Psalm 70 - An Urgent Prayer For Help

The author of Psalm 70 was David.  It is an urgent prayer for help.  It can be your prayer when you are short on time and long on need.

When others disappoint and threaten us, we feel empty, as though a vital part of ourselves has been stolen. When others break the trust we have placed in them, they also break our spirits.  At those empty, broken moments, we must join the psalmist in begging God to rush to our aid.  He alone can fill our lives with his joy. With the psalmist we should cry out, "O LORD, do not delay!"

Psalm 70 is a very short psalm and it was David's plea for God to come quickly with his help.  Yet even in his moment of panic, he did not forget praise.  Praise is important because it helps us remember who God is. Often our prayers are filled with requests for ourselves and others, and we forget to thank God for what he has done and to worship him for who he is.  Don't take God for granted and treat him as a vending machine. Even when David was afraid, he still praised God.

Psalm 70 / New International Version

1-"Hasten, O God, to save me;
  O LORD, come quickly to save me.
2-May those who seek my life
  be put to shame and confusion;
may all who desire my ruin
be turned back in disgrace.
3-May those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"
turn back because of their shame.
4-But may all who seek you
  rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who love your salvation always say,
"Let God be exalted!"
5-Yet I am poor and needy;
  come quickly to me, O God.
You are my help and my deliverer;
O LORD, do not delay"