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to do that. Sometimes we are commanded, and I do not even know what
it means, to pray for the peace of Israel. What in the world does that
mean? I do not know, but I prayed. I prayed for the peace of Israel.
God knows what it means.

For about a year now I have been praying that God would move upon the
Christian song writers that they might have lyrics with some substance.
You know, some of the Christian songs today have the depth of an oil
slick. All of that comes from this idea, pray telescopically. Don’t be
afraid you cannot ask God for something too big.

Now, we are going to touch on the imprecatory prayers. Sometimes
you will not be praying against individuals, but against isms. Praying
against denominationalism. All these sectarian walls that God’s people
have put up dividing Christians. Humanism, racism or the terrible sin
of legalism. I pray against legalism in the body of Christ. You will see
when we come to the Penitential Psalms how wonderful telescopic
prayer is. There are so many applications of telescopic prayer in my life
but the greatest blessing has come as I relate it to the Penitential Psalms.
Every sin is filled with loads of transgression. So you name a sin – I lie.
Why did you lie? Well, that leads you to something else. I was wasting
God’s time. Why were you wasting God’s time? I was selfish. Why
were you selfish? It goes on and on because it is the mystery of
iniquity. You can never get to the bottom of it. In each sin you get
microscopic. There is tons of transgressions in it. Sometimes God wants
you to confess every detail: I did this, and I did that, and you confess it
all. But I cannot even begin to see how many ways I have messed up in
the past dozen or fifteen years. I confess the whole thing telescopically.
Wash me clean. Will God hear and answer that prayer? Indeed He
will.

“Three Puzzling Emphasis in the Psalms.” As I went through the
Psalms these are the three things that just sort of blew my mind. One is
the strange abundance of personal vindictiveness in the Psalms. In
other words, it looks like David has a personal grudge and hatred of his
enemies. He is praying against people. But we are accustomed to
praying for one another. Is it a healthy part of prayer, sometime, to pray
against something? The Psalms are full of it especially in the 14 Psalms
we call Imprecatory Psalms. Now the definition of “imprecation”,
according to Webster, is the act of calling down a curse or an evil on
somebody. These Psalms of imprecation are sprinkled throughout the