Psalm 27

Well, hey, we have been in a series on the Psalms, in the Psalms this week, or these last couple months.

And our goal, if you're with us for the first time this week, we're happy to have you.

But what we've been asking is this.

Two sort of primary goals.

Looking at the Psalms.

the Psalter the psalm book I want to know what theology, what knowledge, what discussion about who God is.

I want to know what's embedded in the book of Psalms.

I want to know what the Psalms say about God, basically.

I want to know what the Psalms are saying about who God is.

All scripture is God-breathed.

All scripture is profitable.

Thank you for the water.

For edification, building up, teaching, rebuke.

And so I want to know what the Psalms say about God.

I like this, not having a microphone in my hand.

I can hold the Bible right.

Praise the Lord.

This is nice.

I want to know what they say about God.

Secondly, the Psalms are not these long just prose like writing a narrative or writing like a dissertation or something.

The Psalms are quite literally poetry.

They're songs.

It's poems.

Poems are writings that are infused naturally with emotion.

Like emotion is infused in the Psalm book.

Read it.

You're going to hear David has some emotions.

Praise Allah for better or worse.

And so there's emotion in here.

And I think understanding the Psalms, what it says about God, because if you knew this or not, some of the richest, most robust, punched down a brick wall theology about who God, who Christ is, is in the book of Psalms.

It's right here.

Go read Psalm 2.

I have set my son on my holy hill.

He will rule the nations with a rod of iron.

Wow.

It's in there.

robust theology.

Amazing.

We need to fill our heart up, have our minds shaped by it, live by that theology.

Okay, yes and amen.

Secondly, the Psalms, the Psalter, give us correct, biblical, godly, orthodox language for prayer.

For prayer.

These primarily were for prayer.

These were prayers or songs that the Israelites would sing as they were going about their business or doing whatever.

This is prayer, how to pray.

And I don't know if you are like this, if you're like me, I have highs and lows in my Christian life.

One of the lows I wish was a little higher was my prayer life.

I struggle with prayer, like just being honest.

Anybody else with me? You guys are amazing at prayer, apparently.

Nobody's with me.

You're on your own, buddy.

I wish I could pray better.

I wish I could stay longer in the place of prayer.

I wish I had language.

I don't know what to say.

What do I say? I don't know.

Studying the Psalms can give us good language, good gas in our tank, if you will, for our prayer life.

can give us the words to say, how to pray things, what to pray for.

So often we don't even know what to pray for.

So the Psalms are super helpful for that.

This morning, we're going to be in our last message in our series of the Psalms.

Hopefully, it's been a help and a joy to you.

I've really enjoyed going through it.

Each week, we have, at the very end, I have a prayer that I have personally written out for you.

Didn't have AI do it.

I did it myself.

So it's a real prayer for you that you can take a screenshot of or whatever.

And then through the week, you can use that prayer if you want to.

You have a moment at work.

You have a moment in the mornings or at night.

Pull that prayer out.

Just pray it.

Give you language for how to pray.

If you want to go even a little further, if you're like an A-plus student, you know, whatever, just JK.

On your seat back in front of you through the QR code, There'll be a downloadable for Yes That Prayer.

And then also each week I curate a prayer from church history.

Somewhere in the 2,000 years of church history, a prayer that kind of correlates to what we're talking about on Sunday morning.

And you can pray a prayer that someone from church history prayed.

It's pretty amazing.

It's been a beautiful joy.