Week 4
Day4
P.R.A.Y.
Y is for yearning
This is our fourth and final week taking a deep dive into prayer.
David’s Yearning
Psalm 63:1-8
O God of my life, I’m lovesick for you in this weary wilderness. I thirst with the deepest longings to love you more, with cravings in my heart that can’t be described. Such yearning grips my soul for you, my God! I’m energized every time I enter your heavenly sanctuary to seek more of your power and drink in more of your glory. For your tender mercies mean more to me than life itself. How I love and praise you, God! Daily I will worship you passionately and with all my heart. My arms will wave to you like banners of praise. I overflow with praise when I come before you, for the anointing of your presence satisfies me like nothing else. You are such a rich banquet of pleasure to my soul. I lie awake each night thinking of you and reflecting on how you help me like a father. I sing through the night under your splendor-shadow, offering up to you my songs of delight and joy! With passion I pursue and cling to you. Because I feel your grip on my life, I keep my soul close to your heart.”
Psalms 63:1-8 TPT
Heavenly Sanctuary
It is utterly amazing to me that God chose each one of us to be His sanctuary.
Holy Spirit dwells inside us.
Most days I don’t feel like a sanctuary. I feel more like a battle ground of emotions.
What about you?
It is a weird and even awkward concept.
David did not have access to the presence of God like we do. He had to go to a physical sanctuary.
We are the sanctuary. Anywhere, anytime we have access to the Father
In a special way, from the inside out.
David received from the outside in. He yearned for God in His difficult times and praised Him with His lips, tongue, hands, will, soul, mouth, memory and mind.
David discovered that God dwells in the praises of His people.
We may not always feel like a sanctuary, but faith is not a feeling. God is inside us. Like David understood, praise will bring the manifestation of God. Yearn for Him and show your gratitude by praising Him right now.
Action Step:
Read the following attachment and
Praise God with your memories!
LOVING GOD IN THE WILDERNESS – PSALM 63
November 10 & 11, 2018
The context of Psalm 63 is King David fleeing from his son, Absalom.
TEXT: PSALM 63. In Psalm 63, we clearly see the historical context of Absalom’s threats against
David – verses 7-11. Writing this Psalm, David was in danger of death at the hand of his son,
Absalom.
• We also see David’s longing for home – Jerusalem. He feels separated from God and is
longing for the Presence of God – my soul thirsts for You (verse 1).
• But we also find past, present, and future hope of God’s presence for David.
Verse 1. David is in the desert of Judah, a very dry and barren place. He uses that setting as a
background for his spiritual condition of being separated from God’s presence – God was in His
sanctuary in Jerusalem and this is where David worshiped – in the presence of God’s glory.
Now he has been driven from Jerusalem and sees himself as a man in the desert (in a spiritual
context) – a dry and weary land where there is no water (verse 1).
• DAVID IS LONGING FOR GOD AND SO SHOULD WE!
o Most Christians are not aware that it is God alone that can satisfy our soul’s desire.
The point here is a regular, daily, longing after God. Every Christian when confronted by this
truth should immediately sense the validity of it. If you do not have the desire, you need to
cultivate it through prayer and Bible meditation/study.
Verses 2-8. PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE SATISFACTION. MATTHEW 7:7-11
David remembers his time in God’s sanctuary (verse 2) and that makes David’s heart yearn for
the Lord:
• Verses 3-5 shows the present and a hopeful future – Your lovingkindness IS better than life,
my lips WILL praise You.
• Verses 6-8 David continues with the past, present, and future hope and comfort in God’s
care.
The point here is that even though David cannot come to the Temple in Jerusalem, he is not cut
off from the Lord. The Lord is obviously with David in this most difficult time.
Malachi 3:6. God does not change and He is the same today with His people as He was with
David in this most difficult time.
David is illustrating a great truth that our Lord taught – Matthew 7:7-11.
• Many of us have not because we ask not – as James puts it, you do not have because you
do not ask (James 4:2b). The context is asking with right motives, but asking is still in the
equation.
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