Good morning. She would open
your Bibles to Psalm 86. Psalm 86. When Frank reached out to me
Wednesday that they weren't feeling well, I was happy to come, but
of course, my thoughts take about a half second to turn to what
am I going to do? And that evening at church, in
the men's study, the gentleman who was going to read said turn
to Psalm 86. Well, the gentleman next to me
went, huh? So I turned to look at him and
he had his Bible already open to Psalm 86 where he was reading.
And I thought, huh? Then he read that. And when it
was over, I thought, man, I really hope I can figure something out
from Psalm 86. So this morning I want to do
something very simple. For this Bible study, I want
to read this Psalm, Psalm 86, these 17 verses to you. And then
I want to go back and just take a few minutes and just highlight
a few things as we go verse by verse just to look at it. This
is a Psalm of so much comfort. It's a psalm that we can find
peace, a psalm that shows us what our Lord does and what He
provides for us. And I just want us to maybe have
a few minutes this morning that we can rest in this, rest in
Him. And before we read it, let me tell you one thing that I'll
be highlighting. In our scripture, in this word,
all of these words have different levels of meaning. in everything
in this word. All of it is about the Lord Jesus
Christ and what he's done for his people. All of it. But in
these 17 verses, there are three different layers that we can
come. If we were smart enough, we could probably figure out
a lot of things. Thankfully, people in the past have recorded
things so that we can look back and see, oh, that's what this
means or oh, that's what this is. But the three things first
is the temporal meaning in this story, David. is just what he
was going through for so many years on the run from Saul. He'd
been appointed king by God, and Saul was trying to kill him because
he was the king. David was hiding in caves and
trying to find food and all these things. And this is a psalm that
he's written in this situation. He needs help. He needs comfort
from the Lord. But this is also a psalm that goes to the next
level of spiritual meaning. This is a psalm of what we say
and what He says in asking our Lord, save me, help me. I need
my soul saved. I need you to save me from my
sins. And then third, in everything in the scripture, it's about
the Lord Jesus Christ and who He is and what He's done. And
there are different parts in this that show us what our Lord's
done for us on the cross and what His relationship with His
Father. So I want us to just think about those things, and
I'll highlight those three as we go and go back and forth.
But let's read this Psalm first and see if we can enter into
it before we go through it verse by verse. Verse one, bow down
thine ear, O Lord, hear me, for I am poor and needy. Preserve
my soul, for I am holy. O thou my God, save thy servant
that trusteth in thee. Be merciful unto me, O Lord,
for I cry unto thee daily. Rejoice the soul of thy servant,
for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord, art
good, and ready to forgive, and plenteous in mercy unto all them
that call upon thee. Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer,
and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of
my trouble I will call upon Thee, for Thou wilt answer me. Among
the gods there is none like unto Thee, O LORD, neither are there
any works like unto Thy works. All nations whom Thou hast made
shall come and worship before Thee, O LORD, and shall glorify
Thy name. For Thou art great and doest
wondrous things, Thou art God alone. Teach me Thy way, O Lord,
I will walk in Thy truth, Unite my heart to fear Thy name. 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, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell, O
God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent
men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before
them. But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious,
longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. O turn unto
me, and have mercy upon me. Give thy strength unto thy servant,
and save the son of thine handmaid. show me a token for good that
they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou lord
has hoping me and comforted me in verse one it starts off with
us saying bow down thine ear oh lord our lord our god must
condescend he must descend to us He has to come to us. We can't approach Him. We were
on different planes. We were in different places.
He is a holy God. We cannot approach a holy God. We're sinners. Our sin just keeps
us from doing that. It keeps us from wanting to do
it. But if we even did, we cannot approach our God. In the Old
Testament, going into the Holy of Holies, into the mercy seat,
what did they have to have? They had to have blood. They
had to have a sacrifice. They had some way to enter. If
they did not come with the sacrifice, they would be smitten down immediately. We cannot approach our God apart
from the Lord Jesus Christ. He must come to us. And that's
what He's done, thankfully. When we ask our Lord, save us,
this isn't we go to Him and Him save us. This is He has to come
to us and save us. Bow down, thine ear, O Lord.
He humbles Himself. And then it says, hear me. We
can say a lot of things, but we depend upon Him to hear us. With our children, there's a
few different places in this. I'm going to come back to this.
With our children, I don't necessarily think in a mindset of you need
to hear me. It's listen to what I'm saying.
I feel like I can make them hear me. I say it louder, I make their
eyes come to me, all those things. We have no ability with anything
with our Lord. He has to hear us. He has to
incline his ear to us. We're completely dependent on
that. We must have him hear us. And why is that? It says, for
I am poor and needy. Not only am I not able to because
I'm poor, I have nothing to offer, but I need it too. but we need
the Lord to do this. We have nothing to offer. This
is a literal thing. In the flesh, we have nothing
of substance, right? We don't have anything to offer
Him. Spiritually, what do we have? We're sinners. We've got
nothing. We have absolutely nothing to offer a holy God. And then
this can be applied to our Lord on the cross. He was bearing
our sins. He was made to be sin for us. So Him saying, come to me, accept
the sacrifice. Look in verse two, continuing
this thought, preserve my soul, preserve me, keep me, whatever
that means. When it says, when we say to
our Lord, preserve us, keep us, whatever it takes. I think of
preserves, you know, whatever you have to do me, shut me up
into something, put me in the basement, whatever you got to
do, just preserve me, keep me because I know what I'll do.
If I'm not kept, I'll just break out. I'll just go crazy. I'll
rebel. That's who I am. Keep me, Lord.
Preserve my soul. Preserve it. And then it says,
for I am holy. I struggle to I don't think I've
ever said that, even in a moment of thinking to the fact that
in the scriptures it says when we're in Christ, we're perfect. It says, for I am holy. I sure
don't feel anything close to holy. This translates over one
whom thou favorest. Well, isn't that a nice thought?
Lord, preserve me because you favor me. Why would he favor
us? Why would God Almighty favor
us? Because we're in the Lord Jesus Christ. If we're not in
Him, we have no reason to be favored. This is another example
of our children. With our kids, don't we favor
them differently than we do other children? Some of you have children
that I genuinely can say I love them. But you know what? I favor
my children. I just do. Even if it's subconscious,
even if I don't even realize it. Oh well, they would do that,
but my kids wouldn't do that. Like all these little unique
things we do. He favors us because we're in His Son. When He looks upon us, He sees
His Son. That's who we are. He favors
us. Preserve my soul for I am holy.
O thou my God, save thy servant. Save us. I'll talk about this
in the message in a minute, but we should be very happy to be
classified as a servant of God. If you were to go out on the
streets and say, you look like a servant, or call somebody that,
that would ruffle my feathers. I'd be like, I don't serve somebody,
I'm my own person. We would be so fortunate to be
a servant of God. Be merciful unto her, I'm sorry,
O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. We are
nothing more than a servant, an undeserving servant of that.
We're not even worthy of that. And we're not asking to be saved
because we trust in him. But we're saying we trust in
him because he saved us. So think about that. It says
save thy servant that trust us in thee. This is you saved me
and made me trust in you. This is not I trust in you, so
you saved me. We trust because We love Him
because He first loved us. We don't do anything apart from
Him. We owe Him all the glory and everything. Look at verse
three. Be merciful unto me, O Lord. Look at us. I'll say me so you
don't have to take this on, but look, I'm a distressed, miserable,
shameful, pathetic, guilty sinner. That's who I am. In no way, if
the veil's pulled back and we can see who we are, I sure hope
you get, well, I don't hope you had this thought, but I'm sure
all of you've had this thought before. When somebody really
calls you to task and you really have to think about yourself,
to really just for a moment think about how bad we are. To think of in certain moments
the things that go through my mind. And all we should say in
that moment is, Lord, be merciful unto me. Have mercy upon me,
God. Have merciful. For I cry unto
thee daily." Unfortunately, I cannot honestly say that I cry unto
the Lord daily. There are a lot of days that
I don't cry unto the Lord. Now look, I don't know if you
have a center margin. The daily actually translates to all the
day. So it actually says, for I cry
unto thee all the day. I can't do it once a day. And
it says that he cries unto Him all the day. We should cry to
our God at all times, all of them. And we have jobs, we have
responsibilities, we have children, we have things that we have to
do, but you know what would be the best thing for us, honestly?
If we spent 100% of our time crying unto our God. I mean,
really, like, would anyone ever have anything bad come from us
begging the Lord, praying to the Lord, reaching out to Him?
We should do it all the day long. And I'm first to say I can't
do it, but we should never stop crying unto Him in everything,
in every way. And not just for ourselves. We
should do it for each other. So when I have people come to
me, there's a good friend of mine who will send me messages
all the time, especially when I'm preaching and saying, I'll
be praying for you, all that stuff. And the moment he sends that, almost
every time now, the first thing I think is, why was I not thinking
of him? Like, why can I not do that for him? That he's thinking
of me and I'm not thinking of him? Oh, Lord, would you please
make us to cry unto you for ourselves and for each other all the day. Verse four, rejoice the soul
of thy servant. David here says, I'm rejoicing. My soul rejoices. He might have
in this moment been sitting in a dark cave in pitch black, just
wondering if someone's, an army's going to walk to the opening
of that cave and slay every person in there. And he thinks, rejoice
my soul, rejoice the soul of thy servant. Now, this is a great
example of oftentimes it's much easier to rejoice when we think
of spiritual things. Sometimes we go through trials
in the world, and it's hard to give thanks for trials. It's
hard to give thanks for things like that. But we can honestly
rejoice to our God at all times. Everything that's happening right
now, everything is all for our good and His glory. It really
is. But we can thank Him because He saved our soul. What He's
done for us, we can rejoice the soul of our servant. And it says,
For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Unto thee do I lift
up my soul. We lift it to our Lord with devotion. We lift with fervency, with urgency. We lift it with hardiness, with
love to Him. We do it in sincerity. So many
of these things that it says, I feel like in the Scriptures,
there's so many times that I just don't have enough honesty in
what I do. I say these things of, you know,
I need to cry unto the Lord. But I feel like when I do that,
it's I don't have any anything behind it. You know, when you
probably my favorite one in all the scriptures is blind Bartimaeus.
In the moment of those moments, I wish I could somehow have the
urgency to say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. Like
that's how I feel like I need and we need to reach out to him.
But what we need from Him, we need Him to save our souls. He's the only one who can do
it. We need Him to do that. And yet, sometimes it's just
this, Lord, please save me. Like it's just half-hearted,
almost in the same way that I think of just, you know, I hope I get,
you know, this whatever, just something that doesn't even matter.
Lord, please give us a fervency. Give us a sincerity when we approach
You. And this is when the Lord was
walking on the earth, there are these little excerpts, and we
don't get much about it, but just verses of saying how everyone
was bringing their wounded, their loved ones, their lame, their
sick, all to Him. And I think of what that must
have been like for those people in a time where someone was sick
and they didn't even have doctors. They just had a little child
who they couldn't figure out what was wrong. I think of that's
the approach we must have. We must bring ourselves before
the Lord and just put our heads down and say, Lord, please, this
is all we just are completely dependent upon you. We need you,
Lord. Verse five says, For thou, Lord,
are good and ready to forgive. Because of our sin, We so often
think of it as our Lord, our God, does not want to, or does
not like, or does not enjoy having mercy and saving His children
in the way that that's who we are. When someone comes to you
who has wronged you, and they ask for forgiveness, or they
say they're sorry, it is typical for us to think in our heads,
I don't even believe that you're sorry, or I'm not really forgiving
you, but outwardly we say, oh, it's okay. We don't really forgive
them. We're just like, if I don't forgive
you, you're gonna realize how bad I am. But our God is good
and ready to forgive. That's amazing. He forgives His
children. We all understand what He has
done for us, that He has paid the debt for our sins, yet what
are we going to do for the rest of the day? We're gonna sin.
and we're going to rebel against him in our thoughts and our deeds.
And yet he is ready to forgive. How good do you have to be to
forgive someone who constantly over and over and over again
rebels? That's who we are. He is good
and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call
upon me, plenteous in mercy. He has so much mercy we could
never even lower the level. Our cup runneth over. What a
great illustration that is. There's not room for another
drop. And yet if it's poured, it never
goes down. It is forever full. His mercy
is plenteous. It endureth forever and we need
it. And it's that way unto them that
call upon Thee. Our Lord has mercy upon us because
of who He is and His love for us. choosing of us, his election
of us because we're his children. But it says over and over in
the scriptures unto them that call upon him. He will make us
to call upon him. We don't call because we make
this decision in our head. I think I've decided I'm going
to let him do something or whatever. The only reason a person ever
calls upon the Lord truly calls is because he makes us. So call
on the Lord. I mean, those phrases, I'll do
this in the message too, but when it says, when he says in
the scripture, call on the Lord, those who come will be saved. I mean, how many times would
someone have to tell you twice to say to you, if you come to
me, I will give you blank, anything good. I mean, if anybody said
that, if the service said, I've got a hundred dollar bills, if
you come over, I'll give you one. Is anybody in the room going to
think to themselves, I'm going to have to have him ask a few
more times. before I think about going over to get something.
And yet our Lord says, I will have mercy unto them that call
upon me. Just say it. Just say it. Just
call upon it. Verse six. Give ear, O Lord,
unto my prayer. Give ear, Lord. We talked about
him bowing down. He's got to give ear. Give ear
to us because everyone doesn't have the Lord's ear. If you're
not one of His, you don't have His ear. Now, it doesn't say
that He doesn't hear their voice. Our Lord knows everything. He's
omnipotent. He hears every word and every thought of everyone.
But we need Him to give ear. We need Him to listen to us.
Give ear unto my prayer and attend to the voice of my supplications.
Lord, don't just hear me, but please attend to it. Please address
it. Now, He is always doing that.
But we're asking this, Lord, We're praying because we need
you. Would you please help us? Would you please attend to it?
And a verse in a minute will get further into this, but would
you show me? Boy, how glorious is it every
once in a while when something happens and the Lord just gives
us this glimpse of, oh, that's why that happened. And that's
always what it is. I love the thought of one day
the veil being removed and us being able to look at the entire
tapestry of time and thinking it could not have been better
in any way. I mean, it really will be. The
moments right now, if I said the worst thing that ever happened
to you, there will be a day that you will see that moment as a
child of God, and you will be like, it was perfect. Whatever
the reason was, it was perfect. Our God is great. It's perfect.
Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer, and attend to the voice of my
supplications. In verse 7, in the day of my trouble, I will
call upon thee." We need trouble because that's
when we call. We just do. I just made the comment
a minute ago, I go days without approaching our Lord. I mean,
I have a Sunday and a Wednesday set appointment for church that
forces me to think about our Lord twice a week. And somehow
I still go days without thinking about Him or approaching Him.
But here it says, in the day of my trouble, I will call upon
thee. There is never a time we will
call upon the Lord more than when we're in trouble. It's just
the way it is. When we're in trouble, we will
approach our God, which is why we've got to have trouble. We
have to. May the Lord give us the desire to call upon him when
times are great, that we don't have to have trouble, but we'll
have it. For thou wilt answer me. The confidence that David
has here, for thou will answer me. To think that we should know
in our minds, our God will answer us. My children have this moment
and it frustrates me when I think about it, that we will be in
the house and one of them will call our name. Now, unfortunately,
the name mom is used 98% of the time, no matter where I am in
the house. If I'm sitting next to three children on the couch,
one of them will just yell, mom, and won't even know where she
is. And then they'll ask her for something that I'm holding
in my hands. Like, you know how that works. But there'll be times
where a child is somewhere in the house and they will yell,
dad. And of course, there are times
I can't go immediately. And depending on the situation,
it escalates at different levels. But sometimes it's, Dad? Dad? But there's this tone of voice
that every parent knows that changes from, I need you, I want
you, I've got something, I need help with whatever. And the voice
and the tone completely changes to, are you there? That tone
that's, Dad? Dad? Like, am I alone? Am I all by myself? In the day
of my trouble, I will call upon thee for thou wilt answer me."
Our Lord will always answer His children. Now, we may not know
He's answering us. We may not hear the answer at
the right time. Our God always answers His children. I'm telling you, it may take,
you may not see it for hours, for minutes, for days, for years. I know of situations where someone
feels like they haven't heard for years. that He answers. He answers. Have confidence.
Our God answers. I mean, this scripture right
here, along with others, say our God answers prayers. For
His children, He answers prayers. All right, let's keep going.
Verse 8. Actually, turn with me to John
11. Let me read this. Call upon the Lord. John 11, verse 32. This is after
Lazarus had died. John 11, verse 32. Then when Mary was come where
Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet saying unto
him, Lord, if thou had been here, my brother had not died. When
Jesus therefore saw her weeping and the Jews also weeping, which
came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled and
he said, Where have ye laid him? And they said unto him, Lord,
come and see. And Jesus wept, then said to
the Jews, then said the Jews in themselves, Behold, how he
loved him. Verse 37, And some of them said, Could not this
man which opened the eyes of the blind have caused that even
this man should not have died? Jesus therefore again groaning
in himself, coming to the grave. It was a cave and a stone lay
upon it. And Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the
sister of him that was dead, said unto him, Lord, by this
time he stinketh, for he had been dead four days. Jesus said
unto her, Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe,
thou shouldest see the glory of God? Then they took away the
stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted
up his eyes and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard
me. And I knew that thou hearest
me always, but because of the people which stand by, I said
it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me." Think of
this, what the Lord Jesus Christ just did here. He lifts up his
eyes and says, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
He audibly says that so everyone can hear. And he says out loud,
I knew that you hear me always. He says, I didn't doubt, but
I'm saying thank you out loud so all of these people can know
that the Lord Jesus Christ is heard by God Almighty, that they
might believe that thou hast sent me. Verse 43, and when he
thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. Spiritually speaking. Our God
hears his son. When we're in the Lord Jesus
Christ, think about all that stuff we in the Lord Jesus Christ,
he hears us, he answers us. We can have comfort, we can have
faith, we can have peace, that the Lord Jesus Christ will answer
us. Pray to Him, reach to Him. Verse
8 in our text. Among the gods there is none
like unto thee, O Lord. Neither are there any works like
unto thy works. Among the gods there is none
like thee. Of course there isn't. There
is only one God. There's only one true and living
God. And there's no works like unto His. His work of creation,
creating the world, His work of providence, His work of salvation
and redemption, His sacrifice, the works of our God, there is
none like Him. None like Him at all. Verse 9,
All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before
thee, O Lord, and they shall glorify thy name. We think of
our world being such a unique place depending on where you
are. You know, people act different, look different. So many things
are different. All of us come from the blood
of one man. All of us, we're all the same. We have just diverged over time,
but we are all related. All of that. And it says, all
nations whom thou hast made, which is all of them, shall come
and worship before thee, O Lord. One day, everyone will see who
he is. Everyone will see his glory.
Verse 10, for thou art great and doest wondrous things. Thou
art God alone. He is great. He does wondrous
things. I love the song, How Great Thou
Art. I love that song. And in that
song, We need to understand that we should never lose our awe. The term awesome is one that
has been popular forever, and we say it about so many things.
But we have awe, just complete open mouth, just gazing amazement
at our God. Once you know who He is, and
once you see Him, that's the only reaction you can have. He
is completely more than we can even comprehend in every way.
We don't understand love. We can't love someone, even a
partial true love. He is love. We can't forgive
anyone, and He's full of mercy. We can't bestow anything upon
anyone. He's all-powerful. I mean, all
the things of Him, He is so awesome. I mean, these verses in that,
O Lord my God, when I consider an awesome wonder, I consider
all the works Thy hands have made. I see the stars, I hear
the rolling thunder, the power throughout the universe displayed.
And when I think that God, His Son not sparing, sent Him to
die, I scarce can take it in. That on the cross, my burden
gladly bearing, He bled and died to take away my sins. I hope
that we, for all our days on this earth, have a complete awe
of our God. Because spiritually speaking,
in glory, that's what we'll be. We will just be worshiping Him,
and from day one, to infinity, there will never be a moment
that we will not just be thinking to ourselves, how great thou
art. It's just the thought that will overwhelm everything. How
great thou art. How amazing, how holy our God
is. Verse 11, teach me thy way, O
Lord. Teach me. Lord, we beg of you
to please teach us your way. This book is very simple if the
Lord shows us what it means. Am I the only one who've been
listening to a preacher preach sometime and he reads a verse
and I think to myself, what in the world does that mean? And
two seconds later, I'm like, wow. It's like, that's great. if he would just teach us these
things. And it says, teach me thy way, oh Lord. Don't teach
me, don't let me put my spin on it. Don't let me look at it
through my lens. Don't let this sin cover all this stuff. Make it weird and turn it. Because
how often do we get involved in things and we just muddy it
up? You know, water is so clear and then you just put one drop
of dye in it and the whole thing, you can't see through it at all.
It just totally changes and that's what we do. But teach me thy
way. We want to know your method,
Lord. We want to know the application of it. How are you doing this?
Now, why do we want to know that? We don't want to know it so that
we can judge him. We don't want to know it so we can critique
it. We want to know it so that we can love it and understand
it and believe it. We want to know why he does something.
When we go through trials, I guess I would think to myself, I want
to know why this is happening. But more importantly, what I
want to know is that I want you to show me it's for your glory
and my good and let me be comforted in it. Let me be OK with it. You know, I don't want to judge
him. I can't do that. But teach me, Lord. And we want
him to teach us that also because we want to know it so that we
can express it to others. I want to understand the scriptures
because when my kids ask me a question, I want to be able to give them
the right answer that points them to Christ. You know, I want
to know it so that when I say something up here, it helps someone
else to understand it. We need that. Teach us, Lord.
And then it says, I will walk in that truth. Unite my heart
to fear thy name. If he teaches us this, it will
make us to walk in truth. And what is walking in truth?
It's just walking in the path of the Lord. We have to have
Him for that. Spiritually speaking, Lord, put
me in You so that I am in the Lord Jesus Christ. We have to
be in Him. Unite my heart to fear Thy name.
Lord, make us one with Thee. I've given this illustration
before that a gentleman I know, I won't give any names on this
story, but a gentleman was told that he said something that he
didn't say. So an example is this person
called up a brother and said, you said this about me. He said, I did not say that.
And the person on the phone said, well, your pastor said you said
that about me. And you know what his response
was? If my pastor said it, I said it. In the tone of, I don't know
what it is. I want to be a person that says
whatever the Lord says is perfect. Whatever He does, it's perfect. I can't find fault with anything
because it's Him. His providence, His plan, His
mercy, His everything. I want the Lord Jesus Christ's
way. My way is death. My way is sin.
I want His way. I want everything with Him. Verse
12, I will praise Thee, O Lord, my God, with all my heart, and
I will glorify Thy name forevermore. Lord, make us to praise You.
And it says, with all my heart, Lord, Give me a new heart. This
sinful flesh, this heart is full of hatred and anger and fear
and so many things. Lord, give me a new heart. Give
me one of peace and mercy that finds comfort. I will glorify
Thy name forevermore. Thankfully, because of what our
Lord Jesus Christ has done for His sheep, we can say we will
glorify Thy name forevermore because of what He's done. Verse
13. I've got to go faster. For great is thy mercy toward
me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowliest hell.
You have delivered us from the bottom, from the pit, from the
worst." In the margin it says, you delivered my soul from the
lowest grave. As a dead sinner, you reached
down and saved me. And how did you do that? Because
you went to the grave for us. You were buried in our sins.
Because you're perfect, your righteousness was given to us.
Verse 14, The proud are risen against me, and the assemblies
of violent men have sought after my soul." I read this and I think,
boy, there are people up against me. Boy, there's violent people
against me. You know what that is? The pride inside me is, oh,
it's going to get me. How often this stuff inside my
heart comes up and makes me look a fool so often. Assemblies of
violent men, boy, I'm violent. When it comes to someone having
control over me, boy, I'm terrible. These things that are against
me, boy, it's all inside. It's me. Lord, protect me and
have not set thee before them. Verse 15, but thou, O Lord, art
a God full of compassion, full of these things, full of compassion,
of grace, long suffering, plenteous in mercy and in truth. Our God
is our Savior. I mean, He is full of these things. That's who He is. He's compassion.
He's grace. And it's necessary because of
who we are. I get so frustrated at my children. It doesn't take me 30 seconds to
get angry at them, over three seconds, over anything. But our
God is long-suffering. He's patient. He's kind with
us. And thankfully, one day, He will remove this sin and He
will give us a new body, a new flesh, Verse 16, O turn unto
me, and have mercy upon me. The third of these things, first
he has to bow down, second he has to give ear, and third he
has to turn unto us. All of these things we need,
and we ask for him to give mercy, have mercy upon me. Give thy
strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Lord, we beg of you, please save our souls, save us. Verse 17,
show me a token for good. Show me an example. Show me,
I hate using the word proof, but show me something tangible
that I can see. Show me, prove to me, show me
a token for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed
because thou, Lord, has helped me and comforted me. Lord, we
ask for you to give us evidence of what you've done for us, not
because it's not obvious from your word that you have done
it, but because we don't have faith And we need it. We need
to be strengthened. We need to be brought up. And
because the only way to do that is for Him to give us something,
to show us, to open our eyes, to give us a moment that we can
see, our Lord, He does do this for me. He does love me. He will
provide for me. And that others might see this
and be ashamed because, Lord, all of this because you have
helped me and you would have comforted me. Lord, we pray that
you would bow down your ear to us We pray that you would listen
to us. We pray that you would turn to
us. Lord, we ask you, we beg of you, Lord, please give us
comfort. Make us to pray to thee and you
will give us comfort. Okay.