Here, David shows that despite the oppression of God's people, we can pray with confidence to God, the just and eternal King.

In this scripture we see some of the characteristics of David as well as God. This helps us to better understand this man who wrote so freely of God's love and faithfulness in the Psalms.

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God's consistent character, not only fuels the praises of his people but gives hope and confidence to those who would call out to him for mercy and justice.

2 Corinthians - God's Power Displayed in Man's Weakness

In this text, Paul paints us a clear picture of Christian suffering, godly comfort, and our response. He shows through his experience what God has been doing, and why he has been doing it.

The greatness of God is magnified by looking at the greatness he has given to humanity. In other words, when the graciousness of God towards us is seen, his own greatness is seen even more clearly. Though the glory of humanity is seen, that view is meat to bring us to our knees in worship at the greatness of God himself.

How do you deal with injustice? WE have some indication of what is going on in David's life, but not enough detail to know everything. At the same time, we don't need to. We can see from David's prayer how we ought to respond to the difficulty of injustice in our own lives. At is simplest, we remember to bring our problem to God!

Here Jesus answers the question, will He return? This is something we need to understand in order to disciple others.

Here Jesus tells us why he came, what he did for us and what he continues to do for us today that still makes him important to our lives.

Here we see a challenge to actually get busy making disciples.