July 28 - Prayer is the Victory
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Psalm 18

I. Verse 1-3 – David determines he will call on God.

A. David will love God.

1. He will not try, but will do it.

2. Proverbs 23:19 declares we should guide our heart, not let our heart guide us.

3. Jeremiah 17:9 states the heart is desperately wicked, who can know it.

II. Verse 4-6 – David’s trouble.

III. Verse 7-19 – What God Did For David.

A. Notice David says much more about what God does for him than he says about what his trouble are.

IV. Verse 20-28 – God blessed David in trouble because David obeyed God in peace.

V. Verse 29-46 – What David was able to do with God’s help.

VI. Verse 47-50 – David’s final worship of God.

David prayed this prayer to God after all his victories, not just after some of the minor skirmishes with the devil.

Verse 1-3 – If you do not know that God is the rock, you will not pray to him, and will not have victory. As long as you try to depend on yourself or those around you, or circumstances, you will never have the victory.

Verse 4-6 – Note the terrible things that are happening all around you. There is sure defeat, but God will hear our prayer and God will intervene.

Job 34:28-30 – Elihu declares that God will give comfort to his children when they pray to him, whether it is a nation or an individual.

Verse 7 – God is wroth because his children are grieved because of their enemies all around them.

Verse 20-26 – God hears/answers according to our righteousness (not according to our WORKS!)

Psalms 34:15 – "The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry." Verse 16 – God’s face is against those that do evil. Verse 17 – When the righteous cry, God hears, and delivers them. (It is implied that if the righteous do not cry, God will not deliver.)

Proverbs 15:29 – "The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous." (Hearing involves action on God’s part.)

Psalms 94:9 – "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?"

Isaiah 59:1 – "Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:" It is our iniquities that have separated us from God and his forgiveness.

Isaiah 65:24 – "And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." Verse 17-25 – The new heaven and the new earth – we can enjoy the spiritual part of these blessings now.0

1 Peter 3:12 – "For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil."

Micah 7:5-7 – "Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. 6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house. 7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me."

Zechariah 10:6 – "And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them." Even when times get extremely dark, do not despair, because God hears and answers our prayers. Perhaps he doesn’t answer our prayers in the way we think he ought to answer them, but he will answer them. And when he answers them, he will also give us peace about the answer, and we will know and understand that what has happened to us and the situation we are in is the very best answer there is.

We should always pray:

Genesis 18:23-32 – Consider Abram, who prayed and asked God to save the cities of the plain if only 10 righteous souls could be found.

II Samuel 7:18-29 – Consider David who prayed to God after he was told his kingdom would continue. Consider Jeroboam (I Kings 11:36-39) who was also told his kingdom would continue like the house of David. Jeroboam did not even pray or thank God or anything, but tried to establish his own kingdom by setting up the two golden calves, one at Bethel and the other at Dan. His kingdom did not continue.