i. we are in desperate need of his presence! – vs. 1

I. We are in DESPERATE need of His Presence! – vs. 1

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O LORD, I call to You; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.

II. We must pray constantly with continual surrender – vs. 2

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2May my prayer be set before You like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.

Prayer is more than petition.

Prayer is “Presence”

When we get REAL with God, we will see how REAL God is with us!

III. Pure prayer produces personal inventory – vs. 3-7

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3Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.

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4Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of their delicacies.

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5Let a righteous man strike me it is a kindness; let him rebuke me it is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it. Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers;

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6their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.

7They will say, "As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our

bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.

James 3:10 NKJV

Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.

Luke 6:45b NKJV

For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

David addresses 3 things that prayer reveals:

DesiresDeedsDelicacies

Jeremiah 17:9-10 KJV

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

10I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Jeremiah 17:9 Pg. 549

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Ezekiel 36:26-27 KJV

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36:26-27 KJV

27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

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O LORD, I call to You; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.

2May my prayer be set before You like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.

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3Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.

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4Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of their delicacies.

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5Let a righteous man strike me it is a kindness; let him rebuke me it is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it. Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers;

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6their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.

7They will say, "As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our

bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.

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8But my eyes are fixed on You, O Sovereign LORD; in You I take refuge do not give me over to death.

9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, from the traps set by evildoers.

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10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in

safety.