The Lord Will Perfect That Which Concerns Me

Our text for today’s message is Psalm 138:8 which says ‘The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord endures forever; do not forsake the works of Your hands’. This Psalm is a Psalm of David. When David said the Lord will perfect that which concerns him, he wasn’t praying to God. He wasn’t saying ‘O Lord, please perfect that which concerns me.’ He wasn’t also making a wish. David wasn’t saying ‘how I wish the Lord will perfect that which concerns me’ like how you could say ‘how I wish there’s no work tomorrow, how I wish there’s no school tomorrow, how I wish I could speak French, or how I wish someone will just write a cheque of 5million in my name.’ A wish doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with God nor is a wish based on faith in God, because it isn’t usually directed to God or addressed to God. When I was young, I used to make a lot of wishes using wishing bones or when blowing out my birthday candles. They were just desires I had in my head not necessarily things I hoped God would do or was even sure God could do.

The Lord Will Perfect All That Concerns Me Is a Declaration of Faith

When David said the Lord will perfect that which concerns me, he was making a declaration of faith. He was saying I am certain, I am confident, I have no doubt in my mind that God will perfect that which concerns me. David’s confident assurance that God will perfect all that concerns him was based on what David knew about God from his own personal dealings with God.

In a declaration of faith you are speaking to yourself which was what David was doing in this verse. Many times in the Psalms we see David speaking to himself, like in Psalm 43:5 where he says to himself ‘why are you downcast O my soul? Put your hope in God’. In a declaration of faith, you take something based on God’s Word and promises and say it out loud or in your heart to yourself, so it registers firmly in your mind, enters deep into your spirit, moves from just something you know in your head, to something you believe with all your heart even if you can’t see it with your physical eyes, even if what you are going through is the complete opposite of what you are saying. In a declaration of faith, you speak to yourself to build up your faith, to activate your faith in God and to encourage yourself in the Lord. So, David was saying it doesn’t matter what my situation is today, it doesn’t matter what is happening around me, I am convinced with everything in me because of the love and mercy of God, the Lord will perfect all that concerns me.

In a declaration of faith you are also indirectly speaking to God, you are reminding God of what He has said and getting Him to act on His Word and His promises.

In a declaration of faith, you are also speaking for all the elements in heaven to hear you, for everything on the earth to hear you and for all the forces and powers of darkness to hear you so they are all bound to cooperate with, surrender and submit to the Word of God. Like when Jesus in Mark 4:39 said ‘Peace be still’. All the elements in heaven, everything in nature, the powers and forces of darkness, all heard that Word and they surrendered to that Word, they submitted to that Word and there was great peace and calm all around.

We must understand that everything in life has a spiritual ear. Your womb has a spiritual ear. You can speak to your womb and effect the promises of God concerning your womb through the spoken Word. Dry bones; hopeless situations have a spiritual ear. You can speak to a dry hopeless situation and the spoken Word can effect a change (Ezekiel 37:1-10). The mountains; the obstacles and hindrances before you have a spiritual ear. You can speak to the mountain and it will give way (Mark 11:23).

It is easy for us to talk to God when there is a problem or issue and more often than not, God hears us. But we don’t seem to see changes in that problem or issue because most times for the situations we find ourselves in, it is not just God we need to talk to. We actually need to go a step further by speaking to ourselves, by letting the elements of heaven, the mountains before us, the forces and powers of darkness, all hear the Word of God and submit to that Word. This was basically what David was doing when he declared ‘The Lord will perfect that which concerns me.’