Prayer's Alphabet

This is the first of the acrostic psalms. It runs more or less from aleph to toph, or from a to z as we would say of the English alphabet. And in so doing, it teaches a lot about prayer. It is a prayer that teaches us to pray. It is the king's cry for instruction, and it is an instructive cry for instruction. The God who instructs His Anointed king instructs us by letting us first overhear, and then read and sing, the king's prayer. In this prayer we see the beginning of prayer, the progress of prayer, the oxygen and fuel of prayer (combine these two and you light a spiritual rocket that lifts you right into heaven), and then a few closing comments on the work of prayer and the scope of prayer. The king prays to be taught, and praying like him will teach us much about how to walk in the ways of the one to whom we are praying.