I Declare Your Wondrous Works

Text: Psalm 71
23 July 2017

A WELL-CONSIDERED REFLECTION

1. Trust in God

You are my trust from my youth   (Psalm 71:5)

2. Taught by God

O God, You have taught me from my youth   (Psalm 71:17)

3. Old age

Now also when I am old and grey-headed   (Psalm 71:18)

4. Upheld from birth

By You I have been upheld from birth   (Psalm 71:6a)

5. Delivered by the Lord

You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb   (Psalm 71:6b)

DISCOVERY OF GOD

1. A strong refuge   (Psalm 71:3, 7)

2. My Rock and Fortress   (Psalm 71:3)

3. My hope   (Psalm 71:5)

4. My trust   (Psalm 71:5)

5. My praise   (Psalm 71:6)

6. Your strength   (Psalm 71:18)

7. Your power   (Psalm 71:18)

8. Your righteousness   (Psalm 71:19)

LESSONS OF HOPE AND TRUST IN TIMES OF TROUBLE

1. Let me never be put to shame   (Psalm 71:1)

2. Incline Your ear to me and save me   (Psalm 71:2)

3. Do not cast me off in the time of old age   (Psalm 71:9a)

4. Do not forsake me when my strength fails   (Psalm 71:9b)

5. O God, do not be far from me   (Psalm 71:12a)

6. O my God, make haste to help me   (Psalm 71:12b)

SPEAKING OF GOD WITH CONFIDENCE AND COURAGE

1. But I will hope continually   (Psalm 71:14a)

2. I will praise you yet more and more   (Psalm 71:14b)

3. My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
and Your salvation all the day for I do not know
their limits   (Psalm 71:15)

4. I will go in the strength of the Lord God;
I will make mention of Your righteousness,
of Yours only   (Psalm 71:16)

5. My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness
all the day long   (Psalm 71:24)