Prayer Pairs -- Trust in the AM
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A two part series on prayer and trust/faith, for evenings ervices at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Ithaca
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Prayer Pairs -- Trust in the AM
- 1. Prayer Pairs: I Will Trust You in the AM
- 2. Prayers or Songs? • The Psalms pair heart language with worship activities. (40% prayers) • This pair of psalms are probably intended for a soloist to pray or sing publicly. • They are 2 of 38 individual prayer psalms in the 150 piece collection.
- 3. Is that stuff inspired? • Usually, the superscriptions were extra information added by later collectors. • These notes highlight the purpose and use of these words. – morning prayers – of David • The title of Ps 3 mentions a flight from Absalom. (2 Sam 15:13-17, 29)
- 4. What is a selah? • Selah is a technical, musical term. • Is occurs in 71x in 39 psalms in a variety of patterns. • Almost always in psalms inscribed with David’s name. • It is an “addition” word.
- 5. Structure • three “Selah Stars” as markers • two similar units on the ends, function as bookends/brackets • beautifully balanced, symmetrically spaced = the beauty of a new day? • “peaking” in the middle, = a rising of the sun?
- 6. Structure • O LORD, adversaries rising against • “No salvation for him” • O LORD, a shield, glory, lifter of head • Crying out, He answered • Laying down, rising up, LORD • No fear, armies gathered around • O LORD, save me, God rising against • Salvation belongs to LORD, blessings In a prayer psalm, it makes sense that Jehovah is prominenced
- 7. Structure • O LORD, adversaries rising against • “No salvation for him” • O LORD, a shield, glory, lifter of head • Crying out, He answered • Laying down, rising up, LORD • No fear, armies gathered around • O LORD, save me, God rising against • Salvation belongs to LORD, blessings In a morning psalm, it makes sense that rising is prominenced
- 8. Structure • O LORD, adversaries rising against • “No salvation for him” • O LORD, a shield, glory, lifter of head • Crying out, He answered • Laying down, rising up, LORD • No fear, armies gathered around • O LORD, save me, God rising against • Salvation belongs to LORD, blessings In a prayer psalm, it makes sense that salvation is prominenced
- 9. Look at it …?
- 10. …or eat it?
- 11. “The psalms were hammered out over generations of living with God. We moderns should not impose upon the Psalms our assumptions that individual, private experience is to be valued more highly than the experience of God reflected in a corporate identity.” Craig Broyles
- 12. 8 Truths About Trust Trust must increase as the troubles increase for trust is the antidote to panic, anxiety, & worry and YHWH is able to handle even an overload
- 13. 8 Truths About Trust Trust increases only as truth increases our trust relies on truth, not popular opinion or powerful voices, as its foundation; yet our lying enemy, delights in undermining those foundations
- 14. 8 Truths About Trust Trust rides quietly on God’s shoulders it personalizes the promises of protection it acknowledges the need for Divine perspective and assumes that the end of this episode will be better by His intentional intervention
- 15. 8 Truths About Trust Trust waits totally on God’s answers Trust puts all of its eggs in one basket Trust does not put any more energy into solving the problem, b/c God is in charge
- 16. 8 Truths About Trust Trust rests peacefully in God’s shadow when one is trusting, he is able to relax and he rises refreshed, ready to advance again this strength comes directly from God, not the bed
- 17. 8 Truths About Trust Trust is not stolen by a majority vote when one trusting, he is unable to fear men even if their attacks are highly personal or painful
- 18. 8 Truths About Trust Trust increases as the enemies are rendered harmless God, the almighty, will strike them in the jaw their teeth will fall out and they will become silent the psalmist doesn’t even lift a finger in defense
- 19. 8 Truths About Trust Trust increases as the blessings of rescue increase if salvation is to come, it is only through our God these blessings of rescue are the gifts of a Father
- 20. What have you learned? What will you do? Trust Prayer Worship
Editor's Notes
- “…psalms are poetic compositions, usually presented in a tightly woven, balanced structure…” Broyles p.1“Their poetic form and many references to musical accompaniment imply a performance of song and music.” Broyles, p.2LAMENTS:“[a face-to-face relationship with God] invites forthrightness and candor, not averted eyes and politeness for its own sake. … [they] exhibit a realistic faith, one that is bluntly honest wit the realities of life and also takes the promises of God seriously. … It recognizes the gap between God’s promises and human experience, and believe this dissonance should be presented to God for him to resolve.” Broyles, p. 33“We do not see here a passive faith that simply accepts circumstances as God’s will.” Broyles, p. 33“Ultimately, we observe that lament and prayer are part of what makes our faith grow. … these passages represent some of the most profound breakthroughs in OT faith and some of the most profound revelations in OT theology.” Broyles, p.34“… a liturgy recited (probably sung) within some kind of formal worship service.” Broyles, p.3“The speaker was probably a liturgist singing on behalf of believers within the regular liturgy, not a lone individual in prayer services specially called for him or her.” Broyles, p.18
- Selah = in 16 psalms 1x, 15 – 2x, 7 – 3x, 1 - 4x“What is meant is the joining in of the orchestra, or a reinforcement of the instruments, or even a transition from piano to forte.” K & D p.61“…it is always placed where the instruments are to join in simultaneously and take up the melody…” K & D p. 61“…an instruction on the reading of the text, something like ‘stop and listen’. ‘Selah’ can also be used to indicate that there is to be a musical interlude at that point in the Psalm. The AMP states Selah as ‘pause, and think of that’. … Selah notes a break in the song and as such is similar in purpose to ‘amen’ in that it stresses the importance of the preceding passage.”“stop and listen” “pause, and think of that”“a break in the song”“similar to ‘amen’, stressing the preceding passage.”
- “[They] reveal to us the insightful connection between praising and living on the one hand and between not praising and not living on the other. Our primary symptom of being truly alive is the extent to which we praise. According to the Psalms, praising God is our reason for living.” Broyles, p.37