Shirley H Supporter Wife, mother, veteran in the spiritual war we all face!

Psalm 143 by King David is an example of how much we need God. No one could ever be forgiven based on his own actions. The only way to be justified is God's way. We are to be thankful that God sees our sorry estate. We are helpless. As the old hymn says "I need thee every hour." 

We daily stand between mountains and seas. We need to pray daily and remember God's grace and love. He enjoys our company. We were created for His fellowship. Prayer is our lifeline...

There is an old poem..."God's Phone Number"
Hello God, I called tonight to talk a little while
I need a friend who'll listen to my anxiety and trial.
You see I can't quite make it
Through a day just on my own...
I need Your Love to guide me
So I'll never feel alone.

I want to ask you please to keep 
My family safe and sound. (David when he wrote this psalm was having trouble with Absalom - see 2 Samuel 15:13)
Come and fill their lives with confidence
For whatever fate they're bound.

Give me Faith, dear God, to face
Each hour throughout the day,
And not to worry over things 
I can't change in any way.

I thank you God for being home
And listening to my call, 
For giving me such good advice
When I stumble and fall.

Your number, God is the only one 
That answers every time!
I never get a busy signal
Never had to pay a dime!

So thank you God for listening
To my troubles and my sorrow.
Good night God, I love you too!
And I'll call again tomorrow!

P.S. please bless all my friends and family too?

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Tim Maas Supporter Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army

Reading Psalm 143 verse-by-verse, I see multiple elements with respect to our relationship with or to God that should either underlie or be reflected in petitions that we present to Him in prayer. These include:

recognizing our need (as sinners) for God's mercy;

recognizing God's faithfulness and righteousness;

presenting our petitions for His help to Him, with the implicit recognition that He alone is the ultimate source or granter of that help;

acknowledging and thanking Him for His past assistance;

willingly placing ourselves and our situation entirely in His hands;

being open to whatever instruction God provides us with respect to our requests; and

characterizing (and intending to use) God's help as something that will work to His honor and glory.

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Anand Mishra Supporter trying to be humane

Chronicles 7:14

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Matthew 26:41

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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Jack Gutknecht Supporter Arizona Bible College graduate and Dallas Seminary graduate

How can we learn to pray from Psalm 143?

When Facing Disappointment
Psalm 143:1-3 

The enemy is crushing David (Ps 143:3) His enemy chases him and knocks him to the ground.

We need God's mercy! (Ps 143:1-2, 4) This hopeless situation (--"his own fallenness,-- “For no one living is righteous before you” (Ps 143:2) --paralyzes David with fear (Ps 143:4). Doesn’t this happen to all of us, at some time in our lives?

When Facing Depression
Psalm 143:4-6

In Ps 143:2 David does not plead his own righteousness as the basis for the salvation he seeks, but he pleads for it on the basis of God’s righteousness (Ps 143:6)— He thirsts for God as parched land thirsts for rain. J. Vernon McGee has seen it rain “in Israel, in a parched place, and it can rain, and rain, and rain.” The land drinks up ALL the water. It’s parched. So are we. We need God’s rain (God’s blessing) in our lives! We need to tell Him this.

“Salvation is of the Lord.”

As Tim said, we must acknowledge and thank Him for His past assistance; (Ps 143:5), i.e. we must remember His works (Ps 143:5)!


When Facing Defeat 
Psalm 118:21
Psalm 143:7-8 David’s depression deepens (Ps 143:7): He feels he will die. SMF - Scripture Memory Fellowship & Harold Wilmington

Sometimes we, too, feel caught in deepening depression, and we’re incapable of extricating ourselves. Then we can pray. 


Yes, we all must agree that God alone is the ultimate source or granter of that help we need; (Ps 143:1-2, - actually Ps 143:1b & Ps 143:2)-- "Salvation is of the Lord."—Jonah 2:9

Jonah learned this sentence of good theology in a strange college. He learned it in the whale's belly, at the bottom of the mountains, with the weeds wrapped about his head, when he supposed that the earth with her bars was about him forever. CHS (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

Hopefully, life won't get as bad as that for us as it did for Jonah, but even if it does, we should pray in this way.

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Jeffrey Johnson Supporter

After reading Psalm 143 my opinion is as follows:

I love to read the Psalms, as when I am down I can be encouraged and built up by reading how God helped David and others through the sadness of time.

This Psalm of David helps us with the following:

Thirsting for God like a parched land
‘I ponder over your works’ (5)
“Teach me to do your will” (10)
‘May your good spirit lead me’ (10)

Though David was a sinful mortal, David had faith that Jehovah would give ear to his entreaty. He humbly pleaded: “O Jehovah, hear my prayer; do give ear to my entreaty. In your faithfulness answer me in your righteousness. And do not enter into judgment with your servant; for before you no one alive can be righteous.” (Psalm 143:1, 2) David was conscious of his imperfection, yet his heart was complete toward God. Thus, he was confident that he would receive an answer in righteousness. Does this not encourage us? Even though we fall short of God’s righteousness, we can be confident that he hears us if our hearts are complete toward him. (Ecclesiastes 7:20; 1 John 5:14) While persevering in prayer, we must be intent on “conquering the evil with the good” in these wicked days.—Romans 12:20, 21; James 4:7.

It can be seen that in his dealings with imperfect humans, God never violates his own standards of righteousness and justice. He does not declare sinful persons righteous on their own merit, thereby overlooking or condoning sin. (Ps 143:1, 2) As the apostle Paul explains: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and it is as a free gift that they are being declared righteous by his undeserved kindness through the release by the ransom paid by Christ Jesus. God set him forth as an offering for propitiation through faith in his blood. This was in order to exhibit his own righteousness, because he was forgiving the sins that occurred in the past while God was exercising forbearance; so as to exhibit his own righteousness in this present season, that he might be righteous even when declaring righteous the man that has faith in Jesus.” (Ro 3:23-26) Thus God, through undeserved kindness, has provided a legal arrangement on the basis of Christ’s sacrifice by which he can be completely just and righteous in forgiving the sins of those exercising faith.

Psalm 143:5 indicates what David did when beset with danger and great trials: “I have remembered days of long ago; I have meditated on all your activity; I willingly kept myself concerned with the work of your own hands.” David called to mind God’s dealings with His servants and how he himself had experienced deliverance. He meditated on what Jehovah had done for the sake of His great name. Yes, David kept himself concerned with God’s works.

Conclusion:

If we are taught only what is worldly, we have no lasting future. Happily, though, millions of people in all nations are being taught the divine will with a view to everlasting life. The basis for this hope lies in being taught by Jehovah, the Source of life-giving knowledge.—Psalm 94:9-12.

To benefit from God’s spirit, we must be as willing to follow its lead as David was. He prayed: “Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your spirit is good; may it lead me in the land of uprightness.” (Psalm 143:10)

Like David - “IN THE morning cause me to hear your loving-kindness,” prayed the psalmist David to Jehovah. “Make known to me the way in which I should walk.” (Ps. 143:8) When you wake up and thank Jehovah for a new day of life, do you, like David, entreat Jehovah to guide you in making decisions and taking the best course of action? No doubt you do.

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