Psalm 3

So when you are saying you are my glory, then lift her up.

He said, many a day that rise up against me, Psalm 3.

Many a day that say, where is your help? But he says, thou, O Lord, at a shield for me.

When God decides to help you, let me repeat it again.

Psalm 51, probably one of the best known and most frequently studied of all his psalms, is the psalm of repentance and confession because of his affair with Bathsheba.

Psalm 3 is about the rebellion of his oldest son Absalom.

Psalm 60 is about conflict with Aram and Edom.

Psalm 7 is refers to something that was in David's mind, but it's not listed in the Bible.

So somebody didn't think to put it in 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings.

Nobody evidently thought it was important enough to put in the Bible, but it bothered David enough to write a poem about it.

And Then one, Psalm 30, is about the dedication of his own personal house.

Now, what do we see from those? Why go through all those? Sometimes I think that we get the feeling that Christians aren't supposed to ever feel anything personal.

God's truth is a powerful way to combat the lies of fear that the enemy often uses to torment us.

One night I remember chanting, God protects me like a shield, Psalm 3-3, because I had read it to my kids before bed and it was a simple verse of assurance I could say over and over to encourage my soul.

This truth helped usher in peaceful thoughts during this turbulent time.

Other verses that filled my mind with truth included some of the following, Psalm 34.8 Taste and see that the Lord is good.

But you never know.

I'm excited about Psalm 3.

For the record, I don't

think either of our parents can fire us.

true.

That's true.

Anonymity has its privileges, doesn't it? Psalm 3, it's exciting to me.

I think that this is the first time that we really get into a psalm where we're pushed into spiritual formation.

that David is writing.

There's Psalm 3 that he writes at that moment, but there's another Psalm 55, Psalm 55, about casting your burden.

And so in the, I can't say it, the immutability of God is not just he sees you, but he also cares for you.

Even knowing what you've done wrong.

So when you are saying you are my glory, then lift her up.

He said, many a day that rise up against me, Psalm 3.

Many a day that say, where is your help? But he says, thou, O Lord, at a shield for me.

When God decides to help you, let me repeat it again.