Psalm 40

vs. 1 - David waits patiently for God to answer his prayers.
God’s timeframe is better than our own.

vs. 11 David wants to be preserved by God’s love and truth.

vs. 12 David can’t look up because of his unnumerable sins

vs. 14 - David knows enemies are after him.

vs. 17 - David says he is so poor and needy, but he knows God thinks of him.

vs. 2 - David says God brought him up out of a horrible pit

Types of Pits
#1 - Pits that dug by ourselves
Proverbs 26:27 - Whoever digs a pit will fall into it
#2 - Pits dug by others
Proverbs 22: 14, 23:27 - Strange women are a pit
#3 - Pits dug by family
Joseph was thrown into a pit, then sold as a slave
#4 - Pits dug by others and filled with mire
Jeremiah 37:20, 38:4 - Jermiah sunk in mire when he was put into a pit

vs. 2 - God places us on a rock

vs 3 - God puts a song in our mouth

vs. 4 - Make the Lord your trust

vs. 5 - David knows God’s many works and that He thinks on him
Psalm 139 = Great are God’s thoughts for me. Peaceful, not evil.

How Does God Care For Me
vs. 6-10 -
God has given us Jesus
God has given us His law
God is filled with loving kindness and truth toward us
God thinks peace and not evil for us.