VERSE:
Psalm 35 (King James Version)
Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourn for his mother. But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the subjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me. Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
COMMENTARY:
Did you listen while David Prays for safety? It is no new thing for the most righteous men, and the most righteous cause, to meet with enemies. This is a fruit of the old enmity in the seed of the serpent against the Seed of the woman. David in his afflictions, Christ in his sufferings, the church under persecution, and the Christian in the hour temptation, all beseech the Almighty God, our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus to appear in their behalf, and to vindicate their cause. We are apt to justify uneasiness at the injuries men do us, by our never having given them cause to use us so ill; but this should make us easy, for then we may the more expect that our Lord God will plead our cause. David prayed to our Lord to manifest himself in his trial. Let me have inward comfort under all outward troubles, to support my soul. If God, by his Holy Spirit, witness to our Spirits that He is our Salvation, we need desire no more to make us happy. If God our Lord Christ Jesus, is our Friend, no matter who is our enemy, you can be sure that He will fight your battle for you. By the Spirit of prophecy, David foretells the just judgments of our Lord, God that would come upon his enemies for their great wickedness. These are predictions, they look forward, and show the doom of the enemies of Christ Jesus, and his kingdom. We must not desire or pray for the ruin of any enemies, except our lusts and the evil spirits that would compass our destruction. A traveler benighted in a bad road, is an expressive emblem of a sinner walking in the slippery and dangerous ways of temptation. But David having committed his cause to our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus God, did not doubt of his own deliverance. The bones are the strongest parts of the body. The Psalmist here proposes to serve and glorify God with all his strength. If such language may be applied to outward salvation, how much more will it apply to Heavenly things in Christ Jesus! Glory To God!
PRAYER:
Most Gracious Father and Almighty God, our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, Thank You Lord Christ Jesus for waking us up this morning, Thank You that no harm or danger came near our door. Thank You Lord Christ Jesus, that You stayed the hands of our enemies, and that You have placed a hedge of protection around us, Your children. Thank You Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, Thank You. Precious Lord, please receive our words and the desires of our heart with pleasure. We love You and want Your will to be done in our lives. You have so richly lavished Your Grace upon us, please receive back our adoration, praise, thanks, and concern. As in days gone by, please work Your will with might today. Most Holy God Lord Christ Jesus, we glorify Your name and praise You for who You are and what You have done. You alone are Holy and worthy of praise. we honor You as the true and living God, our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, with all our hearts, souls, minds and strength. Father, we Pray that You ignite our hearts by the power of Your Holy Spirit so that we may live with passion for you. Help us to pursue Your Holy excellence and spurn mediocrity. Renew us and renew Your Church so that we may live vibrant lives before the watching world. Holy and righteous God our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, we come before you confessing that we have sinned and Thanking You for Your forgiveness. Thanks be unto God, who has given us the Victory through our Lord Christ Jesus. Thank You Lord, Thank You. O gracious Father, please shower Your Grace on those we love who struggle with sin, who are broken by life's problems, beset by disease, unemployment, marriages that need mending, who are weary and need rest, and to feel Your peace, and those caught in other very trying circumstances, that are to much for them to deal with alone. we pledge to minister to their needs, and we ask You to guide us as we comfort, heal, strengthen and mend in ways only through the Holy Spirit can have us do. Thank You Lord Christ Jesus, Thank You. Lord we fear no man because You have told us through Your Holy Word that; The LORD helps them and delivers them; He delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in Him, Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no longer, The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways, For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you, In famine He will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword, No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,' declares the LORD, For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land of the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to do wrong, For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock. And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, and I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD, His heart is upheld, he will not fear, until he looks with satisfaction on his adversaries, Now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them? If anyone fiercely assails you it will not be from Me. Whoever assails you will fall because of you, But I will deliver you on that day,' declares the LORD, and you will not be given into the hand of the men whom you dread. 'For I will certainly rescue you, and you will not fall by the sword; but you will have your own life as booty, because you have trusted in Me,' declares the LORD, Do not be afraid of sudden fear nor of the onslaught of the wicked when it "So that we confidently say, 'THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME? O God, we ask You to please empower us, Your servants to use Your Holy Word to redeem the lost, strengthen the faithful, encourage the doubting, and convict the rebellious. Thank You Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, Thank You.
Now unto You, who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to You be the power and glory, to all generations forever and ever. Who has by the shading of Your Blood on the Cross, and raising from the grave, has proven Yourself, to be more then able to keep us, until the day of Your coming. Today and everyday, for the rest of our lives, we give Thanks unto You, most Beloved Christ Jesus. we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. Father, i in the Holy and Blessed name of Christ Jesus, who is Lord of my life, proclaim that our Prayer, and all we ask is already done, for we ask in Your most Precious Holy name, and i commend each and everyone of Your children's bodies and souls into Your loving, mighty hands, our Beloved Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus, Who is Lord Of Our Lives.
Amen.
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