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Prayer
World Birth and Death Rates
Birth Rate
• 19 births/1,000 population
• 131.4 million births per year
• 360,000 births per day
• 15,000 births each hour
Death Rate
• 8 deaths/1,000 population
• 55.3 million people die each year
• 151,600 people die each day
• 6,316 people die each hour
Now think about that…6,316 people die each hour...
that’s 6,316 phone calls to someone they had just seen hours before...
Saw them walk out the door NOT THINKING it would be the last time...
151,600 lives … TIMES 50 - lives affected each day from death...
Needless to say - When’s your storm coming?
You’ve all been through a few I’m sure....and some of you more recently...
BUT - for some of you right now - you see the storm clouds gathering...
Today we’re going to walk through a Psalm that will hopefully help us see through the clouds...
Now as we look at this Psalm as a whole, we see that this Psalm was written by David in what seems to be a difficult time of his life.
It helps to know actually what the backdrop of this Psalm really is....from a historical perspective
This Psalm is believed to have been written by David during the time when one of his son’s - named Absalom rebelled against him, and tried to take the kingdom from him.
If you’re familiar with that story, David ends up sending 3 of his commanders into battle to fend off his son Absalom...
And David tells them to “Take it easy on Absalom”...
But Joab, one of David’s commanders, ends up killing Absalom...
And so David here is not - NAIVE to pain and suffering...
AND YET...
SLIDE: Even In The Storm: We Exalt God
Even In The Storm
David here shows us that even in the darkest of times, PRAYER is necessary!
I don’t know about you, and it might seem OBVIOUS that when troubles come...
we AS CHRISTIANS always seek God in prayer...
BUT I CAN TELL you for me...
That’s not always the case
I’ll find myself - in seasons of life, where it’s like I’ll WAKE UP FROM A FOG...
…and realize that I haven’t prayed in the longest time!
EVEN when life isn’t going well.
EVEN when I’m walking through a trial...
And it’s always SHOCKING to me - that I had never CONSIDERED taking this trial before the LORD...
I think a lot of times we can get caught up in trying to ATTACK LIFE with our best of INTENTIONS!
And maybe we SINCERELY try to do the right thing...
BUT - all the while - TRYING to do it on our own…in our OWN STRENGTH!
Listen!
One of the most dangerous things you can do with FEAR and ANXIETY, as a Christian....is to pretend that you’re strong and don’t have it!
If THAT’S you, you will never walk out this PSALM in your life!
And here DAVID says something remarkable...
And look at the first line of this verse...
1 Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
“O God of my righteousness!”
David KNEW that even his BEST DEEDS were under the RULE of God...
David was seeking STRENGTH from outside of himself!
Seeking strength from the God of his goodness!
AND IF God was the God of his goodness…then SURELY He was a God worthy of GOING to for HELP!
**Ever have to call your cable company/internet company for support help…and you just KNOW this call is NOT going to be helpful…?
David KNEW that he was crying out to a SOVEREIGN God…one who EVEN RULES over David’s goodness!
NOT ONLY that - but why do you think David was so confident in going to God for HELP??
David was confident in PRAYER because he’s SEEN and EXPERIENCED good RESULTS!
“You have given me RELIEF when I was in distress!”
**In Baseball, if your relief pitcher finds success, you keep running him out there...
**In football, if at the end of the game your running back keeps gaining yards, you keep giving him the ball
**In the 80s and 90s, Michael Jordan kept making every shot against the Cavs, so he kept shooting
**In the 90s, our favorite TV shows kept finding themselves at the top of the ratings, so they kept going year after year
David had experienced PRAYING to God for help, and then GETTING that help, but it didn’t stop there!
He knew where his help came from!
And so he was confident that God would COME THROUGH for him!
Even in the Storm, he Exalted God!
Not only that but he also “Exhorted his Enemies”!
Even In The Storm
Now, EXHORT doesn’t mean to - execute!
No, it means to strongly encourage!
Here we see David addressing his enemies.
NOW - remember, more than likely, this is referring to those interested in overtaking King David’s throne...
and that included his own son - Absalom
And so you can imagine the heartache that David was feeling...
At one point in the story…it was decided that Absalom was going to kill David…his dad...
And yet, what we see here from David is not a - VENGEFUL address
What David does here is he puts these men - in their proper place!
Verse 2 starts with “O men”…how long shall my honor be turned into shame...
This phrase - O Men - in the New American Standard Version is rendered - “O sons of men”
And what David is saying is -
Listen - you men who are trying to overthrow me....you’re actually trying to UNDO what GOD HAS DONE!
He’s saying - you’re nothing but MERE CLAY....
Surely these guys, including Absalom, had thought that they could help ISRAEL rise to new heights!...
And yet David says - “O sons of men”…how long will you LOVE VAIN words and seek after lies...
SO David here is looking at his enemies…those plotting against him and saying...
Why do you love VAIN words and seek after lies…?
What’s David referring to?
If you go to 2 Samuel, we’ll see what he’s referring to...
See what Absalom did was - he would stand at the palace gate...
and when suitors would come to the palace to lay before David a complaint, or issue, that needed a decision to be rendered...
Absalom would stop them at the gate, ask them where they were from...
and then tell them that he himself would have decided in favour with every suit that came...
And so Absalom told the people what they wanted to hear…and therefore…over time...
STOLE THE HEARTS of the MEN OF ISRAEL!
**It’s a good thing people don’t use THIS tactic anymore!!!
We see this EVERYWHERE no?
in Business!
In INTERVIEWS..
In CHURCHES!
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