Perpetual Love (Psalm 59:9–10)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Psalm 59:9–10, David Platt calls us to lift our eyes to God as our Strength, who welcomes us with His love. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:05.0	Psalm chapter 59 verses 9 and 10.
0:09.0	Oh my strength, I will watch for you. For you, oh God, are my fortress. My God in his
0:18.6	steadfast love will meet me. God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.
0:27.0	So that last phrase is really important to the context of this psalm.
0:32.0	This is David writing this while Saul is coming after
0:38.4	him. And all of Saul's army, the first verse of Psalm 59 says,
0:44.0	deliver me from my enemies, oh my God, protect me
0:47.4	from those who rise up against me, deliver me
0:51.6	from those who are working evil and he goes on to describe them as
0:56.7	lying and wait for his life and coming after him And you get to verse 9 and David's gaze is on God, not on those who are
1:11.4	attacking him.
1:12.6	He looks to God and he says,
1:15.0	Oh my strength.
1:16.7	And at least in the ESV translation,
1:19.8	the S and strength is capitalized. This is God saying you are my strength. That's who you are.
1:29.0	And I will watch for you. For you, oh God, are my fortress my strength my fortress and then he says my
1:38.3	God in his steadfast love his his faithful, and mercy toward me, my God will meet me.
1:50.0	What a great perspective, when we're facing any kind of trial in this world.
1:57.6	It could be people coming at you, attacking you.
2:02.0	That's obviously the context here in Psalm 59, but even just think
2:06.6	spiritual warfare. Think of the reality that there is an adversary who is always attacking you.
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