Psalm 20:9
9 Save, [yasha`] LORD: [Yahovah] let the king [melek] hear [`anah] us when [yowm] we call. [qara'] KJV-Interlinear
9 Save,
O Lord; May the King answer us in the day we call. NASB
At the beginning of this
psalm, there is a petition to God, to hear.
Throughout the psalm
there is assurance that God will hear, when the person prays in accordance with
Gods rules of the spiritual process.
And now at the end of the
psalm, there is the confidence that God will deliver on His promise to answer
all legitimate prayer, and fulfill the request.
The King, is God.
Save, is the answer God
will provide for the prayer request.
When we call, is a prayer
offered to God the Father, while in fellowship, in the name of the Savior,
Jesus Christ, and in accordance with Gods divine plan for history and for the
individual who is praying.
All prayer is directed to
the Father.
All prayer must be
submitted while in fellowship.
All spiritual activity of
the individual functions only while you are in fellowship.
Fellowship status is
acquired when the person confesses his sins to the Father. ‘Father I did this and that and this and
that.’ Fellowship is lost when you
commit the next sin. Then the confession
process must be repeated.
All prayer must be
compatible with Gods overall plan for creation, for humanity, for each
respective historical era, for the individual life of the believer.
Prayers from unbelievers
are never heard. Unbelievers do not have
any spiritual apparatus for interaction with God, with one exception, and that
exception is when they believe in Christ and are then saved. That is the only expression that God
recognizes from unbelievers, namely the moment that they believe in
Christ.
Then they become
believers and a whole new set of rules governs their lives as believers. And that new set of rules includes confession
for fellowship, study for learning knowledge, usage of biblical principles for
understanding, and the repetition of all of this for spiritual growth to
maturity.
All of this activity
excludes everything of the world, everything valued by man, everything
initiated by man. The spiritual life is
Gods gift, of which God is the source, the effort, and the completion.
Mans effort and
self-credit are rejected by God.
