Psalms 71:1-3 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! (2) In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! (3) Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

1. 1 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge;
2. My hiding place, my safe room,
3. Psalms 68:5-7 Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. (6) God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land. (7) O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah
4. 2 Incline your ear to me, and save me!
5. Lend me YOUR EAR!
6. How close are you to His Ear, is probably the same in relation to how close Your EAR is to Him.
7. How are you inclined?
8. 3 Echo Psalms 31:1-3.
9. Psalms 66:17-20 I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue. (18) If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. (19) But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. (20) Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!

Psalms 71:4-9 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man. (5) For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth. (6) Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you. (7) I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge. (8) My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day. (9) Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

1. 5 My hope, my trust, my lean, my praise, my refuge.
2. 5 My youth, 6 before my birth, 9 time of old age.
3. Older writer. Reflecting on his life, appropriately.
4. 9 Don’t forsake me when MY STRENGTH IS SPENT.
5. Times where our strength is SPENT.
6. How’s your strength?
7. There will be a day when your strength will be entirely spent.

Psalms 71:10-16 For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together (11) and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.” (12) O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me! (13) May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt. (14) But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more. (15) My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge. (16) With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

1. 11 “God has forsaken him”
2. 12 Echo Psalm 22:11
3. 12 Be not far! Make Haste!
4. 12 Echo Psalm 70:1
5. 13 Echo Psalm 35:26
6. 14 More and more!
7. 16 I will remind them of your righteousness
8. Remind who? … my enemies. The ones conspiring, talking, seeking my hurt!

Psalms 71:17-18 O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. (18) So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

1. 17 From my youth… I still proclaim.
2. 17 Echo Psalm 22:22
3. 18 Even to old age and grey hairs.
4. 18 Until I proclaim, to another generation.
5. 18 Echo Psalm 30:31
6. Legacy!
7. John Maxwell – Legacy is something you leave FOR people, or something you leave IN people.
8. “There is nothing more calculated to keep the heart of age young, than to stand by the young, sympathizing with their ambitions, heartening their endeavours, and stiffening their courage, by recounting the stories of the strength of God, the experiences of His might.” (Morgan)
9. “There is nothing more pitiful, or else more beautiful than old age. It is pitiful when its pessimism cools the ardours of youth. It is beautiful when its witness stimulates the visions and inspires the heroism of the young.” (Morgan)

Psalms 71:19-21 Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you? (20) You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. (21) You will increase my greatness and comfort me again.

1. 20 You who have made me see many trouble and calamities
2. 20-21 Revive me, bring me up, comfort me – Again Again Again!
3. Psalms 56:8-11 You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? (9) Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me. (10) In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, (11) in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?
4. Hosea 6:1-3 “Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. (2) After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. (3) Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
5. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, (4) who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. (5) For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
6. 19 No wonder he says – WHO IS LIKE YOU?
7. 19 Echo Exodus 15:11

“God is alone, – who can resemble him? He is eternal. He can have none before, and there can be none after; for in the infinite unity of his trinity he is that eternal, unlimited, impartible, incomprehensible, and uncompounded ineffable Being, whose essence is hidden from all created intelligences, and whose counsels cannot be fathomed by any creature that even his own hand can form. WHO IS LIKE UNTO THEE! God will excite the wonder, amazement, praise, and adoration of angels and men to all eternity.” (Clarke)

Psalms 71:22-24 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. (23) My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed. (24) And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt.

1. 22 Harp, Lyre, 23 Lips, 24 My tongue will talk, all the day long.
2. (8) My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day.
3. (15) My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day,
4. (23) My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you;
5. (23) my soul also, which you have redeemed.
6. (24) And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
7. (24) my soul also, which you have redeemed.
8. All of you – Every part of you, your giftings, are best used in glorifying Him!
9. 2 Incline your ear to me, and save me!
10. Lend me YOUR EAR!
11. How close are you to His Ear, is probably the same in relation to how close Your EAR is to Him.
12. How are you inclined?
13. 9 Don’t forsake me when MY STRENGTH IS SPENT.
14. How’s your strength?
15. 17 From my youth I still proclaim. 18 Even to old age and grey hairs. 18 Until I proclaim, to another generation.
16. Legacy?All of you – Every part of you, your giftings, are best used in glorifying Him!