Psalm 145

This Psalm, for me, serves as a wonderful guide to prayer.  Consider!

·         145:1-3: David begins with praise.  And how good is the Sweet Psalmist of Israel in giving praise to God.  God is to him my God O King.  How personal God is to him; and how properly God is King of Israel’s greatest king.  Perhaps David excels at praise because he is committed to give it every day, forever.  And of course he excels at praise because the God he praises is so worthy of praise, and whose greatness cannot ever be fully known!

·         145:4-7: David’s prayer is my prayer, that from my wife and me generations will follow who bless God, every day, and forever.  We pray for our children and generations of grandchildren to meditate on the splendor of His majesty.

·         145:8-9: How wonderful it is to regularly confess to God His name (Exodus 34:6-7), declaring His perfections.  This is our God who again, if we will take time to meditate on Him, we will find easy to praise.

·         145:10-13:  We pray, not only for our family but for the family of God, the saints.  These days there is no end of books and seminars to help correct all the faults in the local church.  But one must ask: is there faithful prayer the kind of prayer where we struggle for God’s people?  God’s kingdom is everlasting and enduring.  Jesus said the gates of hell would not prevail against His Church.  We continually seek to redefine and remake and rework and re-everything the church.  What we must do is seek God on behalf of the saints that they would speak of the glory of His kingdom and make known to the sons of men His mighty acts.  Jesus, the Judge of every local church (Rev. 2-3), knows how to lead His saints in the way in which they should do this.  Thus we pray for several churches regularly.  Pray for God’s people!

·         145:14-16: This is what our God does, upholding those who fall and satisfying the desire of every living thing.

·         145:17-21:  This is our God!  Righteous! Gracious!  Near to all who call on Him in truth.  Satisfying!  Preserving!  Eventually, in one way or another, all flesh will bless His holy name.  May we bless it NOW by perfecting our praise!