Join us in today’s devotion and prayer-
Read the Psalm in your favorite version or in the following KJV and then join us in praying below:
A Psalm of David
109 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
26 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. KJV)
Our Father,
Please do not be silent, O God of our praise! For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against us, speaking against us with lying tongues. While we stand up for life we are being accused of bigotry and they come against all who are called by the name of your Son Jesus with words of hate attacking your servants calling evil ‘good’ and death a good ‘choice.’
Meanwhile we continue to reach out to others in love but they accuse us of hatred instead and reward us with evil for good; and calling our stand for life as radical and dangerous. Even churches who stand up for life are being picketed and attacked in the name of political correctness.
Help us O Lord our God! Father save us according to your steadfast love. Let your light shine and let the full truth and the real ‘good’ be revealed in this country. Also, let your Word and teachings be known and respected among the nations and let every people and tongue hear the real truth. Your servants are being persecuted and even killed for their faith in you and your Son Jesus in many countries; let it not be in vain but let their blood cry out from the ground and be the seed that brings a mighty harvest.
Let revival come to this nation once more and to all of the nations that use to know you; and let all of the people who never knew of your Kingdom hear your Word and see your Gospel confirmed through signs and wonders.
Let the lies of the evil one and his minions be exposed and let the truth prevail. Release the captives from the false religions that hold them, and let the slaves to erring philosophies find your Son Jesus and the good news of his teaching and be free in this life and for all eternity.
In Jesus name, Amen.