The Cry of the True Believer

These verses are teaching us that to become more holy and obedient we must learn to pray in the way that these verses describe. We are going to see that Christ Himself prayed in the way that these verses describe, and when He did so, He had His requests answered in relation to His own obedience to God's Word. So what I want to do this morning is to take the words of David the Psalmist and apply them to the experience of the Lord Jesus and to our own experience. The question that we are asking this morning is this. Based upon the prayers of David, what did the Lord Jesus pray for then, that He would have us to pray for now, if we would become holy even as He is holy? 1st of all - He would have us to pray earnestly to be able to keep God's Word. 2nd - He would have us to pray earnestly in order to apply God's Word. And then 3rdly - He would have us to pray earnestly in order to be faithful to God's Word, even when surrounded by wicked men.