The Lord, My Only Hope for Strength, Love and…
If you have your Bibles with you, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 144. This psalm draws on phrases and words and ideas found in a number of other psalms, at least four, but puts them together in a unique way. It's a royal psalm; a psalm of David. It's a psalm for he and his successor kings lifted up in petition to the Lord for the whole nation. And so it combines the kinds of content that you would expect in a psalm on the occasion of the coronation and installation of the king as well as the king's prayer for the Lord's blessing on the wellbeing of the nation. As we look at this psalm tonight, I'd like you to be on the lookout for these six parts to it. First of all, in verses 1 and 2, the king gives the Lord credit for his strength. In verses 3 and 4, he…