Psalm 71 ~ Praying God's Word

Please read and pray Psalm 71.  The entire psalm is a prayer.

Meditate on verses 5 and 6.

For You are my hope;

O LORD God, You are my confidence from my youth.

 By You, I have been sustained from my birth;

You are He who took me from my mother’s womb;

my praise is continually of You.

Psalm 71 was part of my Bible reading the day our granddaughter was born; I wrote a note about it in my Bible.  God preplanned a reading from Psalm 71 to be written into the devotional book I use months before He started weaving my granddaughter together inside her mama.  He knew the date of her birth, and He knew I would be following that devotional plan.  The LORD was pleased that I noticed His involvement in our lives.

The LORD is constantly involved like that in your life; He has been even before He took you from your mother’s womb (Psalm 71:6).  He wants you to notice and pay attention to Him.  The psalmist recognized what God had done and was doing in his life.  Because of that knowledge, he hoped in the LORD continually and praised Him more and more, even in the midst of troubling and distressful times (Psalm 71:14, 20).

Reread Psalm 71 and pray it specifically over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).  Here are verses 1 and 2 to get you started:

“In You, O LORD, ________ and I have taken refuge;

 let us never be ashamed.

 In Your righteousness deliver us and rescue us.

  Incline Your ear to us and save us…

In Your name, Jesus~”