Praying Through: Psalm 48

The Psalm

Psalm 48 (CSB)
A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹ The LORD is great and highly praised in the city of our God. His holy mountain,

² rising splendidly, is the joy of the whole earth. Mount Zion—the summit of Zaphon— is the city of the great King.

³ God is known as a stronghold in its citadels.

⁴ Look! The kings assembled; they advanced together.

⁵ They looked and froze with fear; they fled in terror.

⁶ Trembling seized them there, agony like that of a woman in labor,

⁷ as you wrecked the ships of Tarshish with the east wind.

⁸ Just as we heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Armies, in the city of our God; God will establish it forever. Selah

⁹ God, within your temple, we contemplate your faithful love.

¹⁰ Like your name, God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with justice.

¹¹ Mount Zion is glad. Judah’s villages rejoice because of your judgments.

¹² Go around Zion, encircle it; count its towers,

¹³ note its ramparts; tour its citadels so that you can tell a future generation:

¹⁴ “This God, our God forever and ever— he will always lead us.”

The Prayer

I have been surrounded by all iniquity temptation waits for me sin is drawing ever so closely.

The demons seek and wait for my moments of weakness which I am continuously frail surely I will be devoured.

Satan attempts one last time to destroy your son to crush me with the weight of my own sin surely I will be buried.

But you have appeared not just one time rescuer but the all-time destroyer of evil the everlasting protector the risen conquerer.

When I have fallen you have lifted my head when I am faithless you have been faithful when I am weak you are the Almighty God.

I will give you praise for all of my days because you alone are worthy of my praise.

King Jesus