8. From the Lord comes deliverance. May blessing be on your people...
- 'Rise Oh God... SAVE ME!!', it's a cry of desperation. A prayer asking God to reveal His manifest presence and saving power.
- In the original King James version it says, 'Arise Oh Lord, Save Me Oh My God, For THOU HAST!!' The Psalmist shows great confidence that His God would deliver him because he was warranted by past experiences.
- A way of building great expectation is by writing down things God has done and delivered you from.
- Remind yourself that your TRUST (confidence) is in the name of the Lord.
- Striking the enemies, breaking their teeth is God smiting the enemy. A break to a cheekbone of an animal, means you totally disarm it!!
- Verse 8 is beautifully concluded stating the Lord alone who saves and blesses. When it feels like the WHOLE world were against you, like all evil rises against you, IT IS THE LORD WHO SAVES!
- His realization that he would continue to be blessed initially came, birthed in pain and trouble. It found its way from HELP TO THANKS.
- 'Psalm language is not careful about offending our sensibilities, its genius is its complete disclosure of the human spirit as it makes response to the revealing God. Given the mess things are in, it will not be surprising that some unpleasant matters have to be spoken, and spoken in the language of prayer is, most emphatically, human language- it is not angel talk.' - Eugene H. Peterson
- Lastly, again, SELAH is the punctuation used to close the Psalmists thoughts. Victory is coming, therefore, re-tune your instruments!!
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