My Rock and My Fortress

  

 

Psalm 144:1-11

 

December 14, 2022

 

My Rock and My Fortress

Of David.

Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?  Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.  Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down!  Touch the mountains so that they smoke!  Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them!  Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.  I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp, I will play to you, who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.  Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

 

You might find it of interest that David refers to God as his Rock 12 times in the Psalms.  In Psalm 62:5-7 we have an example of David defining what he meant by God as his rock.  “For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.  He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.  On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.”  We have many references to Jesus as a living Rock in the New Testament.  For example Act 4:9-12, we have Peter and John before the council of religious guys making sure they and we understand, “if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him, this man is standing before you well.  This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

 

My prayer and my heart desire are that you have received by the grace of God and faith from God the Rock, who is Christ the Lord.  For He is my stronghold and delivers, my refuge.  Jan and I most nights before our prayer time will sing hymns to our Lord, it is not for prime time, but it is in agreement with making a joyful noise to the Lord.

 

My prayer to my Father in heaven is more about rescuing me from those in the highest office of our nation, not so much the foreigners, that have bribery them with millions.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice