Psalm 54
Hear My Prayer
“Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.”
Psalm 54:1
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- Ask for deliverance
— asking builds our faith and helps us experience His work in our lives (v1-3) - Believe in deliverance
— He can and will deliver to straight to victory or courageously through the battle to victory (V4-5) - Praise Him until it comes
–praise keep our spirit high when circumstances are low(6-7)
Great message this morning! “Building my faith” has been the emphasis the Lord has been working in me since the beginning of the new year.
I’ve been writing about it if you want to read more: http://www.lynnebauman.com/blog/
Blessings,
Lynne
I love beginning a new week with a new Psalm with you dear Wendy. Thank you for serving us as you bring more wisdom into God’s Word. Just the thought of your words today to us, – our Mighty Deliverer is on our side – all the way to victory lane. Love that! There is so much we can learn as we watch David constantly live in the presence of God. He practiced God’s presence, abiding in Him, no matter what mess he was in. As he prayed “hear me…listen to me”…he reveals his innermost thoughts to God. You can tell that as he does this his spirit is lifted. He has practiced God’s presence enough to know that God will deliver him. He believes and trusts that God is his helper. He models to us, – how to turn our prayer into praise. We believe in the victory that will come down the lane we are walking! I love that!
As we pray to be delivered we must also pray like Jesus did: “Deliver us from evil.” (Luke 11:4) The temptation to sin is around ever corner. “If we do not do what is right, sin is crouching at [our] door; it desires to have [us], but [we] can master it” (Genesis 4:7).
Our praise renews our soul and brings joy to our heart as we watch and anticipate the victory to come! Dear Lord, show us your glory today!
Lori, Love this: “Our praise renews our soul and brings joy to our heart as we watch and anticipate the victory to come”.
Gaylene
AMEN and AMEN. I love that you shared about David being in a chronic situation. He always had trouble in his life. My daughter is mentally disabled, uncontrolled seizures, and has many autistic tendencies-doesn’t like change, OCD. I can relate to the never ending, always on your mind situation of David, BUT GOD! Thank you for putting into words, “sometimes our obedience leads to a mess.” and “but the mess in out life can become a message of God’s faithfulness to us”. And when we share this message, people begin to lift you up to God in anonymous prayer to the Throne of God, and you are the beneficiary of answered prayer. You may never know who is praying for you, but when you can’t call out for deliverance, the Spirit rallies the Saints on your behalf, so that you might have victory! That to me is an even greater testimony to His faithfulness to me…
Thank you for sharing this wonderful message of Hop and Faithfulness. What a great way to begin a new week!
I found this Psalm and your video so inspiring reminding me that it is ok to cry out to God and ask to be delivered from our situation but that we must be open to how he delivers us. Like you said sometimes the deliverance is the battle. I believe that to be true with my situation, I have been suffering form catastrophic worry, fear and anxiety/panic attacks since August of 2012 but I see now how God is taking me thru it for my own good and not just removing it from me. Oh I have my days where I just cry out to God begging and pleading for him to remove it completely but then I just feel his warmth and his presence and he brings me back to see how this is for my good and his greater glory! Thank you for your words of wisdoms, thank you for this study! I thank God that he has led me here to this study and to Proverbs 31 God is Great!
Without knowing your situation, it seems that we are in similar paths and at the same time. My axiety and worry began last August as well. I have screamed in my car and cried aloud, God please free me and give me justice. The worry and fear that held me caused me to lose 20lbs within weeks and I battled and argued with more anger that I even knew I possessed. I was also lead to Proverbs 31 because my crisis ended up causing great suffering for my marriage. I have desperately tried to find the plan God has for me through this struggle, but at times as as if I sit alone in a great fog and I just can’t see what’s happening. I pray God will deliver us and keep us from evil while keeping our enemies as far as the east is to the west.
Consider is all Joy…when you encounter vaious trials, because you know that the testing of your faith deveolps perserverance. James1:23
You are not alone sister! I felt the same way, God has great plans for us! A wonderful faith filled friend of mine shared this verse with me and I hold onto it tightly! Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”. (NIV) Just trust in him and it’s ok to cry out to him for comfort he is are Father and he wants nothing more but to comfort us. I ask God to show me what it is that I need to learn from this, what are the changes in my life he wants me to make. It’s amazing what he’s shown me, I was always an on the go person darting here and there and dragging my family along in reality I was running away from things I truly believe God allowed this to happen to stop me in my tracks and make me focus and lean on him to start healing some of pain I’ve had in my life. I asked him to please bless me with godly woman and he did here thru Proverbs 31 and right in my own neighborhood! Don’t give up, give it to God! I am always here if you need an ear I would be happy to exchange phone numbers or FB if you want to stay in touch. I believe God is still putting people in my life to help me and for me to help them! You are not alone my sister in Christ he is always with you!
my email is [email protected]. Thanks for sharing.
All the way to victory lane! Love that thought. So true. We do not run this race alone or ill equipped. He is faithful.
This reminded me of the verse from Friday’s Proverbs31 devotional: “… great is Your faithfulness. I say to myself, ‘The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him.'” Lamentations 3:23b-24 (NIV)
The important part is that we do believe we will be delivered by God, but that we hold enough faith to wait for Him. My pastor has told me time and again, that His time is not always our time. It can be hard, but when we reflect on the times God has delivered us we can see that God is present, always working, and will deliver us again. Just be still and know that He is God. I tell myself this repeatedly, but I am still practicing it myself.
What a wonderful message, Wendy! Pray for deliverance – what a concept! So simple, yet it has eluded me for so long. I spent last evening crying out to God to help me decide how to handle a certain situation, but your message hit my heart this morning: pray for deliverance and He will decide how (and when) to deliver me from this situation. It is not for me to figure out. I knew that, but somehow I thought that my actions had to be part of the solution. But “the battle is not [mine] but God’s” (1 Chron. 20:15). And already after praying for deliverance, He has shown me indications that He is working on it. Thank you for being God’s messenger to me this morning!
I’m wondering if others are having trouble with seeing Psalm 54, today, Monday? I am logged in but receive a message that I do not have permission to view the comments. No emial received today either?
Mine keeps saying that too and asks me to login and then it is fine when I login.
Last year I was looking forward to this year and the fulfillment of God’s promises in my life along with His deliverance. Needless to say I was definitely thrown for a loop when the beg. Of this year started looking more and more like a complete mess. Thankfully the year is not over yet and I am still holding and believing for God’s promises in my life and the message from today is confirmation that God will and is using my mess into a message of His faithfulness. As much as I dislike the process of waiting I can definitely see His mighty hand in all of this and most importantly see how He is turning my mourning into dancing and giving me a crown of beauty instead of ashes as He is slowly transforming me and i am being changed, while my situation remains the same.
Good stuff. When I look back at my life I see how God has delivered me from ALL of my troubles. And there have been a lot of them. During these troubled times I have had the feeling of being abandoned by God. I have learned that if I begin to feel abandoned I need to do what’s in front of me. Stay in the moment…right now…. I cannot allow myself to get in what I call the “pitty pot”. If I start to pitty myself or think I am a martyr, blah blah blah, my healing is delayed because I cannot see beyond my self. God is working, but I can’t see it. So staying in the moment allows me to stay out of my self which helps me stay out of depression which helps me be able to see the miracle God is performing sooner. I like that 🙂 Thank you Wendy!
The Lord did not promise that this life woud be easy, but that he would be with us every step of the way.
I can ask for deliverance, but I’m not sure how to believe that I will receive it… I admit that I can look back over my life and see God’s hand in many ways… so why is it so hard for me to believe that He is active in my life now? 🙁 I think I have just lost my perspective. It’s one thing to keep the faith during short trials and troubles… but when something is year after year……. I don’t know how to get the hope back I’ve lost. I don’t know how to believe He will deliver me. I feel stuck where I am. And I’m bitter towards God because I haven’t been delivered. 🙁 I’m in a bad spot and I don’t know how to get out.
Oh Lord….. deliver me.
Hang in there Jshackelford. I can relate. I’m praying. Love you
Thanks. mtillery and marlee.
I am praying for you Jshackelford. I can relate to what you are going through. I, too have been in a not so good spot and cried out to God knowing He is a very present help in the time of trouble. He Delivered! I learned through this time how great His love is for us. So amazing! Trust Him and cry out to Him. He is faithful and just. God loves you very much and know there are sisters praying for you.
My take away here is: Many times our deliverance means “actually going thru the battle to the victory.” Amen. And that obedience can often lead to a mess. That is good stuff. So many get the idea that the Christian’s life is supposed to be easy. I say, it ain’t easy, but it sure is worth it!
Please where is it that you say you have a link on your site to 1Sa 23? Is there more on the site?
Thank you so much for your grace! I am soooooo far behind. My hope is to get caught up this week – as I focus MORE of my attention on HIM (in anticipation of Easter Sunday!). Thank you for all your hard work for us! I am grateful!
This Psalm, and especially the reference for I Samuel 23 has helped me know how to respond to a deep betrayal in my life. It was o.k. for David to go to the wilderness instead of stay and Keilah. As a man who had battled thousands and even Goliath, fleeing to the wilderness in betrayal was the right course of action, though I’m sure it didn’t feel too good. He trusted God to vindicate him and bring about the right solution in God’s time, not his own time.
I like how you stated that sometimes our deliverance is going through the battle. It reminds me of Laura Story’s song – Blessings. Her song talks about how sometimes the trials we go through are God’s blessings in disguise. Great song. As much as I may not want to be in certain situations, I try to remind myself there must be something I need to learn or a particular aspect of my life that I need to grow in.