Community, A Place to Connect

Beloved, nothing like a wedding to bring family and friends together. Our word today is a community, and it is only in the Bible one time in the book of Job.  The definition of a community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic, or a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals “the sense of community that organized religion can prove.

Community

So what does a community have to do with King David’s prayers?

In verse in Colossians 3:13, we are to: “Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive and the Lord forgave you.”

And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. Hebrews 11:25

As we pray King David’s prayers and from our request that we record, we most definitely pray for friends from our community. The community may be online, at your church, or in your town. There is a group of us writing for the next twenty-eight days, and we have formed a Facebook group and are becoming a community where we read, support, and share one another’s work.

King David’s prayer

The psalm we will cover today is about when King David fled from his son Absalom. King David had many struggles with his children. The psalms that King David wrote are not in the Bible chronically but by themes, likely during the time of Ezra in the fourth century BC. King David wrote 75, 73 of which he is the author, two he has attributed the author in the New Testament.

Psalm 3

The one thing about King David in his prayers is his honesty. Are you honest in your prayers before God? Do you tell Him how you feel? The story of Absalom is in 2 Samuel 13. He avenged his sister’s rape by killing David’s son Amnon.

The verses I love in this Psalm:

But You, O Lord, are a shield about me,
My glory, and the One who lifts my head.
I was crying to the Lord with my voice,
And He answered me from His holy ^[e]mountain. Verses 3-4

The Lifter of My Head

Let’s Pray

Father God, Create in me a pure heart, search me and see if there is any anxiety or worry, you are my refuge and a stronghold in my life, I can count on you. You are a shield about me, You are my glory and the one who lifts my head. Lord I pray for my online community and I pray for those I work with, I especially pray for the reader of this blog that you will bless each one of them. In Jesus’s name. Amen.

Who is in your community that you need to pray?