One thing that is sadly true about most of us is that we're generally pretty good about asking things from God.

But we're generally pretty bad in thanking God for the things we asked him for.

Psalm 21 is a great reminder.

God deserves thank you notes.

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Hey, friends. Welcome back. We're in Psalm 21 today. If you want to take a moment and find it,

Psalm 21. We talked aboutm 20 and the prayer that the people

made for their king for david and how david was facing this big situation this big battle lord please

honor his request honor his offering honor his heart give honor his offering, honor his heart, give him his desire,

fulfill his purpose. These were all components of the prayer that the people prayed for David.

And Psalm 21 is kind of the answer to that prayer because God delivered. God answered that prayer. And David, unlike many of us,

was very careful to give the same amount of praise to God as he had to the prayer to God.

I think sometimes we are imbalanced with that. We pray and we pray urgently,

we pray passionately, we pray consistently, and then when God answers the prayer, we give a passing

almost lukewarm, passionless thank you. And David here gives an incredibly passionate thank you to God

for what he had done. And we need to be more passionate in our gratitude, don't we?

Look at verse number one of Psalm 21, the king shall joy in thy strength.

This is to the chief musician, a Psalm of David.

The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord, and in thy salvation, how greatly shall he rejoice?

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