We all would like to think that we know where we are going and how to get there.

But at every stage in life, we need divine direction. God has promised to guide us if we simply follow.

The fifth and final section of Psalms are referred to as Deuteronomy Psalms because they

remind us to keep returning to the truth of God's Word.

Join us as we study them with Scott Pauli today.

I want to begin today's study in the Psalms with a proverb, and it is Proverbs chapter 21, verse 31,

that says, the horse is prepared against the day of battle, but safety is of the Lord.

I've had this verse on my mind now for several days.

Proverbs chapter 21 21 verse number 31,

the horse is prepared against the day of battle, but safety is of the Lord. It is a military scene.

It is a battlefield. The idea is that the soldier has to make preparation. He has to get his horse

ready. He has to get his armor ready. He does everything

he knows to do going into the fight, but in the end, safety, protection, victory, the conquest,

all of that has to come from the Lord alone. I truly believe that one verse summarizes Psalm 140. Psalm 140 was written by David, and most

people believe it was written when David was being persecuted, hunted, because of a man

named Doeg. Doeig was an Edomite. You can read all about the story in 1st Samuel chapter

number 22. David literally is running for his life.

His enemies surrounding him, hunting him like a wild animal, and where does he turn? He does all he

knows to do, but in the end he acknowledges that safety is of the Lord, that if he's going to be

kept alive, if he's going to be victorious in the end,

God must do it. And so we come to Psalm 140, verse 1. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man.

Preserve me from the violent man, which imagine mischief in their heart. Continually are they

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