Praying David’s Spirit-foreshadowing Promises of Christ | Prayer on Psalm 20

Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave Cover · Dec 31, 2020 · 17m

Jesus saw the Psalms as written by their human author, but also by the Holy Spirit (see Matt 22:41-46 below). Although King David lived over a thousand years before Christ, he is one of the Bible’s primary foreshadowing figures of Jesus as Christ. That’s why the Messiah was often referred to as “the son of David” (Matt 1:1, 9:27, 22:42). So sometimes the Spirit would speak foreshadowing prophetic lines in the psalms of David, in particular, that give us a poetically insightful promise of salvation in Jesus as the Christ. When we learn to read certain psalms of David with this lens, it opens…