Psalm 3

1. Those who mock you and seek my destruction increase everyday. May my enemies increase because of righteous actions, not my sinful ones. May I be bold to confront those who oppose You. When adversaries and trouble come my way may I cling to you.

2. Those who don't know you may look at me and in their own foolishness think that I would despair, and there is no hope for me. May they be proved wrong. May all my trials and tribulations only prove to me all the more that you are here. May I look at my hardships as a time for you to come and save me. May you deliver me not from my problems, but from my desire to react in a sinful way to trials.

3. Although there are many who would say there is no hope, it is only because they do not know you. For you are a shield and the protector of my life. You are everything that is good in me. When problems arise and trouble comes You are my hope. May I always look to you for my hope and my contentment, may I never look to myself or what the world has to offer for my satisfaction. Like a loving Father you lift my head when I tend to despair.

4. Lord, thank You so much for listening to my prayers. May my heart continually seek you. Whether I am in distress or giving thanks may my heart go straight to prayer. You may not answer me immediately or in the way I want, but Lord you always answer us, and in the way that is ultimately best for us. Thank you for being the all-powerful, sovereign God of this universe, yet, listen to my individual cry to you.

5. You give me peace and rest. You do not allow anything to come my way that I cannot handle, you are gracious indeed. You give me just enough to handle and rejuvenate my soul with peace and rest when I lean on you. May I be strengthened in my weakness because of You. You sustain us and give us the strength we need to get through each day. Thank you for the food, clothes, and health that you give us, may we use everything we have to glorify You.

6. Because of the strength You give us, the shield that You are to us, we have nothing to fear. Though the world seek to destroy us may we find refuge and strength in You. May we not fear anything that the world can throw at us. May we fear only You and You're righteous judgments.

7. You are a living God that is able to do as You have promised. You have told me that You will never leave nor forsake me. You have the power to destroy all evil and temporal things that would look to harm us. Why should we cling to these weak temporal things that we so often do when You can destroy them in an instant? May you destroy the evil and keep us safe.

8. Most of all save us Lord. Thank you for the salvation you freely offer us. The protection and strength that you give us is wonderful, but all the more may we rejoice in the salvation that you freely offer to us through Your Son. May you truly have your blessed hand upon those of us who love and cherish You. Praise be Your name, may you truly bless Your children.