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*A Father’s Prayer*
Psalm 144:11-15
A man overheard a conversation between his son and two other little boys.
The boys were comparing their dads.
One boy said proudly, “My dad knows the mayor of our town!”
Another said, “So, my dad knows the governor of our state!”
Then the man heard his son say, “That’s nothing – my dad knows God!”
When he heard this, the man quickly slipped away to his room and with tears in his eyes said, “O God, I pray that my boy will always be able to say, ‘My dad knows God.’ “
How about it, Dad? Do you know God?
Have you come to a saving relationship with God faith in Jesus Christ?
Are you walking with God everyday?
Are you spending time before God in prayer?
Is it your desire to hear His voice, to see His face, and to know His heart?
Today, I want us to look into the heart of a dad who had a heart for God.
King David of Israel wasn’t a perfect man.
There were times in his life when he sinned, repented, and found God’s forgiveness.
He wasn’t a perfect dad, either.
We read the story of his family and we find that he made some major mistakes in bringing up his children.
But David was a man who wanted to please God with his life.
He wanted God’s hand to be upon his family.
And he poured out his heart in prayer to God.
Psalm 144 is a journal of one of David’s prayers to God.
It’s a prayer of trust in God.
It’s a prayer of dependence for God’s hand of protection, prosperity, and provision to be upon David’s life and his family.
Read with me the words of this father’s prayer:
[Read Psalm 144:11-15.]
Wow!
What a heart for God David had!
What a prayer for us to learn from!
I want us to let the Holy Spirit take us by the hand as we look at this passage, and I want us to think about how God desires for us to pray.
Though David was praying as a father, he was crying out to God for families and sons and daughters throughout Israel.
So, this is a message for every person here, whether you’re single or married or whether you’re a mother or a father or a son or a daughter.
First, we can pray for . .
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*1. **God’s Protection from Our Enemies.*
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Notice the words of verse eleven:
Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks lying words, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood— (Psalm 144:11)
As David wrote this Psalm, he recognized the dangers that his enemies posed.
He asks God to “rescue” him.
The word for rescue was used to describe an earthquake, when the ground would open up and there would be a split in the earth.
David was praying, “God, put a gaping chasm between my enemies and me.
Put them far on one side of that canyon and put me on the other.
Rescue me.”
David also asks God to “deliver” him.
The word means to save someone or to snatch someone out of a dangerous situation.
From whom did David want to be rescued and delivered?
From “the hand of foreigners.”
The word “foreigner” means a stranger.
For David, a stranger was someone who did not know him and who did not know His God.
He was speaking of the pagans around him who worshipped idols of wood and stone.
He was speaking of the wicked people around him who walked in the paths of sin and evil.
He was speaking of the violent people around him who desired to kill him and ravage his family.
Notice what he says about his enemies: “whose mouth speaks lying words and whose right hand is a hand of falsehood.”
David knew that his enemies were liars.
The lie they most loved to tell was: “God can’t help you.”
That’s you’re what your enemies will try to say to you: “God can’t help you.
God can’t help your marriage.
God can’t help your children.
God can’t help your family.”
But the man who follows God says, “The only help I need and ultimately the only help I have comes from my God.
So I will call on Him.”
What kind of protection was David seeking?
You find it spelled out in the second part of verse 14: \\ \\
Psalm 144:14b That there be no breaking in or going out; that there be no outcry in our streets.
He was asking for protection from crime – “breaking in.”
He was asking for protection from his children being taken away – “going out.”
He was asking for protection from a violent society – “that there be no outcry in our streets.”
In every way, David sought the protection that only God could bring.
The same is true today.
Only God can bring protection to our families.
It was midnight.
The little girl – eight years’ old – came to the doorway of her parents’ bedroom.
Her father could see her silhouette in the soft glow of the night-light.
“Daddy … I’m scared.”
It was the third time that night they had covered this territory.
He took her by the hand, walked her to her bedroom, and pulled back the covers.
“Rachael,” her dad said, “did you go over your Bible verses?”
“Yes, Daddy.”
“And you counted sheep?”
“And you talked to the Shepherd?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Well, I want to tell you a secret.”
“What’s that?”
“Well, you see . . .
some people seem to need more sleep than others.
And I’m one of those who doesn’t sleep as much as you.
Have you ever found me sleeping?”
“Um . . .
no.”
“So, if a burglar comes, I’ll be awake, right?”
“Uh-huh.”
“And if a monster ever comes to visit, he can find me just around the corner, can’t he?”
“Then go to sleep, Rachael . . .
Daddy is awake.”
He kissed her forehead.
And her nose.
And her dimpled chin.
“I love you, sweetheart.”
“Love you too, Daddy.”
Now, the truth is, every father sleeps.
I fall asleep.
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