God hath been merciful to me. That's good, isn't it? So good. You could just about pick any
hymn in that book, couldn't you? I have one that John gave me,
a nice leather-bound copy, and I started marking my favorites
with a little, you know, marked tape. And it's just books I had
to quit Every page is covered with those little sticky notes.
Psalm 86. Psalm 86. I woke up the other night, in
the middle of the night, because of troubles. God's Word, this Word, spoke
to me. I began to read. I got up and
started reading. And this Word was a great help
to me. I hope it will be a help to you.
The title of this is, A Prayer That Is Sure To Be Heard. This
is a prayer by David. The whole psalm is a prayer.
And I've titled it, A Prayer That Is Sure To Be Heard. David
said so. Or we could entitle This, the
Lord is good and ready. Good and ready. Verse 1, David
says, Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me. Why should the Lord
hear you, David? Because I'm poor and needy. That's why. You know, that's
who the Lord will hear. Our Lord said, Blessed are the
poor in spirit. Theirs is the kingdom of God.
Isaiah wrote this wonderful verse. Listen to it. When the poor and
needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth
for thirst... Remember David in Psalm 42 said,
As the heart panteth after the water broke, so panteth my soul
after thee, O God. Isaiah said, When their tongue
faileth for thirst, I, the Lord, will hear them. The God of Israel
will not forsake them. The poor and needy, that is.
Those that are poor and of a contrite heart and tremble at His Word.
Listen to Psalm 65. The Lord said this, He said,
It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer. And while they are yet speaking,
I will hear. Like Daniel. You remember Daniel?
Daniel was praying. The Lord heard him while he was
speaking. What's your greatest need, David? Verse 2. Preserve my soul. I'm holy. O Thou, my God, save Thy servant
that trusts in Thee. Preserve, save my soul. That's my greatest need, is it
not? How does the Lord preserve us?
How does the Lord save us? by putting us in the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is our preservation. Listen
to Jude 1. Listen to this. It says, to them
that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus
Christ and called, mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. I'm going to allude to Noah and
the ark all night tonight. Everywhere you look in the Scriptures,
It's all about being in Christ, isn't it? Preserved in Jesus
Christ. Preserve me, O Lord. He says,
I'm holy. Now, David is not pleading his
righteousness. Not at all. Look at the margin. It says, one whom thou favorest.
And the word, I looked it up, the word means sanctified, set
apart. Lord, he says, I am one that
you have set apart. I am one, I believe, that you
have sanctified, set apart, chosen by you, O Lord, and put in Christ. He's not pleading his merit.
He's pleading mercy. You're going to see that in the
next verses. He's not pleading his righteousness,
but sanctification of God in Christ Jesus. And this is not
presumption. to say I'm holy or I'm in Christ
or I'm sanctified, that's not presumption, that's faith. Of God are you in Christ, who
of God is made unto you wisdom, righteousness, sanctification. You're holy in Him, you're set
apart. That's not presumption, that's faith. That's faith. To believe in Him. Did not John
say, the Son of God has come and given us an understanding
that we might know Him that is true and that we are in Him? That is true. If you trust Christ,
if you believe Christ, if you look to Christ, you're in Christ
and you're holy. You're set apart by God. So David
cries, Lord, save me, preserve my soul. I'm one of those you've
set apart and put in the ark. Oh, He will, if you're in Christ. Save your servant. Look at this.
He's not trusting His merit, His righteousness. He said, I'm
trusting in Thee. Everyone that's truly sanctified
and set apart and put in Christ, they're set apart to believe
the truth. 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 13. Set apart to believe
the truth. And the truth is this. We trust in Him. We all trust
in Him. Verse 3, be merciful unto me,
O Lord. We have noticed so often how
David throughout the psalms says, O Lord, O Lord. This is a prayer. And he's crying this from his
heart. This is no repetitious prayer. This is from his heart.
Oh, do you ever say that? Have you ever groaned that? All through this psalm, he says,
O Lord. I catch myself praying that all the time. Don't you,
when you talk to the Lord? Oh, Lord. And I find myself saying
more than anything else, crying out to Him more than anything
else, for just mercy. Lord, have mercy on me. Be merciful
unto me, Lord, for I cry unto Thee daily. He says all the day. That's what the Lord told us
to do. Pray without ceasing. The man ought always to pray
and not to faint. And so he asked for mercy. Oh,
Lord, I cry unto Thee daily. You reckon the Lord is going
to give mercy to those that ask for Him? Oh, didn't He say that? Huh? Didn't He say that He takes
pleasure in them that fear Him and those that hope in His mercy?
Yes, he will. Rejoice the soul, verse 4. This
is what he's asking for. Rejoice the soul of thy servant,
for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Rejoice my soul. In Psalm 51, David, after his
great sin, he said, my sin is ever before me. Do you remember,
you know, he'd gotten in such a bad way for so long. Do you
remember what he said in Psalm 51? He said, Restore unto me
the joy of thy salvation. Rejoice, my soul. Has anyone
in here lost a joy in the Lord? Anyone? He says, Rejoice the
soul of thy servant. I lift up my soul to thee. I
can't make myself rejoice. I can't. Rejoice, my soul. And here's great mercy to a sinner. Here's what will rejoice the
heart and the soul of a sinner. There is forgiveness with thee.
Rejoice in Christ Jesus. Rejoice in the Lord. Rejoice
in His salvation. I was talking to Roberta and
I said, you know, the greatest, the surest cure for sorrow to
get over, at least for a while, our sorrow. is to rejoice in
the Lord, to realize who He is and where He is and what we have
in Him, and that we have full, free forgiveness and pardon and
peace and justification and all these things in Him. And very
soon, very soon, He's either coming for us or we're going
to be with Him. That'll dry the tears and that'll
lift up your soul, that'll lift up your heart. Sorrow will go
away for a while. It's the only thing that will.
You cannot find any joy and rejoicing any other place than in the Lord.
He says, I lift up my soul unto thee. Make my soul rejoice. If
He does, if you hear this Gospel, if you hear this Word tonight,
if you hear the Gospel that says that on the cross, my burden
gladly bearing, He bled and died to take away my sin. Then your
soul will sing. How great Thou art! How great
Thou art! Verse 5, he says, For Thou, Lord,
art good, good, ready to forgive, plenteous in mercy unto all them
that call upon Thee. I believe he learned this from
Moses, don't you? Exodus 33, go back there. Everyone doesn't know these verses,
so go back there. Oh my, we never go tired of this,
do we? When Moses asked the Lord to
show him his way, show me now thy way, teach me thy way, he
said, How is it that we may know we've found grace in your sight?
That we're a separated people from all the people of the earth,
sanctified, holy? How is it that we may know? He
said, Lord, show me your glory. And the Lord said in verse 19
of Exodus 33, He said, I will make all my goodness pass before
thee. Good. The Lord is good. Here's
His greatest goodness. I will proclaim the name of the
Lord before thee, and will be gracious." I will be gracious. To whom I will be gracious. Sovereign
grace. I will show mercy. The Lord,
gracious, merciful. Sovereign mercy on whom I will.
Chapter 34, verse 6. The Lord came down. What Lord? What Lord came down and stood
with him there? The Lord Jesus Christ. God hath made Him Lord.
He's our Lord. He's the one that comes to us. In verse 6, the Lord passed by
before him and proclaimed His name, His goodness, passed by,
that's Christ, and proclaimed His name, the Lord Jehovah, the
Lord God, Creator, Sustainer, Provider, Merciful. That's His
name. Will God be merciful? Yes. That's
His name. Gracious. Will God be gracious?
That's His name. He's the God of all grace. I
think it was Philpott that said, you know, God really doesn't
have attributes. I like this. He said, you know,
you and I, we say that man is loving or that man is gracious.
They have this, they have that. That's what God is. It's not
like it's something he has. That's what he is. God is love. God is mercy. Grace. That is what he is. That's his
name. That's his person. That's his
character. Will God be gracious? Yes, that's
who he is. Long-suffering? That's what he
is. Abundant in goodness and truth.
Keeping mercy for thousands? Oh my, forgiving iniquity. Transgression,
you see, all of it. Oh my Lord, rejoice my soul,
thou art good. This is what rejoices the soul,
that God is good to all them that call on Him. He's good,
He's ready to forgive, He's plenteous in mercy unto all them that call
upon Him. Did He not say, call upon Me? And I'll hear you. Did He not? I'll abundantly pardon. It says
the Lord is ready to forgive. The Lord is good and ready to
forgive. Ready to forgive. Can you believe that God is more
ready to forgive and pardon you than you are to ask for? That's a fact. That's a fact. He said in Isaiah, He waits to
be gracious. This is the Lord that sat on
the well that day. and waited on a woman whom he
had to give repentance to. It was the goodness of God that
led her to repentance. She wouldn't have repented unless
he'd made her repent. She wouldn't have asked unless
he told her to ask. And he's sitting there waiting
to be gracious to her, waiting to give her repentance, waiting
to give her a need, a thirst, and to create in her a new heart
and to make her ask. Yes, to make her ask. That's
how ready to pardon Him. That's how ready to forgive He
is. Can you get a hold of that? This will rejoice your soul.
He's more ready to pardon you than you are to ask Him to pardon
you. You know well that the Lord doesn't
wait on us to do anything. By waiting to be gracious means
He's long-suffering. He forbears and forgives until
it's time, His time, for us to repent and believe. He waits
to be gracious. I told you this one time. Isabella
was a little thing, about two years old, My Bible was open
in front of my chair and she took a pen and started just marking
in this Bible. And I found out she was still
standing there. And I came up. I knew what I was going to do
before I spoke to her. Before I even spoke to her, I
had already pardoned her. I'd already forgiven her. I know
her frame. I know her frame. I love her
dearly. But she's going to have to know
what she did. And she's going to have to know she did wrong.
And tell Pawpaw she's sorry. And don't do it again. And I
had to tell her that. You know what you've done. But
I had already forgiven her before she asked, before she was sorry. Our God is ready to pardon. Ready to pardon. Ready to forgive. His greatest goodness to us is
not what He gives us, it's what He forgives us. It's not all that He gives us
necessarily. That is wonderful, but it's all that He forgives
us. Listen to Psalm 103. This is
one of my favorites. Psalm 103, he says, Oh, bless
the Lord, who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy
diseases, that's leprosy of sin, who redeemeth thy life, your
Redeemer, from destruction, keeps you from being destroyed, crowns
you with loving kindness and tender mercies, Oh, He made known
His ways unto you. The Lord is merciful, gracious,
slow to anger, plenteous in mercy, won't always chide, He won't
keep His anger. He hath not dealt with us after
our sin, nor rewarded us according to our iniquity. As the heaven
is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that
fear Him. Like the father that pities his
children, the Lord pities them that fear Him. He knows our prayer. We're just dust. The mercy of
the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that
fear Him. Oh my, plenteous. Look at verse
5. He's plenteous in mercy unto
all them that call upon Him. I need plenty of mercy. Don't you? It says His mercies
are new every morning. Every morning. You wake up. Sinners. We need mercy. Give
ear, O Lord, unto my prayer. Attend to the voice of my supplication. Give ear. Lord, hear me. Sometimes
we pray by rote. Sometimes we pray out of habit. Sometimes we pray out of duty,
like giving thanks at a table or whatever. And I get so upset
with myself and that, you know, prayer is such a privilege and
such a reasonable service, isn't it? It's something that God deserves
from us always, but we sit down to pray and we're in a hurry
to eat and we've got things to do and we rush through it. That's
bad, isn't it? That's bad. But now sometimes,
out of great need, usually when we're in trouble. Usually the
only time we really pray is when we get in trouble, deep trouble. And then we cry unto the Lord,
don't we? From the heart, we cry unto the Lord. Don't just
say words, we're crying. Ask Him for mercy. And most of
the time, I keep things in. I just keep things in. But if
the need's great enough, he said, Hear my voice. David said it
and spoke out loud. Real prayer sometimes. You can't
contain yourself. Oh Lord. That's why he told us
to get in a private place so we can call on him. Hear my voice. My voice. The voice of my supplications. I need supplies. Daily supplies
of grace and mercy, peace and faith and forgiveness. In the
day of my trouble I will call upon Thee and Thou wilt answer
me. Verse 7, Thou wilt answer me. David, how do you know? Because he's answered me so many
times before. I know he will. I know he will. There have been times when I've
gotten in a bad way, David said. There have been times when I
forgot the Lord. There have been times when I
failed, but the Lord never forgot me. That's just who He is. And He will answer me. He's answered
me before. Verse 8, Among the gods there
is none like unto thee, O Lord, neither are any works like unto
thy works. Oh, my. I'm not promising anything,
Sunday, we may look at Psalm 45, where the Lord said, they
had no knowledge that set up a graven image and pray unto
a God that cannot save. A God that wants to and can't.
A God that tried and failed. A Jesus that died for everyone
but saved no one. Why not pray to Him? No, no,
no, no, no. David said, among the gods, there's
none like Thee. Thou art God. Down in verse 10,
Thou art great and doest wondrous things. Thou art God alone. I tell you when you worship God,
I tell you when you'll be done with false religion is when you
ever really hear of the God of the Bible, when you ever really
hear who He is. What you are and who He is and
who Christ is and what He's done, you'll be done with idols. They
won't do any good anymore. Like old Hosea. Remember Hosea? He said, what have I to do anymore
with idols? I've heard him. Among the gods
is none like our God, O Lord, neither any works like unto Thy
works. You see, salvation, not creation
are His works, but yet salvation is His greatest work. He said
in verse 9, "...all nations whom thou hast made shall come and
worship before thee." All nations shall come and worship before
the Lord. The Lord has determined it. He said, "...unto me every knee
shall bow, and every tongue shall confess." Every tongue. Every knee will bow before the
Lord someday. But in mercy and grace before
that great day, the Lord assembles some and calls a people out of
every nation under heaven. That's in Isaiah 45. They are
called the escaped of the nations. And He brings them to Him to
see that He's God, and beside Him there's none else. And they,
in mercy and grace, He causes us to bow the knee now and confess
with our mouth that He is Lord, to the saving of our soul, to
the glory of God. Oh Lord, all nations shall. God's people do now. And they
glorify thy name. That's what we do. That's what
God's people do. That's how you know them. That's how you know
God's people. They glorify His name. That's what they're doing
all the time, glorifying His name. Because He's great. Why
do you love that hymn, How Great Thou Art? Why do you love that? Because He's great. That's why. That's God. Oh Lord, my God,
when I in awesome wonder consider all the works Thy hands have
made to see the stars and the rolling sun. But when I think
of God His Son not sparing, sending Him to die, I scarce can take
it in." It's great. God is great. He
does wondrous things. He's God alone, verse 10. He
is God alone. There is no God beside me, he
said. I am God alone. Teach me thy way, O Lord. You remember in Genesis 6, the
Lord looked down and said all the earth had corrupted his way. There is a way that seems right
to man, the end is destruction. There's only one way of salvation,
of eternal life. There's only one way. What is
that? Christ said, I am the way. And men and women and people
tried to come to God so many other ways. There's only one
way. David said, teach me thy way.
He says that over and over again in the psalm, doesn't he? Teach
me thy way. Psalm 27, the other psalm, 37
I believe, and 25. Teach me thy way. The Lord teaches
His people Thy His way. What's that? They shall all be
taught of God, and every man that hath heard and learned of
the Father does what? Cometh unto Me, Christ said. The way. The truth and the life. What is His way? Christ said,
here is the way. Walk in it. Christ said, here
is the way. Be merciful. Here is the way.
Here's my way. It's your way. Be merciful. Forgiving. Gracious. Long-suffering. That's Me. You be that way. You'll
be that way. This is the way. This is the
way. Teach me thy way, O Lord. Let
me walk in it. Verse 11, let me walk in thy
truth. Let me walk by faith in Christ.
I want to walk with Christ. I want to walk in Christ, be
found in Him, and I want to walk like Christ. Don't you? Yes,
you do. I want to be like Him. I will
walk in thy truth. Verse 11, unite my heart to fear
thy name. Unite my heart to fear thy name. Does anyone feel any pullings
at all from this world and the things of this world? Anybody? I want my affection singular. My heart set on one thing. That's what you read, Brother
Mack, didn't you? One thing have I desired, and that will I seek
after. Oh Lord, set my affection, my heart. Let not my heart be
double. Let not my mind be double-minded.
I'll be unstable in all my way. Let me be single-minded. Let
me be single-sided. If my eye is single, my whole
body will be full of light. Set my heart on things above,
not things on the earth. Set my heart where Christ is. Oh, Lord, unite my heart. Let it not be divided, but united
in Thy fear, to fear Thy name. Why does he say fear? Because
the fear of the Lord is clean. By the fear of the Lord, men
depart from iniquity, from sin. It's a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of a living God, and that's a good way to feel.
Oh, Lord, let me not depart from You. Let me not sin against Thee. Let me not leave Thee. Unite my heart to fear Thy Name,
to reverence Thee, to worship Thee. I will praise Thee, verse
12, I will praise Thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and
I will glorify Thy Name forevermore, for great is Thy mercy toward
me. I overheard a man talking to
someone about a place and a preacher and saying, the Lord's doing
a great work there. And I thought to myself, wherever the Gospel
is preached, the Lord is doing a great work. Whenever one sinner
is saved by mercy and grace, it's great mercy. Whenever the
gospel is preached of so great salvation, it's a great work. Noah had eight people in that
ark. What a great work the Lord did.
If you're a sinner and you hear of this salvation and you call
upon the Lord for mercy and grace, it's a great work. It takes the
power of God. Oh, if only we would consider
the preaching of the gospel every time we hear a great thing, a
great privilege, a great honor. If only. If only we realized
what great things the Lord has done for us. He said of the people
in Acts that great fear came upon them with great The signs
that the apostles showed of the Lord's mercy, and He does it
here too? Oh yes, He does. The blind receive
their sight. The deaf receive their hearing. The lame walk.
The lepers are cleansed. Right here in our midst. What
a great work. Do we take it for granted? Verse
13, Great is Thy mercy toward me. Maybe my favorite psalm is
Psalm 130. If it's not 103, it's Psalm 130.
It says, Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Hear
my voice, Lord, if you should narc iniquity, O Lord, who shall
stand but there's forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be
feared? Great forgiveness. I'm a great
sinner, David said. I need great mercy. And you have
delivered my soul from the lowest hell, he said. Out of the depths. who sang that song when he reached
down for me. Do you mean it? How far down
did he reach for you? He scraped me out of the bottom
of the barrel. What a great salvation. What
a great mercy. What a great gospel. What a great
God. Oh God, verse 14, the proud are
risen against me. Now, people, all of these words
are the words of Christ. We talk about Psalms being messianic. One man said, oh, they're all
messianic. They're all messianic, either Christ said them personally.
Most believe that He quoted all of Psalm 22, maybe Psalm 69 on
the cross, maybe Psalm 18 on the cross. He wrote it. They're
all messianic. If they're not His exact words
personally, they're concerning Him. It's concerning Him. It's just people praying to Him.
And the Lord that we're talking about here, the Lord we're calling
upon here, is the Lord Jesus Christ. That's who we're talking
about. But as He is, so are we. The
proud, the violent rose up against Him. That's what Psalm 2 says,
against the Lord. The heathen rage, the people
imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against His anointed. Everybody rose up. But Christ said, they hated me
and they'll hate you. They're against Him and they're
against us. Proud, the violence. Sought after my soul. David had
many enemies. He always prayed the Lord to
deliver him from his enemies. He had many. So do we. And our
greatest enemy, one of our two greatest enemies,
is Satan. That we're no match for, he's
our constant adversary, our constant adversary. He desires to sift
God's people like wheat, and we're no match for him, so we
call unto the Lord, And He's the proudest of men. He's the
most violent of all. He's violence to our soul. And
the other enemy is that man within us. Proud, violent. Oh, Lord. Verse 15, Oh, Lord,
but Thou, O Lord. Oh, He's full of compassion.
Compassion. I love the word, don't you? That
means He feels. We have not a high priest who
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmity. Why? Because
he was tempted in all points like as we are. And the first
one he faced, the first thing he faced as a man, was Satan. At his weakest point, forty days,
forty nights, he fasted. And he faced Satan for us, our
covenant head, the captain of our salvation. But he faced Satan
in all of his Fiery darts and temptations like we do. But He
did that for us. And He knows our frame. He knows.
And He's full of compassion. He knows
what easy prey we are. He knows that. We're but dust. We're but flesh. He knows that.
Oh, what peace that gives me. and gracious, full of compassion
and gracious. That means giving. Oh, He upbraideth
not. If any man lack wisdom, if any
man lack this, lack that, He's the God of all grace and He won't
upbraid you. We waste most of what He gives
us, don't we? But He keep giveth, and giveth,
and giveth more grace. Long-suffering. Oh, Peter said,
Brethren, I know, Peter said, I know this from experience,
that the long-suffering of the Lord is salvation. Peter said,
brethren, for three and a half years we walked with the Lord.
We saw His miracles. We heard His voice. We beheld
His wonders. We saw things that most people
will never see, but we still didn't believe Him. But He had
mercy on us. So long-suffering. One day he
asked us, Peter would say, one day he asked us, how long must
I bear with you? And we all were hanging our heads.
Oh, Lord. Well, he said, be a good chair. I'll never leave you. Peter said, I left him. We all
left him, but he's long suffering. He's good, he's gracious, he's
ready to pardon. Peter would tell you that He said, when I
heard it was the Lord on the shore, and He'd risen, and there
He was on the shore, I couldn't wait to get to Him. I knew I
was guilty. But I just knew He'd pardon me.
I just knew it, because He's ready to pardon me. I couldn't
get to Him fast enough. I had no fear that He was going
to cast me out. No fear at all. And He's plenteous in mercy and
truth. You know how often Scripture
talks about mercy and truth together? They go together. Mercy and truth
met together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other in the person of Christ. God is merciful. God
is holy. Mercy and truth. Here's the truth
of the matter. That the same God who is just
is also a Savior. The same God is holy. who will
pardon sinners in Christ Jesus. That's the truth. And he keeps
telling us that truth. It's the truth. It's not too
good to be true. No, it's not. It's the truth. So help me God. Oh, turn unto
me and have mercy upon me. Give thy strength. I don't have
any. Give thy strength. Christ said,
without me you can do nothing. But John, your favorite verses
in Philippians, one of them, We can do all things through
Christ which strengthens us. Give me your strength, thy strength. Be strong in the Lord and the
power of His might. Oh, save the Son of Thine, heaven
and earth. Show me a token for good. Show
me a token. Anyone ever ask the Lord for
a token, something, something, some kind of evidence that you're
a child of God? Have you ever done that? Lord,
just tell me Give me something that I might know that I belong
to you. A token for good. A token for good. All right,
let me ask you. Let me ask you this. Do you want
to be found in Christ in that great day? Do you want to be
found in Christ? When we looked at that story
of Noah and his ark, God's ark, And all that about Christ's salvation,
how God chose them, they didn't come of their free will, how
God brought them, and how God did everything for them, and
they were passive, and how merciful the Lord... Did you like that?
Do you like that? Do you like the sound of that?
It appealed to you? Do you feel like one of those animals? Huh? There's so many things we could
have... I thought about the Lord waiting to be gracious. You know,
the horse may have run onto that ark. There were two snails. And somebody said, close the
door. We don't need to... Oh, no. We're going to wait. Slowly but surely, they came. Do you love all that? Does all
that appeal to you? That's a token. That's the gospel. That's a token
of good. That's the good news. He said
in Ephesians 1, he said, in whom you trusted after you believed. Let me read it. He said, you
trusted in Him after you heard the word of truth, the gospel
of your salvation. That is, how He saved you in
whom Also, after you believe you were sealed, did you like
the sound of that pitch? Somebody told me after that,
said, boy, I love how you just kept hammering that pitch, that
pitch. Right, because that's the blood of Christ. That's what
seals our redemption. Did you like the sound of that?
Well, it says you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
and that's the earnest. That's the token. That's the token. Everybody doesn't
love that. Most people don't. Do you? I
can say on the authority of God's Word, you're in Jesus Christ. That's the token. That's all
you need. You don't need a sign. This is the sign. This is the
wonder of wonders. That God chose you to reveal
His Son in you. Oh, Lord, show me a token for
good. He has. Those that hate me may see it
and be ashamed because the Lord has hopened me. I like that word,
don't you? He's hopened me. People make
fun of country people the way they talk. They've been saying
that for years, haven't they, Nancy? Hopened me. Hopened me.
Lord, hopened me. Now what kind of dialect is that?
It's Bible. I need to learn it. I need to
learn it. He's hoping me. It's an ongoing help is what
that means. And comforting me. Comforting me. Oh Lord, bow thy
ear. Save my soul. Preserve me. I
trust in you. Is that your prayer? Okay, stand
with me. Our Lord, thank You, thank You,
thank You. Thank You for Your Word. Assure mercies that You
showed David. Assure mercies of the Son of
David. Covenant mercies in Christ Jesus our Lord, Thy Son. O Lord, thank You. All the promises
of God, the sure and certain promises of God who cannot lie,
are in Jesus Christ and are yea and amen to the glory of God. Let us believe them. Let us rest
upon them. Let us settle our souls upon
these blessed promises. O Lord, thank You for Your Word.
Lord, remember Thy Word unto Your servants. that are devoted
to Thy fear. Unite our hearts to fear. Remember
Thy Word upon which You caused us to hope. Always bring it to
mind. When we awake in the middle of
the night full of troubles, O Lord, remember Thy Word unto our soul
and rejoice our soul in Christ Jesus the Lord. It's in His name
we pray and ask these things are met here tonight. Amen.