Psalm 5 - A Prayer For Protection Series

-What David is saying. . . “I have written a song that someone else is going to have to sing.” I don’t have the energy to play along with my harp and it would just be better if someone else would sing it for me.

-Every person would have to admit that there are times that the songs escape our heart, worship seeps out of the soul, and a heaviness plays at the mind because of the circumstances we find we are immersed in.

-Psalm 5 is a time of prayer where the David is standing face-to-face with God and is speaking to Him. He does that three times but as he is in his prayer meeting, a couple of times he alternately looks at the wicked. As his prayer turns from God to the wicked there are some contrasts that he comes to understand. You can encourage yourself in prayer when you are willing to see God in comparison to the wicked.

-This kind of prayer helps a man to see the righteousness and purity of God and the darkness of wicked men who are attempting advance their cause of evil.

P. C. Craigie—This prayer is not only for protection from wicked persons, but also a prayer for protection from becoming like them.

III. A PRAYER FOR PROTECTION

-As we move through this psalm, we can never underestimate the prayer of a saint of God! If there is something that I want to push home to you—it is that! We have to turn every one of our burdens, worries, fears, and plans over to the Lord in prayer. He can hear us and He will endeavor to help us!

A. Psalm 5:1-7—The Lord Who Listens

Psalms 5:1-7 KJV To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. [2] Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. [3] My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. [4] For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. [5] The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. [6] Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. [7] But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

-When you pray, God listens! There was a sense of urgency in the prayer of David here. Notice three words that give this away:

• Give ear—v. 1

• Consider—v. 1

• Hearken—v. 2

-David wasn’t just kneeling down and going through a routine of prayer. There was something that was urgent and difficult about his situation. He had some passion in his prayer. That is just as Elijah that is described by James 5:17-18 who was noted to have been a man of “like passions” who prayed “earnestly that it might not rain.” This is preceded by James saying that the “effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much!”

-I believe that there is a spirit by which we ought to pray. When I say “spirit” I mean the human aspect of our heart. There ought to be some preparation that goes into our approach with God. I dare say that none of us would walk into an interview for a slot in an academic program, a job interview, or a discussion with someone who we deem as important and have no preparation whatsoever. To do such a thing would mean that we are lacking a conscientiousness about what we are doing.