Psalms 109:1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Do not keep silent, O God of my praise!
Psalms 109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Psalms 109:3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 109:4 In return for my love they are my accusers, But I give myself to prayer.
Psalms 109:5 Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
Psalms 109:6 Set a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand.
Psalms 109:7 When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his prayer become sin.
Psalms 109:8 Let his days be few, And let another take his office.
Psalms 109:9 Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:10 Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.
Psalms 109:11 Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labor.
Psalms 109:12 Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
Psalms 109:13 Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms 109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Psalms 109:15 Let them be continually before the LORD, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
Psalms 109:16 Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the poor and needy man, That he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms 109:17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Psalms 109:18 As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, So let it enter his body like water, And like oil into his bones.
Psalms 109:19 Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.
Psalms 109:20 Let this be the LORD'S reward to my accusers, And to those who speak evil against my person.
Psalms 109:21 But You, O GOD the Lord, Deal with me for Your name's sake; Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.
Psalms 109:22 For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms 109:23 I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.
Psalms 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
Psalms 109:25 I also have become a reproach to them; When they look at me, they shake their heads.
Psalms 109:26 Help me, O LORD my God! Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
Psalms 109:27 That they may know that this is Your hand-That You, LORD, have done it!
Psalms 109:28 Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, let them be ashamed, But let Your servant rejoice.
Psalms 109:29 Let my accusers be clothed with shame, And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.
Psalms 109:30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude.
Psalms 109:31 For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, To save him from those who condemn him. (NKJV)
DEAR LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY, THIS HOUR AND THIS SECOND.
LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS TIME YOUR SAINTS CAN GATHER BEFORE YOUR THRONE OF GRACE WITH PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR ALL OF YOUR SAINTS NO MATTER WHERE THEY MAY BE OR WHATEVER THEIR NEED.
LORD, WE PRAY ESPECIALLY FOR GEORGE WALKER BUSH, LAURA BUSH, BARBARA AND JENNA BUSH, THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND ALL MEMMBERS OF GOVERNMENT WHO HOLD YOUR TRUTHS CLOSE TO THEIR HEARTS.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR YOUR CONTINUED HAND OF GUIDANCE AND PROTECTION IN EACH ONES LIFE.
LORD,WE PRAY FOR YOUR HAND OF PROTECTION AND SAFETY FOR PRESIDENT BUSH AND HIS STAFF AS THEY TRAVEL THIS WEEK.
LORD, WE PRAY EACH BELIEVER LOCKS INTO THEIR HEART THE FACT THAT YOU ARE GOD AND TOTALLY SOVEREIGN, WE PRAY THEY JUST LET YOU BE YOU AND STOP BOXING IN YOUR EMINENCE.
LORD, WE PRAY ALL CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS CHOOSE THE RIGHTER WRONG AND HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW YOU WOULD LIKE THE BETTER GOOD IN AUTHORITY, NOT VOTE BASED ON SINGLE ISSUES, THOUGH TEMPER THEIR THOUGHTS THROUGH THE FILTER OF YOUR WHOLE WORD.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR THIS COUNTRY, A LAND FORMED ON THE PRINCIPALS YOU GAVE US. WE PRAY FOR A RETURN TO A TIME WHEN THIS LAND WAS BASED ON GOD, DUTY AND HONOR.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR YOUR SOVEREIGN HAND OF PROTECTION AGAINST ALL WHO THREATEN OUR LAND.
WE PRAY THAT THE DECEPTIVE LIES OF POLITICAL DESPOTS AND THE MEDIA WILL FALL ON DEAF EARS AND ONLY YOUR TRUTH WILL BE HEARD.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR ALL OF THE DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM, WHETHER HOME OR IN FOREIGN LANDS.
WE PRAY FOR THEIR SAFETY AND WE PRAY FOR COMFORT FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND WE THANK YOU FOR THEIR STRENGTH AND COURAGE IN STAYING THE COURSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES OF ALL OF OUR FALLEN SERVICE MEMBERS.
LORD, WE PRAY YOUR VENGENCE IS SWIFT AND HARSH AGAINST THOSE WHO COMMITTED THESE MURDERS AND ALSO AGAINST THOSE WHO HATE THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE OF ITS CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ISRAEL FROM MUSLIM TERRORISTS.
LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THE SKILL AND FORTITUDE YOU HAVE GIVEN OUR MILITARY WHICH ENABLES THEM TO TURN EVIL MEN OVER TO YOU FOR ETERNAL JUDGMENT.
Jude 1:24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
Jude 1:25 To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen.
"But I give myself unto prayer." - Psalm 109:4
Lying tongues were busy against the reputation of David, but he did not defend himself; he moved the case into a higher court, and pleaded before the great King himself. Prayer is the safest method of replying to words of hatred. The Psalmist prayed in no cold-hearted manner, he gave himself to the exercise-threw his whole soul and heart into it-straining every sinew and muscle, as Jacob did when wrestling with the angel. Thus, and thus only, shall any of us speed at the throne of grace. As a shadow has no power because there is no substance in it, even so that supplication, in which a man's proper self is not thoroughly present in agonizing earnestness and vehement desire, is utterly ineffectual, for it lacks that which would give it force. "Fervent prayer," says an old divine, "like a cannon planted at the gates of heaven, makes them fly open." The common fault with the most of us is our readiness to yield to distractions. Our thoughts go roving hither and thither, and we make little progress towards our desired end. Like quicksilver our mind will not hold together, but rolls off this way and that. How great an evil this is! It injures us, and what is worse, it insults our God. What should we think of a petitioner, if, while having an audience with a prince, he should be playing with a feather or catching a fly?
Continuance and perseverance are intended in the expression of our text. David did not cry once, and then relapse into silence; his holy clamour was continued till it brought down the blessing. Prayer must not be our chance work, but our daily business, our habit and vocation. As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. We must be immersed in prayer as in our element, and so pray without ceasing. Lord, teach us so to pray that we may be more and more prevalent in supplication.
C.H.SPURGEON
SOLI DEO GLORIA!