“For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
To say that David knew something about prayer is a grave understatement. David was a man after God’s heart, his prayers have touched the hearts of Christians for thousands of years, and even more importantly- his prayers repeated by Christians to God have touched the heart of God for thousands of years! So let us pay attention to the structure of this prayer, and notice that David lays his request before God in the morning waiting for a response, and then reminds himself that God is not pleased with wickedness nor with hearts filled with malice. If we want our prayers answered, if we want to have that faithful expectation that David had, we would do well to search our hearts for malice and our lives for wickedness, as we bring our requests before the Sovereign LORD. The apostle Paul tells us the same thing as he exhorts us to get rid of malice and wickedness- may our worship this day, that is - our lives lived before God – be a worship song, sung in spirit and in truth, and not in malice and wickedness.
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