The second section of Psalms, known as the Exodus Psalms, remind us that the God who redeemed us is still with us.

In fact, he is promised to never leave us or forsake us.

Today we join Scott Pauli in opening God's

roadmap for life. Find your place in the Word of God in the Psalms and let's

discover what God has for us along the way. Today we come to the last of the Exodus Psalms.

It is the last Psalm in the second section of Psalms.

It is Psalm 72.

And that's very fitting because Psalm 72 is the final prayer of David.

It should be studied alongside First Chronicles chapter number 29,

because in First Chronicles 29, David prays for his son Solomon, and he passes the scepter,

if you will. The crown passes from David to Solomon, Solomon to be the next king over Israel.

Well, Psalm 72 is the recorded prayer of David.

In fact, the title of the Psalm is a Psalm for Solomon. So there is a great threshold being crossed, a great bridge being crossed from one king to the next king. And yet David is so concerned about one thing, and it is this,

that Solomon continue to understand, and the people continue to understand that there's really

only one king, and that is God. And so Psalm 72 is a prayer. In fact, let's begin with the last

verse. The last verse of Psalm 72, the last verse of the Exodus Psalms says this,

the prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. So let's go to the end, and at the end, some things get clearer.

You know, if you ever hear a deathbed prayer, I mean the crying out of the heart that's

about to leave this world, you know those are intense prayers, they're fervent prayers, their heart

prayers. They truly reveal the heart of a man. I wonder, what would your final prayer be? If you

had to boil it all down to one final prayer, what would you pray for? For whom would you pray? Well, this is the final

prayer of David. He begins in verse one with these words, give the king thy judgments, O God,

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