PSALM 28
From a Crestfallen Plea to Confident Praise
Psalm 28:1-2
BIBLE TEXT: "Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle." (Psalm 28:1-2 KJV)
BIBLE TWEET: The supplications of the saints should always be for God to speak, for when the still small voice of the Spirit is quiet, the saints are left in a quandary.
BIBLE TAKEAWAY: If the voice of God is hushed to the saints on earth, are they not, at least in this regard, like souls in Hell, where the voice of God is never heard?
Psalm 28:3-5
BIBLE TEXT: "Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up." (Psalm 28:3-5 KJV)
BIBLE TWEET: David prays to be built up by God not bundled up by God with the wicked to receive their just deserts.
BIBLE TAKEAWAY: To deceive others with your words and to disregard the works of God is to doom yourself to well-deserved destruction.
Psalm 28:6
BIBLE TEXT: "Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications." (Psalm 28:6 KJV)
BIBLE TWEET: Answered prayer should elicit ardent praise.
BIBLE TAKEAWAY: Praise is not just how we enter God’s presence to ask our prayers (Psalm 100:2, 4), but also how we extol God afterwards for answering our prayers.
Psalm 28:7
BIBLE TEXT: "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him." (Psalm 28:7 KJV)
BIBLE TWEET: To have a heart that trust in God is to be helped by God.
BIBLE TAKEAWAY: In the strength of the Lord and under the shield of the Lord the soul gleefully sings praise to the Lord and the heart greatly rejoices in the Lord.
Psalm 28:8
BIBLE TEXT: "The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed." (Psalm 28:8 KJV)
BIBLE TWEET: God’s strengthening is not just needed for the individual saint personally, but for all the saints corporately. For just like Christ—“the anointed One”—Christians—“the anointed ones”—are strengthened for God’s service by God’s Spirit.
BIBLE TAKEAWAY: God’s omnipotent power is not in the least diminished nor our personal needed portion the least depleted by its overall distribution.
Psalm 28:9
BIBLE TEXT: "Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever." (Psalm 28:9 KJV)
BIBLE TWEET: Here we find a concise, but comprehensive prayer for the church, that God’s elect, who are the inheritance of Christ, be saved, sustained, supplied, supported and shepherded forever.
BIBLE TAKEAWAY: From his or her personal prayer closet, the Christian should pray for the whole church, for all Christians in all the world.