HERE WE SEE KING DAVID HUMBLE HIMSELF BY PRAYER AND ASK FOR THE LORD'S HELP
PSALM 141:1-5
1 I call to you, Lord, come quickly to me;
hear me when I call to you.
2 May my prayer be set before you like incense;
may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a guard over my mouth, Lord;
keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil
so that I take part in wicked deeds
along with those who are evildoers;
do not let me eat their delicacies.
5 Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness;
let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head.
My head will not refuse it,
for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
Here it is as if King David throws down his pride and let's God know that he would rather be corrected than sin. He would rather be struck by a righteous man than sin against the Lord his God...
Here it is as if King David is coming to terms with his own propensity towards sin and is humbly asking God for help. just as Paul realized in the New Testament. He knows about the war within.
CROSS REF ROMANS 7:14-21 AMP
14 We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am a creature of the flesh [worldly, self-reliant—carnal and unspiritual], sold into slavery to sin [and serving under its control]. 15 For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled and bewildered by them]. I do not practice what I want to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate [and yielding to my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity]. 16 Now if I habitually do what I do not want to do, [that means] I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good (morally excellent). 17 So now [if that is the case, then] it is no longer I who do it [the disobedient thing which I despise], but the sin [nature] which lives in me. 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity]. For the willingness [to do good] is present in me, but the doing of good is not. 19 For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want to do, I am no longer the one doing it [that is, it is not me that acts], but the sin [nature] which lives in me.
21 So I find it to be the law [of my inner self], that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully delight in the law of God in my inner self [with my new nature], 23 but I see a different law and rule of action in the members of my body [in its appetites and desires], waging war against the law of my mind and subduing me and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is within my members. 24 Wretched and miserable man that I am! Who will [rescue me and] set me free from this body of death [this corrupt, mortal existence]? 25 Thanks be to God [for my deliverance] through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind serve the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness, my sinful capacity—I serve] the law of sin.
Brothers and sisters, we cannot walk in God's ways without God. That's why prayer is so pivotal. We will fail if we try to do it on our own every time. Everything is a fight
PHILIPPIANS 4:13 NIV I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME.
THROUGH CHRIST... THROUGH CHRIST.... THROUGH CHRIST... THROUGH CHRIST... ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST... Repetition is necessary until you understand that you need to make God a part of everything you do.
As it is written:
Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths.
ROMANS 14:4 NIV
Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
By this verse we see that the Lord helps us stand because we cannot stand in our own power. Do you understand??
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