REAL PRAYER

Psalm 69

 

 

1.                  69:1-4.  Spread out the whole situation before God.

 

2.                  69:5-8.  Be honest about your weaknesses and careful about your influence.

 

3.                  69:9-12.  Seek to bear your responsibility, not to escape it.

 

4.                  69:13-18.  Appeal to what God has made known about himself and ask him to draw near

            to your soul.

 

5.                  69:19-20.  Take comfort in the fact that God knows.

 

6.                  69:21-28.  Release indignation by calling upon God to vindicate his own righteousness and faith which has been placed in him.

 

7.                  69:29.  Leave it there.  Surrender yourself to the care of God.

 

8.                  69:30-33.  Commit yourself to gratitude for what you know of God.

 

9.                  69:34-36.  Hold in mind the wider picture of God’s love and plan.