May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans!
David wrote this psalm not as a royal command for his own glory, but as a teacher giving the Church a common form of prayer, that God's kingdom, which He Himself erected, might continue safe and prosperous. The occasion may have been a particular battle, but the Spirit's design was to deliver a standing prayer for all God's people.
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Commenting on Psalm 20:1-9
Christ's heart was set on saving His people, and the church has always desired His success in that design. Sanctified souls may claim this as their own promise: they shall have their desire, and their plans to glorify their Master shall succeed. We get our will when our will becomes God's will, yet even Christ submitted His will to the Father's, how much more must we?
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Even great men who pray well must not despise the prayers of others for them; David himself desired his people's intercession. Those in power ought to prize praying people as their true strength and do nothing to forfeit their prayers, for a ruler's greatness cannot exempt him from trouble or excuse him from devotion.
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Commenting on Psalm 20:1-5