September 20, 2008 - Prayer Against Satanic Attack

Meditation on Psalm 109

This psalm is one of the most difficult psalms to understand because of the cursing languages against an enemy. It is not "G" rated.

Christians are taught by the Scriptures to show love even to the enemies and do good to them. But in this Psalm, King David said that the enemies returned constant hatred for his love. (v. 4-5)

In situation like this, what should we do? It seems to me that generally we may not run into this kind of enemies. But in some case when Satan has entered into the heart of an opponent of the Gospel who stirs up all kinds of schemes to attack us so that the Word of God cannot be shared. When this happens, we may learn from the apostle Paul to deliver such a person to Satan. (1 Timothy 1:20) Remember also how Paul cursed Elymas who was used by Satan to disturb others from hearing the Gospel. It is important to notice that from verse 6 to 20 the enemy became singular. It seems to indicate that this opponent of David was inspired by Satan.

God is just and He does revenge against the wicked in due time. But we need to know that this psalm did not suggest that we would do the revenge. David merely prayed that God would do it. In the book of Revelation, we read about God's answer to the saints' prayers who were persecuted. So David's prayer was relevant. At the same time David showed us that we need to pray for God's protection upon us.(v. 21-29)

Then of course, David always praises God. (v. 30-31)

Christians can and should pray against Satanic attack even with tough language.