Saturday, July 18, 2015

Start Time: 6:40 AM

End Time: 7:05 AM

Title: A David Psalm.

Scriptures: Psalm 141:1 - 10

God’s Message/Promise/Commands:

Another great and full of wisdom psalm from David today.  What an awesome heart David had when he was on earth.  Look at this chapter, a king pleading for salvation from God.  But more importantly, not only does he prays for God to save him from his enemies, he asked God to save him from his own self.  Look at how He asked God in verses 3-7, about setting up a guard at his mouth and a watcher at the door of his lips.  Clearly, David was struggling at this time to do what is right and that is to be silent and allow God to fight his battles.  His enemies are courageously coming against him in the open, maligning his reputation and spreading negative rumors about him to the point of undermining and disrespecting him.  Despite of the desire of his whole being to fight back, he fought it out!  And he knew he was weak that's why he did what he knew could help him...cry out to God for help.  When others are praying for God to ruin the lives of their oppressors, here we see David praying to God, asking Him to guard and watch over his self and to keep him from sinning or retaliating, even if the human mind would understand and deemed it as okay.  He knows God doesn't want him to fight back.  So David ran to God and asked God to guard him...oh don't get me wrong, David also asked for the elimination or defeat of his oppressors, in fact he prayed about it that his enemies will be pulverized and their bones be scattered at the gates of hell - that's how angry or hurt he was.  Yet in the end, the focus or the emphasis of his prayer in this chapter is his cry out for help to control himself.  Are we mature enough to see it this way?  I hope so.  When we have our eyes only to God then it will be in our nature to just seek God's help when it comes to self-control because let's be realistic here, we are truly not able to control ourselves on our own.  We may be able to take control for a time but we will soon lose it.  So like David, let's run to God and have him watch and guard us not to lose control in a time when all of us wants to fight back our enemies.

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, thank You for this wonderful message.  This is something that I need, that we all need.  Because the reality is, we, as humans don't have control over ourselves.  We think we do but we really don't.  And we need You God to take that control and keep us in check at all times.  Help me Lord in ensuring that I walk in the path of righteousness as Noah did, that I stand firm in my Faith like Abraham did, to walk with You daily like Enoch did, and ultimately to put my trust in You at all times, especially when the struggle is within myself, like David did.  In Jesus' Name, Amen!