As we said this morning, that's what we'll be looking at this evening. It's a very similar psalm in many ways. It's a prayer as most of the book of psalms. It is known as a prayer book, but it's a specific prayer of David.
And again, my credits goes to Dr. Dale Ralph Davis for an excellent outline to fill in some of the missing pieces in the chapter which I drew upon. So Psalm chapter six, we'll read it, pray, and then we'll begin. To the chief musician with stringed instruments on an eight-stringed harp, a Psalm of David.
O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger, nor chasten me in your hot displeasure. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak. O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled. My soul also is greatly troubled, but you, O Lord, how long?
Return, O Lord, deliver me, O save me for your mercy's sake, for in death there is no remembrance of you, in the grave Who will give you thanks? I am weary with my groaning. All night I make my bed swim. I drench my couch with my tears.
My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my enemies. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
The Lord has heard my supplication. The Lord will receive my prayer. Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled. Let them turn back and be ashamed suddenly.
Amen. Let's pray. Our gracious and our loving Heavenly Father, it's once again with great privilege that we come into your presence to open up your holy word. And so, Lord, how we pray that you would be gracious, that you would give us the Holy Spirit, both to communicate and as a hearer to understand the word of God this night.
We pray that the Lord Jesus Christ will be lifted up, that, Father, you'd be glorified in all that is said, and that we would leave here having benefited from the word of God. We pray that your spirit might come now and that you would be pleased to bless it and own it in the ears of each and every person this night. And it's in Jesus' precious name we pray, amen. Well,
Introduction
certainly many are familiar with the pattern for prayer that's very common, common parlance in our day and age, it's acts. We remember that kind of, it's an easy thing to remember, acts, A-C-T-S. The A is for adoration, when we come to God in prayer, it's good to adore him. It's good to adore the God that we, that we worship.
The C stands for confession. It's good to confess our sins. It's a good thing to remember in our prayer time, to confess our sins before a holy God. And then to give thanksgiving to God.
We have much to be thankful for, and so we should remember the T in Acts to be thankful. And then finally, the last one is supplication in A-C-T-S. The last, of course, is supplication. It's a good guide, ultimately, because it stresses that prayer is not all about petition.
Prayer is not all about supplication. If you were listening when I read chapter six of this psalm, we could almost scold David because he says, no, no, this whole psalm is supplication. I'm doing away with that whole idea of acts, A-C-T-S, to adore God, to confess, to give thanksgiving, and then to plead, to bring my supplication before God. He goes straight to supplication in this whole chapter.
And sometimes emergencies may demand that we ditch recommended patterns. And I'm not suggesting that the ACTS is not a good pattern to have in our prayer. But sometimes, if it's an emergency, sometimes we might just have to plunge right into petition, as David does in this particular chapter. So even in this non-conformity to the pattern in prayer, I think David is going to teach us something about prayer.
And
David's Agony in Prayer
in the first three verses, moving to the first point, I trust most of you still have have a handout from this morning on the back side was Psalm 6. Let's look at this psalm from David's perspective, of course. Let's see the agony that David seems to be expressing, that he's forming. And ultimately, what's feeding that agony?
What's feeding that expression of great anxiety? Well, it's right in verse 1. David starts off by saying, do not rebuke me in your anger, chasing me in your hot displeasure. There may be some sin that God is chasing David for.
We really don't know. God does not want, sorry, David does not want God to deal with him so severely. We know certainly that in the first verse, but he wants him to moderate his anger towards David. And we'll come back to this later, what exactly is David talking about?
I'm not sure we'll ever be able to totally answer that question, but certainly David does not want God to deal with him as severely as he is. And we look at verse 2a, David mentions the problem of
The Problem of Weakness
weakness. He says, for I am weak, I'm faint, I'm withering. I'm starting to ultimately get wiped out with whatever he's dealing with. It's quite treacherous, it's quite burdensome, whatever it is.
It's almost to the point of wiping him out. It's difficult to know whether these descriptions are literal, are they metaphorical, figurative, or are they literal? I'm not sure we will ever know. Certainly verses six and seven point to some kind of Physical exhaustion, if we read verse 6 and 7, I am weary with my groaning, all night I make my bed swim, I drench my couch with my tears, my eyes waste away, because of grief it grows old, because of all my enemies.
So certainly there's some kind of physical exhaustion.
The Problem of Fear
Add to this problem the problem of fear, if we read 2B to 3A. It says, O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled. My soul also is greatly troubled. So there seems to be a problem of fear in the soul of David that he is praying for, that he goes right to supplication.
David appears to certainly genuinely be terrified. Whatever it is that's terrifying him, as I say, we do not know, but something is terrifying him. It might well be the disfavor of God. If we look at verse 1, certainly it would appear to be some disfavor on the part of God.
O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger, nor chase me in your hot displeasure. It could be sickness. Verse 2 refers to some sickness. My soul is greatly troubled.
It could, in other words, my bones are troubled. Heal me, is what he's asking there in verse 2. If you read verses 8 and then 10, it seems to be the threat of enemies. Verse 8.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. Verse 10, let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled. Let them turn back and be ashamed suddenly. So it could be a disfavor of God.
It could be sickness. It could be threat of enemies. It could be all three. We don't know, but certainly whatever it is has caused David to feel deep anguish, deep terror, and so it's straight to supplication that he goes.
If we look at verse 3b,
The Problem of Time
the problem of time seems to contribute. to David's agony. He says in verse 3b, he says, but you, O Lord, how long? Certainly, can't this often be a problem with God's ways? You know, David's how long of verse 3, how long will you allow this to go on?
Why don't you intervene is really what he's saying. Why don't I get relief? Why is God waiting? Why does God hold off from bringing me relief?
We say that God will intervene sooner or later, but often seems to be later and not sooner. And David is as much troubled with God as he is with the present circumstances. And sometimes we can be in the same situation. We can find ourselves, we have a calendar, we can say, well, I can hold on until the end of this day, or I can hold to the end of the week, or I can hold to the end of the year, but I must find some relief from God.
God's calendar and our calendar often don't match up. So I don't propose to have a tidy, you know, tied-up package here as to the reasons why God allows us to wait other than, because David certainly doesn't seem to give us any reason why God is waiting to bring him some relief, other than it's not about, it's about God's glory and not about ours. That's all we can say when it comes to God perhaps not answering a prayer according to our schedule. Romans 8, 28, what does it say?
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purposes. Those are hard words. And we know that all things, all things mean good and bad. When the good things happen, it's easy to give praise to God.
Oh yeah, we see how these things are working out for good. But what about when it's a bad thing? What about when it's something that's deeply troubling, as it was troubling David here in this sixth chapter of Psalms? So they're hard words, but they're very true words when we consider that Romans 8, 28 passage, that all things work together for good, and all means good and bad.
The Loss of God's Friendship
Perhaps David's most pressing matter is that he's under the displeasure of God. Perhaps that's the thing that really is the greatest anxiety to David if we reach verse 1. nor chasing me in your hot displeasure." Is there anything worse than the loss of a friendship? If you lose a friendship, that's disheartening. Is there any agony worse than the loss of friendship with God?
What did David say in Psalm 32? Just turn your Bibles to Psalm 32. It's a psalm of confession. I think we see very much the heart of David in Psalm 32, when he lost what we might call the friendship of God through David's own sin.
Psalm 32, verse three, I'll read three and four, says, when I kept silent, my bones, is silent about his own sin with Bathsheba. When I kept silent, my bones grew old. Through my groaning all the day long, for day and night, your hand was heavy upon me. My vitality was turned into the drought of summer." So we see there in that passage in Psalm 32 that the loss of friendship with God was terribly agonizing to David.
So what can David, God's servant, do when he's under Yahweh's displeasure? Well, simply pray, and that's what he did in verse 2. In verse 2 it says, Show grace to me. Heal me, Yahweh.
So ultimately, we go to the God who brings wrath with a plea of bring mercy. Would we not? If God can bring wrath upon us, would we not go to that same God and seek for His mercy? Think of Peter on the shore of Galilee.
What had Peter just previously done to the Lord Jesus Christ? He denied him three times. And who does Jesus come and have a meal with? But Peter, the very one who denied him.
And so there's that sense of that agonizing, pressing matter upon Peter. And what does Jesus do? But Jesus comes and he heals. He has mercy upon the one who really didn't deserve the mercy, but God gives him mercy.
So we could say we could see Peter in verse 1, and we see the Lord Jesus coming to him in verse 2, having mercy upon him. What about a father or a mother having to discipline their children? Lots of parents here with young children. It's not a pleasant thing to have to bring a rod of discipline, whether it be a physical rod or the hand, upon a little one's rear end in order to discipline them, but there is purpose for that.
That discipline comes, but into whose hand do those small children run? They run into the very hands that brought them great discipline. So, because they know there's love there. They know there's a consoling, that's a consoling hand as well.
So it's a hand of displeasure, but it can also be a hand of consoling. And so therefore, we see the same idea with God here in the first two verses. The idea drives David's plea in verse 2. David knows that the God who is a striking God is also the God who's a healing God.
He strikes in verse 1, he heals in verse 2. So in the same way as our children, we would want our children to come to us in order to seek our love and seek our affections, even after we've disciplined them, And they just do it. Well, wouldn't we do the same thing to our God? Ought we not to do the same thing to our God?
Proof of this is found in Isaiah. There's a good passage, there's just one verse. Isaiah chapter 19, if you turn to Isaiah 19, I think you'll see that it's a good description of this God who strikes, but also a God who heals. Isaiah 19, verse 22.
There's Isaiah speaking. And the Lord will strike Egypt. He will strike and heal it. They will return to the Lord, and He will be entreated by them and heal them.
So once again, because I read that pretty quickly, I'll just read it one more time. You may have been turning, Isaiah 19, 22. And the Lord will strike Egypt. He will strike and heal it.
They will return to the Lord, and He will be entreated by them and heal them. So that brings encouragement. I trust that we are encouraged. If we feel that the striking hand of God is upon us, in whatever our circumstances, whatever it is that's troubling us, that yes, that might be a striking hand, but God's also a healing hand.
So it's to God we would want to go. Well,
David's Arguments Before God
David then brings the argument in the next three verses, verses four to seven, having brought his petitions to God right off the bat. Remember, he went against the acronym of Acts. He went straight to S, straight to supplications. Now he's going to bring his argument.
Notice that David now brings his argument in verse four to seven. He presses his reasons upon God. In the middle of his emergency, whatever that emergency is, in the middle of it, it was in the first three verses, David now argues his case. He tells Yahweh why he should and why he must deliver him.
So he's using argumentation even in his prayer. We may say, well, that doesn't sound right. Well, if David is doing it, then I would suggest that we have warrant to do the same thing. to use argument in our prayer. Verse 4b, how does he argue?
Argument from God's Covenant Love
Verse 4b says, oh, save me for your mercy's sake, or because of your covenant love, is really what he's saying. The argument rests in the character of God, which we spoke about this morning. Because of God's character, we can argue with his character in mind. The word there, mercy, It really means covenant love.
Here, the Hebrew word that is used is called chesed, or the word is chesed. We've heard Pastor Butler speak of chesed in our Bible study upstairs on Wednesday night. It means devoted love that pledges never to let us go. We're in his grip.
A setting of the will to love, regardless of how you respond to me, and remarkably, even how I feel. So that is what is being referred to here when when David says in verse 4b, oh, save me for your mercy sake, for your chesed, for your covenant love. And that's the kind of love that God has for us. Turn with me to 2 Samuel 22, 2 Samuel 22 and verse 51 as for an example of this chesed love. 22 and verse 51 of 2 Samuel.
He is the tower of salvation to his king and shows mercy, that's hesed, and shows hesed to his anointed, to David and his disciples. descendants forever. Isn't that remarkable? To his descendants, that's us, that's you, that's me. We are his descendants.
We are the descendants of David. His prayer is to show chesed, or show mercy to his anointed, to David and his descendants. If we think of the, I'm not gonna read it, but in 2 Samuel chapter seven, we have the Davidic covenant, and ultimately, God has promised to be true to David or faithful to David in that Davidic covenant, and we are included in that Davidic covenant. So I trust that that would be another argument to, in a sense, marshal up to God when we are in deep distress, the kind of distress that David finds himself here in Psalm chapter 6.
So to paraphrase David's argument here in verse 4, basically he's saying, save me for you have pledged yourself to deal lovingly with me, and I'm holding you to your word. Save me for your promise to deal lovingly with me, and I'm going to hold you to your word. is really what he's saying. It's an argument that rests on God's promise, and beneath that, holding it up, holding up the promise of God, is like a foundation. It's built upon the character of God.
If we believe in the character of God, then we can rest assured that our arguments are going to be on firm footing. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., he had been in World War I and He came back to fight in World War II as well. Obviously, he was an older man by the time he came back to World War II. He was one of the few fighting generals that the Americans had.
He'd been in North Africa, and he'd been in Italy. And then on the eve of D-Day, he demanded that General Eisenhower allow him to go ashore with the first wave of attack at Utah Beach. He was 57 years old, crippled with arthritis, having to use a cane to get around. and he wanted to hit Utah Beach. What was his argument?
Here's what he said, quote, my men expect it of me. I'm the son of Theodore Roosevelt. Or one could paraphrase and say, I have to. It's who I am.
It's part of my character. So David's argument is similar to Theodore Roosevelt here, Jr., similar to this. He's resting in Yahweh's character, in the sort of God that God is declaring himself to be. And sometimes this may be our only stay in times of trouble.
What God has said about himself is true, and he will do it, and we have to believe that. It's the truth of God. How massively important, I think, is the doctrine of God? What is it in our London Baptist Confession of Faith?
It's chapter 2. after the scriptures is chapter one. Chapter two is God, the doctrine of God. That's how important certainly the divines felt that the doctrine of God was. Why?
Because it's the foundation upon everything that is in the Christian life. All of our promises, all of our prayers ought to be based upon that foundation of who God is. So having a good understanding of who God is will certainly benefit us in our prayer life. So bringing before God the character of God is an argument we can muster in our prayer life, and God's covenant love for his people, God's chesed love, and that's something we can marshal in our prayer life.
You have hesed love for me, and for that reason I'm calling upon you for whatever my plea is, whatever it is you may be going through. Just remind yourself of that hesed, that covenant love.
Argument from Praise and Thanks
David's second argument centers on giving praise and giving thanks. If you look at verse 5, 5a, for in death there is no remembrance of you. The verb remembrance has to do with expressing praise and worship, as the next line suggests, verse 5b. I'll read 5a and b.
For in death there is no remembrance of you. In the grave, who will give you thanks? Or who will give you praise? The grave is the realm of the dead.
Obviously, we know that. His argument is, if I die, if I succumb, if my enemies overtake me, overcome, and they get to me, And if you don't rescue me, well, there's going to be one last person to praise you. There's going to be one last person to sing, O thou great Jehovah, or O for a thousand tongues to sing, or praise my soul, the king of heaven, to his feet thy tribute bring, or there's going to be one last person to sing, a mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing. So it's not that David had no hope beyond the grave.
David's not saying in verse five that somehow he's bribing God, that you must keep me alive. These are ultimately rabbit trails, I don't want to go down. I don't think David's suggesting that there's no praise of God in the grave, because ultimately we know we'll be in heaven, praising God. But David's assuming that the whole purpose of his life is ultimately to do what?
To praise Yahweh. Not to make a better living, not to get a higher standard of living, It's not to get a superb education and beyond everyone else. It's not to advance rapidly in our profession. It's not to excel in the sport that perhaps we take, that we've taken up.
Even more spiritually speaking, it's not to become a better, more spiritual Christian. That's not the whole purpose of the Christian life. The purpose of the Christian life is to praise God. Simple as that, to praise God.
That's our whole purpose in life. And so David's prayer in verse 5 may expose us if we say, well, what's wrong with death? Well, really, there's only one answer to what's wrong with death, because I won't be able to stand here at Free Grace Baptist Church or in the pew and join in the singing of, I greet thee who my Savior art, my only trust and Savior of my heart, or any of the hymns that are in our wonderful hymn books. because that's ultimately the whole reason for existence on this earth. So we don't want to die, why?
Because we'll leave an empty spot in our pew. There'll be one less person to sing praises to our God. So that's what God is, or David's argument, part of his argument. is centering on giving praise and giving thanks to God. I will not be here to praise you.
I will not be here to thank you if you don't rescue me from whatever circumstance he finds himself in.
Argument from Misery
David's third argument underscores the misery that he is in. Let's read verses six and seven. I am weary with my groaning. All night, I make my bed swim.
I drench my couch with my tears. My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my enemies." Does God need this information? No, I don't think God needed the information.
David does a great job in terms of listing, well, here's the things I'm going through, here's how it's wrecking my life, Here's the consequences of whatever circumstances he's dealing with. So God didn't need the information, but what does this have to do with an argument in prayer? Well, again, back to the assumptions. What does David assume about God?
He assumes that God is merciful. He assumes that Yahweh will be touched with pity at the condition that he describes here in those two verses. It will also somehow touch God's heart. David's prayer is assuming that the Father has said a covenant love for him.
You see in your handout there's many passages. I bolded two passages, that's only two I really feel I have time to read tonight. I'm going to read Matthew chapter 9. I'd like you to turn your Bibles please with me to the first one and the last one.
Matthew chapter 9 to give this sense of David's argument underscores the misery that he is in. And so David's prayer is assuming here that the Father has said love for him. The father is like the son, and the son is like the father. And so what we know to be true of the father, we can assume to be true of the son, and vice versa.
Matthew chapter 9, chapter 9, verses 35 to 36. It says, make sure I have the right passage. I'm in chapter 10. There we go.
Chapter 9, 35 to 36, yes. Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when he saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered like sheep, having no shepherd." That's our God. That's our God who has said love, covenant love.
So, marshal that up in our arguments, that we know the character of God, and we know that if we say to God in our prayer what our circumstances are, He has compassion for his people. And let's turn to Hosea. Hosea just comes after Daniel. And as I say, on your own time, you can look up those many other passages that speak of this has said love.
So Hosea chapter 11 and the first 11 verses. And just consider this has said love that I've spoken of. The first 11 verses. When Israel was a child, I loved him.
And out of Egypt, I called my son. As they called them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the bales and burned incense to carved images. I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms.
But they did not know that I healed them. I drew them with gentle cords, with bands of love, and I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. I stooped and fed them. He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king because they refuse to repent.
And the sword shall slash in his cities, devour his districts, and consume them because of their own counsels. My people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call to the Most High, none at all exalt Him. How can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zebulun? My heart churns within me.
My sympathy is stirred. I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not again destroy Ephraim, for I'm a God and not man, the Holy One in your midst. And I will not come with terror.
They shall walk after the Lord. He will roar like a lion. When he roars, when his sons shall come trembling from the west, they shall come trembling like a bird from Egypt, like a dove from the land of Assyria. and I will let them dwell in their houses, says the Lord." So that's a God of great chesed, covenant love. So David, the psalmist, never meant to reduce prayer to an exercise in logic, but as believers, we may, we could, we ultimately should follow the biblical pattern here and marshal and use the best arguments we can in our prayers.
Because bringing requests, sorry, bringing reasons for our requests for help in prayer may do one of two things. First of all, it may show us how shoddy sometimes our concerns are, because as we speak them out loud to God, we can see, yeah, those really are poor, shoddy reasons that I would be asking God to relieve me from whatever it is I'm dealing with. Or it may even encourage us if we're able to muster a cogent case. If we're able to marshal a good case of argumentation with God, well, that's only gonna encourage our prayer life.
That's only gonna encourage us if we can marshal verses before God. God, this is the kind of God you are. You are a God who has said covenant love for your people. And I want to give praise, I want to give thanks to you.
If I continue to be downtrodden, if I continue to be distraught, I'm not going to be at Free Grace Baptist Church singing praises, singing out of our wonderful hymn book. And so ultimately, argument in prayer shows us that we're called to be To be thinking in our worship when we worship God were to be thinking and that's certainly a good reason why we should Argue in our prayer life as David does here in this in the sixth chapter of the Psalms
David's Assurance
Finally for the last point David finds assurance There's good things to be said at the end of this at the end of the chapter in verses 8 to 10 David shows us that that the assurance he finds in it comes eventually in verses 8 to 10 and There is a sense of assurance. Verse 10 shows the actual deliverance. It's still in the future, and he's still okay with that. That's where faith comes to play.
That's where our faith needs to come to play. Remember, God is not a genie. God doesn't just come to our demand. But
Defying the Enemy
based on that future assurance, the psalmist can defy his enemy in verse 8a. He says, depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. Whatever the enemy was, whether it was disfavor with God, whether it was sickness, whether it was enemies, verses 8b to 9, David's assurance rests on the certainty that Yahweh has heard him. Let me read verses 8b to the end of 9.
For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. The Lord has heard my supplication. The Lord will receive my prayer." So
God Hears the Voice of Weeping
prayer ultimately lays hold of the God who changes things and who in prayer Changes you and me and sometimes maybe that's the reason why we're why difficulty comes our way. It's for our own It's for our own sanctification. It's perhaps just to change us and in that there's benefit. There's good.
There's good finally a word of encouragement verse 8b Just reading 8b. It says for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping What a way to describe prayer the voice of my weeping the same can be stated in Romans 8.26, remember we referred to that this morning, Romans 8.26, and Psalm 6.8, they may have been the forerunner to Romans 8.26, where the Spirit groans with murmurings that we can't even put into specific words. They're just murmurings, they're thoughts in our heads, which the Lord does hear, and the Lord is able to understand and bring encouragement to us. Perhaps Psalm 6-8 is a forerunner, as I say, of Romans 8-26.
Something to think about. Certainly underline verse 8b in your Bibles. You can go through a lot in this lower world with a text like that and a God like that, can't we? For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
So no matter what your circumstance, no matter what your difficulty, just to know that God hears. God has that, has said love. God hears our weeping and ultimately He will answer that prayer to His glory. So Psalm 5 and 6, just to rehearse a little bit for what we read this morning or what we looked in this morning, they're both very similar.
They have similar headings. If you look at chapter 5, what is the heading? To the chief musician with flutes, a Psalm of David, chapter 6. To the chief musician with stringed instruments on an eight-stringed harp, a Psalm of David.
So they both have similar headings. This implies that this psalm perhaps was to be used in public worship, I would suggest, by God's people. And the significance is that there will be more who will come before God in prayer and will need the assurance that God sees and hears them here. If we just flip over to Isaiah 38.5, there's a passage in Isaiah 38.5 that I just want to encourage you with, because to me it's a great encouraging verse. 38 verse five.
I'm dealing with a new Bible, and so the pages don't turn as quickly as you'd like to. 38 verse five, it says, Go and tell Hezekiah, thus says the Lord, the God of David, your father. I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Surely I will add to your days 15 years.
So God saw, and he heard, and he answered. And that's a great encouragement. Yahweh has given us a Savior who in the days of his flesh, when he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to him who was able to save us, from death and he was hurt. Sorry, let me just, I was reading Hebrews, which I'd written out here, but I'd like us to turn to Hebrews 5, chapter five, verse seven.
And this will be our last passage that we'll turn to, Hebrews chapter five, verse seven. So the significance here, just to reiterate in Isaiah and now in Hebrews chapter 5 verse 7 that we're going to read, is that there will be many more who are going to come after the days of David and come after the days of the Lord Jesus. That's us in our day and age. And we're going to come before God in prayer.
And we'll need the assurance that God will see us and God will hear us. And that's a significant thing to be aware of in our daily living. What does Hebrews chapter 5 verse 7 say? It says, who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with vehement cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death and was heard, because of his godly fear.
So again, that sense that God heard the Lord Jesus Christ and he healed. So be encouraged this night. Psalm 6, 8, Isaiah 38, verse 5, Hebrews 5, verse 7. Take that into your prayer closet and have confidence in Yahweh, that Yahweh does hear, he does answer, It's that that ought to be what will bring encouragement to us as Christians as we face another day, as we face another week, as we face another year, that we would know that this God has said love, a covenant love for us, his people, and he will hear us and he will heal.
Now again, just a reminder, it may not be in our timing. It may not be the way we would like to see it answered or timed in answer to our prayer, but the fact that he hears us ought to encourage all of us. The fact that he will answer us ought to encourage all of us. So take that into your prayer closet this week, and I trust that you will be encouraged to ultimately find great assurance in the God that we love, the God that we know to be true in this particular chapter of the Psalms, and I trust that we can take it and pray it in this coming week.
Well, let's pray.
Closing Prayer
Our gracious and our loving Heavenly Father, we again pray, Father, that you'd be pleased to bless the things that are said this evening. How we praise you, Father, that you are a God who does care, that you are a God who does see, that you are a God who does heal. And how we pray, Lord, that just as you saw and healed in the life of the Israelites and the passage in Isaiah, you saw the Lord Jesus Christ and the agony that he suffered in the garden. you attended to his needs, how we pray, Lord, that we too would see that you are a God who does hear, a God who does heal. Even now, in this day that we live in, 2019, these many years later, that you are the same God.
You are the same yesterday, you are the same today, and you are the same forever. How we pray, Lord, that you would be pleased to cause these truths to be rooted into our hearts, that when we are faced with difficulty, when we are faced with with those situations and those circumstances that are beyond our own control. And we seek after you with great supplication to know that you are a God who does hear and that you are a God that does heal. And we pray, Lord, your blessing upon these things cause us to be prayers this week according to your word.
And we just ask these things in Jesus' precious name, amen. Well, the piano will play, and after the piano has played for a period of time, then we will be dismissed.