Memory Verse Psalm 20:6-8

This week’s Fighter Verse (http://www.hopeingod.org/resources/scripture-memory/fighter-verse-program) is as follows:

Psalm 20:6-8 Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He will answer Him from His holy heaven with the saving might of His right hand. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright.

In King David’s day, this Psalm was for the congregation to speak on behalf of the king. It is a blessing that we have verse 6 and 8 to frame verse 7 as our memory assignment. You may have only memorized verse 7 in the past. While verse 7 truly encourages us to trust God in every crisis, the prophetic aspects of the Psalm give us even more depth and reason to worship God. We need to see Christ on the Cross for us in verse 6. We know that mankind and their rulers plotted against our Sovereign Lord even though He made heaven and earth and the sea and everything in them (Acts 4:24-30). But the raging and scheming of men was within God’s sovereign control and God had purposed to save His Anointed (also meaning His Christ) as a testimony and to give to His Anointed those of us who sit at the ends of the earth as His possession (Psalm 2). God answered from His holy heaven when He raised Christ (also meaning His Anointed) from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in heaven. His Anointed is far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named not only in this age but in the age to come. All things are under His feet and Christ is head over all things to the Church which is His body (Ephesians 1:20-23).

Some will trust in strength and some will trust in wealth but, if our eyes are open, how can we ever trust in the material things of this world in the light of His grace? We cannot place our trust in the strength of wealth of this world when we have rested our faith fully in the name of the LORD our God. Christ died for us while we were lost and He justified us by His blood. While we were His enemies our Lord saved us from the wrath of God and now we are reconciled to God through His Anointed (Romans 5:6–11).

Those who trust in strength, wealth, or any human tradition apart from Christ will ultimately fall. All of God dwells in Christ. In Him we are raised from the death produced by our sins. He raises us as a result of His perfect work of atonement (Colossians 2:8-15) so that we can stand firm, clothed in His enabling armor, in service to Him for the sake of the Kingdom (Ephesians 6:12–13).