My heart is steadfast, O God!
I will sing and make melody with all my being!
2 Awake, O harp and lyre!
I will awake the dawn!
3 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
4 For your steadfast love is great above the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be over all the earth!
6 That your beloved ones may be delivered,
give salvation by your right hand and answer me!
7 God has promised in his holiness:
“With exultation I will divide up Shechem
and portion out the Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim is my helmet,
Judah my scepter.
9 Moab is my washbasin;
upon Edom I cast my shoe;
over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
10 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
11 Have you not rejected us, O God?
You do not go out, O God, with our armies.
12 Oh grant us help against the foe,
for vain is the salvation of man!
13 With God we shall do valiantly;
it is he who will tread down our foes. Psalm 108 ESV
A Psalm of David (Warrior's morning song).
In Ps 57:7-11 these notes of praise follow prayer and grow out of it; but in this case the psalmist begins at once to sing and give praise, and afterwards prays to God in a remarkably confident manner, so that he seems rather to seize the blessing than to entreat for it. Sometimes we must climb to praise by the ladder of prayer, and at other times we must bless God for the past in order to be able in faith to plead for the present and the future. By the aid of God's Spirit we can both pray ourselves up to praise, or praise the Lord till we get into a fit frame for prayer. - C. H. Spurgeon
My heart is steadfast, O God - He is fixed in his resolve. This is the power of praise, the power of good doctrine. When I consider the sovereignty of God, it wells up in me the joy that breaks forth to obedience. Present danger or company does not sway me, my feelings are no longer the fuel of my actions. I can now be afraid yet go forward in what is good and acceptable. We can tell the truth because we love Her for her own sake, it may make me look bad, but I will love her anyway.
I will awake the dawn - It shall not wake me, for my mouth will already be at praise, my mind will already be engaged, searching out the wee hours of the morning, looking to commune with the Creator.
I will sing praise to You among the nations - May all the earth be blessed. David is not waiting to see how it may be perceived from place to place. He knows His God is Lord over all, so he sings to all the nations.
- His heart was large, he would have the whole race of man listen to his joy in God, and lo, he has his desire, for his psalmody is cosmopolitan; no poet is so universally known as he. He had but one theme, he sang Jehovah and none beside, and his work being thus made of gold, silver, and precious stones, has endured the fiery ordeal of time, and was never more prized than at this day. - C. H. Spurgeon
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens - No man made idol could contain or reflect the magnitude of God, no worship that does not reflect upon His infinite majesty could ever come to it's proper heights. Look as far as you can see and place Him above that, His mercy to His loved ones that they may praise.
God has promised in His holiness - He has revealed to David His anointing upon him, that he is chosen to shepherd Israel and establish their kingdom.
With God we shall do valiantly - The more you lift Him up, the smaller the battle seems, and just know that it is still smaller than that.
…32“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. 33 I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!” John 16: 32-33
6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us. 8 We are pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;… 2 Corinthians 4:7
…3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and is already in the world at this time. 4 You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.… 1 John 4: 3-5
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