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Prayer
If you were with us last week, you’ll remember that we walked through a portion of Psalm 19...
..and what we saw was how...
The Truth of God:
protects us from this world
make us wise for the cause of Christ
awakens affections for Christ
brings the blessing of God
And so as we think back to those truths, it makes ALL THE MORE sense why David approaches chapter 20 now in the way that he does.
David here is speaking - on behalf of Christians - TO Christians
SLIDE: RESOLVE TO: Petition the Lord on Behalf of His People
Petition the Lord
that WE are called to plead for the Lord to SHOWER His people with MERCY...
David here is PLEADING that the Lord treat His people like the Lord has treated him...
HOW OFTEN do you pray for the Body of Christ…fellow believers?
**I heard David Platt say this -
“The greatest hindrance to the spread of the Gospel is not the self-indulgent immorality of our culture…it’s the self-sufficient mentality of the church.
It’s why you and I spend hours every week in our church devoted to the ministry of the Word while we spend minutes every week in our church devoted to the ministry of prayer.”
~David Platt
And David - from this Psalm....reminds us of our call to prayer for the people of God.
And knowing ALL that God is for us - David pleads for his brothers and sisters in Christ...
WHY???
Because David KNOWS what awaits the people of God!
Answer: TROUBLE!
What kind of trouble is David referring to here?
The first things to consider here i think is:
The nature of trouble
The cause of trouble
Regarding it’s nature...
Don’t worry, TODAY, about tomorrow - why?
it will have it’s OWN trouble...
The Bible is SOOO certain of this!
It KNOWS that trouble awaits us....tomorrow.
NOW - as you know - today is yesterday’s tomorrow!
was the Bible right?
TROUBLE has a variety of looks in this world!
For us:
trouble comes...
with money
with health
kids
work
school
time
taxes
relationships
It’s everywhere - and it’s everywhere because of it’s CAUSE - SIN...
…and who is accountable for SIN?
WE ARE...
Now - don’t be mistaken, we know the Bible tells us - Don’t be anxious about anything!
But understand - Jesus here is talking to FOLLOWERS of Him!
UNBELIEVERS should certainly be anxious about their lives!
They should CERTAINLY be anxious about tomorrow!
And so - when the Bible says - “Hey, don’t WORRY about tomorrow” - that command is directed at followers of Christ!
See Christ KNOWS that for His followers, the ULTIMATE TROUBLE of mankind has been taken care of...
BY HIM!
That’s why to the Christian - Jesus says - Don’t worry about tomorrow!
See - Jesus loves to pour out His mercy on His children in times of trouble!
And 2 mercies we see in our text today are these!
SLIDE: Two Mercies for Christians: Hearing Us, Defending Us
Two Mercies for Christians
*You ever look around at creation and see something that just blows you away...
…And then you think - Yeah, God made that...
…And then you think - AND HE HEARS my prayers!
I’d actually go further than that!
He INITIATES them!
We see here that God INITIATES prayer...
How often do we praise God for our DESIRE to pray?
I don't think I ever have...
This is RIGHT after man became ETERNALLY damned...
Mankind was now a slave to sin...no Desire to pursue God...
If God would NOT have initiated this conversation, would ADAM have ever done so?
NO!
And so God asks - Where are you?
How many times have you been running from the Lord...
Maybe indulging in sin...
and it HITS you to ask yourself - Where AM I? WHERE AM I?
WHAT AM I DOING?
You know where that thought comes from?
God Himself!
He's asking you - WHERE ARE YOU?
AND
When we ANSWER HIM in prayer - He HEARS us!!
And if that wasn’t enough to make your brain explode....
He actually DEFENDS US
When we sin, Jesus pleads our cause - FOR US!
He defends us in judgment
And just THINK of how David TASTED this reality!
*David and Bathsheba (Uriah) (God forgave David)
DAVID tasted this MERCY of God…and NOW PLEADS for God to dispense this MERCY to his fellow believers…!
How about our enemies?
Christ HEARS his people....and DEFENDS His people!
And SO what David shows us here is ...
A CALL TO PRAY FOR FELLOW BELIEVERS!
Is this easy?
It seems that it most certainly SHOULD BE - no?
And yet it’s not!
You know why?
It’s because we haven’t RESOLVED to do so!
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