Gods Own Cause

God's Own Cause

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. Psa 74:22.

Prayer is the atmosphere that every Believer breathes; it is something that we cannot do without, if we are going to retain our spiritual life, it’s just like the body which cannot exist without air.

There are many, very many, incentives to prayer.

Prayer should be something that motivates us, Prayer gives us untapped power. It unlocks answers to our prayers, it ignites a fire inside us, it heals us, it transforms us, empowers us, and calms us.

Prayer should be the very air that we Breath!

We pray to know the Lord Jesus, to develop our personal relationship with Him, and to speak to Him about our troubles, needs, and burdens. God is gracious and answers our prayers. But just as breathing air is the most fundamental need for our physical life, receiving more of the divine life continually is the most crucial need for our spiritual life.

Prayer is the means by which we can obtain that life.

Simply put, prayer is our spiritual breathing.

What the Lord wants to give us, and our greatest need day by day, even hour by hour, is His life. The Greek word for “Spirit” is pneuma. This same Greek word is used for “breath.” The Lord went through death, and now in resurrection He is the life-giving Spirit, or “breath.”

John 4:24 says,“God is a Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.”

The verse says we must worship, or contact, God who is Spirit with our human spirit. Our human spirit is our deepest part. As we contact the Spirit with our spirit in prayer, we “breathe” Him in and receive Him as the divine life, breath. He is our spiritual oxygen.

You should be persuaded that God is the very Breath that you need to Breathe. Just like Worship, Prayer needs to be the air that we breathe.

Just the fact that His holy presence is living in us, that we have His very word that speaks to us, it should make us desperate for Him.

I don’t know about you but I am lost without God!?

When it comes to our prayer life we have many wants and needs to be supplied, many things and enemies to overcome, many expectations and obligations to perform; and the strength to do these very things is only obtained by prayer to God, who is the only source of our help.

Paul declared in Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

The Amplified Bible says,

I can do all things [which He has called me to do] through Him who strengthens and empowers me [to fulfill His purpose—I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency; I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses me with inner strength and confident peace.]

When the Apostle Paul said that he could do all things, he meant all things which were God’s will for him to do. He had learned that the Lord’s commands are the Lord’s enablements. He knew that God would never call on him to accomplish some task without giving Him the necessary grace to do it.

There are two sides of grace and here is exactly what is in each of these two sides:

The unmerited favor, mercy, compassion, acceptance, kindness, graciousness, goodwill, and divine assistance of God.

The divine life, power, and ability of God flowing and operating through us in order to give us the supernatural power and ability for ministry and sanctification

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Every Believer, therefore, should feel the importance of prayer, and pray not only for themself; but they should also pray for others during there time of intercession.

We should be enamored, in love, infatuated in the happiness and salvation of others. We should be concerned that other believers are partaking in the love of God , and that they are joint-heirs with Him of the grace of life.

The Believer not only prays for himself and his friends according to the Word, but they likewise feel deeply concerned in the affairs of the Kingdom of God, for its welfare and prosperity as they constantly present their supplications to God.

The Psalmist in our text is presenting God with a dilemma. He is praying that God would "Arise, and plead His own cause."

He is presenting God with a cause of action - a cause of action is the grounds (such as violation of a right) that entitles a plaintiff to bring a suit. He wants God to defend Himself.

The Psalmist here is presenting the part or case of his suit based on these grounds.

As we look at our text:

This moving lament looks back to the destruction of the temple by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.