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wonderful prayer that is. And I think if we study Psalms together and it
does not help our prayer life, we have missed a great contribution of this
wonderful book. We need to look at the figures, but we also need to
learn not only to sing, but to pray. I told you that Psalms covers a
thousand years of human experience. Frustration and depression and
changing circumstances and failure and evil tidings and old age. God
covers everything.

Here is what I think is the theme of Psalms, and at least humor me as we
go through the book of Psalms together. This is how we are going to
look at it. Psalms is a mirror of the soul. You have a thousand years of
human experience. There is not an emotion that you will ever go through
in your life that is not touched somewhere in the Psalms. Do you ever
notice when you did not know where to look in the Bible and you did not
know what to read, you find yourself in Psalms? Everybody just seems
to gravitate to the Psalms, and it is because you are there. That is you,
and that is me, and Psalms touches you wherever you are and whatever
you are going through. Every feeling. Every thought. Every hope.
Psalms covers it all.

Now, there are several verses we could use as key verses. I am so glad
God chose David to write these 73 or almost 80 Psalms. He was so
qualified for this. Even though that man lived 3,000 years ago, that one
man had the experience of more than 100 men. I think God crowded
many experiences into his soul. And so we have his Psalms when he was
out in the pasture. We have his Psalms when he was running for 10
years from Saul in the cave. We have his Psalms in the field as a soldier.
We have his Psalms from the throne as he was the king in the palace.
We have his Psalms in the temple as a worshiper. We have the Psalms
when he was at the altar as a sinner broken and contrite before God.
Every Psalm you can think of.

Here is the point of Psalms as I understand it. God wants me to learn a
new song with every changing experience. The purpose of studying
Psalms is to learn a new song. Psalm 95:1, “O come let us sing unto the
Lord.” Psalm 104:33, “I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; as long
as I have my being I will praise the Lord.” I love this one. Psalm 40,
verse 3 “He has put a new song in my heart; many will see it and fear
and trust in the Lord.” Wouldn’t you expect him to say, He put a new
song in my heart; many will hear it? You hear a song. Oh no, not when
God writes a song. Then you see it. “He has put a new song in my
heart; many will see it.” You find someone that God has put a song in