Psalm 20:1-9 NIV May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion. May he remember all your sacrifices and accept your burnt offerings. May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. May we shout for joy over your victory and lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the Lord grant all your requests. Now this I know: The Lord gives victory to his anointed. He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm. Lord , give victory to the king! Answer us when we call!
Supplication for Victory
As the psalm begins it appears to be a prayer to the king but it is actually intercession for the king as he prepares to lead his troops into battle. By starting with the request that the Lord answer when he is in distress the writer is aware of the danger that he about to face. This would be the kind of prayer that Jesus would offer as He looked to his battle against sin, death, and Satan's power.. The king, in this instance David, has presented his sacrifices to the Lord and is now assured of God’s blessing. He is now ready to lead the army would go out in the name of the Lord.
David’s trust in not in the skill of his army or it’s equipment but in God Almighty (Yahweh). He infers that his enemies trust in their military might and equipment but as God commanded through Moses that Israel’s kings were not to multiply chariots or horses.
Deuteronomy 17:14-17 NIV When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite. The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the Lord has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.” He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
When we put our trust in the Lord we have the assurance of victory. The enemy has been defeated.
Supplication for Victory
As the psalm begins it appears to be a prayer to the king but it is actually intercession for the king as he prepares to lead his troops into battle. By starting with the request that the Lord answer when he is in distress the writer is aware of the danger that he about to face. This would be the kind of prayer that Jesus would offer as He looked to his battle against sin, death, and Satan's power.. The king, in this instance David, has presented his sacrifices to the Lord and is now assured of God’s blessing. He is now ready to lead the army would go out in the name of the Lord.
David’s trust in not in the skill of his army or it’s equipment but in God Almighty (Yahweh). He infers that his enemies trust in their military might and equipment but as God commanded through Moses that Israel’s kings were not to multiply chariots or horses.
Deuteronomy 17:14-17 NIV When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite. The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the Lord has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.” He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
When we put our trust in the Lord we have the assurance of victory. The enemy has been defeated.
Romans 8:31-39 NIV What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Through His death on the cross Jesus defeated our enemies, Satan, death, hell, and the grave.
Colossians 2:13-15 NIV When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
David end the psalm by saying “Lord , give victory to the king! Answer us when we call!” We say with the Apostle John;
Revelation 22:20b NIV Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
Through His death on the cross Jesus defeated our enemies, Satan, death, hell, and the grave.
Colossians 2:13-15 NIV When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
David end the psalm by saying “Lord , give victory to the king! Answer us when we call!” We say with the Apostle John;
Revelation 22:20b NIV Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
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