A Prayer for the King - Psalm 20

In Psalm 20, we pray for the king, because we know that our only hope is if God saves the king! If God hears him and answers him – then we are saved as well!

And if you think about it, that is exactly true in Jesus.

In John 18-19, Jesus acknowledges that he is a king – but "my kingdom is not of this world" – or "not from this world."

Jesus is the Son of David. He is the King of Psalm 20. It is only if God hears Jesus that we can be saved.

Pilate thinks that he is just annoying the priests by writing "King of the Jews."
But then they say "we have no king but Caesar!"

And in so doing, they reject the message of Psalm 20 – our only hope is if God saves the king! Only if God hears him and answers him can we be saved!