I would give you justice and I would hear you.
Speaker 3: He's been undermining David.
Speaker 3: And this is what it says in two Samuel fifteen six.
Speaker 3: So this conclusion for this little section.
Speaker 3: So Absalom stole the hearts of the people of Israel.
Speaker 3: He's he's gathering his.
Speaker 3: Cohort his party, and he's bringing them in.
Speaker 3: And he's the people who are
Speaker 3: disaffected and he's going to
Speaker 3: try and take over the kingdom in
Speaker 3: that sense.
Speaker 3: Um, and David is actually on the run.
Speaker 3: He actually gets kicked out of
Speaker 3: his kingdom and he's burning
Speaker 3: with indignation.
Speaker 3: He's suffering injustice.
Speaker 3: But what hurts him the most?
Speaker 3: Have a look.
Speaker 3: Psalm five, page four seven three.
Speaker 3: Verse nine.
Speaker 3: This is David speaking about
Speaker 3: this incident, about what's
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 3: There's nothing reliable in what they say.
Speaker 3: Verse nine.
Speaker 3: Destruction is within them.
Speaker 3: Their throat is an open grave.
Speaker 3: They flatter with their tongue.
Speaker 3: Punish them, God let them fall
Speaker 3: by their schemes, for they rebel
Speaker 3: against you.
Speaker 3: And you'll notice in verses eight and five as well.
Speaker 3: It's talking about the tongue.
Speaker 3: Um, David is suffering.
Speaker 3: The thing that burns the most
Speaker 3: he's burning with indignation is
Speaker 3: the shame, the humiliation, the
Speaker 3: reputation.
Speaker 3: What people are saying and how a wrong needs to be righted.
Speaker 3: And where do we go when we suffer this type of injustice?
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 3: I understand we open up Psalm five and we go, well, that's not
Speaker 3: really where I'm at.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's not at all what you're experiencing, but you
Speaker 3: understand that as we open up the Psalms and we do this over
Speaker 3: the holidays, we're just working through them just the next
Speaker 3: couple of weeks, um, where every time we open up the Psalms, I
Speaker 3: have to remind you again, the Psalms are the prayer book of
Speaker 3: God's people, and they have all of the experiences of different
Speaker 3: stages of life.
Speaker 3: So there are prayers or psalms for people who are joyous,
Speaker 3: people who are joyous, people who give thanks.
Speaker 3: And then there are those for
Speaker 3: people who are suffering as
Speaker 3: we're seeing an injustice this
Speaker 3: morning.
Speaker 3: Uh, there are those for those who are blessed.
Speaker 3: There are psalms of lament.
Speaker 3: There are psalms of praise and adoration of God.
Speaker 3: Some of Psalms are for celebration.
Speaker 3: But the point is, all of the
Speaker 3: Psalms follow the full
Speaker 3: experience of of emotions and
Speaker 3: things, of things that go on in
Speaker 3: life.
Speaker 3: And the point of the Psalms is that wherever we are on that
Speaker 3: spectrum, you know, and feeling praise of God or feeling down
Speaker 3: and suffering of feeling so.
Speaker 3: So in between, wherever we are, the Psalms are showing us.
Speaker 3: We bring life before God, you see.
Speaker 3: So I'm saying, I know you may
Speaker 3: not be experiencing this, that
Speaker 3: David's experiencing with this
Speaker 3: injustice and that you're not
Speaker 3: not at that that stage you might
Speaker 3: be over here, but the Psalms are
Speaker 3: to show us how we bring life to
Speaker 3: God in all of life, wherever we
Speaker 3: are.
Speaker 3: So. There are four things in this Psalm that David brings his
Speaker 3: experience to God.
Speaker 3: You might be able to have a
Speaker 3: different experience, but we can
Speaker 3: see there are four things that
Speaker 3: David does.
Speaker 3: That are a lesson for us on how we come to God and how we bring
Speaker 3: our life to him for things.
Speaker 3: So we might be at a different stage, but we've got four things
Speaker 3: that David shows us.
Speaker 3: This is how we do life under God.
Speaker 3: This is what we are to do.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, the four things
Speaker 3: will go briefer than this little
Speaker 3: this introduction.
Speaker 3: The first one though, is and it's all here.
Speaker 3: It's all in Psalm five four seven three.
Speaker 3: Let's see what David does.
Speaker 3: The first thing is David brings his experience.
Speaker 3: He prays unto God.
Speaker 3: Have a look.
Speaker 3: Verses one and two and three.
Speaker 3: Notice the words he says.
Speaker 3: Listen to my words.
Speaker 3: I should get a Bible.
Speaker 3: So he says, verse one.
Speaker 3: Listen to my words.
Speaker 3: Pay attention.
Speaker 3: To my cry.
Speaker 3: Consider.
Speaker 3: Pay attention to the sound of my cry.
Speaker 3: Consider my Sighing.
Speaker 3: I wait expectantly.
Speaker 3: This is all obvious.
Speaker 3: When we pray and we bring life, we're bringing it to God.
Speaker 3: And that's obvious.
Speaker 3: But you notice the words.
Speaker 3: Consider my sighing.
Speaker 3: Listen to my words.
Speaker 3: Pay attention to the sound of my cry and look at the conclusion.
Speaker 3: He says, I plead my case.
Speaker 3: Look at what the words he says.
Speaker 3: My King and my God.
Speaker 3: Here is someone who is praying, not just to a concept or a
Speaker 3: thing, or this is someone who is praying unto God his King, the
Speaker 3: one he knows.
Speaker 3: And so these all words and phrases indicate a personal God.
Speaker 3: David is coming to God.
Speaker 3: He's bringing the depth of his experience unto God.
Speaker 3: And he's saying to God, hear me.
Speaker 3: Pay attention.
Speaker 3: Listen, you know me, I know you.
Speaker 3: The first lesson is, you know,
Speaker 3: in prayer, sometimes we can pray
Speaker 3: informational things or we pray
Speaker 3: things for the purpose of
Speaker 3: others, or we just say sort of
Speaker 3: words.
Speaker 3: You know, in the parable that Jesus says of the tax collector
Speaker 3: and the Pharisee, you remember the Pharisee prays about other
Speaker 3: people, and he prays how he is about himself and information
Speaker 3: and the the tax collector, he says about three words, but they
Speaker 3: are there to God.
Speaker 3: And so David says, My God and my King.
Speaker 3: So the challenge is, do we pray?
Speaker 3: Do we bring life to God from the depths of our hearts.
Speaker 3: Truly to him are a Tory.
Speaker 3: In his little book on prayer says this very much of so-called
Speaker 3: prayer is not toward God.
Speaker 3: In order that a prayer should be really toward God, there must be
Speaker 3: a definite and conscious approach to God.
Speaker 3: When we pray, we must have a vivid realization that God is
Speaker 3: bending over us and listening to us as we pray.
Speaker 3: The first little lesson is we pray to God.
Speaker 3: The second one is.
Speaker 3: Notice verse three.
Speaker 3: He comes to God in the morning.
Speaker 3: Notice he says it twice just to
Speaker 3: highlight in the morning, Lord,
Speaker 3: you hear my voice in the
Speaker 3: morning.
Speaker 3: I plead my case.
Speaker 3: Now this is the second little
Speaker 3: tip David prioritizes coming to
Speaker 3: God first.
Speaker 3: Now, as we hear in the morning,
Speaker 3: we be tempted to think, well,
Speaker 3: that's David.
Speaker 3: He's a morning person.
Speaker 3: That's good for him.
Speaker 3: This is not what we're trying to get across here.
Speaker 3: The picture is in the morning,
Speaker 3: meaning that he's coming to God
Speaker 3: first.
Speaker 3: It's a priority.
Speaker 3: Because we can often have things
Speaker 3: going on when things are in
Speaker 3: hand.
Speaker 3: We don't need God and we can try
Speaker 3: to rationalise them, figure them
Speaker 3: out.
Speaker 3: We have a strategy and maybe we
Speaker 3: have plan A, and if that doesn't
Speaker 3: work out, then we might turn to
Speaker 3: plan B if that doesn't quite
Speaker 3: work out.
Speaker 3: David is saying, I'm coming to God first.
Speaker 3: I'm laying it at his feet in the morning first God, in the
Speaker 3: morning I come to you.
Speaker 3: I pour out my heart to you.
Speaker 3: He's laying his plans before God.
Speaker 3: This is why he says, I plead my case.
Speaker 3: And watch expectantly.
Speaker 3: You can imagine the detail that David is going through.
Speaker 3: We saw in verses nine and ten, and he's talking and he's laying
Speaker 3: out his plans before God.
Speaker 3: The psalm shows us, firstly,
Speaker 3: David prays to God, my God and
Speaker 3: my King.
Speaker 3: Secondly, he's praying to God.
Speaker 3: First, he's bringing his plans to God first.
Speaker 3: But have a look at the third
Speaker 3: thing in verses four to eight,
Speaker 3: because David prays with a
Speaker 3: remarkable balance.
Speaker 3: Trusting in the sovereignty of
Speaker 3: God, he prays with remarkable
Speaker 3: balance, trusting in the
Speaker 3: sovereign God.
Speaker 3: Have a look at verse three.
Speaker 3: He says, I plead.
Speaker 3: Look at this balance.
Speaker 3: I plead at the end of verse three.
Speaker 3: I plead my case to you and watch expectantly.
Speaker 3: I plead my case.
Speaker 3: I suspect David goes in detail about what's going on and lays
Speaker 3: out his details.
Speaker 3: We saw this in nine and ten.
Speaker 3: He talks about those who flatter their throats, open graves,
Speaker 3: their tongues flatter.
Speaker 3: He's talking about what he's
Speaker 3: going through and pleading his
Speaker 3: case.
Speaker 3: But notice the word there expectantly.
Speaker 3: He expects God will do something.
Speaker 3: He. He says, God, you can do something.
Speaker 3: And that's all caught up with God, the sovereign God, the one
Speaker 3: who is King.
Speaker 3: And you know, some of us, as we pray we might, some of us may
Speaker 3: not want to pray or we kind of a bit defeatist in prayer.
Speaker 3: We don't even come to prayer because we go, well, really, we
Speaker 3: were already there.
Speaker 3: I'm not really sure it's going to.
Speaker 3: But David says, I'm waiting on you, God, and look at what he
Speaker 3: says about God.
Speaker 3: He keeps waiting on God.
Speaker 3: Look at verses four to six.
Speaker 3: Um, here's what he's talking about.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 3: For you are not a God who delights in wickedness.
Speaker 3: Evil can't dwell with you.
Speaker 3: Notice the words, the boastful,
Speaker 3: those who flatter with their
Speaker 3: tongues.
Speaker 3: The boastful cannot stand in your sight.
Speaker 3: You hate all evildoers.
Speaker 3: You destroy those who tell lies.
Speaker 3: The Lord abhors vile and treacherous people.
Speaker 3: He's saying, God, this is your character.
Speaker 3: You are on the side of truth.
Speaker 3: You cannot stand lies.
Speaker 3: You do not love flattery.
Speaker 3: He's.
Speaker 3: He's saying God.
Speaker 3: He's reminding God of his character.
Speaker 3: This is who you are.
Speaker 3: God, I'm waiting on you.
Speaker 3: I'm expectant.
Speaker 3: Let me remind you of who you are.
Speaker 3: Oh, if if we could be expectant on God and and and say to God,
Speaker 3: this is who you are.
Speaker 3: This is your character.
Speaker 3: This is what I, I want, but but look at the balance.
Speaker 3: Because look at what he says.
Speaker 3: Then in the next verse he says, well, he also.
Speaker 3: He recognizes.
Speaker 3: That God is sovereign and so he waits on God as well.
Speaker 3: Have a look at verse.
Speaker 3: Notice this balance.
Speaker 3: Look at verses seven to eight.
Speaker 3: But because now we're.
Speaker 3: Now he's saying something else.
Speaker 3: But I enter your house by the abundance of your faithful love.
Speaker 3: I bow down to your temple in awe of you.
Speaker 3: Lead me in righteousness.
Speaker 3: Make your way straight before me.
Speaker 3: He is waiting on God.
Speaker 3: He's trusting God.
Speaker 3: He's saying expect change, but he's also going, But God, you're
Speaker 3: on your throne.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 3: You'll do.
Speaker 3: You are.
Speaker 3: You are sovereign.
Speaker 3: You will do what you.
Speaker 3: What you're meant to do.
Speaker 3: I will rest in you.
Speaker 3: Because you see, of course, if he's expectant and if he's just
Speaker 3: saying, God, do this, then he becomes God Himself, doesn't he?
Speaker 3: He's demanding.
Speaker 3: But then at the same time, he's saying, you're on your throne.
Speaker 3: He waits on God, knowing God's the one who decides.
Speaker 3: And you notice how that's both
Speaker 3: caught up in God's sovereignty,
Speaker 3: expecting change.
Speaker 3: God is King over all, but yet God is King over all.
Speaker 3: I'll wait on him.
Speaker 3: I'll give the outcome over to God.
Speaker 3: Entering your house.
Speaker 3: Bow down to your temple.
Speaker 3: Lead me.
Speaker 3: Lead me in righteousness.
Speaker 3: He will deliver over to God the outcome.
Speaker 3: He'll trust in God his purposes
Speaker 3: and recognize God has his
Speaker 3: reasons.
Speaker 3: What reason could God possibly have.
Speaker 3: For not writing the wrongs in David's life.
Speaker 3: What reason could God possibly
Speaker 3: have for not writing wrongs in
Speaker 3: our lives?
Speaker 3: Notice the language we said earlier.
Speaker 3: He says the boastful.
Speaker 3: Verse five, the boastful can't stand before God.
Speaker 3: God destroys those who lie.
Speaker 3: There's nothing reliable.
Speaker 3: Verse nine.
Speaker 3: Their throats are open graves.
Speaker 3: They flatter with their tongues.
Speaker 3: Let them fall by their own schemes.
Speaker 3: David's.
Speaker 3: The injustice is connected to the power of the tongue.
Speaker 3: And what people are saying about him and the lives.
Speaker 3: We don't know why at the end of
Speaker 3: the Psalm we don't find out is
Speaker 3: David delivered?
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 3: And we don't know why God didn't write the wrong immediately.
Speaker 3: Maybe David had been trusting in his own name.
Speaker 3: David had become high.
Speaker 3: He had become the King and he'd become well trusted.
Speaker 3: Maybe he'd staked a lot in his own reputation.
Speaker 3: Maybe.
Speaker 3: And why do I say that?
Speaker 3: Have a look at verse eleven.
Speaker 3: Look at what David ends up at the end of the Psalm after going
Speaker 3: through all of this.
Speaker 3: Verse eleven.
Speaker 3: May you shelter them.
Speaker 3: May those who love your name boast about you.
Speaker 3: Maybe David needed to wait on God.
Speaker 3: Maybe David was boasting his own reputation.
Speaker 3: Maybe he had gotten high and mighty.
Speaker 3: Maybe, for whatever reason, maybe he had to be taken down.
Speaker 3: But now he's boasting in the Lord.
Speaker 3: Maybe he decided to trust his own wealth, his own name,
Speaker 3: whatever it was.
Speaker 3: Maybe God allows things to happen.
Speaker 3: Sometimes in our lives.
Speaker 3: For whatever reason, for us to
Speaker 3: bring our hearts back to him,
Speaker 3: for us to start trusting more in
Speaker 3: him.
Speaker 3: Maybe to recognize what we've put first.
Speaker 3: What we've held a value too much.
Speaker 3: Listen to Jeremiah nine.
Speaker 3: Don't turn to it.
Speaker 3: Just listen.
Speaker 3: Jeremiah nine, verses twenty three and twenty four.
Speaker 3: This is what the Lord says.
Speaker 3: The wise person should not boast in his wisdom.
Speaker 3: The strong should not boast in his strength.
Speaker 3: The wealthy should not boast in his wealth, but the one who
Speaker 3: boasts should boast in this.
Speaker 3: that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, showing
Speaker 3: faithful love, justice, and righteousness on the earth.
Speaker 3: For I delight in these things.
Speaker 3: This is the Lord's declaration here.
Speaker 3: Jeremiah nine.
Speaker 3: It's saying, boast in wisdom.
Speaker 3: No boast in wealth, no boast in strength.
Speaker 3: No. You could insert any other thing you could put in there.
Speaker 3: Boast in reputation, boast in a
Speaker 3: good family, boast in whatever
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 3: But the one who boasts should boast in this, that he
Speaker 3: understands and knows me, that are known by the Lord.
Speaker 3: They know the Lord.
Speaker 3: Through praying to God, bringing life to God, he's God and King,
Speaker 3: pleading his case, waiting expectantly, but placing himself
Speaker 3: in God's hands.
Speaker 3: David is recognizing his true wealth.
Speaker 3: His true reputation is in the name of the Lord.
Speaker 3: None of that can be taken away.
Speaker 3: He is the Lord's, and he's known by name.
Speaker 3: The Psalms show us to pray
Speaker 3: directly to God our King in the
Speaker 3: morning.
Speaker 3: Praying expectantly and waiting on him.
Speaker 3: And lastly, we finish with this
Speaker 3: final section in verses eleven
Speaker 3: and twelve.
Speaker 3: Look at verse eleven.
Speaker 3: Let all who take refuge in you rejoice.
Speaker 3: Let them shout for joy.
Speaker 3: May you shelter them.
Speaker 3: May those who love your name boast about you.
Speaker 3: For you, Lord, bless the righteous One.
Speaker 3: You surround him with favor, like a shield.
Speaker 3: Now surely in the context of
Speaker 3: this psalm, the righteous One is
Speaker 3: David.
Speaker 3: He is the King, the Anointed One.
Speaker 3: And yet he is exiled now from his kingdom.
Speaker 3: He is the righteous one.
Speaker 3: He is the one who should be king.
Speaker 3: And as David left Jerusalem.
Speaker 3: In two Samuel fifteen, we find
Speaker 3: that he was accompanied by those
Speaker 3: with him, and he crosses the
Speaker 3: Kidron Valley, climbs to a place
Speaker 3: called the Mount of Olives, and
Speaker 3: he's weeping.
Speaker 3: Listen to two Samuel fifteen.
Speaker 3: This is David weeping as he went barefoot, his head covered.
Speaker 3: All the people are with him, covering their heads.
Speaker 3: They went up weeping, and tears
Speaker 3: flowed on that day as David left
Speaker 3: and he climbed the Mount of
Speaker 3: Olives.
Speaker 3: And maybe this is the place.
Speaker 3: Where he says, consider my size.
Speaker 3: Pay attention to the sound of my cry.
Speaker 3: My King and my God.
Speaker 3: Listen to my words.
Speaker 3: Of course David was found righteous in the end.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 3: He did come back to Jerusalem.
Speaker 3: But centuries later.
Speaker 3: After David, there was one who was truly righteous.
Speaker 3: There was one who, when he got
Speaker 3: to the Garden of Gethsemane and
Speaker 3: he was going to go to the Mount
Speaker 3: of Olives.
Speaker 3: You remember he called out and
Speaker 3: he said to God, listen to my
Speaker 3: groan.
Speaker 3: Pay attention to my cry.
Speaker 3: Listen to my words.
Speaker 3: Consider my sighing.
Speaker 3: And this one.
Speaker 3: Was righteous, far beyond David, far beyond any of us.
Speaker 3: And he sat there in the garden.
Speaker 3: And he said these words to God.
Speaker 3: And he was waiting expectantly, wasn't he?
Speaker 3: And but then he says, but not my will, but yours be done.
Speaker 3: I'm going to trust you.
Speaker 3: I'm going to give it over to you.
Speaker 3: And on that day he wasn't answered.
Speaker 3: The father turns away.
Speaker 3: And all of that was, of course, so that he would be the one who
Speaker 3: comes and takes our place.
Speaker 3: And even takes the place of David and what David deserved.
Speaker 3: And he would be our substitute.
Speaker 3: So that now we can call on the father.
Speaker 3: We can bring our cries and our groans and our sighs to God.
Speaker 3: And not just call him God from afar.
Speaker 3: And God, who I'm not sure about.
Speaker 3: And God is a as a an abstract concept, but God as Father.
Speaker 3: As David says, I'll come into your holy temple.
Speaker 3: Verse seven.
Speaker 3: How do I come into your holy temple?
Speaker 3: By the abundance of your faithful love.
Speaker 3: Only through sacrifice, only through knowing you are faithful
Speaker 3: and you are loving.
Speaker 3: And how much more do we know that God loves us, that he is
Speaker 3: faithful because he doesn't withhold his only son.
Speaker 3: His son is there in the garden
Speaker 3: and says, can I go any other
Speaker 3: way?
Speaker 3: And the father turns his face
Speaker 3: away and says, no, this is the
Speaker 3: way.
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 3: So that I could bring many sons to glory.
Speaker 3: Many children, many people can be brought in and they can know
Speaker 3: me and call me father.
Speaker 3: And we may deserve to have our prayers rejected.
Speaker 3: But because there's truly a righteous one who is rejected
Speaker 3: for our sake, we are loved and known by God, and we know his
Speaker 3: abundant love for us.
Speaker 3: And we know that God will answer us when we call on him.
Speaker 3: Because one terrible day he didn't answer Jesus.
Speaker 3: He will.
Speaker 3: He will answer us in our prayers, in our desires, in our.
Speaker 3: In what we come to him, We only know that he.
Speaker 3: Sometimes God will turn us down and he won't give us everything
Speaker 3: we want in prayer.
Speaker 3: But it's not because we're
Speaker 3: unworthy or because we're being
Speaker 3: punished.
Speaker 3: It's only because our request isn't always the wisest.
Speaker 3: Because we're still children, aren't we?
Speaker 3: And you know, children ask for all sorts of things, ask for all
Speaker 3: sorts of things that aren't necessarily always very helpful.
Speaker 3: But what we can do is we can come to God knowing we're
Speaker 3: praying unto him full confidence that he will listen.
Speaker 3: We can place our requests to him
Speaker 3: in priority, expectant but
Speaker 3: trusting in him because we are
Speaker 3: his children and we may have
Speaker 3: little wisdom.
Speaker 3: We have the assurance that God will always give us what we
Speaker 3: would ask for if we knew everything God knew.
Speaker 3: So come to the father.
Speaker 3: Pray unto him.
Speaker 3: Do this because of the great love that he's had for you, that
Speaker 3: he sent his son.
Speaker 3: Come to him early in the morning.
Speaker 3: First plans.
Speaker 3: Expect much from him, and wait on him and take refuge in him.
Speaker 3: The Rock of ages.
Speaker 3: The one who hides us and who has died for us.
Speaker 3: Let's pray.
Speaker 3: Father, we thank you.
Speaker 3: We thank you that David the King, though he was righteous
Speaker 3: and we read of him and we recognize his faithfulness and
Speaker 3: his trusting in you.
Speaker 3: And we see what David did.
Speaker 3: But though through him we see he
Speaker 3: points us to the even greater
Speaker 3: King.
Speaker 3: And father, as we come to take the bread and the wine.
Speaker 3: Would you show us afresh and remind us, as we join at the
Speaker 3: table together of your sacrifice for us, that that was for us,
Speaker 3: that we may be people that.
Speaker 3: Express our size to you, our
Speaker 3: groans, our cries that we would
Speaker 3: do that wrapped up in your great
Speaker 3: love for us, knowing of your
Speaker 3: sacrifice and what you have
Speaker 3: done.
Speaker 3: In your mighty name we pray.
Speaker 3: Amen.