The Psalms show us--and teach us--how to pray honestly, from the heart. That doesn't mean that all the words come out sounding pretty and poetic. Sometimes, they are ragged and raspy like the psalm we will pray today.
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In this episode we briefly introduce four types of prayer that we find in the Psalms: Hear me, God; Help me, God; Heal me, God; and Hallelujah, God! These are spread thoughout the collection, but the early psalms do have more cries for being heard, help and healing while the later psalms toward the end have more expressions of praise and blessing.
We feature in this episode Psalm 3, a short prayer of eight verses that cries out "Oh my God!" The title says it is David's prayer when he fled from his son Absalom and the kingdom seemed to be lost to him. He faced many internal enemies and felt surrounded and many said he couldn't count on God to deliver him. The groan of "Oh my God!" was fully appropriate. But after starting there, David moves on to trust and dependence and faith in God. "Oh my God!" is not said in mock disbelief; it is a prayer that comes before "I will not fear" and "deliver me, O God."
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Download the helpsheet that details and demonstrates the four step process we use on First Fifteen using Psalm 1.
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